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Title: Anarchism and cosmopolitanism
Author: Carl Levy
Date: 2011
Language: en
Topics: cosmopolitanism, international relations
Source: *Journal of Political Ideologies*, Volume 16, 2011 — Issue 3: The libertarian impulse. DOI:10.1080/13569317.2011.607293

Carl Levy

Anarchism and cosmopolitanism

Abstract

Until recently, the relationship between theories of international

anarchy and anarchism has been ignored. Very recent work has started to

bridge the gap between International Relations theory and the usefulness

of anarchism and anarchist theory for the understanding of global

politics. This article takes this discussion one step further by

examining the relationship between classical anarchism (1860s–1940s),

cosmopolitanism, post-anarchism and the global justice movement. It then

investigates the linkages between the works of the 19^(th)- and

20^(th)-century anarchists, Rudolf Rocker and Gustav Landauer, and

contemporary examinations of the linkages between cultural nationalism,

cosmopolitanism and the classical and post-anarchist projects.

Introduction

Recent interest in cosmopolitanism has overlooked its anarchist roots.

Although consensual and libertarian currents can be found in all human

societies, the specific ideology anarchism, is a product of a

conjunction of forces (scientism, statism/anti-statism, perfectionism,

modern capitalism/anti-capitalism) in Europe in the 18^(th) and early

19^(th) centuries.[1] Another influence, I would argue, is

cosmopolitanism. Here I will examine the works of the 19^(th)- and

20^(th)-century anarchists, Rudolf Rocker and Gustav Landauer, who wrote

about the linkages between cultural nationalism, cosmopolitanism and the

anarchist project. But I will also place these strands of thought within

the recent post-modernist reading of anarchism known as post-anarchism.

The Context: Varieties of Kantian Cosmopolitanism

First, my argument must be situated amongst a variety of

cosmopolitanisms that have flourished in political theory, sociology and

history since the end of the Cold War and the emergence of the paradigms

of globalization, diasporas, hybridity and post-modernism.[2] These

include the discussion influenced by a pronounced revival of the Kantian

project. At first blush the varieties of Kantian cosmopolitanisms have

little in common with the anarchist project, be they the full-blown

federalist project of Daniele Archibugi,[3] the more restrained version

promoted by David Held[4] or the (on the face of it) oxymoronic versions

of communitarian Kantianism promoted by David Miller[5] or Richard

Bellamy and Dario Castiglione.[6] Of course, it is well known that

Immanuel Kant warned that a cosmopolitanism that led to a world state

would be a cosmopolitanism gone wrong. The political theorist Mervyn

Frost, addressing this problem, has proposed a conceptual framework of

‘two anarchies’ embodied in a system of counterbalancing sovereign

states and global civil society, thus freedom and diversity would be

assured as the dictatorship of state-centric international society would

be lessened.[7] Anarchists should appreciate the pluralism of Frost’s

suggested remedy. Indeed, one of the few classical anarchists who wrote

extensively on international relations, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, endorsed

the balance of power, upon which, paradoxically, most forms of Kantian

cosmopolitanism implicitly rely. And, as argued by Alex Prichard,

Proudhon anticipated the logic of federalism and supranationality, which

underlies the European project of the 20^(th) and 21^(st) centuries

(indeed functionalist pluralists such as Harold Laski and David Mitrany

read Proudhon with interest), albeit his projected agro-industrial

federalism is rather different than the Single European Market.[8]

A methodological anarchism could be employed in the ongoing debate about

the nature of the international system under the Westphalian and

post-Westphalian orders and the degree to which 1648 marked a break

between a world of multi-level medievalism and the modern world of

sovereign states, or to what extent modern globalization and

cosmopolitan politics are forms of neo-medievalism. However, until very

recently, most historical and International Relations debates have not

drawn consciously on the canon of classical anarchist thought, but the

politics of alter-globalization is another matter, for as we will

shortly see, it draws upon the same sources as post-anarchism. Frost’s

elegant formulations reference neither classical nor post-modern

anarchist sources, while Rob Walker dances around the subject even if

his injunction to move from the discipline of International Relations to

the ‘politics of the world’ and thus ‘the potentialities of more

universally conceived humanity’ are closer still to the utopian vision

of the classical anarchists. Certainly, the anti-statist federal

pluralism of Proudhon would have been a useful reference when Walker

warned his readers of the dangers of a super global sovereignty or a

consortium of superpowers who might exercise a shared global

sovereignty.[9]

