Anti-Systemic Movements

• “Resistance movements since the emergence of capitalism” (especially positioned from outside a state-presumptive framework, which lets us theorize things like cross border solidarity.)
• ‘Anti-systemic’ does not mean anti-ALL-systems, it’s anti-THE-system: that is, the system of capitalism.
• “Antisystemic movements (ASMs) may be defined as political groupings that oppose and resist the prevailing productive forces and relations in a given historical era.” - src.
• Referenced briefly (just once) in the introduction to Worldmaking After Empire, which also talks a lot about world systems.
• Obstacles to Insurrection looks at “multidimensional sociospatial relations as they apply to anti-systemic insurrectionary movements.” (emphasis mine) - so looking at how cultural geography plays a role.
• This links back to Panarchy in the sense that there is also an unbundling that takes place when we interrogate rather than presume a given “sociospatial” element to libertory projects: it makes space to ask what role the spatial plays, and, implicitly, whether there are other roles it could take (though the original panarchy paper wasn’t proposing to unbundle services from each other but rather to unbundle governments from territory).
• This is also “in family” with modern “virtual nations” and new sovereignties projects, as well as polycentricity.

See also: Anti-Systemic Movements, Arrighi