Blog of the Moment: Captain Capitalism

Haven't done one of these (or much real blogging in general) in a while (a long while), but hey, now I'm back baby! Found this guy during a video search on silver and then discovered his blog:

I'm already dead Blythe. 67% dead to be precise.

Like my stepdad who is about 90%, I also realized that I am on the opposite side of 50%. My family's genetics is not that great. Nearly every male has died of cancer, alcoholism or stroke, and if any of us Clarey's make it past 60 it's a god damned miracle. And thus at 40, I'm 67% dead.

This permits me a huge amount of levity, freedom, and intellectual honesty because I no longer have to care. Naturally, the fact I have no children allows me this levity, but in the end, it is a benefit. My time on this planet is for the majority, over. And since I have no children I have no long term vested interest in it or what happens to it. So I'm allowed the precious gift of merely watching it without the attachment or concern that most of you other people have to it.

I enjoy people suffering. I enjoy people suffering their mistakes. I enjoy watching the limitless single moms and dead beat dads of my generation try to scramble and salvage their lives that are beyond repair as they live vicariously through their underperforming children. I enjoy the liberal arts majors PANICALLY realizing their financial lives are fucked.

It's great! I cannot think of a better, more poetic justice and gift that life could grant me.-The Benefit of the 67% Dead Club

Captain Capitalism

Blog of the Moment: Judy Morris Report - Real News for Real People

Republicans will opine that their presidential candidate was flawed. In reality, it's the Republican message that is deeply flawed. Yeah, Mitt Romney was a flip-flopping candidate but that's not unusual with the political class. What really sunk the GOP Tuesday night is the total lack of a viable message to solve big problems combined with social conservatives who scare voters away.

Moving forward, I do believe that the conservative movement has an awesome opportunity to rebuild the party and get rid of its destructive elitist command and control hierarchy that is arrogant and clueless beyond belief. I also believe that there is an energized youth movement to get the Republican Party back on track by advocating for less federal powers, less spending, less war and less civil liberty crushing legislation like the Patriot Act and NDAA. The District of Crime has become a feeding trough for voracious corporatist pigs gorging on tax dollars as well as a gargantuan symbol of the concentration of wealth and power.

Winning the future and winning the hearts and minds of the people by advocating for peace, liberty and prosperity absolutely requires shoveling out the filth, rot and decay that has destroyed American conservatism and infested the Republican Party with a fatal disease.

Losing isn't the worst thing that can happen. Losing should be a time for profound soul searching to figure out what has gone wrong and why. Losing can be replenishing, cleansing and ultimately a good thing. The Republican Party stands no chance of ever rising again until the day dawns when the GOP actually stands for something besides big government, big spending, big deficits, big piles of debt, big corporate welfare, big bankster bailouts and endless wars.-The Dawn of Hope: Time for GOP Soul Searching on Why it Failed

Judy Morris Report - Real News for Real People

blog of the moment: constructive destruction

king karl of the lowercase blogging kingdom has come close before, was rejected, then reconsidered, then rejected again. a poor fat man had a better chance at a dance than king karl, or so it appeared, until the veil was lifted from our eyes and the dazzling beauty of karl's mind was displayed in all its glory in the following post:

Extraverts are energized by interaction with others, so naturally the opportunity to interact with another gives them a reason to be happy. Thus, when being interrogated or interviewed by a "researcher" regarding preferences for human interaction and the happiness derived therefrom, the extravert will answer affirmatively in order to gain favor of the the immediate audience human, as well as the projected eventual audience of humans who may be interested in the "research." The extravert is biased toward declaring happiness, because that is both what the extravert wants to be true, and what the extravert is gambling on existentially: that every other human is extroverted, too, and is competing for the happiness maximum. Culturally, engaging with others and coming out on top is rewarded both implicitly and explicitly in America.

... Artifice, pretense and charade are rewarded in America, because Americans fear being "boring" or feeling bored. As a culture, Americans to a person despise "boring" things and people, and abhor being "bored." They demand excitement from the tiniest things.

And because Hollywood has told them they deserve and will receive excitement from such things as:

* A high-pressure job that creates pressure needlessly in order to keep high levels of tension among co-workers, to create an artificially competitive work environment based on fear of being 2d place. Like being Donald Trump's Apprentice, or a wannabe chef in some poncey Brit's kitchen.

A society created, blown up/grown/expanded/"progressed" by extraverts will naturally define the extravert view as the norm, as what's healthy, and will be suspicious of introverts, will expect introverts to do all the things the extravert does when behind closed doors.

