7 quotes
Power needs to be forever linked to freedom; freedom needs to be the limit placed on power.
Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)
Freedom is never a done deal, nor is it a fixed notion.
Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)
Savoring play is just as much part of a revolutionary impulse within anarchism as is struggle—and both are essential to qualitative freedom.
Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)
To me, the goal is in the here and now, constantly trying to act as if it’s (liberation and freedom) already here.
Interview (2022)
Certainly, liberation is a basic necessity: people need to be free from harm, hunger, and hatred. But liberation falls far short of freedom. If we are ever to fulfill both our needs and desires, if we are ever to take control of our lives, each and every one of us needs the "freedom to" self-develop—individually, socially, and politically.
Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)
Only when we all have equal and ongoing access to participate in the space where public policy is made—the political sphere—will freedom have a fighting chance to gain a footing.
As "rule of the people" (the etymological root of democracy), democracy's underlying logic is essentially the unceasing movement of freedom making. And freedom, as we have seen, must be jettisoned in even the best of representative systems.