What I mean by 'anarchy' | Sophie Scott-Brown | Inside anarchy
Published 2024-06-11
What does freedom really look like?
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Absolute freedom of the individual? Or chaotic dystopia? Anarchy is one of the most violently divisive political ideals going. Join outspoken theorist, Sophie Scott-Brown, as she sets out her vision of anarchy for everyone.
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Sophie Scott-Brown is the former Director of Gresham College and fellow at the University of St Andrews. An inspiring intellectual historian with research interests in modern European political thought, Anarchism, and the history of education, Sophie is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and of the Royal History Society.
She is an author excited by historical biography as a means of understanding ideas. Her work includes The Histories of Raphael Samuel: A Portrait of a People’s Historian and Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy.
00:00 Intro
00:23 Everyday anarchism
00:53 Objections to anarchism
05:44 Positive vs negative liberty
08:43 The social individual
11:08 A social account of liberty
12:58 What anarchism isn't
13:36 What anarchism is
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All Comments (21)
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How can we maximise the degree of freedom available to us in any given situation? Leave your thoughts in the comments. To watch the full talk, head to iai.tv/video/inside-anarchy-sophie-scott-brown?utm…
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"John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?" ~ Emma Goldman
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It's so refreshing to have another person talking about those ideas. I'm talking about it almost word by word, starting a decade ago. Refreshing, I'm felling less lonely ob this path. Thank you, Sophie.
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Why not upload the whole video? :'( The one on the website seems to be very laggy.
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I used a part of her book about Colin Ward for my PhD thesis...very well written.
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Like your style of anarchism. Much more acceptable to me than a nihilistic version and I'm glad I heard you can function with such views and it gives me hope of sensible speech when confronted by those taught I am their enemy pig.
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Thank you for educating and busting the bad image of anarchy unfortunately most people still belief... anarchism or doom - im not makin the rules.
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Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed
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If we work around the idea of this quote “Surviving the Universe is a true goal” Everything should fall into place to ensure that outcome.
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upload full vids please your website is broken, cant watch videos as a member
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Welcome to the idea of true democracy! Anarcho-syndicalism and contractualism is the answer for an egalitarian society, simply because there is no one answer. The only problem is educating and empowering citizens to believe they truly can achieve a better life through responsible participation in governance ☺️
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That was really nice! Finished the video on the other site with no problems. Thank you for sharing your ideas!
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I look around me and think.. We need food, shelter, clothes, and each other. Each other is super deep. We literally come out of each other's bodies. Humans are like the tuned fruit of the Earth, adjusted and intended for something. Why do you be? Why do you persist? Why does anyone truly persist? I know why I do.
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This very much just sounds like an idealized democracy. I would argue that no one truly wants anarchy, even the version most people think of still has its hierarchies and culture that each group would follow. The very concept is against human nature since humans are social and true anarchy is a very antisocial way of living and forming any kind of group means making a personal sacrifice on some level.
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The fair share and hoarding objections. We already have those issues in the system we have built.
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How should people live? What should I do now? Answer these questions and you will have a chance to do the right thing.
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Also learning to deal better with with uncertainty and ambiguity is a skill that needs to be deliberetly done
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It's not a great idea to be snarky about reasonable questions. I'm an anarchist and have wrestled with these ideas for four decades.
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Also it’s important to learn about how technology is not value neutral and how multi-polar traps work. A lot of the objections to what human nature is , all human nature studies are human nature studies within civilization made up up many multipolar traps. We didn’t study things before civilization. In fact the dark ages themselves where still occuring in civilization😊
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I like it. How do we get there?
