This shows that revolt against the government is not sufficient to guarantee an anarchist future…which isn’t shocking considering all the times where people have revolted and the results were reactionary and authoritarian states. But I hope that the belief that it is necessary if insufficient is not controversial around here.
For a revolt to lead to an anarchist future, it has to be an anarchist revolution (i.e. a revolution caused via the destabilizing effects of prefiguration on the system).
Oh, the 100+ years revolt worked, pretty well, it just had nothing to do with anarchy - both major forces were socialist and capitalist tyranny fans. Anarchists were not very numerous, except for Ukrainian Mahno movement and a few less known, all of which were just conquered by regular means of war, being successful otherwise.
I mean toppled USSR, that was given time to fuck everything up at its own pace afterards. And pretty much any other tyranny that was given freedom to violate all reasonable humanity laws, from cancer and Somalian pirates to Google and Facebook, - things just get worse with time.
A revolt is needed and required, but this will more likely be successful in European countries . Most Americans do not understand democracy or anarchism or anything else that is reasonable.
Without the corrupt federal oversight or strong rule by the individual states, the masses will, in one generation or two, resemble the hundreds of German principalities from the 1600s or 1700s.
Only by using yet to be invented technology to enable small groups of people to be economically sufficient, can the USA ever hope to have decent governance
This shows that revolt against the government is not sufficient to guarantee an anarchist future…which isn’t shocking considering all the times where people have revolted and the results were reactionary and authoritarian states. But I hope that the belief that it is necessary if insufficient is not controversial around here.
For a revolt to lead to an anarchist future, it has to be an anarchist revolution (i.e. a revolution caused via the destabilizing effects of prefiguration on the system).
Exactly!
Which we don’t currently have…
Oh, the 100+ years revolt worked, pretty well, it just had nothing to do with anarchy - both major forces were socialist and capitalist tyranny fans. Anarchists were not very numerous, except for Ukrainian Mahno movement and a few less known, all of which were just conquered by regular means of war, being successful otherwise.
I mean toppled USSR, that was given time to fuck everything up at its own pace afterards. And pretty much any other tyranny that was given freedom to violate all reasonable humanity laws, from cancer and Somalian pirates to Google and Facebook, - things just get worse with time.
A revolt is needed and required, but this will more likely be successful in European countries . Most Americans do not understand democracy or anarchism or anything else that is reasonable.
Without the corrupt federal oversight or strong rule by the individual states, the masses will, in one generation or two, resemble the hundreds of German principalities from the 1600s or 1700s.
Only by using yet to be invented technology to enable small groups of people to be economically sufficient, can the USA ever hope to have decent governance