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Title: Your anarchism, my anarchism
Author: León Darío
Date: September 2020
Language: en
Topics: individualism, humanism, assembly, horizontality, society, collective, El errante
Source: Published in special number ten of the  anarcho individualist magazine “El errante” (August-September 2020).
Notes: Article of my authorship although with pseudonym “anarchic arriacense”; published in the digital anarcho individualist magazine “El errante” that I myself edit.

León Darío

Your anarchism, my anarchism

Imagine for a moment that the anarchism that you profess, that anarchism

of which you stand as representative and spokesperson, were only and

simply your anarchism, your simple and mere conception of anarchism,

your salon and boastful anarchism, the anarchy of those pasquines in the

that other predecessors to you did what you continue and that “you have

caught with pins,” you extract an argument of four disjointed and

incongruous sentences (some even seasoned “homegrown”) and you make them

yours as those others made them theirs before you and thus feed back a

chain and put together a loop; Imagine, imagine just for a moment, that

this was unique and simply your idea and your concept of anarchism (and

of the subsequent ones), that this was a tendentious, distorted and

tortuous interpretation of what you understood by anarchism or is more,

that you respond to leftist interests or crypto-fascist tendencies and

that you try to bring anarchy to the terrain of your strategy. You

proclaim yourself the spokesperson for something that lacks affiliates,

that does not have cards or management committees, without fees, cadres,

statutes, and those responsible except for you in the impregnable part

of your internal jurisdiction.

Such a procedure may be due to the fact that in the circle in which you

militate in the assembly that you “participate,” you are the one who

makes and undoes, you have an overwhelming personality and conceive and

thus the “associates” assimilate and accept it; assembly where certain

attitudes, behaviors and haughty and authoritarian personalities decide

in firm much more than some statutes and some management committees.

Imagine that being an anarchist was a joy of living that transcended far

beyond the pamphlets you proclaim and that supposed society of the

common good that neither you nor your next successor generations will

see because humanity is corrupt per se, because the worker yearns being

bourgeois and because your neighbor continues to trust the plutocratic

system and pawns the destinies of his life (and by extension yours) in

corrupt ballot boxes.

Just imagine that anarchism was something personal, that it was the

pleasure of self-enjoyment, a way of facing life, of assimilating it,

that it did not consist of spending a life waiting for the

“enlightenment” of humanity, that it was something of the here and Now

and above all, imagine that anarchism was something experienced within

each individual; Not even I as a propagandist, popularizer and anarcho

individualist militant can profess in his name, of individualist

anarchism, such a praxis would be an oxymoron in itself since you cannot

officially pronounce yourself on behalf of something that belongs to

each individual’s particular plane; I can make some general and

objective outlines about anarchist individualism, essence, genesis,

history, references ... but otherwise I only answer for my anarchism,

personal, individual, as I experience it, enjoy it, live it or how I try

to be consistent with this without the least external interference

disturbing my judgment.

My anarchism, which is only mine, is my property, it rejects the idea of

altruism and solidarity, it also rejects cooperation but at least in how

and how much you consider it, if I am altruistic or cooperate, it is for

the satisfaction that I It causes doing so and because I am aware that

in the medium or long term my attitude and manifest predisposition can

be reversed, reversed naturally for my benefit, and that the

collectivist and humanitarian anarchist who denies it will throw the

first stone. In my inner anarchism the State is abolished, but not to

replace it by the “new and free humanity” and a new society of free and

kind beings — utopia of utopias — not for the common good or any other

nonsense that resembles it.

The bulk of the more conventional anarchists and with clear and latent

social and leftist influences consider that a dismantling of the state

would entail, ipso facto, the end of authority, they are not aware that

this authority will be replaced by another form of authority, perhaps

more lax but authority in the background without excusing form, the

authority of the majority, that of the “raised hand” and that of

horizontality. In any case, the impairment and coercion against my

individuality would continue with the state or in its absence,

substituting one form of society for another. Every social form exists

and is sustained based on the detriment of individual freedom because

all forms of society are going to condition, subdue and dilute my

existence in work “in community”; even so, if I decide to integrate in

any cooperative or community form, it will be because I have certain

particular interests deposited in it as I mentioned above, I will

maintain a certain interrelation, but my connection will not be

intrinsic and with the same will and freedom as “I entered” I will

proceed to the exit of the same in the same determined moment that thus

I consider.