The state is the supreme expression of institutional order. It is a model of social organization built on hierarchy, control and coercion. According to one view that many anarchists share, institutional order is nothing other than the usurpation of another kind of order that could be described as spontaneous.
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Muchos de los equívocos referentes a la gestión democrática del poder provienen, a mi parecer, de la ambigÜedad del concepto de consenso. Lo que sigue es un razonamiento actualmente difundido entre un buen número de anarquistas.
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The entire history of western civilization can be read as a systematic attempt to exclude and isolate the body. From Plato on, this has been seen from time to time as folly to control, impulse to repress, labor power to arrange, unconscious to psychoanalyze.
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Massimo Passamani (1996)
Molti degli equivoci a proposito della gestione democratica del potere nascono, a mio avviso, dall’ambiguita’ del concetto di consenso. Un ragionamento ormai diffuso tra un buon numero di anarchici e’ quello che segue.
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En mi opinión, mucho de los malentendidos relacionados a la gestión democrática se originan en la ambigüedad del concepto de consenso social. El siguiente párrafo contiene una línea de razonamiento que ahora se ha extendido entre un buen número de anarquistas.
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Not putting one’s destiny into play unless one is willing to play with all of one’s possibilities
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Putting the past back in play in order to make an adventure of the future. I believe that the reasons for keeping past theoretical and practical experiences from becoming material for historians are contained in this perspective.
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A known and hospitable place. I think that for the most part this is the image we have of the assembly. We read in a journal or on a poster that there is a meeting, a debate, and we find ourselves seated, almost always in a circle (perhaps in homage to the Enlightenment idea of “Encyclopedia”, that really means circular learning), waiting for someone to introduce and elucidate the topic for us. If the theme of the discussion is specific enough, we are convinced that expertise is required and so participation is quite limited. On the other hand, if it is a bit broader and more complex, everyone has her say without any deference. And yet in the end, one always remains a bit frustrated.
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