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Well, I'm not a specialist, you know, of anarchist thinking but of course I've read a lot of
anarchist literature, you know, from the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th
century. So, those are kind of big moments, you know, of anarchism, you know. And I was
struck by the fact that even anarchist thinkers, you know, shared the same idea of the traditional
political philosophy - meaning, that society is like an organism, you know, and so you
have to find the right rules; the right rules, really, corresponding to the true life, you
know, of the organism or, in this case, the social organism. So there is always this idea
- which belongs to traditional political philosophy - that you can really construct the political
or the society, or you know, the communist or anarchist society as a kind of organism
once you have really found the laws of life, you know, according to which it should be
organized. And so, this was linked to the scientist context and what struck me also
is that in many respects anarchist critiques of Marx were most scientist than Marx himself. So they always criticize
Marx from
the point of
view
of true science, true biology, true natural science, and things like that. Well, my own
idea
was that
there is
no
social organism. There
is no rule