Protesters again take to uptown streets (of Charlotte)

[patrice]

119. Personally, I think all of their almost exclusively hierarchical focus is evidence of a failure of

authentic horizontalism, or of a horizontalism that was capable of producing only one type of collaboration, i.e. anti-authoritarianism, which would also explain their failures in developing their own leaders, which process could still be in the works, I suppose, so that we might eventually see somekind of anti-authoritarian authority, I guess. This is one of the reasons their masks have never worked for me either. If you define the oppression as dishonesty, and apparently that's a mighty big IF amongst this group, how does refusal to put your name and identity on what you're doing solve for dishonesty? It DOESN'T. It works AGAINST honesty.

None of that works for me, because it doesn't recognize the potentiality of its own slavery to anything but a single monolithic concept destruction of power by acquisition of power, i.e. fascism. I think that drive is latent in "lower" economic class persons, but because of their economic need, it tends to be suppressed, so it is vulnerable to the support of those who have the material luxury of indulging the same tendencies and are driven by similar motivations, anger and frustration from other sources, who have the use of more exotic tools like computers and the internet, but are driven also by more purely political motivations, such as the legalization of cannabis and/or LGBTQ rights, which have roots also in the Libertarian & anarchist spectrum.

Authentic freedom is capable of choosing to do something really new or choosing to conform to chosen aspects of the status quo.

I don't think we are looking at a group that is capable of that kind of freedom . . .

. . . yet, I hope.