Anarchy is a peace movement.
This blog stems from the idea of bringing peace to the world, the belief that everyone should start off in this world equal to one another. After all we are all the same race, same life. I do not necessarily believe that power corrupts - as quite a few anarchists will say - as sometimes having an outlined and defined leader can be good, but it enables corruption very easily and in most cases (such as nearly every government in the world) promotes corruption. Just the idea of having a state, something so small controlling the masses who are relatively very large was never going to be a great success. In the best cases the state will regulate everything well, handle the economy well and overall be a pretty nice popular government. But these laws that we all more or less follow are created on a rule of averages, and because of this individual cases are not taken into consideration, thereby meaning that you have to abide by rules that are not in your best interests. Laws of averages simply mean legal (as opposed to lawful) laws that are created by popular consent, or what is deemed average in society i.e control orders, drug laws, immigration laws etc. Sometimes innocent people fall victim to these laws of averages and therefore an innocent life can be destroyed, a power which I believe nobody - whether a mass of people in the form of a government, or individual - should be allowed to have. A government in the worst case will oppress the people and get corrupted by the idea of having great amounts of power over masses, something which very few people (fascists) would ever want. We are seeing great amounts of oppression pretty much all over the world at the moment.
This blog is not tied to any organisations or any other blogs with similar names. This blog aims to bring anarchism into the everyday lives of people and hopes to develop anarchism as a viable idea and not something that is laughed at by the populist people and governments of today.
Anarchism is many things, there are many different schools of thoughts on anarchism and ideas are being tweaked all the time. Everytime a new true anarchist comes to light she or he will always want to tweak the ideas of their predecessors, sometimes improving them or not. Although the actual definition is a society without authority to me anarchism is also a peace movement. It is not tied to any particular classes, as some of the more communist influenced anarchist organisations might have you believe.
This blog shows one persons thoughts on what a perfect society would be, and in my own thoughts how best to get to that society, it may be idealistic, sometimes unbearably so, but you have to be idealistic, if you aren't you might as well blow your brains out. I do not expect people to have the same ideas as me and in some (most?) cases people will have completely different ideas to me. Everyone is entitled to their own views but I think it is a great tragedy when people close their minds off to all other view points before getting all the information in front of them first. This is not to say that you cannot have a view point if you don't know EVERYTHING - no one does - but just keep your mind open to change all the time. I appreciate that I do not know as much as other people and like everyone else I am still learning and developing my thoughts.
If you want to know everything about something you have to know everthing about everything. Everything is interconnected, nothing is totally individual.
Although I think that anarchy is the only way to truly liberate the people and the best way of life, it should still be the individuals choice, in other words they should not get forced into anarchy, as this can cause resentment and in some cases make individual lives worse. For example if they are not in the right mind set for anarchy or not prepared to adapt their work systems. I believe that anarchy needs to be evolved into, but not in the way that Marx talked about. He talked about the need to embrace the state and the evolution and development of the psychology of man into a New Man which would take society to new levels making an anarchisticly run society possible and viable. I believe Marx was right about many things, but not about this. In the developmental period of embracing the state I believe too much opportunity is created for corruption and power grabs. Don't get me wrong Marxism shows much potential for working. I just feel it gives too little power to the people and it takes too long, but then again that's just me.
The way I would evolve into anarchism, is by simply ignoring the state. This can be done in a number of ways. The most effective way would probably be to start up a commune (anarchisticly run of course) that runs on a moneyless basis, otherwise the government can butt in with tax obligation claims and the like. In starting the commune everyone would have to quit their job that links them to "normal" society, close bank accounts ect. Really anything that connects them to or benefits government run society. At the same time as slowly starving the government of people to control, the commune would start breeding generations of New People. These New People would be anarchisticly minded people who would be able to move seemlessly into a big connected anarchist society once the government gives up its futile control of people.
The most important issue in life, to me, is for everyone to have fun. Something which at the moment society doesn't seem to allow to happen As we go through stress after stress of everyday life, rarely stopping to watch our lives slip by as they do, we are told that this is modern life, that we shouldn't expect anything different let alone better. That is really what this blog is all about, trying to find a better, more relaxing, less bureaucratic way of life that keeps ones individual liberties intact.
Enjoy.
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