But recently a series of pioneering articles examine in detail how the

thought of Kropotkin, Proudhon and other classical anarchists can

address key issues in the field of International Relations.[10] With

reference to cosmopolitanism and anarchism, the interventions by Richard

Falk[11] and Alex Prichard[12] are the most relevant. Falk anticipated

connections in earlier work, but he reminds us now that philosophical

anarchism’s traditions of cooperation, non-violence, community,

small-scale social organization and local solutions can be applied to

practices in cosmopolitics. While for Prichard, David Held’s middle way

between Marxism and anarchism and the centrality Held attaches to

multi-level and federal solutions makes him a candidate for anarchist

conversion, despite his lack of interest in the canon.[13]

Cosmopolitanism, Post-Anarchism and Libertarian Social Democracy

But perhaps a more direct connection between anarchism and recent forms

of cosmopolitanism are the discussions that Saul Newman has pursued in a

series of recent works, most notably in his Unstable Universalities.[14]

In this work and the even more recent The Politics of Post-Anarchism,

Newman draws connections between classical anarchism and post-modern

thought by placing it within the related fields of cosmopolitan and

globalization studies.[15] Post-anarchism, Newman argues, is a

post-modernist take on the classical variety of anarchism; indeed, the

first principles of post-modernism itself can be found in a certain

reading of Max Stirner, Mikhail Bakunin and other works of the classical

anarchist canon. Stirner perhaps does not need a reworking, but Newman

has argued that Bakunin and Kropotkin can be purged of their positivism

and scientism and be more easily adaptable to the radical critique of

power and sovereignty one finds in the works of Jacques Derrida and

Giorgio Agamben, for example. The radical form of post-modernist

cosmopolitanism present in Derrida’s final works can easily be

assimilated into, or placed near to, post-anarchism.[16] Also, the

critique of the camp and the state of exception found in Agamben, or

similar discussions pursued by Costas Douzinas, come close to a critique

of state power found in the anarchist canon.[17] The libertarian

cosmopolitanism promoted by Derrida’s New International is closer still

to the anarchist tradition, one which melds the uniqueness of the

individual with the necessity of collective action, closer indeed than

the rather vaporous and muddled acrobatics of Michael Hardt and Antonio

Negri, which involve a recycling of the automaticity of Marx’s much more

thrilling telling of 19^(th)-century globalization and the pairing of

Empire and Multitude (and perhaps, with some exaggeration, celebrating

the strange marriage of Baruch Spinoza and Rosa Luxemburg or Georges

Sorel).[18]

Newman and others also see the global movements of the 21^(st) century

(the movement of movements after Seattle 1999, the Zapatistas, the

movement in support of the sans-papiers, the cities of refuge projects

and the no-borders activists) as practical manifestations of this

post-modern, indeed post-anarchist, form of cosmopolitanism.[19] Paul

Gilroy’s vision of post-race thinking—planetary humanism, which

transcends the racist and imperial assumptions of Kant and radical

identity politics of today—is another stimulating example. Gilroy’s

formulation is rather similar to Walter Mignolo’s ‘worldly culture,’

which seeks to avoid the trap of a ‘universal reason’ predicated on the

‘West versus the rest,’ by embracing a liminal ‘border thinking.’[20]

Although Hannah Arendt may be classed as a republican thinker who

stressed the importance of national citizenship over putative world

citizenship, she also had a strong libertarian streak and therefore a

latent critique of the international order of nation-states,[21]

especially shown in her praise of non-party council movements from the

Russian Soviets of 1917 to the workers’ councils of the crushed Budapest

revolt of 1956. Moreover, her pleas for the universality of ‘the right

to have rights’ have been adopted by a wide spectrum of alter-globalizer

thinkers and global justice activists.[22] However, it is probably true

that Arendt would feel some uneasiness with many of her current ardent

supporters. She would have been closer to April Carter’s discussions of

global citizenship:

