Exosocialism

Exosocialism is the position opposed to endosocialism, and both words name beliefs about how societies ought to be arranged rather than descriptions of how they are. Two words in the definition carry the weight. Universal rules out any version restricted to a group, which is what separates it from every liberation movement organized as an endogroup. Uninhibited makes it negative in form, since what is asked for is the removal of obstruction rather than the provision of anything, which follows from expansion being the default state of a living self. Marsh offers a test that replaces moral judgement with a structural one. Rather than deciding which actions are good or bad subjectively, the actions of an endoself can be separated from those of an exoself by what they produce, since the endoself creates chaos and the exoself creates order. She acknowledges this seems intuitively wrong, given that endosocialism is a restrictive force and exosocialism an expansive one, and the resolution is the same scale argument that runs through her account of the two wills. Dispersing your own energy is entropy for you and order in the world. What permitting exosocialism requires is mostly the dismantling of things, since euphoric depletion is caused by chronic stress, fear, sorrow, instability, guilt, blocked or intercepted expansion and violations of privacy, and each of those is something a structure does rather than something that simply occurs.

The word is Marsh's own and does not match any existing political label. Cosmopolitanism makes the case for obligations beyond one's own community, and the classical liberal tradition frames freedom negatively as the absence of interference, which is close in form to the uninhibited clause. Anarchist thought supplies the objection to hierarchy without supplying the universalism, since much of it organizes around communities. Karl Popper's open society is probably the nearest single parallel. What Marsh adds is the physical grounding, since her case for exosocialism does not rest on rights or on utility but on the claim that expansion is what a living self does, which converts a political preference into something closer to a description of health.