By Cake Boy

Anarchism is stuck. On the one hand, it’s stuck in a swamp of woke sectarianism, and on the other, it’s stuck in the swamp of neoliberal/libertarian/Javier Milei populism. There needs to be a new anarchist impulse, and anarchism needs to be dragged out of the swamps.

Leftist anarchism was the thesis. Libertarian anarchism was the antithesis. Pluralist anarchism is the synthesis between these two systems of thought. The synthesis between anti-capitalism, and radical neoliberal individualism.

Pluralist anarchism is about the vision of a pan-secessionist world. A world of revived commons, and social systems people can actually choose to be part of. A world where the individual’s freedom is as big as possible, as long as this individual doesn’t take away the freedom of other individuals.

Communism means the masses suppress the individual. Capitalism means some individuals suppress the masses. Anarchism wants mutually beneficial relationships between actual free individuals. Cake Boy’s pluralist anarchism is influenced by Boston anarchism and classical liberalism.

‘zit niet zo te zitten, lik de cake van mijn broek’

• Faberge (Dutch rapper)

In a pluralist anarchist collective, people like Ron Paul, anarcho-communist leftists, and mutualist philosophers/economists could work together for the same goal—a free world. When the left, right, and center unite, anarchism would become three times as strong as it is now. This is the only way for anarchism to survive as a movement.

Pluralist/cake boy anarchism stands for free speech, free art, free love, free drugs, free association, free dissociation, free land (to a degree so that people can claim their autonomy), free trade, and the freedom to bear arms.

Cake Boy himself never uses violence and is not revolutionary. Cake Boy only talks for himself and is responsible for his own acts. Cake Boy is not responsible for anyone who acts in the name of pluralist anarchism. He is just a person who coined the term, like the way Samuel Konkin was the one who invented agorism

Cake Boy’s anarchism is the vision of a free world, or at least a zone of freedom in the world. Cake Boy doesn’t formulate a vision of how to get to this world. However, he would go for a gradualist/mutualist/peaceful approach, as outlined in the works of Kevin Carson. Building the new world in the shell of the old.

The fascists in Europe are rising, and the communists in America and the UK are serious again. Then, anarchism needs to get out of the incompetence it has been in. Cake Boy himself is apolitical. But this is outlined for people who are political and who want to fight the authoritarian left and right while, in the meantime, formulating something different than the capitalist realism we are used to. People who want to give anarchism another chance.

If you don’t want to use pluralist anarchism, call it ‘pan secessionist anarchism, ‘‘neo anarchism,’ or ‘cake anarchism’ (A)C. It would stroke my ego, if people would actually create pluralist anarchist collectives. Use a black flag for this kind of anarchism; forget the red and yellow; forget the other colors.