It is not enough to saythese are anti-authority struggles. We must try to define more precisely what they have in common. Michel Foucault p. 11
Terms
· objectification
· Banal facts
· rationality
· subject
· transversal struggles (vs universal) p. 11
· power effects
· “immediate” struggles (close to them, nearby, proximal and effect on individuals; immediate enemy vs. chief enemy at elevators in 23 bldg). Immediate in that they want relief in the now not at a future date (no long now here; liberations, revolutions, ends of class struggles, etc.). These are anarchistic struggles
· anarchistic
opposition to power of men over women
…of whites over blacks
…of parents over children
…of first world over third or second world
…of teachers over students
…of psychiatry over mentally ill
…of medicine over patients or the population
…of administration over the ways people live
…of literate over the non-literate (vs. illiterate)
…of wives over husbands
…of <Can you add any?>
..of powerful over the oppressed and not free or liberated in a democracy
CONTEXT: This illustration appeared on the cover of the first issue of Goldman's anarchist magazine, Mother Earth. The magazine published writings on anarchism, news of national and international anarchist and labor activities, and poetry and drama criticism.
Excerpts from "Anarchism: What It Really Stands For"
(Anarchism and Other Essays, 1910) by Emma Goldman
"I shall begin with a definition.... Anarchism: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary."
"Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property: liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations."
"Anarchism... is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn."
http://ucblibrary3.berkeley.edu/goldman/Curricula/FreeExpression/definition.html