ROSENTHAL, Bernice. "Remarkable Parallels: Mystical Anarchism in Russia and The United States"

Philosophy. Anarchist theories* bibliographiereligion - mysticism *

Dialogue & Universalism (2006) Vol. 16 Issue 3/4, p. 109-131.
Viacheslav Ivanov and Georgii Chulkov during the Russian Revolution of 1905 , Norman O. Brown in the U.S. of 1960, were inspired by the same sources: Nietzche, Apollonian and Dionysian elements and Christianity.
Their mystical anarchists rejected empiricism and rationalism in favor of a symbolic epistemology. This reality beyond the appearances of things was accessible to poetic intuition and imagination. Their myths were antipolitical because they rejected all power, but they also extolled human sacrifice and violence.