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Originally posted by Kram09
I can understand the desire to fight especially coming from a society as militaristic and jingoistic as America's (no offense intended) but i feel in the end the people who choose to use violence may well end up becoming the very thing they intended to destroy.
You want to change the evil ways of the world but you just advocate doing exactly what the so called powers that be do. War, bloodshed, violence. Any resistance organisation or movement would need the support of the armed forces and if you don't have that, you don't stand a chance by using violence.
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A stock criticism of Anarchism is that it's just too damn Utopian, a romantic fairytale for academics, a whimsical land of Oz located somewhere between Haight-Ashbury and Sesame Street. But these charges of Anarchism's impracticality fall apart when one examines the nuts and bolts of the Spanish Anarchist Collectives. It's no secret that good ideas are hard to suffocate, and this idea had been blossoming in the minds of Spanish workers for decades, one of self-management and self-governance. It wasn't difficult to look at their environment and imagine how there could be a better world. Property ownership was the only way to gain access to the means of life, and with 67% of the land in the hands of 2% of the population peasant farmers had to labor under the wealthy landowners to survive. In those days, the men who held the deeds made the rules. But the people taught themselves about the transformative potential of solidarity, and acknowledged their ability to create equality through their own collective power. From here the Spanish Anarchists produced a functional bottom up society whose ghost plutocrats worldwide still must confront.
The reason (if any) that we won't fight or resist whether peacefully or violently is because we are all divided against each other. There is no unity or cohesion.
Originally posted by Aeons
Oh for the love of God andy. Get some help. You are the poster child for paranoid martyrs. Is there ANYONE not out to get you?
Originally posted by captaintyinknots
Originally posted by Aeons
Oh for the love of God andy. Get some help. You are the poster child for paranoid martyrs. Is there ANYONE not out to get you?
He is a bit overboard, but who are you to call him a paranoid martyr? Do you know, for a fact, that the things he says arent true? Do you know, for a fact, that he is delusional?