the desire to put an end to all hierarchies and authority - the state, capitalism, patriarchy, racism - and establish a truly free and equal society
akin to anarchism
implies that the means will suit the goal - that a horizontalist society will be achieved by means of bone idleness - a general strike and a nice few days in bed!
She is a true radical horizontalist - she wants revolution but never does a blimmin thing about it!!!
Horizontalism is for lazy revolutionaries. The ones who can barely be bothered to be Facebook activists.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)