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- “Market anarchism” isn’t anarchist.
- Voluntaryism isn’t anarchist.
- “Anarcho-socialism” is redundant and is principally use by “anarcho-capitalists”, who, by the way, are not anarchists.
- Primitivism and anarchism are incompatible.
- Agorism is questionable, to say the least.
- “Market anarchism” isn’t anarchist.
- Voluntaryism isn’t anarchist.
- “Anarcho-socialism” is redundant and is principally use by “anarcho-capitalists”, who, by the way, are not anarchists.
- Primitivism and anarchism are incompatible.
- Agorism is questionable, to say the least.
- “Market anarchism” isn’t anarchist.
- Voluntaryism isn’t anarchist.
- “Anarcho-socialism” is redundant and is principally use by “anarcho-capitalists”, who, by the way, are not anarchists.
- Primitivism and anarchism are incompatible.
- Agorism is questionable, to say the least.
I disagree, market anarchists aren’t that bad, though I agree with ancaps and voluntaryists not being anarchists. What’s incompatible about primitivism and anarchism?
This isn’t about being “bad”. Without even goin’ into it, anarchism is strictly ANTI-capitalist. “Market anarchism” is NOT strictly anti-capitalist and is in fact compatible with and generally indistinguishable from capitalism. “Market anarchism” is not anarchist.
Anarchism is a sophisticated form of social organization. Primitivism precludes such organization. The primitivist views social organization as inherently paternalistic.
I value primitivist critiques and don’t think its entirely incompatible with anarchism, but I do see your point as the practice of anarchy, albeit voluntary self organization, would still result in complex social organization.
What’s the point in telling people that they can’t be something they claim to be?
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In a world exclusive interview the now-exiled Kim Hyun-hee tells of life inside the kingdom and how she was groomed by North Korean spy masters to plant a bomb on a South Korean passenger plane.
The 1987 attack killed all 115 people on board and led to the United States listing North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.
“From the moment I got on the Korean Air flight, left the bomb in the overhead locker, and until I got off, I was nervous every second of the operation,” she said.
The Americans Civil Liberties Union on Friday revealed that courts in Ohio are illegally throwing poor people in jail for being unable to pay off a debt.
In a report titled, “The Outskirts of Hope,” (PDF) the ACLU shines a light on a harrowing “debtors’ prison” system in Ohio — one that violates both the United States’ and the Ohio constitution. Ohioans are being jailed for “as small as a few hundred dollars,” despite the constitutional violation, and the economic evidence that it costs the state more to pay for their jail sentence than the amount of the debt.
Greek Islands Cast Out Fascist Party ‘Golden Dawn’
Members of the far-right party Golden Dawn(GD) were forced to leave a small village on the island of Thasos at the weekend. GD representatives had come to the village of Potamia on Sunday with the aim of handing out food exclusively to Greeks. Such propaganda acts are fairly common for GD as they attempt to benefit from the poverty now affecting Greece. The party have set up previous food distribution events during which people have to show proof of being Greek.
This time however local residents gathered in the town square and forced the GD out. The residents, carrying antifascist banners, made it clear that the fascist party were not welcome and stopped them unloading their van. Pretty quickly the GD members gave up and headed away to the jeers of the crowd. Other attempts to set up Greek only food distributions on the island met with little or no enthusiasm.
In another blow to GD on the Greek islands this week one of their members ended up being thrown into the sea after meeting some antifascists in Hania, Crete. Members of GD gathered in Hania and proceeded to move around the town attacking three non-Greeks on the way. However local antifascists gathered and soon a fight broke out in which four GD members and two antifascists were arrested. During the clashes a GD member was thrown into the sea of Hania harbour.
By blocking their activities or throwing them into the sea the residents of Thasos and Hania have given a clear example of self-organised opposition to the far-right. Examples we must keep in mind as fear and xenophobia spread.
In another blow to GD on the Greek islands this week one of their members ended up being thrown into the sea
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There’s no love lost between Washington and the American public, it seems, five days after Congress for the first time in years managed to handle a budget-related issue without reaching the brink of crisis.
Protesters have descended on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House this week, enraged at a potentially health-hazardous provision they allege lawmakers inserted surreptitiously into a continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the government through the remainder of the fiscal year. The bill sailed through the Capitol on Friday; President Obama signed it into law on Tuesday.
Opponents have termed the language in question the “Monsanto Protection Act,” a nod to the major agricultural biotech corporation and other like firms geared at producing genetically modified organisms (GMO) and genetically engineered (GE) seeds and crops. The provision protects genetically modified seeds from litigation suits over health risks posed by the crops’ consumption.
Personally I think GMOs should be judged on a case by case basis. GM corn that allows for more pesticides to be used? Probably a bad idea. GM cassava that can help solve nutritional problems in Africa? Fuck yeah!
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