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Anarchism and non-domination
In this paper we recover the classical anarchist deployment of republican tropes of nondomination, tyranny and slavery, to expose the conservative limits of the contemporary neoRoman republican revival. For the anarchists, the modern nation state and the institution of private property are antithetical to freedom as non-domination, acting as structural constraints to freedom rather than the means for its realisation. We re-examine the grounds of this critique to advance two arguments. First, that a commitment to either the state or private property represents an unwarranted positive moral and ethical commitment that skews the negative theory of freedom contemporary republicans seek to develop. Second, the prior moral commitment to the state renders neo-Roman republicanism fundamentally conservative. Anarchist theories of freedom as non-domination push much further than the contemporary republican revival seems to permit, opening new possibilities for institutional and constitutional innovation while remaining consistent with core republican normative value of non-domination.
Funding
Title: Anarchy as constitutional principle: Constitutionalising in anarchist politics
Economic and Social Research Council
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History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
Published in
Journal of Political IdeologiesVolume
24Issue
3Pages
221 - 240Citation
KINNA, R. and PRICHARD, A., 2019. Anarchism and non-domination. Journal of Political Ideologies, 24 (3), pp.221-240.Publisher
Taylor & FrancisVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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2019-06-14Publication date
2019-06-24Copyright date
2019Notes
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.ISSN
1356-9317eISSN
1469-9613Publisher version
Language
- en