Comments | inibo: It boils down to either/or

inibo

It boils down to either/or

Oct 16, 2010 11:17

Monopoly "public" government is violence.

It boils down to night and day ("black and white" is too loaded):

The initiation of violence for political purposes is either moral and ethical or it is not.

If you say it is you are an enemy of all peaceful people who have done no violence to you. You are an enemy of freedom and individual and collective ( Read more... )

agorism, politics

Comments 6

i October 16 2010, 15:40:52 UTC

you're not polemical in the slightest.

As John Lennon once said.. inibo October 16 2010, 15:50:23 UTC

Oh, I don't care.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emi1wf1q6os#t=1m13s

abomvubuso October 16 2010, 21:38:09 UTC

Agorism sounds like an intriguing... utopia. Will look some more into it.

kanra_izaya October 16 2010, 22:09:57 UTC

It is not a Utopia so much as other versions of Anarchism can be. It subverts monopoly and denies the argument, "Man is not an angel, therefore we must make him into a ruler," for the contradiction that it is. It is more of a black market philosophy than the traditional "Everyone will realize that the world is really made of love and peace."

inibo October 17 2010, 02:14:41 UTC

Where's the "Like" button when you really need it?

inibo October 17 2010, 01:26:22 UTC

The Wikipedia article on it is pretty good.

But this is really the place to start:
http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/nlm/nlm1.html

I'll be honest Samuel Edward Konkin III's presentation did not really impress me at first. It has a kind of 1960s non-Marxist Left stridency about it that rubbed me the wrong way. Issues of style aside he makes consistent and coherent philosophical, economic and political arguments that are pretty persuasive for someone like me who is neither a philosopher, economist nor politician.