Hello and welcome to Itgrapin here.

And I'm here to ask you if you can imagine a world where national borders don't define our identities.

This internationalist idea has historically been known as cosmopolitanism, and it has some deep roots, including, interestingly, some connection to anarchism.

And of course, that's what we're seeking to explore here today.

I'm joined once again by the one and only.

It's James. James Stout. Thanks for having me, Andrew. I'm excited about this one.

Thank you for having me. I'm really excited to have this conversation.

Are you familiar with cosmopolitanism?

Yeah, and like, I guess the more broad sphere of anarchist internationalism is something I'm very interested in, right?

Like, we had an interview on the show maybe two weeks ago,

a few weeks ago, and people hear this with people explicitly calling themselves

internationalists fighting in Myanmar.

Of course, I've spent time in Rajaava and with internationalists there.

So, like, internationalism is something I'm really interested in.

For sure, for sure.

I think it's a very compelling and inspiring idea, especially in like internationalism is something I'm really interested in. For sure, for sure.

I think it's a very compelling and inspiring idea,

especially in a world that lacks many of those ideas.

At its core, cosmopolitanism is just the belief that all human beings belong to the same shared moral and political community

that transcends national, cultural, and political boundaries.

In the book, Cosmopolitanism, ethics, and a way of strangers, philosopher Kwame Anthony

Apier describes cosmopolitanism as, quote, two strands that intertwine in the notion of

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