American society labels introverts negatively because of this --

Categorically, extraverts are the more fucked-up human, and their obsession with "connection" to others (which always implies competition with those others, and a desire to be "best") makes them the more manipulative as well as more cowardly, while also being dichotomous about their powerful exhibitionist fetish. The dark human urges they can't really suppress successfully because they are so other-directed. They don't feel right experiencing ANYTHING alone. So anything done alone by anyone, it must be laden with the things that the extravert fears most.

Extraverts are the mass murderers, mass pedophiles, and organizers of social entities which work solely to promote and protect those violent sexual urges being given free rein.

American culture is run by such people.-sorry, but I don't like people

and so, though karl does capitalize the beginning of sentences, we here omit for dramatic purposes and in honor of non-conformity, the extroverted letters and name his blog our latest blog of the moment.

constructive destruction

Blog of the Moment: Mutualism.info

Mutualism.info

Explorations and expositions of the mutualist anarchist tradition

People frequently tell me that they have trouble understanding what mutualism is, and how it relates to the rest of the anarchist tradition. I can sympathize. Mutualism is, at once, the earliest form of the explicit, continuous anarchist tradition, and one of its newest variations. In between its first flowering and its most recent rediscovery, most of what we think of as the history and development of anarchism has occurred.

To call ourselves "mutualists" in the early 21st century is to take our place in a tradition which reaches back into the mid-19th century, the roots of which are the roots of the anarchist tradition, but the anarchist tradition has been rather ambivalent and forgetful about its roots, so rather than grounding the modern mutualist somewhere near the heart of the anarchist project, I think many of us feel we've climbed out onto a rather slender limb.

In the mutualist revival of the last ten years, mutualists have had to reach back to uncover and explain the original foundations and subsequent development of their traditions, and simultaneously show how this original anarchism responds to contemporary concerns. With the number of active mutualist theorists being small, and their backgrounds diverse, the natural division of that already-complex labor has given rise to at least two divergent trends in the revival.

The first, exemplified by Kevin Carson's work, is reconstructive, a fairly conscious attempt to stitch back together a number of the narrower tendencies which have formed as anarchism developed. It has naturally become a focus for "big tent" coalitions like the Alliance of the Libertarian Left. Because the historical mutualism which Carson most closely identifies may be best understood as the economic component of Benjamin R. Tucker's individualist anarchism, with its plumb-line focus on removing key monopolies, this mutualist tendency has emerged as a "free-market anti-capitalism."

The second tendency looks back to the earliest elements of the mutualist tradition, drawing on the extensive and largely neglected work of Proudhon, but also on influences (from Charles Fourier, Pierre Leroux, etc) which Proudhon did not fully integrate into his work, and on the work of a variety of writers from those early days of anarchism. It combines a sort of archaeological process of rediscovering mutualism's roots with attempts to refine, complete and update its early forms. My own "two-gun mutualism" is an example of this explicitly neo-Proudhonian mutualism.

Both tendencies share the sort of unfinished character you might expect from revivals of long-dormant traditions, which poses problems for us, accustomed as we tend to be to well-established ideologies, amenable to treatment in FAQ form. There is a lot of work to be done—researching, translating, interpreting and updating—before a lot of the most common questions about mutualism can be answered in anything like a definitive form, and before we know if the various revivalist tendencies are destined ultimately to converge or diverge.

To some extent, we can expect the definitive to continue to elude mutualism. Proudhon emphasized the fact that social progress is a matter of experimentation and approximation. While our principles—key among them the ethic of mutuality or reciprocity—may remain fixed, our contexts constantly change, so practical answers to our most frequently answered questions are likely to change as well. Hopefully, we will just get better at applying our principles, and gradually perhaps our questions and concerns will change.

In the meantime, however, there are some things that can be said with some degree of certainty, and some speculations that can be made on the basis of those basic principles. While I pursue more complex, conditional and partisan projects elsewhere, this blog will focus on those bits of truth and certainty that perhaps we can share now. My hope is that it will serve as a useful introduction as well, in the absence of the sort of certainty or presumptive authority of an FAQ.

-by Shawn P. Wilbur The Mutualist's Dilemma

Blog of the Moment: III Percent Patriots

Historians claim that perhaps 3 percent of Colonists took arms and fought the British.

Today, I am not sanguine that we have 3% of any subgroup in America willing to fight for Liberty.

