on anarchy [was: propaganda on "hurdles for law enforcement"]

Sean Alexandre sean at alexan.org
Tue Jul 29 17:41:00 PDT 2014


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 07:48:56PM -0300, Juan wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:53:23 -0700
> coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:57 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ...
> > > Anarchists are interesting... because they have an affinity towards
> > > nothing, they're resistant towards everything, and proposing
> > > anything. Perhaps that is worthy of certain degree of respects.
> > 
> > authentic anarchists are not about "nothing"; that would be the
> > nihilists.
> > 
> > anarchism is about autonomy, personal responsibility, utmost liberty.
> > delegating what should not be delegated to corrupt(ing) centralized
> > powers is the source of great harm and suffering across humanity.  the
> > heart of anarchism is opposing centralized control and power, whether
> > unitary or hierarchical, in all domains of life.
> > 
> > anarchism has the potential to be most robust and most just, in the
> > same way that well built fully decentralized systems are robust
> > against classes of faults endemic in centralized structures.
> > 
> > rational anarchy, however, does appear to require a higher class of
> > human animal than currently populates the planet...
> > 
> 
> 	"does appear to require a higher class of human animal" 
> 
> 	Maybe so. But I'm sure you know the next few lines in the play
> 	=P
> 
> 	If 'humans' are unable to solve their political problems by
> 	means of individual cooperation, then a HUMAN and coercitive
> 	government is going to make matters worse. 
> 
> 	People can't actually govern themselves but they can elect
> 	other PEOPLE to...governm them. And delegate to their masters
> 	an ability they don't have! Now that's some Pristine logic!
> 	
> 
> 	Sorry, gotta run. Something is burning! (I'm glad I have a few
> 	gallons of gas to put the fire out)

And a great zine on all this is:

Life Without Law -- An Introduction to Anarchist Politics
http://www.tangledwilderness.org/life-without-law/




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