In contemporary terms a rigorous interpretation of being a world citizen

within an international sphere dominated by realpolitik would imply

living as independently as possible, and an ‘inner emigration’; or else

it would require a more active anarchist resistance, such as the

non-payment of taxes and refusal of military service. Alternatively it

might mean the kind of adventurous challenging of borders and state

regulations undertaken by Gary Davis (a One World activist of the 1950s,

[CL]). The true home of a committed world citizen would be a national

prison. There have been periods, and there are certainly countries,

where this bleak interpretation seems the only one possible, but it is

not universally convincing.[23]

Even closer to Arendt’s heart might have been Bonnie Honig’s form of

libertarian social democratic cosmopolitanism, which sees the virtues of

not dispensing with the thick social goods of physical and social

security promoted by internationalist national communities and the

national state.[24] Thus, Honig prizes the affective relationships which

neighbourliness may foster, but she holds out for a conditional

relationship between a nationally grounded communitarian position and

the virtues of global civil society, which she calls agonistic

cosmopolitics.[25] A mere reinforcement of national ties will not

protect the very qualities communitarians wish to protect. ‘In other

words, rather than renationalize the state, democratic cosmopolitans

seek to denationalize the state, not because they do not value affective

ties and memberships but precisely because they do.’[26] Thus, Honig’s

position takes us some distance from the anti-statist

governmentality-centred Foucaultianism, in which category Seyla Benhabib

has mistakenly placed her.[27] Thus, a libertarian social democratic

sensibility, agonistic cosmopolitics, Honig argues, should embrace

Arendt’s motto of the right to have rights, ‘as long as we understand

rights to imply a world-building that is not incompatible with the

project of building juridical institutions and safeguards but also

reaches beyond the project because it is wary of how power and

discretion accrete in such institutional contexts.’[28] Thus, from her

‘doubly gestured diagnoses’ of ‘in/formal law and politics’ she promotes

an agonistic cosmopolitics that would also advance the Derridean project

of the cities of refuge, but still recognize the importance of a

politics of engagement with the democratic state.[29]

Cosmopolitanism and Anarchism in Historical Context

It is also important to look at how cosmopolitanism shaped the classical

anarchist movement (1860s–1940s) and indeed how the

cosmopolitan/global/diasporic turn in modern thought and sensibility can

inform a contextual historical account of classical anarchism itself. A

notable example is Benedict Anderson’s study of José Rizal, the novelist

and Filipino revolutionary executed by the Spanish in 1896. In this

biographical study, the historian of nationalism and South-East Asia

traces the cosmopolitan worlds of Cuban and Filipino nationalism,

anarchism and modernism during the era of the first bout of modern

globalization.[30] Elsewhere, I have traced a series of interlocking

networks, which encircled the world in the same historical period as

Anderson’s study.[31] Thus, the anarchist movement of the pre-1914

period manifested itself through exile networks that were found in safe

cosmopolitan ‘cities of refuge’ such as Paris and London, in the

Americas and in the circuits of imperial power (formal and informal),

especially in port cities.

Recent studies have examined these phenomena in ante bellum Buenos Aires

(perhaps the city with the largest anarchist movement in the world in

1910),[32] Havana (as a hub for the circulation of anarchism on

Caribbean shores)[33] or Alexandria and Beirut (in the heyday of

colonial cosmopolitanism in the Middle East),[34] while José Moya has

promised a book entitled The Anarchist Atlantic (with the obvious

influence of Paul Gilroy’s famous work on the Black Atlantic).[35]

Anderson’s book supplies us with an Anarchist Pacific (Hong Kong, Tokyo,

etc.) and an Anarchist Mediterranean (Barcelona, Marseille, etc.).

