I'm obviously having a bit of fun with his theory in my comment. I'm not sure how far his theory extends. But it still is reasonable.

If anyone thinks in terms of power, then everyone has to think in terms of power or else suffer the consequences.

It is nice to be among a company of gentlemen where you don't have to think that way, but I think he is right that nation states have to think that way.

If John Mearsheimer found him self shipwrecked on an island with 4 strangers, he would immediately start exercising to try to make sure he was the most powerful person on the island.

Political power is the problem. Those who believe they need power "for benevolent reasons" are always responsible for the worst evils.

They will kick Biden out & install a younger & more corrupt person who can still think & then claim "everything has been fixed & the country is saved"

An AK a day keeps the commies away!

I saw her in an elevator when I was staffing a different Elected. She definitely looked at me like “why aren’t you asking for a photo…” 🫠

I recommend reading power & market by Murray Rothbard. As long as people do not take responsibility for themselves and are willing to be dependent on the government it will exist, And create class division.

I hope the government just fades away because its not needed. I believe authority can only be legitimate if it tries to undermine itself. The best example is a teacher: a successful teacher works to ascend the pupil to his/her level thereby removing the authority.

Yeah, Murray Bookchin has a whole book on the people in Rojava. It is an idea, Not a government, And in my own mind Communism is organized Anarchy. There are anarchist cells all over America, Many people label them as “antifa” which is also an unorganized anti politically motivated movement, But these are all random people coming in and out of different places in life depending or not on each other. Great that it inspires people to think for themselves but fascism will always destroy movements of anarchy as they organize, And it is best for people participating in anarchist movements to take their own ideas and move on. Depending on other people participating in anarchy will always leave any person with too little and other people who are depending on their resources. It can never win but winning is not the goal of anarchy, More survival.

Right. The Anarchist movement was never a formal government party, And many people followed this idea in many places. The Anarchist ideology was in Italy as a response to the fascist party and was largely the underlying pro communist movement but the communist party never made it far enough to gain power, As the fascists organized under Mussolini before they had a chance. The region of Catalonia has elements of Anarchic values built into their political system as opposition to the Catholic Church in Spain. Anarchy was never officially a government so it allows unorganized people to identify as such.

Communists and Anarchists are (were) both leftist because they agree on the problem of the existence class and hierarchy. Anarchists disagree with Communists on the methods of abolishing class and hierarchy. The communists said you must become the state then you can abolish it. The anarchists said that isn't possible because power always corrupts and the ends don't justify the means. History has proven the communists incorrect.

Anarchy gets a very bad look from communist larping as anarchist.

#anarchy

Anarchy was the beginning of communism. The killing of the Romanov family created an anarchist movement organized under the Bolshevik party, That was later organized into the communist party under Lenin. Anarchy is to communism as a democracy is to republic.

This exactly

Morning beers at the airport are always allowed, right?

Cord cutting was a lie.

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