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Post by Lone Wanderer on Jul 14, 2018 10:03:10 GMT
Chances are you have already heard something about who anarchists are and what they are supposed to believe. Chances are almost everything you have heard is nonsense. Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction, that they are against all forms of order and organization, or that they are crazed nihilists who just want to blow everything up. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. It is really a very simple notion. But it’s one that the rich and powerful have always found extremely dangerous. At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts. Most of all, anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take the simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions. Odd though this may seem, in most important ways you are probably already an anarchist — you just don’t realize it Let’s start by taking a few examples from everyday life... Continue reading at Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!
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Post by Διαμονδ on Jul 14, 2018 10:40:59 GMT
This is a question for Punks!
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Jul 16, 2018 1:39:51 GMT
No, because I don't believe that humans when left to their own devices are reasonable and decent. The reason that anarchy is associated with violence, chaos, and destruction is because that is how humans naturally are when the restraints are torn off.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Nov 30, 2021 23:38:58 GMT
We're all are anarchists. This isn't bad. The worst is that we cannot use it. We did forget how to use that anarchy, that freedom, and that will.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Dec 1, 2021 2:27:26 GMT
For example, the latest snatch and grab mob crime spree in San Francisco. They allowed theft for items below a certain price and stopped prosecuting theft crimes. With those restraints torn off, how are people acting? Are they acting like reasonable and decent human beings? No, they are acting like thieves, criminals, and vandals. Humans are as savage, cruel, immoral, and barbaric as you allow them to be and the restraints are there to keep that in check. Thomas Hobbes kind of had a point.
I am a man deeply interested and engrossed in history and I can tell you, all of history is one big bloodbath after another caused by humans to other humans. Studying the past and coming to the conclusion that humanity is naturally good would show that one is completely out of touch with reality. Studies have shown tribal societies without a state are even more violent than societies with an organized state proving anarchy to be complete rubbish.
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Post by lamburk on Dec 1, 2021 4:48:19 GMT
No, because I don't believe that humans when left to their own devices are reasonable and decent. The reason that anarchy is associated with violence, chaos, and destruction is because that is how humans naturally are when the restraints are torn off. Well consider the situtation, when, your basic needs of life is being controlled, by the person who is in power? Do you really think, humans are naturally designed to be offensive? No, humans are designed to work in balance and co-operate, and not to impose on each other. Anarchy usually arises, when there's shift of balance and harmony. However, to be an anarchist, one needs to rise to an occasion. Well, I don't consider any of the terrorists, and religious war mongers as anarchists.
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