Maia Ramnath - Decolonizing Anarchism.pdf - Libcom

4 I Ramnath
capitalism (which far from representing an escape from the
state, actually depends on favorable state policies) but also
some form of nonstate socialism built on an overlapping
network of self-run syndicates and collectives.
Most often, though, there doesn't seem to be much
point in quibbling. \'Vhy force my vocabulary into a place
where it doesn't make sense, using words that will inevitably
trigger referents and associations that are far from
what I am trying to communicate? Even in explaining this
project to people in Indian social movement and scholarly
contexts I've hesitated to use the words, because whenever
I did, due to an accepted sediment of meanings and associations,
it led directly into miscomprehension of what I
was trying to do. If the concern is with content and meaning
rather than with labels, it is better to scrap any attachment
I have to a terminology from another context and
seek a different shared vocabulary for the principles to be
discussed, the problems to be solved.
And what are these principles, these problems? j\fy political,
ethical, and intellectual worlds have long orbited a
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