However, the story of this relationship between the two traditions can be dated back to 1844 publication of Max Stirner’s “The Ego and It’s Own” and those claims that Stirner stood as a precursor of Nietzschean revolution in philosophy as well as Freudian establishment of psychoanalysis as a distinct discipline and Lacanian elaborations of it. In addition various anarchist texts from Bakunin onwards and throughout 20th century anarchism point toward a radically different theories and models from those of Marxian thought and Marxism. Some of the anarchist theories of power, ideology, sovereignty and statism have striking similarities with what was later explored by Foucault and his followers. In addition, Guy Debord’s statements about the society of the spectacle have striking resemblance with works of Baudrillard. At the same time we see Schumann’s use of Heideggerian thought that points toward anarchy. These are some of the glimpses of the relationship between anarchism and poststructuralism.

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