Chaos is not necessarily located where you expect it. For common sense, anarchy
is synonymous with disorder and anarchism would refer to an ideology at worstsynonymous with terrorism and at best with sweet reverie. Like anarchistthinkers, the feminist philosopher Catherine Malabou affirms on the contrary inher last essay Au voleur ! Anarchism and philosophy that chaos is inscribed instate power. ---- We have, moreover, been able to see this in recent years in themanagement of the health crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic and more recentlystill with the state of disrepair of National Education which has not nothing toenvy to that of the health system. This collapse results in particular from thedismantling of the welfare state linked to neoliberalism that has becomeultraliberalism, but also from the fact that hierarchical organizationsdisempower the base of society and thereby permanently weaken it.Many philosophers have criticized domination and different systems of government,some even using the concept of anarchy without claiming to be anarchism. And itis precisely to six of them (Schürmann, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Agamben andRancière) that she devotes most of her work. She seeks to understand what sheconsiders to be a failure, namely an inability to assume a true anarchist thoughtwhich has resulted in a delay of philosophy on anarchism and on a geography whichwith Élisée Reclus and Pierre Kropotkine threw the foundations of ecology andsocial geography, at the same time as anarchism contributed to thinking abouthorizontality in politics.The fact that many anarchists have shown a frank hostility towards philosophicalreflection has not helped to build bridges with the philosophers most sensitiveto the criticism of oppression and the different forms of domination. .Decompartmentalize critical thinkingIn her book, Catherine Malabou does not content herself with tackling theunthought and other blind spots of philosophy, she goes further and talks aboutdenial and theft. She also questions a coexistence, a source of confusion,between what she calls de facto anarchism, which aims at the withering away ofthe state from an individualist and private perspective, synonymous with extremederegulation (uberization) and libertarian capitalism, and what she designatesunder the name of anarchism of awakening, which she perceives through experiencesof self-organization such as the Zad or the movement of yellow vests.The notion of class, articulated with the anti-authoritarian dimension carried byrevolutionary anarchy and libertarian communism, seems to us necessary to clarifyany possibility of confusion between anarcho-capitalism and the anarchizinginclinations of the protest movements of recent years. If she does not dismissit, Catherine Malabou sticks to the notion of the concept of non-governability inorder to establish a bridge between philosophical anarchism and politicalanarchism because she sees there the most operational concept for this dialogue.necessary.Definitely the thief ! Anarchism and Philosophy is a landmark work in its desireto decompartmentalise critical thought. Anarchists and libertarian communistsshould see this as an invitation to act in this direction to build a more widelyshared project of emancipation.Laurent Esquerre (UCL Aveyron)Catherine Malabou, The Thief ! Anarchism and philosophy, PUF, 2022, 408 pages, 21euros.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Catherine-Malabou-Au-voleur-Anarchisme-et-philosophie_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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