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'''Post-colonial anarchism''' is a term used to describe ] in an ] framework. Whereas traditional anarchism arose from industrialized ]—and thus sees history from their perspective—post-colonial anarchism approaches the same principles of anarchism from the perspective of colonized peoples. It is highly critical of the contributions of the established anarchist movement, and seeks to add what it sees as a unique and important perspective. The tendency is strongly influenced by ], anti-state forms of ], and anarchism among ethnic minorities, among other sources. | ||
| The term was first coined by Roger White. Between 1994 and 2004, White wrote a series of essays reflecting on his experiences in the anarchist movement. He identifies racial isolation and ] as important features of the experience of people of color in the anarchist movement and attributes this to the prevalence European ] and an approach to ] as a binary relationship between workers and capitalists which does not take account of the cultural aspects of ].<ref name="PCA">{{cite book|last1=White|first1=Roger|title=Post Colonial Anarchism Essays on race, repression and culture in communities of color 1999–2004|publisher=Jailbreak Press|location=Oakland California|url=http://colours.mahost.org/articles/Post-Colonial%20Anarchism.pdf|access-date=9 February 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060103114336/http://colours.mahost.org/articles/Post-Colonial%20Anarchism.pdf|archive-date=3 January 2006}}</ref> | |||
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| ⚫ | At root, the basic difference between anarchism and anti-state nationalism is that in nationalism the primary political unit is the nation, or ], whereas in an anarchist system the primary political unit is the local community or the place where labor occurs. Post-colonial anarchism is therefore clearly distinct from any form of nationalism in that it does not seek to make the nation a political unit – let alone the primary political unit. Just as social anarchists seek to create a socialist economy but oppose the tyranny of Marxist ], post-colonial anarchists oppose the tyranny of nationalism, and argue that the achievement of meaningful ] for all of the world's nations requires an anarchist political system based on local control, free federation and mutual aid.<ref>Post Colonial Anarchism, by Roger White. Anarchism, nationalism, and national liberation from an APOC perspective.</ref> | ||
| Post-Colonial Anarchism is syncretic and diverse, incorporating a wide range of sources, as is to be expected from a tendency which draws from such a wide range of perspectives. | |||
| == References == | |||
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| ==Further reading== | |||
| ] have a long history, going back to ]'s early involvement in the ] movement. Anarchists have participated in Left-Nationalist movements in ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and many other nations. Modern Anarchist organizations working on national liberation struggles include the ] in ]. | |||
| * {{cite book|last=Galián|first=Laura|year=2020|chapter=Decolonizing Anarchism|title=Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean|publisher=]|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-45449-4_2|isbn=978-3-030-45449-4|pages=27–54}} | |||
| * {{cite book|last=Gordon|first=Uri|year=2016|chapter=Anarchism and multiculturalism|editor-first1=Luis|editor-last1=Cordeiro-Rodrigues|editor-first2=Marko|editor-last2=Simendic|title=Philosophies of Multiculturalism|publisher=]|pages=71–87|isbn=9781315516370|doi=10.4324/9781315516370-11|doi-broken-date=5 November 2024 }} | |||
| * {{Cite book |last=Hirsch |first=Steven |url=https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004188495.i-432 |title=Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940 |last2=van der Walt |first2=Lucien |date=2010 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-18848-8}} | |||
| * {{cite book|last=Larson|first=Ole Birk|chapter=Anti-Imperialism|editor-last1=Adams|editor-first1=Matthew S.|editor-last2=Levy|editor-first2=Carl|year=2018|title=The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism|location=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-3319756196|pages=149–167|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_8|s2cid=150357033 }} | |||
| * {{cite book|last=Ramnath|first=Maia|chapter=Non-Western Anarchisms and Postcolonialism|editor-last1=Adams|editor-first1=Matthew S.|editor-last2=Levy|editor-first2=Carl|year=2018|title=The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism|location=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-3319756196|pages=677–695|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_38|s2cid=150357033 }} | |||
| * {{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Matthew|last2=Kinna|first2=Ruth|author-link2=Ruth Kinna|year=2012|chapter=Key terms|editor-last=Kinna|editor-first=Ruth|title=The Continuum Companion to Anarchism|publisher=]|isbn=978-1-4411-4270-2|pages=329-352<!--345-346-->}} | |||
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| === Race and Racism === | |||
| Post-Colonial Anarchism is self-consciously anti-racist, though different groups have differing ideas of what that means. ]-identified groups seek to bring together the perspectives of people of color within the Anarchist movement and have a strong commitment to combating white supremacy, but are often reluctant to recognize the validity and importance of anti-imperialist struggles in Europe. Indigenist thinkers like ], by contrast, make a point of showing support for such movements and actively encourages white anti-racists to explore and learn from historical and ongoing anti-imperialist struggles in Europe. All the various strains of Post-colonial Anarchism, however, are explicitly opposed to and denounce claims of racial superiority by any group and see the abolition of racism as a fundamental goal of Anarchism. | |||
