Why I'm an anarchist | Sophie Scott-Brown full interview | Anarchy and democracy
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Publicado 2023-09-07
Is there any room for leadership in anarchy?
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Join Sophie Scott-Brown in this invigorating studio interview to explore anarchism, direct democracy, and the politics of right-wing populism.
#anarchy #anarchism #freedom
Sophie Scott-Brown is an intellectual historian based at the University of East Anglia with research interests in modern European political thought and the history of education. She is the author of The Histories of Raphael Samuel: A Portrait of a People’s Historian and Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy.
00:00 Introduction
00:20 How do you define leadership in your work?
03:45 Could direct democracy ever work on the national level?
10:33 How can we respect democracy in the face of its misuse by certain groups?
15:54 What led you to study anarchism?
20:02 Which historical anarchist thinker would you most like to talk to?
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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Does anarchy really mean more freedom? Leave your thoughts in the comments below. To see Sophie debate viture signalling and mob rule with Simon Blackbrun and Peter Tatchell, head to iai.tv/video/virtue-ethics-and-the-mob?utm_source=…
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"'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect." ~ Emma Goldman
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"Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will. " Gustave de Molinari
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“How to have conflict that’s creative rather than catastrophic” 👏👏👏 ❤❤❤ 9:52
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Murray Bookchin is also important. His whole ideas about municipalism in his late years. It has been implemented in Rojava (Northern Syria) through the writing of Abullah Ocalan from his prison cell but has suffered from the restless effort by Erdogan's Turkey to destroy it. It is by far one of the most advanced model of anarchism and 'democracy' in action. Addendum: For those who are skeptical and wish for the continuation of the status quo, enjoy! As we are still expeirencing a rather peaceful arena of some sort and that we are unable to take this time to think of different models of existence, it will be thrown at us eventually when we won't be able to even think of a model without bloodshed and other unimaginable damage that will occur under our current trajectory.
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What a beautiful humanistic Anarchist pledoyer, weaving together the best of anarchist philosophy and respecting its deepest postulates and desires.!!! Sophie comes from Wisdom
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"Seek out forms of authority and question their legitimacy" -Chomsky
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Louise Michel, Lucy Parsons, Ursula Le Guin are some other women famous for anarchist ideas and action, but the point is sound. A terrific interview.
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Talking about anarchism without ever touching on more direct critiques of capitalism, the state and related structural/systemic issues tends to sound too ethereal, and I feel like this happened here as well. Like, there's a question about freer systems being possibly used in harmful ways and it receives no push back about how current systems are definitely used in harmful ways, for example. I'm not criticizing Sophie, as this is just a short interview, but here it all ends up sounding like little more than a personal preference in style to me.
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🖤❤" Anarchism is Democracy taken seriously " Edward Abbey
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2 book recommendations for anyone interested in this line of thinking: Harry Browne's "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World" is THE classic book that deals with freedom "where the rubber meets the road" and maximizing it without having to convince other people of anything. The other is Michael Huemer's "The Problem of Political Authority". It's an air-tight philosophical breakdown of the validity of political authority that's rock solid. It reads a bit dry, but its arguments are locked up super tight. Highly recommend these...
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For many anarchists, anarchy can be summed up in a single sentence: 'The permanent revolt against fixed ideas'.
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I know a great book, "The Dispossessed", that describes an anarchistic society/community and the issues about it, written by the author Ursula K. LeGuin. Well, she was a science fiction and phantasy author though. A brilliant one, but her story is about a foreign planet.
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Sophie Scott-Brown is al historian based at the University of East Anglia with research in modern European political thought and the history of education. She is the author of The Histories of Raphael Samuel: A Portrait of a People’s Historian, and Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy.
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the Mondragon cooperative is an excellent example of current syndicalist practice. Currently it's the 9th largest enterprise in Spain.
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Thanks. Nice to see a young and eloquent woman defending the ideas that I've cherised for the last 25 years.
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Direct democracy is therefore problematic as it empowers the majority. Who protects the minority if endangered by the decisions of the masses? We need anarchy because we need life based on empathy, solidarity and liberty.
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Interesting discussion. My first exposure to Sophie, thanks iai!
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I love Colin Ward's ideas. A real inspiration. The anarchism of daily life.
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Absolutely agree with her that leadership is not problematic. In fact, I think its important that there are leaders. If the leader has special privileges because of their leadership, that's the problem. A leader is no better than anyone else.
