Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Anarchism, Individual, State

The Anarchist concept of an antagonistic relation between Individual and State/Government is concrete in one context--criminal jurisprudential proceedings.  For, in those, it is the State or Government vs. some particular citizen.  But, whether or not the action is justified, it is implicitly a deviation from some non-antagonistic relation.  So, even if that antagonism has become normalized in a given polis, it does not follow that it is inherent in political organization.  Likewise, that some organism is chronically ill does not imply that Life is essentially a diseased condition.  So, Anarchism has no more than contingent value--as a corrective to a Rule in which the Ruled are alienated from the Ruling.

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