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In reply to the discussion: I am an Anarchist. Not a "Libertarian" or a "Galtist" but an Anarchist. [View all]Javaman
(62,517 posts)124. Meh, those who shun leaders are the first ones that want to lead.
Anarchism looks great on paper until it burns up.
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I am an Anarchist. Not a "Libertarian" or a "Galtist" but an Anarchist. [View all]
Taverner
Dec 2012
OP
The "marchers" didn't, because people don't, spontaneously erupt into contradicting
jtuck004
Dec 2012
#67
Please see Spain 1936 - 1939. Noam Chomsky gave a very enlightening talk on how
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#82
Freedom from governance is not absence of leadership. The essential difference is that anarchy,
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#96
Words do indeed have specific meanings, you just don't understand them.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#105
We both do in our ways. He has tenure at MIT and I simply don't participate in this
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#114
Your position regarding the Spanish Anarchists boils down to might makes right.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#120
Human nature allowed for just this kind of communal based culture for 40,000 years.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#137
It isn't. There is a big difference between acquisitive violence and organized slaughter.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#140
You mean the three years where 1,000,000 people were killed and the country was destroyed?
Throd
Dec 2012
#97
Yes. The other part you were never taught, or most likely never even heard of.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#98
I think his point is that if you have to kill a million people, it ain't exactly Utopia.
renie408
Dec 2012
#100
It wasn't the anarchists that were killing a million people, that was the revolution they weren't
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#103
So your position is that you choose to ignore the living testimony of those that were there,
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#112
The Wealth of Nations and the Declaration of Indepdence were published in the same year
Recursion
Dec 2012
#126
Every American should keep their passport up to date. Far to few americans travel abroad.
Exultant Democracy
Dec 2012
#50
Without a power structure threatening deprivation, or worse, this too is a self-correcting problem.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#83
I disagree with you. I think Democratic Socialism can use technology correctly.
white_wolf
Dec 2012
#135
I think you're describing a natural human instinct for not wanting to be bossed around by
limpyhobbler
Dec 2012
#39
I've seen that sort of thing too easily gamed & the result was that those least equipped to deal
patrice
Dec 2012
#51
So you're saying that without the threat of punishment, you would somehow go berserk? n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#84
A lot of people have a difficult time wrapping their heads around this concept. Thanks for putting
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#116
Or we gradually work twards the goal, expecting to see none of it in our lifetimes
Taverner
Dec 2012
#132