Similar approaches include the study of the spread of syndicalism within

the British Empire or the spread of the Industrial Workers of the World

from the USA to Mexico, Peru and other Latin American localities.[36]

Davide Turcato re-imagined the history of Italian anarchism not as a

national movement but as a movement of migrants from the Italian

peninsula.[37] Indeed, the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta was part

of a discussion group in a pub in 1890s London’s Covent Garden, which

called itself the Cosmopolitans (a group of British and exile radicals),

and was organized by the globe-trotting syndicalist, Tom Mann.[38]

There were other cosmopolitan circuits besides the exilic and

syndicalist, such as the anarchist bohemias—artistic spaces in major

cosmopolitan cities central to post-impressionist art and modernist

poetry (London’s Fitzrovia, Paris’s Montmartre, Munich’s Schwabing,

etc.).[39] A recent interest in the circuits of the anarchist terrorism

in the 1890s has attracted the attention of ‘terrorologists’ and

‘securocrats’ because of obvious, if rather superficial, comparisons

with the globally structured, but anti-cosmopolitan, fundamentalism of

Al-Qaeda.[40] Besides the 14^(th)-century historian and ‘political

sociologist,’ Ibn Khaldun, the cities of al Andalus (Andalusia) under

the Cordoban Umayyads, ‘or the long-distance interchanges between

multi-ethnic Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires in the 17^(th) and

18^(th) centuries,’ provide another genealogy of cosmopolitanism, which

counters Al-Qaeda’s restricted vision of the umma and is a refutation of

the widespread association in the Muslim world of cosmopolitanism, in

general, with Western imperialism.[41]

Employing a modified version of Ulrich Beck’s concept of a

methodological cosmopolitanism can highlight an alternative history of

modernity in which the state form is not the endpoint of all narratives,

thus a counter-history, which can be traced from the transnational

Christian charitable orders, confraternities and guilds of the medieval

period (Kropotkin noted them with interest) to the Republic of Letters

of the early modern period. But methodological cosmopolitanism can also

be used to uncover the intellectual origins of classical anarchism

itself.[42] There is the cosmopolitanism (in spirit and modus operandi)

of the Radical Enlightenment, first discussed by Margaret Jacob, and now

superseded by the path-breaking study of the international pathways of

Spinozism by Jonathan Israel, from whom some classical anarchists drew

their militant rationalism, secularism or atheism.[43] There is also the

marriage of radical international thought and the commercial

cosmopolitanism of the early 19^(th) century (discussed by Gregory

Claeys), central to explaining the origins of classical anarchism and

indeed Marxism.[44] And there is the radical cosmopolitan politics of

Tom Paine, William Godwin and Anarcharsis Cloots (‘the orator for the

human race’), who countered the militant chauvinism of the Jacobins,

with the unfortunate Cloots losing his head to the guillotine and Paine

nearly so.[45]

A cosmopolitan sensibility also informs the three waves of social

radicalism, which crested and fell in the period from 1848 to the early

1920s. Thus, anarchist and syndicalist internationalism are present in

the two eras of transnational labour solidarity and first propelled the

First International into the limelight in the 1860s, while in a second

phase the rapid rise of internationalist syndicalism in the immediate

pre-1914 years threatened the more nationally focussed and bureaucratic

social democratic parties of Europe and elsewhere. A third iteration of

these waves arose in 1917 and fell with the concurrent stabilization of

bourgeois Europe by 1924 and the predominance of authoritarian Soviet

Russian communism over competing radical ideologies, thus depriving the

cosmopolitan libertarian left of geographical, social and political

space.[46] By the 1930s, libertarian cosmopolitanism was an anomalous

survivor: what nation-state or empire would supply Spanish anarchists

and syndicalists weaponry during the Spanish Civil War? The

international anarchy of nation-states and empires from Popular Front

France to the Stalinist Soviet Union did not look kindly upon Spanish

anarchism.

