Anarchist and Anarchistic Anti-Systemic Movements in World-Systems Perspective

While world-systems anti-systemic movement scholarship has briefly acknowledged the existence of anti-state “cultural” movements—namely, autonomous indigenous movements in periphery and anarchist worker core semi-periphery—it relegates them to secondary importance statist “political” movements. In this paper, we provide an intervention literature by centering our analysis. order investigate mechanisms essential for anti-state, over longue durée world-system, operationalize a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) using nine cases non-state spaces from different geographies historical time periods throughout world-system. We use Boolean crisp set, or binary approach, denoting presence, absence factors determine pathways that lead variation between explicitly implicitly anarchistic as well short-term long-term established find semi-periphery classification is false. also succeed when they are not repressed imperial nation-states. effect, political actor replicates logic nation-state it claims be opposed comes its repression Prior “liberal geoculture” (1848–1968), even states had difficulty repressing spaces, after liberal geoculture have spaces.