Steps Toward a Post-Western Anarchism

In this provocative and forward-thinking essay on the future of anarchism, Thomas Martin begins to address the challenges of anarchist praxis as it comes to terms with the social and political equivalents of the so-called “paradigm shifts” already witnessed in physics. Our understanding of reality itself is changing, he argues, and while anarchism is perhaps the best-suited political philosophy to adjust to these changes, it is nonetheless requires a radical transformation in our thinking.

Originally published in issue 23.