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kore OP wrote

Yeah i have to remember that about the emancipatory hopelessness. It is strangely liberating.

I'm just saying that living with other people and trying to support a community through food production, health care, etc. Is a positive project in the sense that you have to plant seeds, build buildings. I'm not trying to say "checkmate nihilist," but I really just wonder how all of these things can really be freed of any authority.

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OdiousOutlaw wrote (edited )

I really just wonder how all of these things can really be freed of any authority.

I'm not sure myself, I doubt anyone else is either; anything written by anarchists is just about escaping our current conditions under an authority, it's not like there's a framework to work with, every anarchist has had to deal with authority. Were all forms of authority to somehow be abolished, there's no guarantee that a few people won't try to bring at least a few back; it's too ingrained into our experience to do so. The closest thing to an answer I or anyone else can come up with is to adopt a position of rejection; an absolute, constant struggle against authority whenever it rears its head.

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L0rdEMPRESS_GaLaXyBrAiN wrote (edited )

We're all forms of authority to somehow be abolished

Kill the cop in your head/If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill them!

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Nuktuk wrote

I disagree that planting seeds or building shelter are inherently positive projects. A positive project strives to replicate, reproduce, constantly grow in scope. Planting a sweet potato to feed yourself (or to give to others) does no such thing.

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