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I Am An Anarcho-Inclusivist

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Posted by PunkJohnnyCash on Feb 19, 2011 in Anarchism | 3 comments

I am declaring a new label for my political stance. I am not  rejecting  anything else I have preached on the site. I am making a claim that I am an Inclusivist. I will embrace the label Inclusivist or Anarcho-Inclusivist. In a sense it is not far from “Anarchy without adjectives”.  As I wrote yesterday the anarchist has many options as opposed to one. Why then are there so many factions of infighting among anarchists? This is not to say I am accepting every ideal as truth, but to say I am willing to accept each person with their difference of opinion and philosophy. This is also to say I am accepting criticisms of philosophies. To cling to one idea as pure is utopian. I am willing to accept and reject along most lines. This is an effort to embrace the diversity of concepts that exists.

This is not a flip-flop stance, but an open stance. This rejects black and white rigid boxes we put ourselves in. It is not the idea that we have all the answers, but one that says we can find them in many places. This is a realization that an anarchist society will not be anarcho-syndicalist, libertarian-socialist, market anarchist, mutualist or any other philosophy to the pure extent of what we perceive. This is a stance that we will have solutions that fit along many of the categories we have conceptualized. This is  to say our disputes on concepts of property, the Labor Theory of Value and other areas of dispute will not be resolved but will be a point of difference when we have achieved anarchism. We will learn to resolve disputes between differing systems and none will be the single standard.

Many approach philosophical concepts with rigid authoritarianism. The Anarcho-Inclusivist approaches concepts with openness. This is not a rejection of an ethical basis for ones anarchism. This is simply a willingness to critique and accept many views and ideas. I have begun to explore this in the socialism, marxism and free market concepts, hopefully this can be a basis for anarcho-solidarity not more division.

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  • Halfsharpmusic

    This is a very important post. Like you, I struggle between concepts that I like and others that I do not like but work. The free, and private property, market works to a certain point. Rejecting it completely to create commons markets and community ownership is not going to happen. But finding a place where community and private ownership can work together to distribute revenue is possible. But to even begin this conversation, we all need to sit in the same circle. How many left groups are meeting with their local chambers of commerce? Keep up the writing.

  • http://twitter.com/thisisnotariot Ben Murdock Jackson

    Brilliantly put. I think it’s closely related to the idea of anarchism being anti/post ideological, the concept that instead of dogma one merely posits a question. Having said that, it goes someway to moving past the obvious sense of contrarianism that arises with such a position and actually begins to synthesise something new. Love it.

  • Frank

    Yep, yep. If you believe that no one is authorized to commit crimes, I care not what your ideal society looks like. I’m not going to pretend I know what society without the state “should” look like. To quote from Anna Morgenstern’s “Without Adjectives”, “Let us dispense with the fiction of the state, and then let everyone try what they can, and we will see how it all works out”.