Anarchy is the Answer

in #unherd3 years ago

I don't know if you realize it, yet, dear supporter, but government is force, the opposite of that is no force.

If you have force, you can't have anarchy.
Under anarchy freedom is absolute within the parameters you encounter.

If you rob a gun store, at gun point, and get shot down, that is anarchy.

If you rob a gun store, at gun point, and they call the police and wait for service, that is government at its best.

You tell me which makes more sense to you?

Being free to hold to your code of honor, or to bend over so some criminal can peg you in the a**?


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Anarchy is coming

The liberal world order has failed to usher in global peace
BY ARIS ROUSSINOS

When the Biden administration undertook its first known act of war a few weeks ago, it provided an illuminating snapshot of conflict in the 21st century.
The aerial strike on Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia militias in eastern Syria, facing territory held by American-backed Syrian proxy forces, in response to the shelling of American positions in Iraq by Iranian-backed Iraqi militias which led to the death of an American private contractor, encapsulates the central role of surrogate warfare in modern conflict.

Like the Karabakh conflict last year, when Turkish-backed Syrian rebel militias fought Armenian conscripts as disposable cannon fodder, as they had previously done in Libya, while Turkish drones cleared the way for Azerbaijani forces to advance, we were presented with a sobering image of the new face of war.
Like the Spanish Civil War before it, the decade-long Syrian Civil War, a conflict perpetually about to conclude which yet may never fully end, has revealed itself as a harbinger of dangerous new trends the full implications of which we are yet to fully understand.

It is only natural, for example, that last week’s Integrated Review notes that Britain’s state competitors are likely to use proxy forces to challenge the international order, while the forthcoming defence review will mandate the creation of a new elite “Rangers” regiment formed precisely to advise and fight alongside proxies of our own.

A recent new book, Surrogate Warfare, by the professors of Security Studies Andreas Krieg and Jean-Marc Rickli, does much to synthesise recent academic work on the deteriorating global situation brought about by both technological advance and globalisation.
Echoing research on neo-medievalisation within International Relations — the dawning realisation, first voiced by the theorist Hedley Bull in 1977 that late modernity was heading inexorably to the weakening power of the Westphalian state system and its replacement by an overlapping web of transnational and sub-national actors — its authors present a stark vision of a world of growing anarchy brought about by the intersection of new technologies and the unintended consequences of globalisation.

As they warn, “the world arguably looks more anarchical in the early twenty-first century than it has ever been in modern times,” as ”with its 9/11 attacks and the spread of global jihadism, massive transnational migration streams, the financial crisis of 2008, and the wide-spread collapse of state authority across Africa and the Middle East — the idealist, classical conceptualizations of conflict in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries appear as historical anomalies.”

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We can have anarchy on any given Tuesday by simply continuing to do all the work while refusing to pay to get that work back from the crapitalusts.

When we do this only the banksters, and their flunkies, will get mad about it, everybody else gets more stuff for the same, or less, work.

Read the math for yourself.

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It's a conflict between an Authoritarian and Libertarian viewpoints, as I see it. The definitions of these two, I took from thepoliticalcompass. Easily comparable to Individual vs Collective empowerment.

None of the two is inherently good or bad though. It is that they should somehow be balanced out. E.g. an anarchic society won't stand a nearby aggressive dictatorship. Wars are usually fought and won by strong Authoritarian societies while the peaceful ones get wiped out.

I haven't figured out how to address the issue and I probably should try because I have my own scarcity to deal with first.

Spreading awareness is a good small step to start though. Proper education and proper spirituality might be a ground of a strong yet non-aggressive liberal society.

Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.

Until the masses reject the premise that it is ok to use violence to control those people because reasons, this is what we get, varying levels of tyranny.

@todkrank = lol, what a name. Very amusing :)
Are you german?

an anarchic society won't stand a nearby aggressive dictatorship

True. Nevertheless anarchy is something one can spread the word about, yes.
Maybe we can find a metaphor or an easy to understand meme or story...

todkrank is very poetic! I never though about it much at the time I picked it (in school) but now I keep it because it reflects the truth of existence. Could as well pick lebenkrank to add more drama but the former is neater.
I'm ukrainian; imagine how many syllables one would have to use to convey the same idea, but it would still be interpreted literally: "смертельно хворий". :)) What kind of nickname is that?!

There actually was an anarchic republic on the former ukrainian territories, led by Nestor Makhno. Didn't exist for too long, thanks to the Soviets. One of their mottoes was, "Liberty or Death!" on a black flag (Воля або смерть).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnovia

I would be honored if you'd consider taking a look at this,
https://discord.gg/cR6jVagG

I'm in.

Your post is reblogged and upvoted by me. It is a good post. Thank you @antisocialist