Tracing My Influences
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For quite a while now, I’ve been trying to find a through line for the thinkers I’ve admired, and I think I may have discovered it. The umbrella term is (true) anarchism (not the incarnation with violence). Here is how it seems to connect (in chronological order):
Peter Maurin –> Dorothy Day –> Ivan Illich –> John McKnight –> David Graeber –> Murray Bookchin –> Chris Hedges (maybe - I have a certain ambivalence to his self-righteous humorlessness)