A cosmopolitan take on the waves of social radicalism and radical

mobilization, radical ideologies, and the emergence of the

welfare/warfare and totalitarian state complexes in the 20^(th) century

is a route which few global historians have travelled. This secret

history is yet to be written, albeit Jeremi Suri’s account of the rise

of Great Power détente in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as a reaction

to the global social radicalism of the 1960s and ‘1968,’ is a laudable

exception.[47] The social radicalism of global civil society threatened

to disturb the international sphere of nation-state ‘anarchy,’ and thus

nation-state power elites of all ideological stripes, East and West,

sought an end to this dangerous spiral of unpredictable events by

restoring order on the international plane through clamping down

ideological conflict in global civil society. In other words, the

globalized and partially cosmopolitan forces of the ‘1968’ movements

threatened and disturbed the ordered world of nation-state ‘anarchy’ in

much the same way as the victorious anarchists in Barcelona did in the

summer of 1936.

Of course, George Orwell (a veteran of Barcelona’s 1937 May Days)[48] in

Nineteen Eighty-Four, gave us an imaginative portrayal of a dystopian

mirror image international society in which three world blocs fought

endless, inconclusive phoney wars to mobilize their populations in blind

obedience to ruling elites.[49] This was adopted by C. Wright Mills,

Herbert Marcuse and other radical critics in the 1950s and 1960s and was

superimposed on to the logic of the Cold War, and thus influenced the

radicalism of those 1968ers who had not yet fallen in love with any

geographically specific social and political model, namely those

middle-class radicals who rediscovered the historical legacy of

classical anarchist and syndicalist cosmopolitanism discussed earlier in

this section.[50]

Cosmopolitanism, Anarchism, Nationalism and Ethnicity: Tales of

Mitteleuropa and Yiddishland

The surges of internationalist and cosmopolitan radicalism described

earlier were undermined by both the ‘anarchy’ of a system of

nation-states and power blocs, on the one hand, and the conundrum,

state–nation–culture, on the other. From 1848 to 1989, cosmopolitan

social radicals were always blindsided by the impact of both.[51] Here I

will look at two thinkers who tackle the themes surrounding

state–nation–culture. But my argument turns full circle: just as

post-modernist anarchist theorists, such as Newman, claim that Stirner

and other anarchist thinkers anticipate the theories of the

post-modernists of the late 20^(th) century, so too did Gustav Landauer

and Rudolf Rocker’s interventions anticipate Paul Gilroy’s speculations

about planetary humanism[52] and foreshadow the disputes between

primordialists and modernists in today’s field of nationalism

studies.[53]

Landauer was a German Jewish anarchist, murdered by the Freikorps after

the suppression of the Munich Soviet in 1919, while Rocker was a German

gentile anarchist who, during his exile in pre-1914 London, learned

Yiddish and became the charismatic leader of the thriving community of

London’s East End Jewish anarchists. He died in 1958 during another

extended exile in the USA, but lived to see the destruction of his

adopted culture of cosmopolitan and diasporic Yiddish-land by his fellow

Germans.[54] The ‘rootless cosmopolitans’ of Nazi and Stalinist

imagination, the Jewish people of MittelEuropa, the Pale of Settlement

and the diasporic ghettoes in the Atlantic world were the native or, in

Rocker’s case, the adopted homeland of radical and anarchist theorists

who tackled the triadic problem of nation–state–culture.[55]