But the title still represents that will, that mettle, grit and spirit to live as free men in a genuine state of Liberty.

By any means necessary.

III Percent Patriots





Here is the finest, most articulate quote I have ever read regarding what "Morality" meant to our Founding Generation: Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. That was from the same Thomas Jefferson who was fond of Sally.

If you condemn a society for sex between 13-15 year-old kids, you condemn all of mankind, for our eternal history, and you really have little understanding of basic human anatomy and biology. You want your boys to be acting like men by age 15 but your daughters to wait until their 20's to be women? If you think teen sex is the reason we are failing as a nation, or it is the fault of teen aged girls in tummy-shirts, you are so far from the X Ring I simply can not be bothered.

Am I endorsing sex between my soon-to-be-teen niece and some boy? Hell no. And I will go out of my way to prevent it. I have a shovel just for the occasion. I already have the quiet little patch of woods picked for a fresh patch of daisies. But I also realize the base nature of the Human Animal - it's brain wiring, folks.

"Morality" is not infringing the equal rights of others.

Raise your family the way you see fit. Liberty is letting the other family do as they see fit - so long as the equal rights of others are not being infringed.-Moral Stupidity and the Realities of the Human Animal

Blog of the Moment: Childfreedom

Childfreedom

Musings on the Childfree Lifestyle and our Child-Centric Society



100 Reasons Not to Have Kids

1. You will be happier and less likely to suffer from depression.
2. (Assuming you get married), you will have a happier marriage.
3. You will have the capacity and time for meaningful, engaged, quality adult relationships.
4. You will be able to save for a comfortable retirement.
5. You are more likely to be an engaged and involved aunt or uncle because you are not jaded and worn down by your own kids.
6. You can fully pursue and develop your career.
7. You can fully pursue your educational goals.
8. You can decorate your home as you wish with as many beautiful and/or breakable things as you wish and you will not have to child-proof your house.
9. Your house will be free of junky, plastic kindercrap.
10. Your spouse will get all the love and attention he/she deserves. You will come first in your spouse/partner's life.
11. Your pets will get all the love and attention they deserve.
12. You can eat whatever foods you wish at whatever time of the day you wish out in the open, whether it be a gourmet, exotic meal, or chocolate chip cookies.
13. You never have to yell, scold, correct or punish anyone (assuming your spouse and pets are well-behaved ;)
14. Your home will be a quiet and welcoming oasis, instead of a chaotic zoo. -from The Top 100 Reasons Not to Have Kids (and Remain Childfree) where you can read the rest of the 100 reasons.

Childfreedom

Blog of the Moment: The Graphic Visigoth!

Plundering the Arrogance of Empire!

The Graphic Visigoth!

Blog of the Moment: Gun-Toting Atheist

I've promised you more Blogs of the Moment (I least I think I have) so let's get this party started! Where's the beer?



Gun-Toting Atheist

Apparently I have to be treated like a common criminal and show ID when I want to buy alcohol. Thank you, government, for protecting me from myself, what would I do without you? Mind you, I am quite flattered when a cute 18-year-old cashier asks for my ID, this means I still look hot and young enough to be able to date women her age, which is awesome, and good for my self-esteem. Or maybe she is just trying to memorize my street address, in which case I have a hot stalker. Sweet. But the fact that this is a government-mandated verification is annoying. I can brew my own beer in my kitchen with just barley, hops and water, and maybe I should stick to that instead of submitting myself to the obnoxious ID verification ritual. If this were Canada, they probably wouldn't even ask for my ID, because the drinking age is still 18 over there, and they really don't care that much about enforcing it. The Prohibition was arguably the stupidest, most idiotic thing any government in the history of humanity has ever done. It was more retarded than the god-damn Spanish Inquisition. I should be able to buy beer without showing ID. I don't give a crap if your stupid 16-year old kids are going to drink and crash their POS car into a tree. To hell with your stupid kids; I just want to buy some god-damn beer without being treated like an Auschwitz inmate. What the hell do you think is going to happen if -god forbid- I get my hands on a six-pack of Sam Adams Boston Lager without -gasp!- showing ID? Is the whole world going to come to a fiery end? Get over yourselves, and I hope you trip and fall from your stupid moral high ground and break your weakling little legs, you fools! It's just bloody beer, for crying out loud. I really, really, really want to use the f-word right now. God! I SO want to use that stupid word right now.-The booze police state

Blog of the Moment: Fluent In 3 Months

Have you ever wanted to learn a foreign language? I have piles of Spanish language learning books, tapes, CDs and manuals to prove I've made a half-hearted effort to learn a language. I don't think I'll ever succeed because I think I'm linguistically disabled and genetically pre-disposed to be monolingual. My dad has been trying to learn Spanish for 40 years and hasn't gotten past knowing a few common words and phrases. Why has he attempted this over and over again (every once in a while he'll go on a Spanish binge and break out all his accumulated language materials, only to put them away again after another failed try to make progress)? Because his mother was Mexican and didn't pass the language to her children, so he's been trying to get it back ever since. I know what you're going to say "He's not doing it right", but that misses the point. Not doing it proper is part of our family history. It's a disease. We can't help it.

