Is Anarchy the Answer? (w/ Cory Massimino)

Is Anarchy the Answer? (w/ Cory Massimino)

From C4SS

Longtime C4SS Fellow, Mutual Exchange Coordinator, and contributor Cory Massimino was recently interviewed by Aaron Ross Powell on (Re)Imagining Liberty about anarchy, political authority, the viability of stateless societies, and the relationship between anarchism, liberalism, and modernity.

Check out their interview below.

Is Anarchy the Answer? (w/ Cory Massimino)

Cory Massimino (@corymassimino) is back on (Re)Imagining Liberty to talk about the politics of radical freedom at their most radical. Namely, anarchism.I get asked every so often whether I'm an anarchist. My honest answer is I'm not sure. I believe anarchism as a moral claim is clearly correct. State power is illegitimate. No one has a right to rule, and no one has an obligation to be ruled just because some people call themselves the government. Arguments for why the state is morally permitted to use violence against us and extract resources from us don't hold up to scrutiny. At the same time, I have worries that a society without any state at all won't be a paradise, but instead unbearable—potentially so bad that avoiding it outweighs the harms of enforcing illegitimate authority. But I'm not certain of that, and I believe thinking through those issues is central to the liberty project. We shouldn't assume we need the state, but should instead tackle the question of its necessity head on. Today's conversation is about that."

SPOTIFY LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ss53hQMUBuk0YtiATbwWj

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What is this wishy-washy state apologia not-anarchist dogshit doing on my beloved anarchistnews? Rubble rubble.

Typical neo-liberalized leftist-anarchoids posing as real anarchs who propose an organizational management of an intellectualized "anarchist ideology" for the future of the democratic State.

The hell is this "anarcho" capitalist crap pod doing on an anarchist website?

It makes sense that for a flaming liberal like this dude. Self-validation is strong!

Tho that's just his failed, self-absorbed narrative of anarchist history. Luddites for instance were totally not liberals.

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