Electro-Anarchy

Electro-Anarchist History

Electro-Anarchy, at the moment an ideology only professed by the Electro-Anarchy Collective, is a bizarre variation on anarchism, which, in fact, many anarchists claim isn't anarchy at all. Founded in 2003, they claim as their creator an Israeli-American named Itzhak Nutzhak. Their website, http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/anarchotic, highlights pages for active chapters in eight different states.

Recently they have been the source of both disbelief and controversy amongst various political blogs. Much of the disbelief that this Collective actually exists centers around a misinterpretation of the founder's name as a reference to genitalia, which has been refuted by Itzhak Nutzhak himself. The controversy, on the other hand, stems from the nature of Electro-Anarchist ideology, which, admittedly, comes off as quite ridiculous.

It is very difficult to tell whether they have a viable political organization; each state chapter appears to organize separately and work on unrelated projects.

Electro-Anarchist Ideology

Electro-Anarchy could be seen to have comparisons with Crypto-anarchism in its stress on advanced technology as a means of anarchy. However, it is a political movement that exists, however marginally, outside the realm of the internet technosphere. Most generally, they believe that technological advances will enable humans to operate without government and without coercion. More specifically, however, they get a little bit strange, especially concerning their economics. They argue in favor of some sort of centralized robot (which many anarchists have critiqued as a pseudo-statist entity) who will redistribute all worldly resources randomly, according to binary code.

In their manifesto, Itzhak Nutzhak writes, "Electro-Anarchy is neither capitalistic nor communistic, it is a third position between the two, but closer to the latter. Once Unikron overthrows the United States government and capitalism, it will install the most fair economic system ever known to man. It will distribute all the universe's material goods randomly among its inhabitants. No amount of opportunism or nepotism will deter the egalitarian goals of the robot"(CITATION: http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/anarchotic/manifesto.html).

Essentially, they have all the sentiments of Communism, but feel randomness is less prone to corruption than equality, and technological organization less corruptible than human bureaucracy.

Other Electro-Anarchist Sentiments

The Electro-Anarchy Collective has been criticized by the classical-progressive internet journal, The Idyllic, as attempting to assimilate far too many hodgepodge left-wing causes. For instance:

*Their Hawaii state chapter voices a vehement anti-European Hawaiian-Nationalism
**Their West Virginia chapter is run by an ardent separatist-feminist, who apparently purged the (few) male members of the state chapter.
***Itzhak Nutzhak has a scathing essay and references in other essays attacking the practice of circumcision, with arguable anti-semitic sentiment.

Electro-Anarchist References

For existing dialogues, often heated, often raunchy, among the anarchist and anti-statist community concerning Electro-Anarchy, you can see:
*http://www.anarchism.net/forum/board_entry.php?id1695&page1&categoryall&orderlast_answer&descasc=DESC -- Forum at Anarchism.net
**http://iamawolf.com/alone/more_electroanarchy_collective-1422.php -- anti-statist blog
***http://www.jackross.net/theidyllic/php/article.php?article=112 --classical-progressivist blog

And for the Electro-Anarchy Collective's own colorful website, see http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/anarchotic

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