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PostSubject: Re: Annotating Anarchism   Mon Jun 01, 2009 1:51 am



The Slave Child Rebellion


These illustrations are the fantastic art of Henry Darger (1892-1973). A mentally-ill "Outsider Artist," whose secretive work was accidentally discovery by his landlord, revealing,

"...some 19,000 pages of legal-sized paper filled with single-spaced typing entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion ... [along with] the several hundred watercolor paintings Darger left in his room, many of them illustrations for The Realms of the Unreal."

Stephen Prokopoff

The anarchist line is traditionally associated with free-will, despite its Marxist connections, and for good reason. Both free-will and hard determinism are; it is an antinomy. We can not look into this Schrödinger's box to decide, so, why not argue contradictory theses? Argument is an evolutionary organism, the weaker arguments will be killed off,
"Both possibilities have thus been taken into account."

Mao, On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, 1957

(All quotes below are from Mao as well.)



That human nature is good, it is a necessary conclusion; by what but our own judgment can moral judgments possibly be made?

For those who have an idea of what their grievance is, the problem of the end is not in question; what is in question is what sort of letter or protest would be convincing?

I have written my congressman.

This was a mistake; peaceful agitation is very dangerous, it identifies one as an enemy of the system and leaves one no means of defense. Further investigation of my congressman's and congressional voting records showed that both major parties have voted in total unanimity on the issue I wrote; in other words, there is really no voice of opposition, no non-superficial difference between the major parties.

The question of violence is not one to be taken lightly. However, it is evident that,

"The enemy will not perish of himself."

Carry the Revolution Through to the End, 1948

And so we must consider that,

"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."

Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, 1927




The time has come and gone.

To overcome a tyrant, it is necessary to become even more violent.

The population is dependent on the system for their vital livelihood. The FLDS Church understood this: freedom is independence is autarky. Supermarkets are detention centers. Jobs are for slaves. Claiming 100% unemployment on their compound was one of the many autarkic tactics they used to try to free themselves from the central government. The raid under the pretence of the Child Protective Services that destroyed them, and the life incarceration of Warren Jeffs, evidences that they were right about what ties bind. Though of course not anarchists, the revolutionary tactics of the FLDS deserve study.



We can trust each other.
"We must have faith in the masses...."

On the People's Democratic Dictatorship, 1949

The system needs be put on the defensive; the attack is stronger than the defensive, we mustn't go onto the defensive,
"Attack is the chief means of destroying the enemy...."

Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War, 1936

We must not give the enemy any reprieve,

"Periods of rest, training and consolidation should not in general be very long, and the enemy should as far as possible be permitted no breathing space."

Problems of Strategy in Guerrilla War Against Japan, 1939

You can quit your country. It is quite simple, see here.

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People are responsible for themselves and ought not to meddle in the affairs of others.



The whole world is turning anti-American, and if the following makes sense, what should we conclude?

"We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports."

Interview with Three Corespondents from the Central News Agency, 1939

It is not in line with the anarchist position to blame the president for what the soldiers do themselves. It is exactly the soldiers individually who are responsible. They themselves had an infinite number of opportunities to decommission, to go AWOL, to defect to Canada -- to commit suicide.

It baffles me: Alex Jones, of Prison Planet rants against everything American, yet never seems to question his patriotism. Or, Naomi Wolfe, in her scathing The End of America: a letter of warning to young patriots still does not write-off the Evil Empire completely; Noam Chomsky is the same, the closing frame of his documentary Distorted Morality ends with a quote from Phil Ochs, "I believe there is still something inherent in the fiber of America worth saving, and that the fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad."

At the very least, an anarchist ought to very seriously question the American experiment and the possibility that it has failed.


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Vana




PostSubject: Re: Annotating Anarchism   Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:51 am

Internet Revolutionary


The system tries to control the form and content of the Internet, making rebellious expression difficult sometimes.

The Internet is a real space. Or at least real space exists at either end of it.

Political revolution is always more dangerous than armed revolution; there is no way to defend yourself as exposed rebel.

Contol of the system is only about physical control, not about mental control. Minds are powerless in-themseleves.

Political revolution is a diversion to draw out dissidents.

From the perspective of the system, armed revolution is infinitely more dangerous; from the perspective of the rebel, armed revolution is infinitely more safe...

To the maquis!



Systemic Tactic: Denial of Operational Space

Imagine an innocent baker being tried for Nazi war crimes in the court of absurdity.
When he submits the bread he bakes as evidence, the court deems it inadmissible.
He can not explain about his baking because the word "oven" is not recognized, the court will only hear "crematorium."
At last, the baker is removed from court, the court doors are locked...



