Tribute to the philosopher, René Scherer
From le Monde Libertaire
by Patrick Schindler
February 16, 2023
René, the utopian philosopher who became close to the anarchists towards the end of his life, died on February 1 at the age of one hundred.
From le Monde Libertaire
by Patrick Schindler
February 16, 2023
René, the utopian philosopher who became close to the anarchists towards the end of his life, died on February 1 at the age of one hundred.
From Freedom News UK
When I was a teenage frequenter of espresso bars the arguments about ‘anarchy – would it work’ enlivened the wait for the bus home from school. I held my ground – ‘yes it would’ – till that bloody film Lord of the Flies came out. Then I was subject to derision and the gleeful scorn of ‘I told you so – human nature’s not like that’ and without authority life would be ‘nasty, brutish and short’. “If it wasn’t for that PC Plod down the road,’ opined my best mate, ‘you’d kill us all for the next Coke’. I didn’t really see it like that but alas so it seemed as I read about massacres and mayhem on remote islands like Pitcairn and Clipperton. Maybe human nature wasn’t as benign and co-operative as I supposed and anarchy might not work after all.
From Cyber Dandy
We welcome back Parenthesis Eye to the show and discuss the down and dirty details of his Utopian Anarchism. Using his latest two blog entries as a guide, Parenthesis Eye addresses the theoretical influences on his utopian thinking and the practices that come from it!
From parenthesiseye dot blogspot dot com
Having elaborated upon the kind of anarchism that I believe in, the question that immediately then comes up for me is: "How does one move forward with all these big ideas? How does one actually practice all of this stuff?" Okay, maybe that is really two questions, but my answer remains the same: Create new intentional communities.
From parenthesiseye.blogspot.com by Ian Mayes
I've noticed a pattern that I have. Every few years I feel the need to publicly re-think and re-clarify what exactly it is that I personally believe regarding anarchism. This usually corresponds with me affixing a new anarchist label to my beliefs and presenting it as being a new and unioque anarchist school of thought. The very first time that I did this I was calling my kind of anarchism "communitarian anarchism" and some friends and I created a short-lived organization related to that, the the Anarchist Communitarian Network, to promote this perspective. Following that, there was compassionate anarchism, then Buddhist anarchism, and most recently humanistic anarchism. Now I am calling my approach "utopian anarchism", and while I have already spoken about this on YouTube as well as in a small informal workshop at the 2022 Online NVC Conference, this is my first time publicly writing about this.
From anarchy.tube by Cyber Dandy
Discussing Utopian Anarchism, Non-Violent Communication, and Communal Living with Parenthesis Eye!
from Autonomies
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.
Fernando Birri quoted by Eduardo Galeano