| == African Anarchism == | |||
| == Celtic Anarchism == | |||
| The most basic aspect of the tendency is the belief that pre-conquest ] societies had strong aspects in common with Anarchist ideals of how society should be structured, and that modern Anarchists would do well to investigate these early models. Celtic Ireland, prior to ]'s invasion, is held up as a positive example. The tendency is thus similar to ] in that it seeks inspiration for anarchism in the history and practices of ancestors, rather then relying solely on political theory and speculation. There is also a strong movement to seek out the good in the ongoing anti-imperialist movements in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Bretony, Cornwall, and Galicia. | |||
| === Ecology === | |||
| The influence of the modern revival of Celtic culture on Anarchism are particularly evident within the radical wing of the ] movement, particularly ]. ] is one of the largest networks organizing around these issues and is organized along anarchist lines with many of the people who work under its banner self-identifying as anarchists. It is perhaps natural that the ] and ] Earth First movements in particular would seek inspiration from and consciously seek linkages with Celtic identities, given that the ancient Celts are commonly portrayed as being more in touch with nature then modern consumer society. The Earth First Journal, the main publication of the movement, organizes its printing schedule around the Neopagan ], which consists of four Gaelic festivals and four Germanic ones, with issues named for ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. <ref></ref> | |||
| === Post-Colonial Anarchism in Ireland === | |||
| The armed struggle against British rule in Ireland, particularly up to and during the War of Independence, is portrayed as a ] struggle with the Celtic Anarchist mileau. Anarchists, including the Irish ], support a complete end to British involvement in Ireland, a stance traditionally associated with ], but are also very critical of Stateist ] and the ] in particular. In two articles published on Anarkismo.net, Andrew Flood of the WSM outlines what he argues was the betrayal of class struggle by the IRA during the war of independence,<ref> from Anarkismo.net</ref> <ref> from Anarkismo.net</ref> and argues that the Stateism of traditional Irish Nationalism forced it to place the interests of wealthy Irish Nationalists who were financing the revolution ahead of the interests of the vast majority of Ireland's poor. The example of the ], a workers militia which was led by ] and based in the radical wing of the Irish union movement, is held up as a better example of how the larger revolutionary movement could have - and should have - been organized. | |||
| Anarchists are extremely critical of the I.R.A., both because of its use of terrorist violence and because of its internal ]ism. From the Anarchist view, British and Irish nationalisms are both Stateist, authoritarian, and seek to dominate and exploit the Irish ] to empower their competing ]s. Anarchism would instead create a political system without States and where communities are self-governing on the local level. The achievement of home-rule, or political self-determination, is therefore a precondition for and a consequence of Anarchism. At root then, the Anarchist objection to Irish Nationalism is that Nationalists use reprehensible means to demand far too little. Still, Anarchists seek to learn from and examine the liberatory aspects of the struggle for Irish independence and the WSM includes a demand for complete British withdrawal from North Ireland in its platform. | |||
| == Chicano Anarchism == | |||
| === Anarchism in Mexico === | |||
| {{main article|Anarchism in Mexico}} | |||
| ], one of the early leaders of the Mexican left-nationalist movement which eventually culminated in the ], based his anarchism primarily on the works of early anarchists ] and ], but was also influenced by his anarchist contemporaries: ], ], ], ], ], ] and ]. However, he was most influenced by ]. Flores Magón also read from the works of ] and ]. Kropotkin's '']'', which he considered a kind of anarchist bible, served as basis for the short-lived revolutionary communes in ] during the "]" Revolt of 1911. In addition to his work with the ], Magón organised with the ] (IWW) and edited ''Regeneración'', which aroused the workers against the dictatorship of ]. | |||
| ==Black anarchism or Panther anarchism== | |||
| {{Main article|Black anarchism}} | |||
| '''Black anarchism''' opposes the existence of a ] and subjugation and domination of people of color, and favors a non-hierarchical organization of society. Black ] seek to abolish ], ], and the state. Theorists include ], ], ], many former members of the ], and ]. Black anarchism rejects the traditional anarchist movement. | |||
| Black anarchists have criticized both the hierarchical organization of the Black Panther ], and the anarchist movement, on the grounds that it has traditionally been European and/or white-based. They oppose the ] conception, based on the ] of the ], which is proposed by the anarchist workers' tradition, arguing that it is not adequate enough to struggle against ] and that it disguises real inequalities by proclaiming a ''de jure'' ]. For example, Pedro Ribeiro has criticized the whole of the anarchist movement by declaring that: | |||
