“To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough”

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  • let’s walk it back a minute then.

    We have Rojava as a current modern blueprint for functional anarchy but I tend to believe it will be less about dealing with nation states on their own terms than creating a new paradigm that the nation state simply cannot function within.

    Every single change in human history had to be thought first and then turned into a reality.

    Merchantilism subverted Feudalism. Feudal lords didn’t think they where inventing capitalism, they just wanted their debts to be decoupled from their land so they could shake down their Serfs even when the land didn’t provide a harvest. History is far less intentional than you seem to believe.


  • you didn’t come across as hostile at all.

    thinking that we need to meet power with power is exactly what I’m talking about though when I say we’re products of our environment.

    we won’t be pirates or criminals or revolutionaries we’ll just be people.

    Anarchy is anti-fragile precisely because we’re not a unified front and treating people as equals is a profoundly simple and powerful idea at the end of the day and you can’t fight an idea with bullets.


  • we are very much products of our environment, it is not our place to say what anarchy will look like to those who will wield the tools of direct democracy like breathing but simply to plant those trees whose shade we will never sit in. Point out the hierarchy and power structures and oppose them at every turn but realise this is a generational project and the state will not give up without a bitter fight.

    also Ted Kaczynski used technology to attack the system, just because someone is Anprim doesn’t mean they don’t have an email address.