Which is why I'm not worried about the increasing use of Spanish in America. More and more jobs in our service oriented economy are in need of bilingual English/Spanish workers to fill them. Which gives you an edge if you speak both languages. So why am I not worried? First, I have a Spanish-speaking girlfriend, and I'll eventually fall back on her to bring home the bacon if I have to, but second, I have that language disability, so I'm going to use the ADA to keep any job I have if they ever dare to even hint at letting me go because I can't communicate (except in caveman style) with half the customers.

Which brings me to our Blog of the Moment!




Fluent In 3 Months

Written by Benny Lewis, self-described "polygot", the blog is frequently updated and full of helpful language learning stuff. And when he says "3 months" he means it! This is fast language skills acquisition we're talking! There's even a forum for others success stories. It's just too bad I'm disabled and unable to take advantage. Oh, well.

Blog/Anti-Blog of the Moment

Perhaps I should explain. Here at SE, we have a (somewhat neglected in recent months) feature called Blog of the Moment, but for a while now I've wanted to add an "anti-blog" of the moment for truly horrific blogs (not just "bad" blogs, as there are an endless supply of those).

Well, yesterday, visiting good friend Bret Alan's (and past Blog of the Moment winner) Anything But Theist, I, on a whim, visited his wife's blog, Abandoning Eden and happened upon the comments at this post: Five years . There, someone calling themselves the "jewish philosopher" left a comment, with a response from another blogger called "Philo" in which Philo calls jp "The psychopath".

After viewing jp's insane rantings, I came to the conclusion that does an injustice to psychopaths. The fool's name is Jacob Stein, and he is a crazy, fundamentalist Jew. In addition to all of his other craziness, he recently launched an attack (there is no other way to describe it) on another Jewish blogger calling himself The Atheist Rabbi.

You can read the insanity here:
http://jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com/2012/01/atheist-rabbi.html

The Jewish Psychopath writes:

I came across this week a blog entitled The Atheist Rabbi. The blog is almost entirely devoted to denigrating anyone who believes in God.

Oh boo hoo! God believing theistards (I use that term not to describe all theists, as there are kind and intelligent ones) can dish it out, but they just can't take it! Besides which, as many pointed out in comments there, The Atheist Rabbi is far more magnanimous than described by the psycho.

He seems particularly upset that the AR is gay and dares call himself a rabbi.

He is openly homosexual and resides with his male partner.

...

I have never written a post about another blog before, however I am making an exception in this case. I believe that it is an incredible insult to the rabbinate for an individual like this to claim to be a rabbi. If he simply called himself "Mr" I wouldn't give him a second thought. The Internet is loaded with liars, lunatics, perverts, scumbags and so on of all stripes. That's nothing noteworthy. However I do feel the need to protest when one calls himself "rabbi".

He then goes on to ask:

What's next - "The Neo-Nazi Rabbi"? "The Islamic Terrorist Rabbi"?

"Protest" or expressing a negative opinion is one thing, outright harassment is another, and that's basically what this scumbag did, in publishing as much personal info on AR he could find. He might make the claim he is only giving out what's already publicly available, but to what purpose? Obviously to harass and get others to do the same. We can conclude as much by what the victim states:

As for my employers, whose details you also published and to whom you sent an e-mail about me, they are fully aware of my blog and I have a disclaimer on it.

AR responded with a post of his own: My Open Letter To Jacob Stein, "The Jewish Philosopher"


So, our Blog of the Moment is: The Atheist Rabbi


And our first Anti-blog of the Moment is Jewish Philosopher

To be as fair as possible to jp, he does at least seem to publish all comments.

Blog of the Moment: CENSORED NEWS

Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights


CENSORED NEWS

Why did Facebook freeze content that was tagged for me to post and tagged for me to share? Facebook said I had violated its policies. Since I have no idea what policy I violated (and really couldn't care less) I took a look back at my most controversial posts from a week ago.

