Monarchism, Primitivism & Fascism?
Monarchism, Primitivism & Fascism? Some thoughts on anarchism and power Stone Age Herbalist As a change of pace from my usual writing I thought I’d spread my intellectual wings a bit and engage with a little niche political thought. Anarchism is one of those fringe adolescent movements which maintains itself on rebellious energy but does have some history of serious writing and theory. Like all fringe movements it has splintered into numerous, and quite dull, subsects: syndicalism, green, communism and so on, each trying to stick the appendage ‘anarcho’ onto something more outlandish. You might ask then why I’d be interested in three utterly insane sounding ideologies, two of which sound oxymoronic. I think all three represent some deep archetypes about ‘organicism’ - the interest in how societies and organisations develop naturally, rather than through imposed ideological blinkers. This to me represents a subterranean question or fault-line running through our political life, is i