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In reply to the discussion: Authoritarianism is a sickness. [View all]Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)To real world applications of the philosophy of anarchism. Because you do know that there have been real world applications of anarchy, don't you? You wouldn't be talking out of your ass again, even after being corrected? If I were you, I'd be embarrassed. Interesting.
I "kinda" feel bad for you.
"Anarchy is order!" ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (yeah, the guy widely regarded as the first to use anarchist in reference to his philosophy; regarded as the god-father of anarchy)
Because I'm feeling generous today, do yourself a favor. Read this wonderful online book by Daniel Guerin. It should help "unconfuse" you.
Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
Please read it. It's very enlightening. It dispenses with all the misconceptions of anarchism, and it really gets to the core of the beauty of the humanitarianism, the cooperation, the solidarity that is anarchism.
I'll provide an excerpt of the forward by Noam Chomsky:
As long as the right of property was the origin and groundwork of many other rights, it was easily defended---or rather it was not attacked; it was then the citadel of society while all the other rights were its outworks; it did not bear the brunt of attack and, indeed, there was no serious attempt to assail it. but today, when the right of property is regarded as the last undestroyed remnant of the aristocratic world, when it alone is left standing, the sole privilege in an equalized society, it is a different matter. Consider what is happening in the hearts of the working-classes, although I admit they are quiet as yet. It is true that they are less inflamed than formerly by political passions properly speaking; but do you not see that their passions, far from being political, have become social? Do you not see that, little by little, ideas and opinions are spreading amongst them which aim not merely at removing such and such laws, such a ministry or such a government, but at breaking up the very foundations of society itself?[23]
The workers of Paris, in 1871, broke the silence, and proceeded
to abolish property, the basis of all civilization! Yes, gentlemen, the Commune intended to abolish that class property which makes the labor of the many the wealth of the few. It aimed at the expropriation of the expropriators. It wanted to make individual property a truth by transforming the means of production, land and capital, now chiefly the means of enslaving and exploiting labor, into mere instruments of free and associated labor.[24]
Certainly not your dictionary definition, but kinda illustrates the actual subject we're talking about, eh?