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Scott lays out an anarchist-oriented critique of state power and the historical patterns that follow revolutionary change. The book connects long-developed ideas from Scott’s research on peasants, class conflict, resistance, and development in Southeast Asia to a renewed reading of anarchist classics. Its opening framing explains the disillusionment driving the inquiry, contrasting utopian hopes of the 1960s with revolutions that strengthen the states they replace and intensify control over populations.","Two Cheers for /tnarchism  \nTwo Cheers for f\\narchism  \nSix Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play  \nJAMES C. SCOTT  \nPrinceton University Press  \nPrinceton & Oxford  \nCopyright© 2012 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540  \nIn the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 ITW  \n[press.princeton.edu](press.princeton.edu)  \nAU Rights Reserved  \nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING·IN·PUBLICATION DATA Scott,James C.  \nTwo cheers for anarchism : six easy pieces on autonomy, dignity, and meaningful work and play I James C. Scott.  \np. em.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-15529-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Anarchism. I.  \nTitle.  \nHX826 .S35 2012  2012015029 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Garamond Pro Printed on acid-free paper. oo Printed in the United States ofAmerica 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2  \nContents  \nIllustrations vii  \nPreface ix  \none The Uses of Disorder and \"Charisma\" 1  \ntwo Vernacular Order, Official Order 30  \nthree The Production ofHuman Beings 57  \nfour Two Cheers for the Petty Bourgeoisie 84  \nfive For Politics 101  \nsix Particularity and Flux 129  \nNotes 143  \nAcknowledgments 151  \nIndex 153  \nIllustrations  \nFrontispiece. ii  \n1.1. Memorialfor the Unknown Deserter, by Mehmet Aksoy, Potsdam. 8  \n1.2. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivering his last sermon, Memphis, Tennessee, April 3, 1968. 26  \n2.1. Scientific forest, Lithuania. 38  \n2.2. Edgar Anderson's drawings for the Vernacular Garden, Guatemala.  \n{a) An orchard garden. 50  \n{b) Detailed glyphs identifying the plants and  \ntheir categories in the garden. 5 1  \n3.1. Playground constructions, Emdrup, Denmark. 59  \n3.2. Vietnam Memorial, Washington, D.C. 63  \n3.3. lwo Jima Memorial, Washington, D.C. 64  \n6.1. North Korean military parade. 140  \nThe arguments found here have been gestating for a long time, as I wrote about peasants, class conflict, resistance, development projects, and marginal peoples in the hills of Southeast Asia. Again and again over three decades, I found myself having said something in a seminar discussion or having written something and then catching myself thinking, \"Now, that sounds like what an anarchist would argue.\" In geometry, two points make a line; but when the third, fourth, and fifth points all fall on the same line, then the coincidence is hard to ignore. Struck by that coincidence, I decided it was time to read the anarchist classics and the histories ofanarchist movements. To that end, I taught a large undergraduate lecture course on anarchism in an effort to educate myself and perhaps work out my relationship to anarchism. The result, having sat on the back burner for the better part oftwenty years after the course ended, is assembled here.  \nMy interest in the anarchist critique of the state was born of disillusionment and dashed hopes in revolutionary change. This was a common enough experience for those who came to political consciousness in the 1960s in North America. For  \nme and many others, the 1960s were the high tide of what one might call a romance with peasant wars of national liberation. I was, for a time, fully swept up in this moment of utopian possibilities. I followed with some awe and, in retrospect, a great deal of naivete the referendum for independence in Ahmed Sekou Toure's Guinea, the pan-African initiatives of Ghana's president, Kwame Nkrumah, the early elections in Indonesia, the independence and first elections in Burma, where I had spent a year, and, ofcourse, the land reforms in revolutionary China and nationwide elections in India.  \nThe disillusionment was propelled by two processes: historical inquiry and current events. 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