Sophie Scott-Brown: Liberal democracies are backsliding worldwide. Could anarchy help?

Anarchy in the UK - and beyond. The historian Sophie Scott-Brown on why liberal democracies could benefit from anarchism.
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For many, anarchism may conjure scenes of disarray and chaos, or perhaps even riotous punk rock shows in dingy basement venues. But in this video, the historian Sophie Scott-Brown, a self-described anarchist, reframes anarchism as a movement that can be practically applied to, and even strengthen, contemporary liberal democracies. In a wide-ranging interview, Scott-Brown discusses the form of anarchy she ascribes to - pacifist, centred on direct democracy, and not inherently opposed to all forms of leadership structures - as well as the thinkers and personal experiences that influenced her.

[@user-jp3pt4fd2r]

i see no cognition!!.

[@SvalbardSleeperDistrict]

If we are to overcome class society and bourgeois capitalism while surviving as an organised civilisation on a healthy planet - before proceeding to other planets - the end outcome _is_ anarchism, the one of a communist society. The question is whether it's the anarchist means that will bring us to that next stage of development, or the socialist ones.

[@Herlock07]

Well that's just your opinion, guy.

[@SvalbardSleeperDistrict]

@@Herlock07 Given your other comment to this video, I don't think anyone should take yours seriously.

[@Herlock07]

@@SvalbardSleeperDistrict You took me seriously enough to comment back.

[@SvalbardSleeperDistrict]

@@Herlock07 Yeah, to let you know the above. Great achievement.

[@Herlock07]

@@SvalbardSleeperDistrict Which means you took me seriously. It's quite pathetic that illogical people like you think they are logical.