hadabusa wrote:
andyh wrote:
hadabusa wrote:
try to explain that to the florida face biting canibal or to the luka magnotta guy
And therein you have your 90% of the conspiracy hada.
Just stupid people.
There are a few small examples of 'conspiracy' so to speak but to grand overarching domination of every aspect of our lives....YET

my dad recently said "if everyone were wealthy, people would spit eachother into their faces from over balconys".
have you watched or read "american psycho"?
the authors message was the same.
there are many un honourable folks out there, and there are many insane folks out there.
anarchy might be possible in a world where everyone has plenty off everything
but the wrold is very far from that state currently.
we live in a soft time where veryone is spoiled and feels entitled to many things.
if somme people didnt get justice bc there is no law, some would take justice into own hands etc etc
Well Marxism is predicated on it - capitalism achieves the productive capacity that facilitates socialism - you have to go through capitalism to come out the other side. Put a spanner in those works when less economically developed countries had revolutions while advanced economies either didn't or went fascist. Though to be fair we might be living in the time right now where Marx is proved right about capitalism collapsing under its own contradictions. It's just the fallout might not be as cheery as he'd hoped for.
I see anarchism as a state of mind thing. I can't stand those guys who sit around discussing Kropotkin forever. To me it's about realising you don't really need bosses and people can achieve a lot by just working together for mutual advantage. I see it as thinking co-operatively in a dynamic way.
It's like we all need food, shelter, clothes, recreation etc - why the fuck don't we engineer things to cater for everybody's needs, but instead let half the world starve while others fly around in private jets. It makes no sense to me why we let it happen. Well it is - it's because we just accept it because we're told it's the order of things. To me it's about breaking out of those assumptions about the way things are. Maybe nothing ever changes, but it's certain nothing will unless people believe it can.
Anarchists/socialists/communists never got their way in the UK, but they helped force reform to keep people pacified. Getting the NHS, shorter working hours, union rights and all that stuff made life better for ordinary people. Then we all fell asleep and its being taken away step by step. You may never get what you're aiming for, but pushing back can be worth it if you win improvements for people. Aim high, and you'll probably get further.