Resisting Illegitimate Authority

A Thinking Person's Guide to Being an Anti-Authoritarian - Strategies, Tools, and Models

De: Bruce E. Levine

Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor

The capacity to comply with abusive authority is humanity's fatal flaw. Fortunately, within the human family there are anti-authoritarians - people comfortable questioning the legitimacy of authority and challenging and resisting its illegitimate forms. However, as Resisting Illegitimate Authority reveals, authoritarians attempt to marginalize anti-authoritarians, who are scorned, shunned, financially punished, psychopathologized, criminalized, and even assassinated.

Profiling a diverse group of US anti-authoritarians - including Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, Malcolm X, and Lenny Bruce - in order to glean useful lessons from their lives, Resisting Illegitimate Authority is the first self-help manual for anti-authoritarians. Discussing anti-authoritarian approaches to depression, relationships, and parenting, it provides political, spiritual, philosophical, and psychological tools to help those suffering violence and marginalization in a society whose most ardent cheerleaders for "freedom" are often its most obedient and docile citizens.

Resisting Illegitimate Authority is about bigotry, but not bigotry directed at race, religion, gender, or sexual preference. It is about bigotry directed at rebellious personalities and temperaments.

©2018 Bruce E. Levine (P)2021 Tantor

An excellent primer on those with an anti-authoritarian personality

This book helped me to understand both myself and those I don’t necessarily get along with better. It has great examples of anti-authoritarians who were successful and those who tragically failed, and serves as a map for the rest of us freedom and justice loving individuals trying to navigate a world made for those who want to control or be controlled