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I'm not sure it is even true that "lefty" anarchists got there first, but in any case I'm talking about a specific "salon" of people who spanned a couple mailin
by _lqaf 5y ago
I'm not sure it is even true that "lefty" anarchists got there first, but in any case I'm talking about a specific "salon" of people who spanned a couple mailing lists and about a decade of conversation.
If you're interested, I suggest reading some of Tim May's writings. He was very much a very right-wing anarchist focused on destroying the state, and saw encryption, privacy tech and digital cash as mechanisms to do so. I distinctly recall reading a long essay he wrote explaining why he vehemently disagreed with Kropotkin, if you're looking for a way to distinguish this school of thought from Syndicalists.
(I do not endorse his views at all, my highly simplified view is his philosophy played out in reality ends up being indistinguishable from feudalism. I focus on him because he was a sort of spokesman for that crowd, wrote just a ton of messages and essays over a long time, so there's a huge record of his thought, and he was really smart, well educated, and capable of writing cogently.)
- rsj_hn 5y agoI would say that Montesquieu was on the "reducing the power of the state" bandwagon even before then.