Landauer combined a Stirnerite and Nietzchean sensibility (fight your

inner statist, might have been his slogan; the source of real power was

micro-power, this proto ‘Foucaultian’ argued) and manifested a

spiritually based politics of community, with Sorelian overtones. Thus,

the folk was both a real historically developing organism and a mythical

illusion, but unlike the illusion of the state, which bred slave-like

behaviour, the myth of the folk brought life and hope. Landauer called

himself South German, German, Jew and an indefinable I. He promoted the

idea of multiple, indeed hybridic (to use a worthwhile anachronism),

identities. He married a Marburg neo-Kantianism with anarchism and, most

importantly, a reading of Herder, in which the concept of the Volk was

not predicated on racial hierarchies, but was harnessed to a quest to

preserve the uniqueness of each culture within an enveloping,

libertarian anti-statist cosmopolitanism.[56] He also embraced a form of

spiritual Zionism and inspired the kibbutz, but he did not embrace the

settling of the land of Palestine by the denizens of Yiddishland (as did

the assimilated French Jewish anarchist Bernard Lazare after he turned

to Zionism in the wake of the Dreyfus affair).[57] He argued that since

the Jewish people were least smitten by the cult of the state, they

could take the lead in constructing communities independent of the

state. His most famous follower was Martin Buber, whose early attempts

to promote a bi-national solution to the question of Israel/Palestine,

as well as his existentialist spiritual studies of Judaism, owed a great

deal to Landauer.[58]

Rocker’s position is better understood as an anarchist version of

contemporaneous Austro-Marxism, although a direct comparison of Landauer

and Rocker can be confusing because they use the terms folk and nation

to mean different and contrasting things. Rocker was not a Stirnerite

but a rationalist, and he was very taken by Wilhelm von Humboldt (as is

Noam Chomsky, whose linguistic theories and anarchist politics are

influenced by the German thinker).[59] In Rocker’s major work,

Nationalism and Culture (first published in 1937),[60] anticipating the

modernist scholar of nationalism, John Breuilly,[61] he argued that the

nation was a product of state elite power plays, not some pure

primordial fact or some ineffable spirit (geist): the nation was

invented, to paraphrase Benedict Anderson,[62] and brought together

artificially a number of folk groups who shared common cultural traits

individually and separately. Albeit Rocker did not display Anderson’s

appreciation for the interplay of language, print culture and shared

experience (and this is odd because Rocker was a printer, publisher,

indeed a translator of world culture into Yiddish for his fellow East

End anarchists).[63]

This leads us to the anarchist attraction to Esperanto,[64] a language

invented in the multi-cultural and polyglot city of Bialystok, in the

heart of Yiddishland. There are interesting connections with modern

cosmopolitics, since Archibugi discusses the need for an Esperanto-like

solution to the problem of political discourse in his projected federal

world parliament.[65] Early in his political career, Antonio Gramsci had

debated with the anarchists over the usefulness of Esperanto.[66] But

Gramsci had been a very promising student of linguistics and he

dismissed Esperanto as stuff and nonsense. For him, an attachment to

Esperanto by Italian anarchists and socialists represented an artificial

form of cosmopolitanism and prevented Italian socialism from developing

a realistic form of internationalism. Artificial languages reflected the

worse type of artificial cosmopolitanism: Gramsci was a language

pluralist; he wanted his Sardinian nephew to speak Sardinian at home; he

was fascinated before and during incarceration with the vocabulary of

Sardinian. But he was also a melting-pot socialist and proclaimed the

glories of the Italian language and the power which it had invested in

the humanist educated elite: he wanted the subaltern and working classes

to master these codes to achieve hegemony.[67] He was a rooted

cosmopolitan, and that other rooted cosmopolitan, Landauer, was also

critical of Esperanto because it lacked a passionate attachment to real

life. Indeed, at different times and without their mutual knowledge,

Gramsci and Landauer both criticized the chief Italian anarchist

advocate of Esperanto, Luigi Molinari.[68]

The Sardinian’s notion of hegemony is derived, in part, from the concept

of the prestige and the soft/hard power of dominant languages.[69] Peter

Ives, who has earlier written on Gramsci, linguistics and Marxist

theory,[70] has addressed Archibugi in light of Gramsci’s intellectual

biography.[71] Thus, the emergence of global English as today’s lingua

franca, as Ives argues, can be likened to the disputes over Esperanto

between the anarchists and Gramsci. Can global cosmopolitics be

expressed in a language that is not intimate to the speaker?

