The Anarchist Turn - Chiara Bottici [4]

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[kingofaikido]

If anarchism has always existed, this does not mean that others brought up with a different values will readily assent to being converted by its logic of 'undefined' freedom. All moral systems have talked of evil, the shadow side of human nature, a topic that realists, in spite of their reductive theories do take up. Anarchists, although happy to trumpet their victimization throughout history, need to account for the reasons why oppressive people and governments and corporations exist...

[kingofaikido]

Nowhere in this talk do you supply a definition except to say that it is 'positive' and that a Stalinist-anarchism would be a contradiction in terms, forgetting for the moment that the Stalinist state employed dialectical thinking like all other forms of communism. It might even be argued as Fukuyama does that this necessarily meant USSR's eventual failure and the triumph of '(neo?)liberal' capitalism.. The problem is that anarchist's are idealists: holding a benign view of human nature..