Rethinking Authority from Anarchism. A Rereading from Bakunin
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https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2022.66.22Keywords:
Authority, Bakunin, Anarchism, Power, Freedom, AuthoritarianismAbstract
This article proposes to reread authority from a traditionally anti-authoritarian perspective such as the anarchist one and, specifically, from Bakunin’s thought. To this end, I analyze some little studied texts of the Russian anarchist and show that, despite his criticisms of authority, he did not want to abolish authority but to rethink and transform it. Bakunin’s proposal consisted in seeking an alternative face to hegemonic authority, which he explores from its most everyday and relational dimension and where it appears as a close, spontaneous and more democratic reality that is based on freedom. Afterwards, the question of authority is examined from its more practical side, where the question of authority connects with the so-called “moral authority” and serves to question the classic hierarchical relationship between theory and action. In his reinterpretation of authority Bakunin finds a kind of power that goes beyond power and traditional authority.
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Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
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Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Grant numbers PGC2018-094463-B100
European Regional Development Fund
Grant numbers PGC2018-094463-B100