LajkaBear
LajkaBear wrote
Reply to comment by ziq in As an anarcho-communist who loves our schismed founding father, Marx... by anarchoreposter
With this much emphasis on work (and in an absence of an understanding of how non-governmental hierarchies permeate our societies), I doubt you can actually achieve classlessness and statelessness either.
The idea of anarchy=communism is as absurd as anarchy= liberal democracy because they both share the pursuit of freedom and happiness.
LajkaBear wrote
anarchy is communism in practice
And apparently it's anarchists who always play semantic games...
a stateless, classless, money-less society
The problem is that these three features are barely the tip of an iceberg. Let's talk anti-work for a second, commies, and see where this 'anarchy is communism in practice' takes us. And then let's move onto relational anarchy, veganism, free association, anti-democracy/consensus, etc.
Whaaa, what are you saying commie? You finally agree that anarchy is nothing like communism? GOOD!
LajkaBear wrote
Reply to comment by LajkaBear in It's just some light decision making, bud! by ziq
'To paraphrase a great, (kind of) democratically (but not democratically) elected statesman: There are not only democratic democracies and undemocratic democracies, but also democratic non-democracies and undemocratic non-democracies.'
LajkaBear wrote
Reply to It's just some light decision making, bud! by ziq
You can just hear that smug nasally drawl -- 'You see, m'lady, there is democracy and Democracy. These are two distinct concepts. Democracy is totally different from the democratically non-democratic democracy because it's democratically DEMOCRATIC. If only people understood that when I say democracy I mean the democratically democratic type of democracy, which is very different from the democratically un-democratic democracy, this world would be dramatically more democratically democratic.'
LajkaBear wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by Pax in Does anybody know where one could download the full text of "The Unquiet Dead: Anarchism, Fascism, and Mythology"? I read about it in Peter Gelderloos's recent blog post but can only find single chapters floating around. by Pax
This is just chapter seven unless I am missing something
Go on the website it links to and click on 'full list of audiozines.' Then use the search function for 'the unquiet dead', and you'll get 7 (different) chapters and an introduction.
LajkaBear wrote
Reply to Does anybody know where one could download the full text of "The Unquiet Dead: Anarchism, Fascism, and Mythology"? I read about it in Peter Gelderloos's recent blog post but can only find single chapters floating around. by Pax
You can either follow the link provided in bibliography of the said blog post or just google the title + pdf.
LajkaBear wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by RanDomino in In the second of my series on why pro-civ people should try harder, let's have a quick look at diabetes. by Tequila_Wolf
Anarchism = not a single rock placed atop another?
Correct. Anarchism is when all rocks are flying in a perfectly egalitarian, horizontal manner in the general direction of anybody who suggests that anarchism is a statism with a human face or whatever the fuck you are trying to convey with this really shitty metaphor.
LajkaBear wrote
Reply to Say what now? by ziq
more like f/ShitAIBotsSay
LajkaBear wrote
Reply to comment by ziq in Thank You, Anarchists by Raisins
But hey, at least the anarchists, like the latter-day Moses, told them about politburo 'general assemblies'.
LajkaBear wrote
Reply to comment by LajkaBear in Thank You, Anarchists by Raisins
Whenever the word 'empowering' shows up, you know for a fact that you've been cheated.
LajkaBear wrote (edited )
Reply to Thank You, Anarchists by Raisins
Am I missing something?
Is this:
For some who were experiencing it for the first time, the General Assembly became a cathartic opportunity to unload long-pent-up polemics. Perhaps never having really had their political voices heard off the Internet, newcomers would interrupt the agenda and turn the people’s mic into a soapbox. With practice, though, that would change. They’d find that hewing to the process was better than making off-topic speeches. They heard stories about the assemblies in occupied squares in Egypt, Greece and Spain firsthand from people who had been there. Helping shape the daily decisions of the Occupation started to seem actually more empowering than trying to tell Obama what to do.
the great anarcho-democratic contribution to 'decision-making processes'??
The anarchists’ way of operating was changing our very idea of what politics could be in the first place. This was exhilarating. Some occupiers told me they wanted to take it home with them, to organize assemblies in their own communities. It’s no accident, therefore, that when occupations spread around the country, the horizontal assemblies spread too.
Lord help us!
LajkaBear OP wrote (edited )
Reply to "I think I agree with a lot of things anarchy says as my ideology branched from it" by LajkaBear
Not to keep you in suspense about how we justify authority: