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pirate utopia
Pirate utopias were described by anarchist writer Peter Lamborn Wilson, who coined the term, in his 1995 book ''Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes'' as secret islands once used for supply purposes by pirates. Wilson's concept is largely based on speculation, although even he admits a bit of fantasy. In Wilson's view, these pirate enclaves were early forms of autonomous proto-anarchist societies in that they operated beyond the reach of governments and embraced unrestricted freedom.
== On the Barbary Coast ==
Located on the Barbary Coast (Salé, Algiers and Tunis), those bases were havens for renegade Muslim corsairs and privateers from the 16th to the 18th century. In the context of continued efforts by Catholic Spain and France to conquer the Maghreb, and the constant raiding by European Corsairs and Pirates - as documented by Sir Godfrey Fisher in his Oxford University press published "Barbary legend", thee privateers and corsairs, dubbed "Barbary Corsairs", ravaged European shipping operations and by some accounts enslaved millions of captives. In that period thousands of Europeans also converted to Islam, including non-captives who fled social conditions in Europe and "Went Turk" forming the "Renegados," many of whom joined the corsairs holy war. Wilson writes that these men and women were not only apostates and traitors, as they were considered in their homelands, but their voluntary betrayal of Christendom can also be thought of as a praxis of social resistance. Wilson focuses on the Pirate Republic of Salé, in 17th century Morocco, which may have had its own lingua franca. Like some other pirate states, it even used to pass treaties from time to time with some European countries, agreeing not to attack their fleets. Wilson/Bey's idea of Temporary Autonomous Zones developed from his historical review of pirate utopias. When describing them Wilson says "We've certainly had to use our imagination more than a "real" historian would allow, erecting a lot of suppositions on a shaky framework of generalizations, and adding a touch of fantasy (and what piratologist has ever been able to resist fantasy?). I can only say that I've satisfied my own curiosity at least to this extent: That something like a Renegado culture could have existed; that all the ingredients for it were present, and contiguous, and synchronic."
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