ABSTRACT
Marxism is a set of specific propositions about the modern world which are both tough and tentative, plus a certain vague. Yet exhilarating vision of the future, and, more fundamentally, an approach to life, to people, to ourselves, a certain way of thinking about thinking as well as about being. In this chapter, author focuses on anarchism for several reasons, one was the growing evidence of the horrors of Stalinism in the Soviet Union, which suggested that the classical Marxian concept of “the dictatorship of the proletariat” needed to be reconsidered. Disillusionment with the Soviet Union did not diminish my belief in socialism, any more than disillusionment with the United States government lessened my belief in democracy. When people idolize the “rule of law” not only minimize the existing grievances, but magnify the scariness of the act of civil disobedience and democracy.
