Two Cheers for Anarchism
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Two Cheers for Anarchism

Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

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Two Cheers for Anarchism

Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

About this book

A spirited defense of the anarchist approach to life

James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited, and often very funny defense of an anarchist way of seeing—one that provides a unique and powerful perspective on everything from everyday social and political interactions to mass protests and revolutions. Through a wide-ranging series of memorable anecdotes and examples, the book describes an anarchist sensibility that celebrates the local knowledge, common sense, and creativity of ordinary people. The result is a kind of handbook on constructive anarchism that challenges us to radically reconsider the value of hierarchy in public and private life, from schools and workplaces to retirement homes and government itself.

Beginning with what Scott calls "the law of anarchist calisthenics," an argument for law-breaking inspired by an East German pedestrian crossing, each chapter opens with a story that captures an essential anarchist truth. In the course of telling these stories, Scott touches on a wide variety of subjects: public disorder and riots, desertion, poaching, vernacular knowledge, assembly-line production, globalization, the petty bourgeoisie, school testing, playgrounds, and the practice of historical explanation.

Far from a dogmatic manifesto, Two Cheers for Anarchism celebrates the anarchist confidence in the inventiveness and judgment of people who are free to exercise their creative and moral capacities.

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Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.
abolitionism. See also lavery
absenteeism
abstractness
abstract principles
Abuja
academy, quantitative measures of productivity in. See also citation indices; education
accountants, chartered
adaptability
administration; and models
adventure playgrounds. See also play
aesthetics
affirmative action
African American church
African Americans. See also civil rights movement
agribusiness
Agricultural Adjustment Act
agriculture; and Andean potato cultivation; depletion vs. development of soil in; and irrigation; plantation; and proletarian production crops; scientific; and share-cropping system; smallholder; and vernacular knowledge; Western. See also farming
airplanes, manufacture of
Aksoy, Mehmet, Memorial for the Unknown Deserter
almanacs
Amazon
American Civil War
American Revolution
anarchism/anarchists; calisthenics for; and democracy; and dignity and autonomy of small property; and Global South; and mutuality without hierarchy; and petty bourgeoisie; and praxis; principles of
anarchist squint
ancien regime
Anderson, Edgar, Plants, Man, and Life
Andes, potato cultivation in
anonymity
anticolonial movements
antipolitics. See also politics
anti-Semitism. See also Jews
architecture
archives
Arendt, Hannah
Argentina
artisans; autonomy of; as core of working-class movements; knowledge of; as political thinkers; production by; as small property owners; and struggles for equality; and vernacular
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
assembly line. See factories; industry; workers
asylums
AT&T Bell Labs
attrition, index of
audience
audits; and corporations; and cost-benefit analysis; and education; and Enron; and financial collapse of 2008; and McNamara; Porter on; and quantitative measures
authoritarianism
autonomy: and agribusiness; and anarchism; and Andean farmers; of artisans; and assembly line; and authoritarianism; and compulsory universal education; and contract farming; and Crozier; and Emdrup playground; expansion of; and industrial workers; and patriarchal family; and petty bourgeoisie; and small property; for subordinate classes. See also independence
Bakunin, Mikhail
Bangkok, housing in
banks. See also World Bank
bard, medieval
Bastille, storming of
Battle in Seattle
beauty. See also aesthetics
Bell Labs
Berlin, Isaiah
Berlin Wall
big box stores
Big Mac sandwich
Big Ten universities
biography
black bloc strategy
body counts
body parts, international trade in
Bolshevik Revolution
Bolsheviks
bond rating agencies
border states
Boulding, Kenneth
boycotts
Branch, Taylor
Brasilia
Brazil
Brecht, Bertolt
Brown, Stuart
Bukharin, Nikolai
bureaucracies
Burma
business conglomerates
call-and-response tradition
campaign contributions
capitalism: and crisis beginning in; and Global South; and petty bourgeoisie; and proletariat
Caterpillar Corporation
Catherine the Great
Ceau&#015f;escu, Nicolae
Central America
ceremonial space
charisma, relationship of
children
China
Chuan...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Preface
  7. One: The Uses of Disorder and “Charisma”
  8. Two: Vernacular Order, Official Order
  9. Three: The Production of Human Beings
  10. Four: Two Cheers for the Petty Bourgeoisie
  11. Five: For Politics
  12. Six: Particularity and Flux
  13. Notes
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Index