Anarchism/Anti-State

Anarchy & Pseudo-anarchy

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Gian Piero de Bellis

Anarchy & Pseudo-anarchy
The 10 basic differences (2022)

Note

This text was used as an introduction to a debate on anarchy held at the World Wide Wisdom Research and Documentation Centre in Saint-Imier during the Libertarian Week on 29 and 30 July 2022

Anarchy

Pseudo-anarchy

1

 Movement (fluid and open)
All non-authoritarian people are welcome		 Party (centralised and closed)
You participate following acceptance by two people

2

 Associated values and behaviours
Freedom – equity – solidarity		 Ideology (ism): doctrinal body promoted by the leading group or by a majority of anarchists

3

 Economy – Society
Activities in these areas
Against politics		 Politics
Operating in the political sphere

4

 Neither to the right nor to the left (because these are political-parliamentary categories alien to anarchists) Left (extreme)

5

 Neither public nor private
(categories of the state paradigm; public = state)		 Public prevails over private
(public school, public enterprise, public services, etc.) (public = state)

6

 Self-management (free personal choices)
Freedom for all individuals		 Democracy (decisions made by the majority)
Power to the people

7

 Variety – Plurality of options
(communism – collectivism – mutualism – individualism, etc.)		 Uniformity
The ideology adopted by the majority of anarchists or decreed by the leading group.

8

 Laissez-faire Laissez-passer
Freedom of activity, freedom of movement
Beyond liberalism		 Against Laissez-faire Laissez-passer

Against liberalism

9

 Property is theft (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon)
Property is freedom (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon)
(According to the nature of property)		 Property is theft
(Communism for all)

10

 Beyond the (territorial monopolistic) state
Voluntary communities
Solidarity, mutual support		 For the welfare state: state aid to families, businesses, etc.
(Welfare State, basic income)

Documents about anarchy : https://www.panarchy.org/libertaria/index.html

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