| <blockquote>''"It is a white, petty-bourgeois Anarchism that cannot relate to the people. As a Black person, I am not interested in your Anarchism. I am not interested in individualistic, self-serving, selfish liberation for you and your white friends. What I care about is the liberation of my people."'' </blockquote> | |||
| Black anarchists are thus influenced by the ] and ], and seek to forge their own movement that represents their own identity and tailored to their own unique situation. However, in contrast to black activism that was, in the past, based in leadership from hierarchical organizations such as the Black Panther Party, black anarchism rejects such methodology in favor of developing organically through communication and cooperation to bring about an economic and cultural revolution that does away with racist domination, capitalism, and the state. From Alston's ''@narchist Panther Zine'': | |||
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| <blockquote>"''Panther anarchism is ready, willing and able to challenge old nationalist and revolutionary notions that have been accepted as ‘common-sense.’ It also challenges the bullshit in our lives and in the so-called movement that holds us back from building a genuine movement based on the enjoyment of life, diversity, practical self-determination and multi-faceted resistance to the Babylonian Pigocracy. This Pigocracy is in our ‘heads,’ our relationships as well as in the institutions that have a vested interest in our eternal domination.''"<ref>''@narchist Panther Zine'' October 1999, '''1'''(1).</ref></blockquote> | |||
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| == Notes and References == | |||
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Post-colonial anarchism is a term used to describe anarchism in an anti-imperialist framework. Whereas traditional anarchism arose from industrialized Western nations—and thus sees history from their perspective—post-colonial anarchism approaches the same principles of anarchism from the perspective of colonized peoples. It is highly critical of the contributions of the established anarchist movement, and seeks to add what it sees as a unique and important perspective. The tendency is strongly influenced by indigenism, anti-state forms of nationalism, and anarchism among ethnic minorities, among other sources.
The term was first coined by Roger White. Between 1994 and 2004, White wrote a series of essays reflecting on his experiences in the anarchist movement. He identifies racial isolation and tokenism as important features of the experience of people of color in the anarchist movement and attributes this to the prevalence European universalism and an approach to class struggle as a binary relationship between workers and capitalists which does not take account of the cultural aspects of imperialism.
At root, the basic difference between anarchism and anti-state nationalism is that in nationalism the primary political unit is the nation, or ethnic group, whereas in an anarchist system the primary political unit is the local community or the place where labor occurs. Post-colonial anarchism is therefore clearly distinct from any form of nationalism in that it does not seek to make the nation a political unit – let alone the primary political unit. Just as social anarchists seek to create a socialist economy but oppose the tyranny of Marxist state socialism, post-colonial anarchists oppose the tyranny of nationalism, and argue that the achievement of meaningful self-determination for all of the world's nations requires an anarchist political system based on local control, free federation and mutual aid.
References
- White, Roger. Post Colonial Anarchism Essays on race, repression and culture in communities of color 1999–2004 (PDF). Oakland California: Jailbreak Press. Archived from the original on 3 January 2006. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - Post Colonial Anarchism, by Roger White. Anarchism, nationalism, and national liberation from an APOC perspective.
Further reading
- Galián, Laura (2020). "Decolonizing Anarchism". Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 27–54. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-45449-4_2. ISBN 978-3-030-45449-4.
- Gordon, Uri (2016). "Anarchism and multiculturalism". In Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luis; Simendic, Marko (eds.). Philosophies of Multiculturalism. Routledge. pp. 71–87. doi:10.4324/9781315516370-11 (inactive 5 November 2024). ISBN 9781315516370.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link) - Hirsch, Steven; van der Walt, Lucien (2010). Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-18848-8.
- Larson, Ole Birk (2018). "Anti-Imperialism". In Adams, Matthew S.; Levy, Carl (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 149–167. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_8. ISBN 978-3319756196. S2CID 150357033.
- Ramnath, Maia (2018). "Non-Western Anarchisms and Postcolonialism". In Adams, Matthew S.; Levy, Carl (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 677–695. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_38. ISBN 978-3319756196. S2CID 150357033.
- Wilson, Matthew; Kinna, Ruth (2012). "Key terms". In Kinna, Ruth (ed.). The Continuum Companion to Anarchism. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 329–352. ISBN 978-1-4411-4270-2.
External links
- Post Colonial Anarchism: Essays on race, repression and culture in communities of color 1999–2004 by Roger White
- Black Anarchism: A Reader
- Por la independencia total y la anarquía sin límites by the Icària collective
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