No attacker can ever approach a position from the prepared and inaccessible angle of the defender's choosing. The attacker would be massacred. The defender uses control of the physical theater to deny the attacker access to its flank.

Philosophical discussion needs to be conducted in a mental space. The system defends itself by calling the propositions needed to disassemble it off-limits from discussion.

The system can suppress flanking "lines of interdiction" (Jomini) and protect the propositional approach to their susceptible fortress.

Philosophical argument needs to be conducted over a physical space. The system denies the physical space in which the argument is carried out.

Every argument is a microcosm of "Total War" (Clausewitz).



Propaganda is an evolutionary organism. Species and strains which are killed-off clear the way for more successful lines.

Aгитпроп is fundamentally an exhibitionist behavior (302.4).

There is a contradiction for the oppressive system; the most effective tactic against an Internet troll, if that is what the Internet revolutionary is, is to ignore him. But the system can not ignore the revolutionary when his arguments are valid and good is on his side. To be ignored would collapse the revolutionary, but, for the system, it means that the revolutionary has won, if no one objects, his position is normalized. So, the system is compelled at first to defend against the revolutionary's attack;

the system has several defences:

    i) generate bogus counter arguments,
    ii) claim the revolutionary's arguments are out-of-bounds,
    iii) resort to appeals to emotion such as threats and name-calling.
All of these tactics are understandably ineffective, but the system must not allow the revolutionary message to stand, not even ignored.

The system's last line of defence is to deny the revolutionary a theater of operations all together, physically: 'lock', 'edit', 'delete', 'ban'. This belies the system's hypocrisy, but is for the system preferable to allowing the revolutionary message to exist, which could ultimately lead to a paroxysm and collapse.


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PostSubject: Re: Annotating Anarchism   Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:09 am

Quote:
Vana: People are responsible for themselves and ought not to meddle in the affairs of others.


People are responsible for themselves as well as the health of their chosen communities/societies.
Meddle is a negatively connotated word. What if we exchanged it for 'help'.
Then the sentence means something different yet something the same.
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Vana




PostSubject: Re: Annotating Anarchism   Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:20 am

Judah and I wrote:
Quote:
Vana: People are responsible for themselves and ought not to meddle in the affairs of others.


People are responsible for themselves as well as the health of their chosen communities/societies.
Meddle is a negatively connotated word. What if we exchanged it for 'help'.
Then the sentence means something different yet something the same.

I am being led to wonder these days if to be moral means not to care about people? Non-intervention.

I have one article, the last, forever unfinished, which I will do my best to post very soon.

What are your thoughts about this?
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Vana




PostSubject: Re: Annotating Anarchism   Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:22 am



These two meanings of the word 'anarchy' are quite different,

    1. "Absence of government; a state of lawlessness due to the absence or inefficiency of the supreme power; political disorder."

    2. "A social state in which there is no governing person or group of persons, but each individual has absolute liberty (without the implication of disorder)."

Anarchism is a well developed philosophical school; anarchism means the ideas developed by the anarchist thinkers, some of the most important of whom are, Michael Bakunin, Alexander Berkman, Murray Bookchin, Albert Camus, Dorothy Day, Francisco Ferrer, Eric Fromm, William Godwin, Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Max Stirner, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, and Colin Ward.

Let's have a think about a few practical examples of anarchist philosophy in use, so we can get a better handle on what we're talking about,


Cows are sacred in India

This is the central thesis of anarchism, against-authority, in India, to not encumber the way of the cow. No external force is used against cows in India; Indians do touch and lead cows, but only in the best interest of the cow.


Tolstoy ran an anarchist school at Yasnaya Polyana

After Tolstoy's conversion to Christian anarchism, he converted his estate into a peasant school. He discusses the principals and operation of the school in The School at Yasnaya Polyana among other places. How does an anarchist school operate? First of all, there are no bells and no roll-call. The students are never whipped. Class times are not set, if a lesson runs an hour or two or three hours, that depends on the students and what interests them. The students do not follow a lesson led by their teacher, instead, the school texts sit in the class library and the students my form groups or study individually the texts as they are drawn by their own volition and interest. Homework is not assigned. Here are two really fantastic interviews with anarchist teachers by Swedish journalist Lennart Mogren,

John Taylor Gatto
Wern Palmius


There are term limits on United States presidents

Anarchist writers have often stressed, that where authority relations seem to be unavoidable, the institutions should be temporary. To limit the power that an American president can accumulate, there are limits set on the length of terms, and also on the number of times that one person can hold office.

Anarchist are people who have come to the right opinion that authority over others is the root of all human evil. Submit to none -- submit none, this line is my working definition of anarchism.


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PostSubject: Re: Annotating Anarchism   Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:03 am

utah & uganda
"head for the hills"

...

the end (?)
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