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Revolution Ain't a Part-Time Job: A Response to Contrapoints

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The CIA's 8 steps to wreck organizations

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Anark Responds to "Anarcho"-Capitalists

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Revolutions Happen with ‪ MoneylessSociety‬

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Power by Daniel Baryon (Anark)

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Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell

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James Scott: The Art of Not Being Governed

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The Flowchart to Global Revolution

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An Anarchist FAQ

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Macklemore – Hind's Hall [video]

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I'm interested in creation of remote, horizontal game dev worker cooperative

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Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You by David Graeber (2000)

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In Praise of Idleness (1932)

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270 points·by TotalCrackpot·2 years ago·107 comments

Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell

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4 points·by TotalCrackpot·2 years ago·2 comments

How Anarchy Works

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Challenge to spread anarchism during the first week of May

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The Principles of Anarchy [video]

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Albert Einstein: Why Socialism?

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Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)

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TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
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TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
Can you explain why you think that? I will gladly learn something new from you.
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·2 years ago·discuss
Countless humans got their lives destroyed because of this perfectly normal variation of human sexuality, that's atrocious and so we should never forget what happened to Alan Turing because of essentially religious fundamentalism.
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·2 years ago·discuss
Yeah, on the other hand you had Anarchist Catalonia or currently Zapatistas. In USA you had MK Ultra, where government experimented on people through for example drugging them and you have homelessness too. Moreover people who fought for liberation were diagnosed with schizophrenia.
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
It seems like you don't discuss in a good faith to be honest.

> That's not quite how your comments elsewhere in this thread read lol

What do you don't understand? I can try to explain in more elementarily if you have problems with understanding something.

> Wanna name a couple of those civilizations that didn't have property rights that managed to thrive and grow beyond a population of like 10,000?

This list can be quite relevant, some of those project existed for a short time, some for longer: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W1wWjWNXhvHjMzzyxT5z5Es_...

>Brother, they showed up with guns and took over buildings by force; they destroyed the land records for everyone, not just their specific "members" - if that's not coercion, what is?

What do you think about genocide of Indigenous Americans? Is it okay? Or can they defend themselves?
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
No, I think no one should get exploited and oppressed and everyone should have an opportunity to develop to the heights of one's potential.
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
How they can make something they can trade, if they have no land on which they can make it? Where can they go, if private property exists in most of the world?
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
They did not have private property with landlord and employers. They had common property and usually some kind of gift economy.
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
I think it depends on local customs and local agreements, it can differ. I guess I could consider a house abandoned if no one lives there for a year or 2. While for a mine, I think I would consider it abandoned the moment previous miners left it, such that other can get into the mine and mine some resource.
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
I don't agree with you, I don't think you discuss in a good faith. You seem to write in a very emotional state, which possibly does not make you stable enough to engage in a coherent discussion.

I think everyone should have an opportunity to develop to the heights of one's potential and I think no one should be oppressed and exploited. I don't agree with you that I am anti-social or I have destructive ideas. Moreover, I am a very happy person, I consider myself completely satisfied with my personal life and that's why I am willing to engage in a fight for other people's opportunity to develop, even if they were unlucky in their life and they didn't have access to those opportunities. I am fine with propagating a complete deconstruction of norms very strongly naturalized in our current society if I find them justifying oppression and exploitation.
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
The most important difference is everyone could create such a group without main authority monopolizing violence. Some would try to recreate current authoritarian relations, while others would oppose them.
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
> In general, I'm getting the impression from your comment that you have some overly idealistic beliefs, and that you're perhaps unwilling to engage honestly with ideas that are counter to your own, but in any case..

I like precise logical argumentation, that's not idealism, I don't make any unnecessary assumptions

> I'm also not quite sure why you would find it hard to agree with the notion that, throughout history, humans have been protective of their territory. The list of examples you could point to for this is unending.

Oh, that's very simple, for most of human history humans lived as hunter gatherers and they did not have private property or rent relations.

>To start, the other guy never claimed private property was a natural right. The rights we have emerged from people wanting to self organize for their mutual benefit.

No, there was an enclosure of commons that happened to exploit farmers as factory workers. Those rights were always about naturalizing oppressive human relations.

>It should tell you something that private property + property rights have consistently emerged, whenever people have tried to put together a society.

This is not true, many civilizations were against private property rights and private property rights were never universal, they are even not universal in this worlds, even if they exist in most places around the world.

>I admittedly didn't know much about this, but on some cursory research, it seems pretty obvious to me that this was not an entirely "free choice" based movement..

No one is coerced to join those rebels. And rebels are rebelling against unjust genocide of Indigenous Americans among others.
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
How is that different to the current society, except that now if you put up a yurt somewhere you will get harassed by police?
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
How do you deal with a situation where some people don't have any land anymore to put their houses there?
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
Are fine with oppression and exploitation of other humans? Is that okay according to your morals and ideals?
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
Zapatistas are organized Indigenous Americans, they are fighting against genocide. Why for you people who fight for their own survival are bandits? Do you think that people who were committing the genocide are fine? Do you approve of genocide of Indigenous Americans? If so, then that's disgusting.
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
I am living under my address, I am occupying that place, so I am not fine with providing my address. But I am fine with people living in abandoned houses.
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
Calling people you disagree with extremists is just an insult and it's not nice. It's rude. There is nothing extremists about fighting for a world where no one is oppressed and everyone can develop to the heights of one's potential.
TotalCrackpot
·2 years ago·discuss
Could you elaborate why I am not sticking to those guidelines?
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·2 years ago·discuss
No it's not. Private property created a world where 8 persons control as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity. This is not common prosperity, this is exploitation.