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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 2h

In his view there are three types of tyrant: those who possess a kingdom through the choice of the people; those by force of arms; and those by hereditary succession. Although he thinks the first kind of tyrant is the most bearable, he

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

La Boétie bases his case on natural right theory. He believes that if we lived with the rights that nature has given us and with the lessons it teaches us, we would naturally obey our parents, be subjects to reason, and serfs of nobody'? There is simply no point discussing whether liberty

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Although the style is rhetorical and repetitive, it is possible to discern three stages in la Boéue's argument. In the hrst part he argues that government exists because people let themselves be governed, and dissolves when obedience ends. In the next part he asserts that

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

La Boétie's answer contains not only a powerful defence of freedom but his bold reasoning led him to conclude that there is no need for government at all. It is only necessary for humanity to wish that government would disappear in order for them to find themselves free and happy once again.

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At the same time, there is a serious side to Rabelais. He adopted a form of naturalistic optimism which led him to anarchist conclusions. He believed that human nature is fundamentally good and only corrupted by our education and environment. He therefore called for the full

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He also realized that once men gain power, they intensify exploitation and oppression: everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry themselves like oppressing lords over

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The dictionary definition of Christian is: one who follows Christ, kind, kindly, Christ-like, Anarchism is voluntary co-operation for good, with the right of secession. A Christian-anarchist is, therefore, one who turns the other cheek, overturns the tables of the money-lenders,

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hennacy, for his part, was inspired by the 'true rebel Jesus" and his idea of God 'was not an authority whom I obeyed like a monarch but a principle of good as laid down by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount'." If the forces of the State conflicted

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Like Stirner, he argued that God does not exist but is an abstraction which men project into heaven to worship. Bakunin believed that Christianity taught: God being everything, the real world and man are nothing. God being truth, justice, good, beauty, power, and life, man is

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stimer, on the other hand, thought God, along with the State and Morality, was just another spook to delude humanity. He argued forcibly that the State had come to be considered sacred like the Church, and laws were presented as if they were God's commandments:

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like later anarchists, Blake regarded authority as the principle source of injustice: "A Tyrant is the Worst disease & the Cause of all others.' It is the oppressive structures of the State which impede the divine potential within humanity. Blake felt not only that 'Every Body hates a King', but

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In general, the position of the early Christian Church was not so much an endorsement of communism but a condemnation of the abuse of wealth. But the communistic tradition in early Christianity acted like the power of myth and had a considerable influence on the later

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Evil itself is not considered part of nature but man-made: Nature has no demons; they are human creations. The fundamental principle which Buddha taught was compassion for all sentient beings. Since life is one and indivisible, whoever breaks the harmony of life will suffer

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They are aware that, given the opportunity, not only do ex-slaves often try to become masters, but oppressed men try to find weaker beings to lord it over. But anarchists do not see that this tendency is intrinsic in human nature, but rather a product of our authoritarian

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The desire to have power over oneself is quite compatible with the anarchist position. But as Paul Goodman has pointed out, people live quite happily without 'power' that manages or coerces from outside. Most human activities moreover do not need external motivations in the

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of all political doctrines, anarchism responds most to the deeply felt human need for freedom which is essential for creativity and fulfilment. It holds up the ideal of personal freedom as a form of autonomy which does not restrict the freedom of others. It proposes a free society

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For him freedom is not an abstract right but the possibility of acting. It is the isolated individual who is powerless; it is "by co-operation with his fellows that man finds a means to express his activity and his power of initiative. -Demanding the Impossible, Peter Marshall.

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Podcast Episode · Comic Dissection · September 27 · 1h 26m

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Individuality, in their case, is based on reciprocal awareness. As Proudhon put it, the individual recognizes his own self in that of others. People need not therefore be a threat but a help. - Demanding the Impossible, Peter Marshall.

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Malatesta argued for instance that the simple desire to be free to do as one pleases is not enough to make an anarchist: "That aspiration towards unlimited freedom, if not tempered by a love for mankind and by the desire that all should enjoy equal freedom, may well

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Anarchists certainly see freedom as a permanent and necessary factor in the life and progress of humanity, as an intrinsic good without which it is impossible for human beings to reach their full stature. The American individualist Josiah Warren speaks for most anarchists when he writes: Man

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The love of our country is one of those specious illusions which are employed by impostors for the purposc of rendering the multitude the blind instruments of their crooked designs'. It makes us consider whatever is gained for country as so much gained to 'our darling selves'.

