[LAF] LAF Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3

Wed Nov 11 03:01:01 UTC 2009

Well said....

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>    1. Why I am an anarchist - aka - Re: The
> Last Post: Why I am No
>       Longer An Anarchist (VolodyA! V
> Anarhist)
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> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:17:25 +0300
> From: "VolodyA! V Anarhist" <Volodya at WhenGendarmeSleeps.org>
> Subject: [LAF] Why I am an anarchist - aka - Re: The Last
> Post: Why I
>     am No Longer An Anarchist
> To: Ed McArthur <antines at yahoo.co.uk>,
>     List - London Anarchist Forum
>     <laf at lists.aktivix.org>
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> I wish to say that in the recent couple of years i have
> started becoming more 
> and more of an anarchist. Currently i am at the point where
> i am no longer 
> afraid to disclose such a fact publically, regardless of
> the audience, because 
> it is an intrisic part of my identity as an individual,
> and, until i'll achieve 
> enlightenment and stop being alone and become one, me not
> being an anarchist 
> would be a de-facto suicide.
> 
> Why i am an anarchist?
> 
> 1.
> 
> Anarchy is the only practical solution to most of the
> world's *root* problems. 
> While there exist hierarchical approaches which work
> "better" or "faster" than 
> non-hierarchical and anarchist ones, they often create more
> problems than they 
> stamp out. A good example of this is censorship of Nazis,
> after the factual Nazi 
> take over of the German government, anti-nationalists could
> only publish their 
> literature on the printing presses that would publish nazi
> propaganda. It was 
> only after the public accepted the censorship laws
> (something Nazi state was 
> very fond of) that opposition to Nazism was all but
> destoyed.
> 
> But practicality extends into "day to day" existance, as
> can be seen by the 
> Right To Be Lazy approach, where people oppose the more
> hierarchical approach of 
> the "right to work". Needless to point out that even
> capitalists and statists 
> notice the productivity increase when people become lazy,
> the problem for them 
> is that the ideology of laziness actually prevents them
> from gaining control 
> over the creative and productive process, and thus they are
> very willing to 
> sacrifice productivity for the sake of the power and
> control.
> 
> 2.
> 
> Anarchy is copatible with my spiritual and physical
> beliefs. Actually to tell 
> you the truth it's almost the other way around, my
> spiritual beliefs often 
> complement my political ones. While i do admit that if
> somebody were to prove to 
> me that there is no cause-effect (karma) law in the world
> around us, i would 
> still try to stay consistent with my goals, but so far
> nobody has managed to 
> provide me any proof that my experiences are somehow false
> and that effect can 
> arrise without the cause. As such there can never be a free
> society which has 
> been built through tyrany of the state.
> 
> 3.
> 
> Anarchy is non-violent. True there are many anarchists who
> like violence. And 
> true, i myself believe that there are times when people are
> put in a situation 
> where they have (almost) no choice left to them but to use
> violence. However, in 
> comparison even with the most "liberal" cop, an anarchist
> is a saint. There are 
> numerous statistics which show how many people are killed
> by the cops *in 
> error*, and there is nothing that is being changed in the
> system of policing to 
> prevent that in the future; however, when during some riots
> a minority of 
> anarchists hurl rocks in such a way that they can
> potentially (or sometimes 
> actually) hurt some bystanders, that does get discussed,
> and future organising 
> is different.
> 
> 4.
> 
> Anarchy is "today". Anarchy is not something that will
> exist in the far future, 
> it is today's reality of interaction with people that you
> know and meet. No 
> political party, and no political organisation deals with
> the issues as broad as 
> Anarchy. You can discuss the relation of anarchy with age,
> gender, sex, race, 
> nationality, citizenship, spoken language, disability, etc.
> and each of those 
> discussion will only diversify the understanding of the
> anarchist movement and 
> allow one to see the relation of anarchy to the daily
> existance.
> 
> A long time ago, when i have meat a first other person who
> called oneself 
> "anarchist" (in real life not over the internet). I have
> told about the 
> interesting fact that when somebody asks me "Do you want an
> apple?" i think of 
> the future consequences of my answer, and this person told
> me that i wasn't the 
> only one like that. I would say most anarchists tend to
> personalise their 
> politics to a great extent and live them today... as a
> lifestyle.
> 
> 5.
> 
> Anarchy is constantly evolving. Ok, it doesn't quite evolve
> as fast as i 
> sometimes want to, and there are many things that we (and
> that includes myself) 
> cling to, which slows us down. But Anarchy has this
> potential to evolve and to 
> create a revolutionary movement withing its own self. With
> the few (very sad) 
> exceptions, no anarchist will claim to understand the
> relations between 
> individuals and of the whole society completely; there is
> always room for 
> growth, and there are always anarchists who will challange
> you and expect to be 
> challanged back.
> 
> 6.
> 
> Anarchy implies consensus. I didn't realise how important
> it was for me until i 
> have been in two different prison abolition groups, one of
> them operated by the 
> simple majority, another by consensus. And while i still
> often feel like an 
> outsider, consensus allows me to view myself as relevant to
> that group; and the 
> decisions which are achieved by taking into account
> everybody's ideas and 
> feelings need not be "enforced", which frees the creative
> process of the 
> individuals.
> 
> 
> There are probably significantly more points here that i'm
> missing. I have not 
> prepared this letter, i have simply written out what i
> think.
> 
> I'm also interested to hear thoughts of other participants
> of London Anarchist 
> Forum.
> 
>               - VolodyA!
> V Anarhist
> 
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