Possibly, Facebook didn't appreciate the ACLU article, "The Social Network is Stalking You."

...

But really, there was so much police abuse of peaceful protesters across the nation about one week ago, that any of the following posts could have been sufficient to trigger Big Brother slamming my Facebook content into ice-chest mode.-Facebook Freezes my Content: Lets Have a Look

Blog of the Moment: ALL THE BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK

An attempt to draw all the buildings in New York by James Gulliver Hancock,
an illustrator originally from Australia currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

The Chrysler Building



ALL THE BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK








Shine Like the Top of the Chrysler Building!

In the classic musical Annie there's a great line imitating Miss Hannigan during the "Hard-Knock Life" number that I always think of when I'm mopping the house:"You'll stay up until this floor shines like the top of the Chrysler Building." The image of how that landmark sparkles in the skyline is actually a great motivator for me.-Casa Quickie: Shine Like the Top of the Chrysler Building

Tallest building in the world (May 1930-April 1931)

Blog of the Moment: AnonOps Communications

We are fighters for internet freedom. This site is only dedicated to reporting news about Anonymous

The digital vigilante groups Anonymous and LulzSec, it seems, plan to teach News Corp. a thing or two about hacking.

Just a day after the arrest of Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of New Corp.’s British subsidiary and editor of its The Sun newspaper for phone hacking charges, the hacker groups took credit Monday for defacing the paper’s website to redirect to a fake homepage (archived here) that claimed its owner, News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch, had died of a drug overdose.-Rupert Murdoch Dead

On the same day that a major human rights organization issued a scathing report on Bush-era prisoner abuses, the United Nations alleged that the United States had violated a "long-standing" rule meant to prevent the torture of prisoners, by denying an official access to Pvt. Bradley Manning, the lone soldier accused of turning over secret documents to WikiLeaks.

Juan Mendez, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on torture, criticized the U.S. government for preventing a meeting with Manning, meant to ascertain whether the conditions of the soldier's confinement constituted torture. He insisted that an unmonitored meeting is standard practice around the world.

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, that's something even Bush officials permitted for their alleged high value al Qaeda detainees, but Manning seems to be a special case for the Obama administration.-U.N. says U.S. broke torture rule in denying access to Manning

Message from Anonymous: Operation Manning




AnonOps Communications

Blog of the Moment: Calvin's Canadian Cave Of Cool

I learn all I can on every subject that interests me. I especially enjoy ancient history because in the past there are valuable lessons to be found. Also, if I ever get my time machine to work properly, it would be good to know a bit about possible destinations and what to expect when I get there.

Calvin's Canadian Cave Of Cool

Blog of the Moment: Say No To Life

Once again, a man has ejaculated into the vagina of a woman and, lo and behold, nine months later a helpless screaming creature is discharged into the world. And we are all meant to feel joy at this? We are supposed to congratulate the progenitors? Worse again, society appears ready to grant superior moral status to those that have reproduced over those who have not.

...

I sometimes wonder if the pleased expression on the faces of parents comes from the fact that apart from semen and eggs they’ve also discharged their existential burden. They no longer need worry about purpose and meaning. They’ve escaped from angst, however, in the worst possible way: by dumping the burden on someone else, ie. their offspring.-Buggy-Pushers


Say No To Life

Blog of the Moment: Drug War Rant

In political terms, the tortured analogy is often used because the ignorant (or the one preaching to the ignorant) would rather not addresss the actual facts of the issue and so tries to make the issue itself seem ridiculous to short-circuit real discussion.

We see this in drug policy a lot.

“If you want to legalize drugs, why don’t you just go ahead and legalize rape while you’re at it?”

It’s a classic tortured analogy misdirection. Of course, my favorite response to that is a rather facetious “If you don’t know the difference between drugs and rape, you’re not going to get invited to the good parties.”

All of us know why that’s a tortured analogy. It’s an attempt to avoid any real discussion of the issues. Drug transactions are consensual, rape is not. Drugs are demand commodities; rape is not. If you arrest a drug dealer, it creates an immediate job opening caused by demand, so the net effect of the arrest is an increase in drug dealers, whereas if you arrest a rapist, you get the rapist off the street, and it doesn’t result in a demand for new rapists. The illegality of drugs makes them so valuable that corruption in law enforcement and other areas inevitably ensues; the illegality of rape doesn’t make rape valuable.

