Sorta P (that strain of anti-state rebellious 'self-organizing" anarchism in P's work)........from a review of Luke Harding's INVASION.

[Mark Kohut]

We were.

On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 7:41 AM frank mccluskey <frankmccluskey11 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Like America- we are horizontally organized as well- Tocqueville was the
> first to notice
>
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 07:39 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  "While Russia’s current society is “vertical in their thinking, always
>> looking feudally upward,” Ukrainians are “horizontal — a collective or
>> superorganism.” He quotes a friend, the acclaimed Ukrainian novelist Andrey
>> Kurkov, describing his nation as an “organized anarchy” of freedom-loving
>> individualists. In this context, the supposed weakness of Ukraine’s prewar
>> polity — its corrupt politicians and feeble central state — are recast as
>> strengths. The Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko is quoted
>> expanding on the idea, arguing that “a leitmotif of Ukrainian literature,
>> historiography, and philosophy is opposition to the centralized idea of
>> state and universe.” This makes it a society that’s very difficult to
>> govern in normal times, but very effective at overthrowing bad governments
>> or resisting an invasion launched by the power-mad dictator next door."
>>
>> I jotted here some notes and quotes from another new book by an
>> anthropologist on Ukraine.....called "Without the State".....
>>
>> This anecdote from it sums up the key aspect of this strain.....It is
>> about the resistance in Crimea n 2014....Writer asked how the resistance was
>> "organized"....."word spread there was to be a meeting"...."we showed up
>> and were told what needed done and we each chose what to do".....
>>
>> --
> Kindness is wisdom in action
> Doc McCluskey
>