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A neologism: Anarquicismo


Charles Sanders Pierce coined the word pragmatism around 1870. In his vision, pragmatism was a theory of meaning (not a theory of truth), and became an interesting idea in philosophy of science. Years later, William James used the same word, pragmatism to refer to his own philosophy. But in the case of James's pragmatism was already a theory of truth, and he took his theory so far, that began to admit that certain theological or metaphysical propositions could be called "true" with all rigor (provided they met certain conditions.) Because of this pragmatism was the subject of much derision (unfair, in my opinion), especially on the part of Bertrand Russell, and began to lose face in the philosophical and scientific circles. That upset a lot to Pierce, who did his best to disengage from William James. To do this he invented a new word, pragmaticism . When asked why he had chosen such an ugly word, Peirce said

--- It is so ugly that nobody will want to steal it.

Well, here, between anarchists, things are more or less as follows: The inventors of the word anarchism individualist anarchists were (Proudhon, or perhaps someone else before him). For them, anarchism was the philosophy of individual liberty. However, very shortly after, socialist anarchists seized the word and even said that "anarchy" was synonymous with "libertarian socialism" (and that individual freedom, but would always be highly respected in some way going to second term, being first and foremost the freedom of collective or community). As a libertarian socialists have always been far more than the individualistic, the word anarchism became, as I said, libertarian socialism synonymous.

Curiously, however, is that the Socialists accuse the modern individualist anarchists, anarcho-capitalists, of wanting to steal the word (as if they had not borrowed from Proudhon and then forgot to return it). Therefore, to end the litigation and avoid this (rather unfair) charge, the ancaps propose that henceforth we use a neologism:

anarquicismo ,

and onwards, when ask us what we are, say

anarquicistas .

The word is so ugly, I think, so no one will want to rob us.