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CHOMSKY ON ANARCHISM pendent. Take, say, trying to organize a labor union. If you are {he organizer, {here are gonna be costs to you. Maybe the work fo rce will gain but there is a cost to you. We know there is, we know what that cost is-nm just in energy and effort, but in punishment. People living in fragile circumstances make a reasonable calcularion, they say "Why should I take the COSt when I can just get by?" So there are many reasons why normal instincts and attitudes don't come out. Although over time they often do. After all that's how we have social change fo r the better. Thank you so much for your time. It was great to meet you, thanks for your thoughts. This interview was conducted in February, 2004 in Cambridge, MA by Barry Pateman, Associate Editor of the Emma Goldman Papers. 233
ELEVEN INTERVIEW WITH ZIGA VOD OVN IK (2004) 234 When somebody declares himself as an anarchist, he basically tells very little about his inspirations and aspirations-about the question of means and ends. This only confirms an old truth that we can not define anarchism as self-sufficient dot, but rather as a mosaic composed of many different dots or political views {and aspirationsj-green, feminist, pacifist, etc. This question of means and ends is part of the fascination of anarchism in theory, hut sometimes part its frustration in practice. Do you think that this diversity makes anarchism ineffoctive and an inconsequential body o/ideas, or rather makes anarchism universal!] adaptable? Anarchism is a very broad category; it means a lor of different things to different people. The main strains of anarchism have been very concerned with means. They have often tended to try to follow the idea that Bakunin expressed, that you should build the seeds of the future society within the existing one, and have been very extensively involved in educational work: organizing and fo rming collectives, small collectives and larger ones, and other kinds of organizations. There are other groups that call themselves anarchist, who are also mostly concerned about means-so, what kind of demonsrrarions should we carry out, what sort of direct actions are appropriate and so on and so forth. I don't think it is possible to ask whether it is effective or not. There are different ways of proceeding, effective in different circumstances. And there is no unified anarchist movement that has a position to talk about. There are just many conflicting strains that often disagree quite sharply. There have never been many anarchists, as far as I know, who object to carrying OUt what they call reformist measures within existing society-like improving women's rights, worker's health. There are other anarchists whose positions are primitivist, who want to eliminate technology and return to the soil . . . In theoretical political science we can analytically identifY two main conceptions of anarchism-a so-called collective anarchism with Bakunin, Kropotkin and Makhno as main figures and which is limited to Europe, and, on another hand, so-called individualistic anarchism which is limited
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