Moving like a Tiger

professor rat pro2rat at yahoo.com.au
Sun Jul 31 22:04:42 PDT 2022


Like an inverse Marxist, Tim May tended to believe that the inexorable expansion of private cryptography made the victory of crypto-anarchism inevitable. A new “balance of power between individuals and larger entities” was already emerging. He predicted with some confidence “the end of governments as we know them”. Another even more extreme cypherpunk of the libertarian Right, Jim Bell, like an inverse Leninist, thought that history might need a push. . .  ."

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2011/february/1324596189/robert-manne/cypherpunk-revolutionary#mtr

To launch attacks under favorable circumstances is not only every anarchist revolutionary’s right, but their plain duty. The killing of spies, policemen, commissars, the blowing up of police stations, the liberation of prisoners, the seizure of government funds for the needs of the uprising—such operations are already being carried out wherever insurrection is rife.  

Pre-1917 Lenin  - slightly paraphrased


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