Anarchist ProphetsIn Anarchist Prophets James R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archism in order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics. He shows how archisma centralized and hierarchical political form that is a secularization of ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditionsdominates contemporary politics through a prophets promises of peace and prosperity or the threat of violence. Archism is met by anarchism, in which a community