Comments on: Are You a True Revolutionary or a Couch Rebel? http://attackthesystem.com/2009/10/are-you-a-true-revolutionary-or-a-couch-rebel/ Pan-secessionism against the empire Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:03:07 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Peter BP http://attackthesystem.com/2009/10/are-you-a-true-revolutionary-or-a-couch-rebel/comment-page-1/#comment-1998 Peter BP Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:13:55 +0000 http://attackthesystem.com/?p=2172#comment-1998 Hello Quagmire, I tend to agree, and it is humurously paradoxial that while the left anarchists (i'll spare you the sneer quotes :) rejectthe state on one hand, they not only buy into the socialist state mentality in regards to economics, but as such accept and even *condone* a equality-through-redistribution mindset that is a major fundament of the state as it exists in the west today! It boggles the mind. And you are on point in regards to the coporations; what leftists of so many varieties broadly fail to understand is that a corporation is a artificial person with privileges *granted by state*. Take that away, and they are merely big business, though likely not for long, as eventual market and legal pressure would soon erode them down to the ground. Hello Quagmire,

I tend to agree, and it is humurously paradoxial that while the left anarchists (i’ll spare you the sneer quotes :) rejectthe state on one hand, they not only buy into the socialist state mentality in regards to economics, but as such accept and even *condone* a equality-through-redistribution mindset that is a major fundament of the state as it exists in the west today! It boggles the mind.

And you are on point in regards to the coporations; what leftists of so many varieties broadly fail to understand is that a corporation is a artificial person with privileges *granted by state*. Take that away, and they are merely big business, though likely not for long, as eventual market and legal pressure would soon erode them down to the ground.

]]> By: Quagmire http://attackthesystem.com/2009/10/are-you-a-true-revolutionary-or-a-couch-rebel/comment-page-1/#comment-1982 Quagmire Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:13:59 +0000 http://attackthesystem.com/?p=2172#comment-1982 I think the left-anarchists' revulsion at the thought of anarcho-capitalism is due to their profound economic ignorance. Blindly accepting the state-socialist view of markets, they view the market itself as fundamentally evil and the state as a neccessary populist counterbalance to said evil. They remain ignorant of the fact that the presently existing system (which they mistake as lazzie faire) is entirely dependant upon a massive amount of state intervention for sustinence. Thus, when they hear the term "anarcho-capitalism" their initial reaction is one of revulsion, envisioning a sort of 19th century robber baron tyranny. This, of course, ignores the truth that the statist roots of corporate hegemony would be entirely absent in an anarcho-capitalist society. I think the left-anarchists’ revulsion at the thought of anarcho-capitalism is due to their profound economic ignorance. Blindly accepting the state-socialist view of markets, they view the market itself as fundamentally evil and the state as a neccessary populist counterbalance to said evil. They remain ignorant of the fact that the presently existing system (which they mistake as lazzie faire) is entirely dependant upon a massive amount of state intervention for sustinence. Thus, when they hear the term “anarcho-capitalism” their initial reaction is one of revulsion, envisioning a sort of 19th century robber baron tyranny. This, of course, ignores the truth that the statist roots of corporate hegemony would be entirely absent in an anarcho-capitalist society.

]]> By: Peter BP http://attackthesystem.com/2009/10/are-you-a-true-revolutionary-or-a-couch-rebel/comment-page-1/#comment-1980 Peter BP Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:46:20 +0000 http://attackthesystem.com/?p=2172#comment-1980 I think somebody wrote a book with 50 suggestions on the topic. Else you have WIkipedia, which can be your personal Final Timesink. (For entertainment there, engage the left-anarchists is discussion on why anarcho-capitalism is a valid branch of anarchism. You'll be hard pressed to find a more severe mental apeshit than the reaction to said assertion.) I think somebody wrote a book with 50 suggestions on the topic.

Else you have WIkipedia, which can be your personal Final Timesink.

(For entertainment there, engage the left-anarchists is discussion on why anarcho-capitalism is a valid branch of anarchism. You’ll be hard pressed to find a more severe mental apeshit than the reaction to said assertion.)

]]> By: Jeremy http://attackthesystem.com/2009/10/are-you-a-true-revolutionary-or-a-couch-rebel/comment-page-1/#comment-1979 Jeremy Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:24:42 +0000 http://attackthesystem.com/?p=2172#comment-1979 I find the harder question to be: if you're a genuine revolutionary, what do you do until the rebellion, the secession, or whatever happens? I find the harder question to be: if you’re a genuine revolutionary, what do you do until the rebellion, the secession, or whatever happens?

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