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"Power and domination is not natural to humanity. When you expose power and these forces of domination to the sunlight, it evaporates. No more power. This has been happening since systemic structures of power have existed. If you asked my grandmother whether or not she was oppressed, she wouldn't have known what you were talking about. If you asked my mother, she knew she was oppressed and she resented it. If you ask my daughters, they don't even have to answer you. That's a shift in attitudes over just a few generations. When people talk about how wage slavery will never end, or capitalism will never end, they will. They said the same thing about chattel slavery and feudalism. All forms of domination end. It just takes time and education. It's why, when Emma Goldman argued for anarchism, she said it would take five hundred years to blossom into reality because systems of domination have to be removed first. Labor reformers, particularly the girls in mills, the women of the 19th century, they had no idea what socialism, anarchism, or Marxism were. They weren't educated. They still organized. They wrote that they hadn't faught the Civil War so that they could replace chattel slavery with wage slavery. They regarded wage labor as slavery because if you rent your time for a wage to survive, that is not freedom."
Noam Chomsky, 2009
Most of us have been conditioned...
Since armies are legal, we feel that war is acceptable; in general, nobody feels that war is criminal or that accepting it is a criminal attitude.
In fact, we have been brainwashed.
War is neither glamorous nor attractive. It is monstrous. It's very nature is one of tragedy and suffering.
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"The present moment is a desperate one. If you look at statistics, the reality has never been more clear that, the west, particularly the United States, has always been built on the idea that the U.S. has it so much better than the rest of the world. Isn't better a relative word? I mean, in 2019, fifty million Americans are living in distressed communities. The desperation is real, with high unemployment, dependancy issues, addiction, and high crime rates. Well, okay, what if we didn't treat employment as a status? What if it was socially acceptable to not have to grind and slave away? Wouldn't that make crime rates and addiction rates drop sharply? Maybe we should de-stigmatize unemployment and encourage others to not be so dependant on a job. Granted, work is valuable and needed for societies to exist, but under global capitalism, employment isn't about working for the benefit of society. Millions of jobs don't need to exist. Employment is about productivity that benefits the capitalist class. So, I would argue that, if employment isn't about benefiting society, it shouldn't be seen as a sacred idea. And to be unemployed should not be so stigmatized."
DAVID GRAEBER, University of Birmingham, 2019
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My central issue with anarchy is the first part of your second point - where no organized government exists to regulate use of force, how does a society prevent the person/s w the most weapons from imposing their will?
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nostr:npub1ye7qukcz6w2wp9x2ss49ac3scamscdgfe8xa0p8khc7fcpycvklq38uxtk Police officers shouldn't have unions because A: The police are the enemies of working class unions (it's not the Capitalists that go out on the street and beat/arrest striking workers, it's the police, the tool Capitalist use to keep their power); making their jobs easier shouldn't be the working class's priority, and B: The police shouldn't exist. Their primary purpose is to protect capitalist wealth and property, not to help us. The goal shouldn't be to make the police more agreeable, but to abolish the police and replace it with non-hierarchical community protection/security groups.
The Walton family is the richest family in the world. They've made billions off of exploitation of their workers.
"Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable." -Rosa Luxemburg
