DAVID T. wrtCK an impersonal power with replaceable figureheads. The «power> demands of the American '60's expressed a sense of contemporary society's, not America's alone, central problematic: the abstraction of power from persons in the form of «bureaucratic society,> «managerial society,> etc. Anarchism becomes more plainly relevant when power itself, not this group or that class of persons, reveals itself as the truth of the nation-state and of international capitalism and nationalistic sociallsm, and when power rather than wealth is the prime image of success, the one model presented for emulation. Fourth, from many sources have come reasons to belleve that any theory that finds the secret of human liberation in something so speclfic as the politics of property neglects the interdependence of the many liberations. Each species of dominance and power reenforces other species, directly in ways that can be mapped sociologically, indirectly by requiring and engendering habits of rule and/or submission. Children who have undergone hierarchically structured fam111esand schools will be most fortunate if enabled by countervailing experiences to affirm themselves thereafter in non-power-structured situations, or to relate freely and responsibly as persons with persons, or to resist power rationally rather than by brief rebellion. Solidarity among professedly antagonistic groups against challenge from below - the solidarity of union officials and corporate managers, to name a fam111ar type - is in striking contrast to the normal and self-defeating non-solidarity, most often mutual hostllity, of oppressed groups from different categories. As we proceed more deeply into a world of institutional management of human existence, and in that evolution might be approaching, if we have not already passed, a point of no return, questions of liberation increasingly reveal themselves as a single issue of manifold human liberation. Fifth, the interdependence of the many liberations suggests that human liberation must be a continuous process and that the anarchist method of seeking to transform qualltatively the scene of one's life, of trying to create spheres of freedom, even when one cannot affect large social institutions of property and government directly, may be a meaningful and necessary part of a multidimensional process of liberation in which many are active in varied and particular ways. This can be expressed by saying that anarchism proposes the continuous realization of freedom in the lives of each and all, both for its intrinsic, immediate values and for its more remote 36
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