These things are completely incomparable.-Tortured Analogies


Drug War Rant

Blog of the Moment: Forever In Hell

This could've been just a Post of the Moment, or a link post to discuss issues surrounding credit scores and the evils of wage slavery, but I think the blog as a whole as earned something more, our highest blogging award here at SE.

Good credit scores are for the wealthy, the healthy and the lucky. If you're poor, you don't have a good credit score. You couldn't. You will pay your bills late, and if you've been poor more than 6 months, you know exactly how long each utility will wait before shutting you off- and you pay your bills accordingly. I've heard the advice not to get a credit card, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Gas has gone up, electricity has gone up, water has gone up, food prices have skyrocketed, but you know what hasn't gone up? Wages.

More and more people are living one paycheck away from absolute ruin and part of the problem is credit scores. It wouldn't do me much good to finish college, because I couldn't pass a credit check anyway.

And what's the logic? I have no idea. There's no correlation that I could find between poor job performance and poor credit, and what sort of people do they think are desperate to get a bank teller position paying a little over minimum wage?

It's just another way to keep the boot of the plutocracy to my throat and make sure I, and millions more like me, don't ever climb one rung up the ladder.-Keeping the Boot on Your Throat, One Policy at a Time

Forever In Hell

I know from personal experience what it's like to find yourself suddenly unemployed (happened to me a few years ago) and without any savings to rely on to get you through, because, how can you save any money when each paycheck disappears before you've barely had a chance to hold the phony Federal Reserve Notes in your hands?

As for credit cards, face it, the banks are pond scum, in numerous ways, from the criminal interest rates they charge, to their practices when it comes to people unable to pay the bills. Do I use credit cards? Sure, but I'd rather not. I like having one just for emergencies, but find myself forced instead to use them to make it to the next paycheck, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get to my slave job in the first place, because I wouldn't be able to put gas in my car.

Blog of the Moment: Kent's "Hooligan Libertarian" Blog

Osama bin Laden is/was a despicable, evil man, but unlike Obama, he never threatened my liberty in any way. I know who the real terrorists are and I will not be distracted by silly charades. I'll await the next move.-Osama/Obama

Kent's "Hooligan Libertarian" Blog

Blog of the Moment: Pure and Simple

The way I see it, life is too short to waste on hollow trivia. Never have I wanted my children to equate success in life with mere academic achievement – though they’ve all tested off the charts. But I do want them to gain true wisdom and understanding of life issues that matter most.

I would far rather see them grow up to be a heroic character like, say, Forrest Gump, than any academic snob. In the world’s eyes, Forrest would be considered an idiot, and yet he is courage and honesty personified.-The Sky Is…


Love the fact that she mentions the great John Taylor Gatto in that post.


Pure and Simple

Blog of the Moment: A Division by Zer0

You will not dismantle authoritarianism with more authoritarianism, any more than you would oppress towards freedom!

I hate to repeat myself but “This is Anarchism 101 people!“. Your tactics colour your end results. If your tactics are authoritarian, then naturally the end result will not be anarchism. It might be state “socialism” that would oppress the whole working class on behalf of a new bureaucratic ruling class, or something else to that extent. If your tactics are all about violence and killing those you deem to be your enemies, then your end result will be a violent society (will it be socialistic? Who knows. Perhaps in name but probably it would end up as simple warlordism).

[...]


When you have declared that the only possible solution is to kill your opposition, anyone who would check yours tactics is an opponent and needs to be killed (which is incidentally why the Angry Marxists are chock full of violent rhetoric). When you have declared that the only possible solution is to oppress the “reactionaries”, anyone who disagrees with this tactic is a reactionary that needs to be oppressed. It’s a self-perpetuating circle, with those who self-proclaim themselves the most radical at the top, controlling the state violence and labeling people as counter-revolutionary deserving a bad end. In sort, soon enough you’ll be repeating the Soviet Union purges of the early 20th century.

And this is why Anarchism gets so much hatred from the Angry Marxists and other Authoritarians like them. Because even though we agree on the end result and we are struggling to bring about the liberation of all oppressed classes (by the classes themselves), we do not support the same tactics. And not supporting the same tactics for an Angry Marxist is the pinnacle of betrayal. For the Angry Marxist’s tactics have been declared the only liberatory ones, therefore not following those tactics is not liberatory, therefore you are supporting the continued oppression, therefore you are a reactionary, therefore you need to be “shot in the neck and thrown in a ditch”.-Authority from your enemies does not justify Authority coming from you.

A Division by Zer0