by |Y| » Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:00 am
CrushCapitalism,
why SHOULD we be friends with the mini-fascists who let trillions die why they count their dollar bills and watch there tom green show?
Because they're no more able to chose to be free than the poor people who work under them (this is the biggest problem I see that anarchists face, many of us think that they're "big bad men" when they are only living how they know to live and how they can chose to live; they have an option, be rich and tell people what to do, or be poor, and be told what to do, please tell me what option you would take under that situation).
Granted I am against worker unions and the like, but I don't see a reason to go taking rich people and executing them. I think that's a pretty banal thing to do, when our ideas would serve much better being put into practice, removing their power without any sort of violence.
why SHOULD we be respectful to those who want to CONTROL other peoples lives
It's not respect in the sense that you're talking about, we can respect them as humans without respecting the processes they use to control us. How we do this is totally abolish their processes, and work around them instead of with them or through them. It's simple, if I no longer "do business" with a rich guy who sells houses, then he no longer has power over me.
Extend this to a few billion people and then we have anarchism, and those rich people aren't so powerful after all, and their control is totally non-existance. Without violence, without being stupid assholes who cannot respect human life.
why SHOULD we conform to the status quo when the status quo is racist and exploitatative?
Is this a slight against "materialism"? I don't understand. Far be it for me to defend the idiot you're replying to, but it's silly to say this if you mean comforming to consumption levels of luxuries. The orignal poster is right about one thing, many anarchists are idiots, which is why your posts are being laughed at by many, you're taking it to the extreme and just being idioitic. It's funny in a way, but I think your idioicy must be set straight, otherwise you'll misrepresent the vast majority of anarchists here.
CrushCapitalism,
[quote]why SHOULD we be friends with the mini-fascists who let trillions die why they count their dollar bills and watch there tom green show?[/quote]
Because they're no more able to chose to be free than the poor people who work under them (this is the biggest problem I see that anarchists face, many of us think that they're "big bad men" when they are only living how they know to live and how they can chose to live; they have an option, be rich and tell people what to do, or be poor, and be told what to do, please tell me what option you would take under that situation).
Granted I am against worker unions and the like, but I don't see a reason to go taking rich people and executing them. I think that's a pretty banal thing to do, when our ideas would serve much better being put into practice, removing their power without any sort of violence.
[quote]why SHOULD we be respectful to those who want to CONTROL other peoples lives[/quote]
It's not respect in the sense that you're talking about, we can respect them as humans without respecting the processes they use to control us. How we do this is totally abolish their processes, and work around them instead of with them or through them. It's simple, if I no longer "do business" with a rich guy who sells houses, then he no longer has power over me.
Extend this to a few billion people and then we have anarchism, and those rich people aren't so powerful after all, and their control is totally non-existance. Without violence, without being stupid assholes who cannot respect human life.
[quote]why SHOULD we conform to the status quo when the status quo is racist and exploitatative?[/quote]
Is this a slight against "materialism"? I don't understand. Far be it for me to defend the idiot you're replying to, but it's silly to say this if you mean comforming to consumption levels of luxuries. The orignal poster is right about one thing, many anarchists are idiots, which is why your posts are being laughed at by many, you're taking it to the extreme and just being idioitic. It's funny in a way, but I think your idioicy must be set straight, otherwise you'll misrepresent the vast majority of anarchists here.