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For those people who will still be anti-social and violent, Kropotkin insists that punishment is not appropriate since the severity of punishment does not diminish the amount of crime. Talking from his own experience of Russian and French prisons, he condemned prisons for killing

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After Godwin, Kropotkin offered the most cogent anarchist criticism of the law. All legislation within the State, he asserted, has always been made with regard to the interests of the privileged classes. -Demand the Impossible, Peter Marshall. (laws are threats… etc etc.)

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

His remedy for anti-social acts was to reduce the occasion for crime by eradicating its causes in government and accumulated property and by encouraging people through education to think in terms of the general good rather than private interest. -Demand the Impossible, Peter Marshall.

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Secondly, the principal weakness of law is its status as a general rule. No two actions are the same and yet the law absurdly tries to reduce the myriad of human actions to one common measure, and as such operates like Procrustes' bed in the Greek legend which cuts or

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When asked what would replace government, numerous anarchists have answered 'What do you replace cancer with? Proudhon was more specific and replied 'Nothing': Society is eternal motion; it does not have to be wound up; and it is not necessary to beat time for it. It carries its own

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anarchist communists hold a different view of human nature from the individualists, stressing that man is a social being who can only realize his full potential in society. Where the individualists talk about the sovereignty of the individual and personal autonomy, the communists

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They seek to establish the condition of anarchy, that is to say, a decentralized and self-regulating society consisting of a federation of voluntary associations of free and equal individuals. The ultimate goal of anarchism is to create a free

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It would be misleading to offer a neat definition of anarchism, since by its very nature it is anti-dogmatic. It does not offer a fixed body of doctrine based on one particular world-view. It is a complex and subtle philosophy, embracing many different currents of thought and

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A study of anarchism will show that the drive for freedom is not only a central part of our collective experience but responds to a deeply felt human need. Freedom is necessary for original thought and creativity. It is also a natural desire for we can see that no animal likes to

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ANARCHY IS TERROR, the creed of bomb-throwing desperadoes wishing to puli down civilization. Anarchy is chaos, when law and order collapse and the destructive passions of man run riot. Anarchy is nihilism, the abandonment of all moral values and the twilight of reason.

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Socially speaking, this meant that the remaining Jews in Prussia had lost the native background against which they had been measured as exceptions. Now they themselves composed such a background, but a contracted one, against which the individual had to strain doubly in order to

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hence the more equal the Jewish condition, the more surprising were Jewish differences. This new awareness led to social resentment against the Jews and at the same time to a peculiar attraction toward them; the combined reactions determined the social history of Western Jewry.

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Where, indeed, was there better proof of the fantastic concept of a Jewish world government than in this one family, nationals of five different countries, prominent everywhere, in close co-operation with at least three different governments (the French, the Austrian, and the

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The law according to which this process developed was simple: each class of society which came into a conflict with the state as such became antisemitic because the only social group which seemed to represent the state were the Jews. And the only class which proved almost immune from antisemitic

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is therefore more than accidental that the catastrophic defeats of the peoples of Europe began with the catastrophe of the Jewish people. It was particularly easy to begin the dissolution of the precarious European balance ot power with the elimination of the Jews, and

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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Podcast Episode · Comic Dissection · August 30 · 2h 3m

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

picture-the portrait of Stephen painted with her mother, by Millais, the previous year. He would notice the gracious beauty of Anna, so perfect a thing, so completely reassuring; and then that indefinable quality in Stephen that made her look wrong in the clothes she was wearing,

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That happy moment when you open a book and see that someone else has underlined things. #annotatedbooks #writeinyourbooks The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton and then Tim Curry. I need a stiff drink. 🥺

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Collins became more affectionate after the incident of the housemaid's knee; she could not but feel a new interest in the child whom she and the cook had now labelled as 'queer,' and Stephen basked in much surreptitious petting, and her love for Collins grew daily. -The Well of

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nelson helped her a little. She would think: Now I'm Nelson. I'm in the middle of the Battle of Trafalgar*-I've got shots in my knees!' But then she would remember that Nelson had been spared such torment. However, it was really

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The nurse came in grumbling: “Now then, hurry up, Miss Stephen! Don't stand there as though you were daft! Go and wash your face and hands before tea —how many times must I tell you the same thing?" “I don't know-“ muttered Stephen. And indeed she did not; she knew nothing of

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ComicDissectionCeciliaRose @liminalluminarycr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In the evening, when Collins was laying the tea, Stephen managed to get her alone. 'Collins,' she whispered, 'you told an untruth— never showed you my dirty nails!' 'Course not!' murmured Collins, 'but I had to say something—you didn't mind, Miss Stephen, did you?' And as Stephen

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