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Anarchism appears to be the only form of libertarian socialism that speaks to the times and people's dreams.
Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)
Power needs to be forever linked to freedom; freedom needs to be the limit placed on power.
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The beauty of the direct action movement, it could be said, is that it strives to take its own ideals to heart.
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Democracy finds its radical edge in the great revolutions of the past.
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Anarchism serves unflinchingly as a philosophy of freedom, as the nagging conscience that people and their communities can always be better.
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Freedom is never a done deal, nor is it a fixed notion.
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Anarchism's laboratory is the whole of life.
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Anarchists attempt to find harmony in dissonance, like instruments in an orchestra.
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Savoring play is just as much part of a revolutionary impulse within anarchism as is struggle—and both are essential to qualitative freedom.
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It is in the process of constructing new worlds that transformation happens, in how people set about making their way toward something appreciably better.
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That is the spirit of anarchism, the ghost that haunts humanity: that our lives and communities really can be appreciably better. And better, and then better still.
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We have become so confined, so thoroughly damaged, by capitalism as well as state control that crumbs appear to make a nourishing meal.
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There are many different though often complementary ways of looking at anarchism, but in a nutshell, it can be defined as the striving toward a "free society of free individuals."
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Anarchism believes in everyone's ability to take part in thinking through and acting on, in compassionate ways, the world they inhabit. It maintains that everyone deserves to shape and share in society.
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The equality of unequals isn't simply about materials needs. It is a sensibility to guide how humans can justly apply equal worth to the rich nonequivalency of differentiation.
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Accountable, democratic structures of our own making, in short, provide the foundation for trust, since the power to decide is both transparent and ever-amenable to scrutiny.
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Anarchism borrows from the seemingly impossible possibilities of the past and present. It then gifts such potentialities to everyone, supplying hope by pointing toward an increasingly liberatory future.
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The project of the present anticapitalist movement, and anarchism's strong suit in general, is to provide a guiding light, even if we aren't the ones to finally bask in it.
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Any vision of a free society, if it is to be truly democratic, must of course be worked out by all of us—first in movements, and later, in our communities and federations.
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"We're only human," the saying goes, but our humanity is profoundly damaged by the alienated world of control that we inhabit. Anarchism contends that people would be much more humane under nonhierarchical social relations and social arrangements.
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