{"id":13565,"date":"2015-10-19T07:59:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13565"},"modified":"2015-10-19T07:59:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:59:27","slug":"food-sovereignty-this-is-what-anarchy-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13565","title":{"rendered":"Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"item_detail\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.resilience.org\/stories\/2015-10-19\/food-sovereignty-this-is-what-anarchy-looks-like\" target=\"_blank\">Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThis is what democracy looks like\u201d goes the popular protest chant.\u00a0 However, it\u2019s not democracy that captures the imagination, provides answers, and drives today\u2019s resistance\u00a0 movement.\u00a0 Something much more interesting has been taking place during protests, forums and intentional communities. In his book\u00a0<i>The New Left<\/i>\u00a0the anthropologist David Graeber states that anarchy has become the logical and probably last hope of the international resistance to capitalism.\u00a0 Mondeggi, an agricultural squat in the Tuscan countryside celebrating its first year this summer demonstrates how that might just be the case.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.resilience.org\/articles\/General\/2015\/10_Oct\/boyan2.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anarchy is completely misunderstood amongst the larger public. The word in modern vocabulary has come to mean chaos. This is ironically the opposite of Anarchy, which could be described\u00a0 as organic order of horizontal self-governance. The misunderstanding comes partly due to political theory ignorance, propaganda from the right, and due to some of the \u201cviolent\u201d acts of some historical anarchists such as blowing up bridges and factories in the context of oppressive monarchies, world wars, and Fascist regimes. These extreme strategies are ironically much less drastic that the systematic widespread organized violence of the various state regimes through history.<\/p>\n<p>Chomsky argues that Anarchism is based on the assumption that any structure of authority and domination has to justify itself. All such structures have a burden of proof to bear and if they can&#8217;t bear that burden they&#8217;re illegitimate.\u00a0 If they are illegitimate they should be dismantled and replaced by alternative structures which are free and participatory and are not based on authoritarian systems.<\/p>\n<p>Democracy allows for the exploitation and destruction of the environment that is taking place today because of the financial interests of a few organizing the nations states according to the bottom line of international profit. Direct democracy does allow for taking some of the responsibility and control of affairs yet it still maintains the existence of the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like \u201cThis is what democracy looks like\u201d goes the popular protest chant.\u00a0 However, it\u2019s not democracy that captures the imagination, provides answers, and drives today\u2019s resistance\u00a0 movement.\u00a0 Something much more interesting has been taking place during protests, forums and intentional communities. In his book\u00a0The New Left\u00a0the anthropologist David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[2216,9980,204,1491,319,1912,9981,1980,6665,1882],"class_list":["post-13565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-anarchy","tag-authoritarian-systems","tag-democracy","tag-fascism","tag-food","tag-food-production","tag-nation-states","tag-profit","tag-resilience-org","tag-self-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13566,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13565\/revisions\/13566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}