Metarationalist Ephemera

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Can we ever go back to those unbroken spells of love and life? Why are we born to see misery and fight death? Wouldn’t winning put an end to the purpose of life?

While discussing on the Internet, I am often required to explain just what is this “anarcho-communism” I speak of. And furthermore, why would anyone think that society should work towards it rather than try to fix the political systems in place? This article will be a quick attempt at answering these questions as to avoid [...]

The right to privacy as I envision it would imply a very broad range of ethical considerations. It could even be seen as one of the basis of the social contract of an hypothetical anarcho-communist society, along with the right to see your needs fulfilled. But what would be the implications of a system that [...]