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Originally Posted by TheFootMan5
Voluntarism is where it's at
I don't believe in "government" (it doesn't exist, it's just people with a monopoly on the use of force) because it violates moral principles
Anarchist
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You didn't answer my direct questions, but that was to be expected.
You do realize that there are deep divisions even amongst those who consider themselves anarchists (in case you missed the Occupy movement fizzle and die).
So as an anarchist, how do you propose to overthrow the current order, and what will you replace it with?
Do you find capitalism compatible with anarchy?
Revolutionary Catalonia (during the Spanish Anarchist Revolution, 1936-1939) was one of the few times anarchists attempted to seize and hold power, and it crumbled within 3 years.
The experiment was a failure on many levels:
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During the first weeks of the war, courts of law were replaced by revolutionary tribunals. Extrajudicial killings by militants and vigilantes soon followed.
"Everybody created his own justice and administered it himself...Some used to call this 'taking a person for a ride' [paseo] but I maintain that it was justice administered directly by the people in the complete absence of the regular judicial bodies."
?Juan García Oliver, Anarchist minister of justice, 1936
During the initial fighting several thousand individuals were murdered by Anarchist and Socialist militants based on their assumed political allegiance and social class.
"We do not wish to deny that the nineteenth of July brought with it an overflowing of passions and abuses, a natural phenomenon of the transfer of power from the hands of privileged to the hands of the people. It is possible that our victory resulted in the death by violence of four or five thousand inhabitants of Catalonia who were listed as rightists and were linked to political or ecclesiastical reaction."
?Diego Abad de Santillan, editor of Solidaridad Obrera
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No wonder you are such a confused and bitter person. You ascribe to a philosophy that you don't seem to understand much about.
ADG