Gramsci criticized the arid and abstract positivism of the Free Thinker

followers of Esperanto because they did not understand how culture and

power interacted in the real world, and thus from this perspective,

Gramsci claimed that his historicist Marxism was more libertarian than

the anarchists’ anarchism because it was more realistic. Perhaps, he

would have agreed with Hannah Arendt (even if the analogy grates on our

contemporary ears), who wrote in response to Karl Jaspers’ enthusiasm

for cosmopolitan world government, ‘A world citizen, living under the

tyranny of world empire, and speaking a kind of glorified Esperanto,

would be no less a monster than a hermaphrodite.’[72]

Rocker, too, was sensitive to the liberating potential of local

experience and, anticipating Benedict Anderson, he argued that national

cultures arrive from a shared sense of history or memory (curiously he

did not think the Jews possessed these attributes), not inherent racial

attributes or state-based official scripts, and therefore were malleable

and changed across time and space. For Rocker, folk-group culture was

protected by the right of each individual to carry and practice such a

culture within a cosmopolitan world federation: in this regard he was a

keen admirer of Proudhon’s promotion of federation, of ‘voluntary

socialism,’ as he put it, and for a form of individually chosen

culture.[73] At heart Rocker was a rationalist cosmopolitan, who bowed

reluctantly to the need to accommodate cultural differences but longed

for a world of global citizens. This is rather close to Gilroy’s

planetary humanism, but Rocker also anticipated the ugly sounding but

useful neologism glocalization (‘the inter-penetration of the global and

the local and its ambivalence’).[74]

Conclusion: Zeno, Cosmopolitanism, Anarchism (Classical and

Post-Modern)

From its origins, the concept of cosmopolitanism was Janus-faced. The

Cynics and the Stoics coined and brought into practice cosmopolitanism.

But as Douzinas notes there were always two traditions of

cosmopolitanism.[75] The better-known varieties were the Alexandrine,

Roman and later British imperial usages.[76] Thus, a variety of cultures

could flourish under the benevolent rule of imperial law, in which all

citizens were equals. Universal morality derived from rational human

conduct would restrain local national rivalries of the citizens of the

empire by teaching them to retrain their human passions through Stoical

principles. Chomsky and Dounzinas argue that the modern-day inheritors

of this tradition have used this as a fig leaf to promote the selfish

interests of the hegemon[77]: thus human rights are American rights;

humanitarian intervention is American intervention; cosmopolitanism is

the ideology of frequent travellers.[78]

But Douzinas also reminds us that there is another lesser known

antinomian tradition which can be found in the cosmopolitanism of

Diogenes of Sinopi, the homeless and city-less philosopher (an apt

exemplar, in our modern era, of the liminal, border-crosser) who told

the visiting Alexander to move, as he was blocking the sun or in Zeno’s

Republic, a treatise written by a metic, an outcast, a Cypriote of

Phoenician or Semitic background, whose ‘city in the sky’ enveloped the

entire world, not the bounded polis, and did away with laws and

compulsion, with temples, court houses and gymnasia, and which has found

a new iteration in the discourses and practices of post-anarchist

cosmopolitanism in the early 21^(st) century.[79] Cosmopolitanism can be

freed from the dubious joys of imperial shock and awe and returned

rightfully to utopia, even freed from modern-day cosmopolitical ‘Free

Thinkers,’ ‘from its contemporary champions, who have turned into a

rather dull institutional blueprint.’[80] And in Zeno’s injunction to

‘make your own city, with your own friends, now, wherever you happen to

live,’[81] we see an early anticipation of Landauer’s existential

communitarian anarchism.

[1]

G. Crowder, Classical Anarchism: The Political Thought of Godwin,

Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin (Oxford: Oxford University

Press/Clarendon Press, 1991); C. Levy, ‘Social histories of

anarchism,’ Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 4(3) (2010), pp.

4–10.

[2]

M. B. Steger, Globalization. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 2003); S. Dufoix, Diasporas (Berkeley:

University of California Press, 2003). For cosmopolitan studies,

see S. Vertovec and R. Cohen (Eds), Conceiving Cosmopolitanism

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002); S. Caney, Justice

Beyond Borders (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005); R. Fine,

Cosmopolitanism (London: Routledge, 2007); R. J. Holton,

Cosmopolitanisms: New Thinking and New Directions (Basingstoke:

Palgrave, 2009).

[3]

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