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Two Cheers for Anarchism
Scott's 2012 book articulating the anarchist sensibility implicit in his earlier work — not ideological anarchism, but a habit of perception that asks what institutions look like from the standpoint of those subject to them.
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play is Scott's most explicitly political book — and, deliberately, his most tentative. The subtitle's 'two cheers' (rather than three) signals the ambivalence: Scott is not arguing for the abolition of the state, not advocating a stateless society, not defending the anarchist tradition against its liberal and Marxist critics. He is articulating what he calls the anarchist squint — a habit of perception that refuses to take institutional self-descriptions at face value, that looks at any arrangement of power from the standpoint of those subject to it, and that asks whether the claims of service match the reality of the served. The book distills into accessible form the political sensibility that had been implicit in Scott's academic work for four decades.
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The book consists of six 'fragments' — short essays or collections of observations