Metarationalist Ephemera

I recently got to read this post that attempts to speak against the concept of consensus politics which I’ve been promoting. Although I find myself agreeing with some of the criticisms made against “democracy” as we currently know it, the claim that a constitution would somehow be better than consensus politics disregards the fact that [...]

This is a (rough) translation – with my own minor subjectively assessed improvements – of part of an article published in French at the blog of a fellow anarchist and Quebecker, Anarcho-pragmatisme. The debate on property is probably the most fundamental debate among anarchists, and there is no clear consensus on this issue within the [...]

An aspect often overlooked in normative theory is the intricacy of irrational feelings and personal reality. The boundary between “feelings/intuition” and “objective perception” is a murky one that most ideologues like to conveniently ignore. Politicians are unlikely to become politicians under the assumption that they’re not objectively right as to what is best for everyone. [...]

This post will explain what I believe to be one possible axiomatic that can demonstrate why panarchism  – or most other flavours of anarchism, for that matter – would be a “fair” political system. The greatest issue that is tackled by this axiomatic is that of defining “fairness” itself. To avoid the pitfalls inherent to [...]

At the deepest core of politics lie what some call principles, attitudes, beliefs, values, axioms and all sorts of words that, for the purpose of this post, are conceptually identical. As none of those words even comes close to having the breadth and depth of what they are supposed to represent, this concept will hereby [...]

The concept of “wealth” is a recurrent theme in debates between the right and left: each side believes that their system has the most ethical way of managing wealth. The perspective we will defend here is our own – that of the left. First, it is essential to define “wealth”. As core premise of our [...]

[<-- Previous post: Transition and Progress] This is the third installment of the series of joint posts by Azarius and Reikoku on the topic of panarchism. You are unlikely to understand much of it if you haven’t read the two previous posts yet. Creating a system from scratch requires that a large amount of resources [...]

I have created the following diagram of possible ideologies (inside the square) and utopias (outside the square) in the 21st Century as part of the first appendix to my mid-term essay in Idéologie et société (SOC 4709) with Diane Pacom – a course that is highly relevant to my interests, and to this blog. [Click [...]

The following series of joint blog posts by Azarius and Reikoku is the result of long, at times painful, debates on the nature of political ideals, utopias, and ethics. Indeed, politics, in the end, amount to ethics applied to a community of “responsible adults” – the Greek polis. Accordingly, the common axiom that sparked our [...]

I am anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist, anti-materialist and generally opposed to any approach bearing resemblance to economic reductionism. As such, I oppose both classic Marxist analysis and liberal economic analysis. That does not mean I do not recognise the importance of material wealth, or even of trade. I simply do not believe that it determines human life, [...]