By Cake Boy
Preston somewhere talked about the architecture of his thinking. I liked this idea and wrote this text to explain the architecture of Cake Boy’s political thought.
The ontological framework of my thinking is European existentialist thought. Let’s put it this way: This tradition always inspired me the most. I believe we humans are free—radically free. I believe we have free will, which means we are responsible for our deeds. Some of us understand the weight of this. Others do not.
When we look at political subjects, I think politically in the direction of the Enlightenment tradition. The systems that are credible and acceptable are, in my view, social democracy, classical liberalism, social liberalism, and Georgism.
Another pillar of my thinking is free speech absolutism. So, I want there to be free speech in these systems I named above.
I’m also in favor of the freedom to bear arms, as people can do in America. Because people should be able to defend themselves against all kinds of ambitious tyrants. In Europe, this is seen as a radical position.
According to issues around war, I’m in favor of nonintervention policies. I’m against capitalist or Marxist imperialism.
Anarchism:
I see anarchism (in its political form, In its constructive/economic form), as a radical Enlightment system. I see it as the new proposal, and I see it as a futurism. It’s a futurism because it’s not fully developed yet. It’s something that still has to discover itself and become realistic. You could say it has to grow up and crystalize. A movement like social democracy is already integrated into the culture. Everyone here knows what it is, and everyone has opinions on it. The same goes for neoliberalism. This is not the case for anarchism.
When we look at anarchism, mutualism, Boston anarchism, and modern pluralist anarchism (which are more or less the same theories) are the most logical forms of anarchism. I think anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communism are both too extreme. Anarchism as a pluralism would have the most potential success.
Although I draw inspiration from the Enlightenment, I’m very much interested in spiritual/religious traditions. This might be a contradiction, but I see these stories and traditions as valuable. I’m not a science absolutist. I think we humans need symbols to understand ourselves and each other.
All these texts I wrote are intended to make my thoughts about anarchism as clear as possible. I wrote this text to outline for myself what are, more or less, my viewpoints.
In a way, my political and philosophical outlook is pretty strange. Although I have an existentialist foundation, I see modernist/classical liberal political systems as the most logical way of organizing the masses.
