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favorite anarchistic philosopher

Discussion in 'Anarchism and radical activism' started by stinagen, Apr 18, 2010.

  1. ozf

    ozf Member Forum Member


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    oh and my favourite philosopher is Nietzsche, whether he's an anarchist is arguable, but his works are very interesting.
     
  2. NGNM85

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    Not to be a dick but emotions do exist physically. They are chemical and electrical processes inside our brains. However, the point is noted, on this we are agreed.

    Interesting. This kind of reminds me of Anarcho-Capitalist ideas about contracts. (I disagree on some key ideological points, but sometimes there's something interesting.) Specifically a bit by Stefan Molyneaux on a dispute between Texaco and the people of Ecuador. Texaco had a deal with the politicians releasing them of any responsibility. The lawyers for the corporation seized on this fact, and the representative for the Ecuadorians living in the contested rainforest said; "That was an agreement between the government and Texaco. We were not party to that agreement, and we're not bound by that agreement."
    There's a certain beautiful, fundamental logic to that.

    On the other hand, do we actually have to take a consensus to agree murder is wrong? Or rape? First of all, there are some very obvious practical reasons why certain behaviors should be discouraged. I mean, imagine a society where everyone lied all of the time, civilization would break down. I hear what you're saying, but I think it's sufficient as is.

    I don't see how so. As I interpret what you're saying everyone would just have to generally agree what the rights are, which I think most people do, that doesn't exclude the aforementioned individuals who acknowledge as much, but don't care.

    I'd say it is the case, it's just these rights are deliberately violated on a regular basis.

    Relax. What I meant to say is you kind of have to because if you don't, then you sort of have to disown right and wrong which eliminates any motivation to care either way. I was actually saying you can't be a nihilist.

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    I think this really is an issue of theory versus reality.
     
  3. butcher

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    Human Rights are the central tenet of Liberalism. And we can see how fucking fantastically that's working!

    It sure is, like arguing that ppl with a different skin colour deserve to die.
    Fighting the fuckers who put fwd these ideas is thus anti-authoritarian, and helps foster a social environment where free and open political debate can actually occur.
     
  4. AnarchoFem

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    I pretty much agree with you, what I think is that in an ideal society we would all listen to each other's viewpoint and that would be great. However, that's not really an option in today's society, because in doing so often innocent people get harmed (i.e. with Nazis), then I think fuck that. Preventing innocent people from getting hurt is more important in my opinion, on a scale of importance. And if stopping people getting hurt...means violating somebody's "rights" then I'd do it and I'd be surprised if people here wouldn't.
     
  5. ozf

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    Yeah, I realise this is quite an idealistic view :( but oh well :p
    And yeah i totally agree that in theory and practice, we will most probably act differently to what we want if the necessity arises.
    but i was more focused on freedom of speech more than freedom of action lol
     
  6. AtomicKhaos

    AtomicKhaos Experienced Member Experienced member Forum Member


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    Freedom of Speech is for EVERYONE!!!!!!

    Enough said.
     
  7. AnarchoFem

    AnarchoFem Experienced Member Experienced member Forum Member


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    I personally think very few things are as black and white as that. Would you still be saying it was for everyone, if you knew that by allowing certain people speak you are putting other people's lives in danger??
     
  8. dwtcos

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    Agreed 100%
     
  9. AnarchoFem

    AnarchoFem Experienced Member Experienced member Forum Member


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    This is the WSM, an Irish anarchist organisation's position paper on "No platform for fascists" which i think explains the freedom of speech issue well.

    1. As anarchists, we believe that there should be a right to free speech, to organise, and to freely express political opinions; and that such rights are extremely important. These rights, however, are not inalienable and there are very limited occasions on which they should be curbed.

    2. There is a distinct difference between the right to free speech and the right to organise. Racist comments and ideas should be challenged and opposed, but a distinction must be drawn between this and incitement to violence/active recruitment to fascist organisations.

    3. Attempts by fascist groups to recruit members to fascism cannot be tolerated by an anarchist organisation. If such groups are not smashed when they are small, they will inevitably grow to a size where they will feel confident enough to attack immigrants, workers' organisations, etc.

    4. We therefore holds that the right to organise does not extend to fascist organisers. Attempts by such organisers to exercise this 'right' will be opposed by us - physically if necessary.

    5. This does not necessarily mean that all fascists should be prevented from exercising the right to free speech. There may be occasions, for example, on which members of fascist organisations do not pose a threat as 'recruiters', and are therefore best ignored. Others, such as the revisionist historian David Irving for example, actively recruit people to fascist organisations and should therefore be denied the chance to exercise their right to organise.

    6. Racism - while being an obnoxious set of beliefs - is not fascism. Therefore we do not oppose the right of racists to free speech. We do, however, believe that racists should be actively challenged and opposed on all occasions. The task is not to prevent racists from speaking but to defeat their arguments by putting forward a strong alternative, and by challenging the assumptions and myths on which racist arguments are based.

    7. Racist organisations/individuals who physically attack people or who carry out attacks on hostels, B+Bs or other accommodation used by refugees and asylum seekers do not have the right to organise, to recruit for such activities. In such instances, force should be met with force; with maximum democracy used in deciding how particular organisations/individuals should be dealt with.
     
  10. AtomicKhaos

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    so this means that everyone in the world, has to be monitored under a microscope. anyone saying a racist remark, has a target on their back. Even if it is about their own people.
     
  11. AtomicKhaos

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    speaking your own free will can put your own life in danger. ever think of that?
     
  12. AnarchoFem

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    When your own free will/speech is intended to incite the extermination of millions of people then yes. And quite legitimately.
     
  13. Vegetarian Barbarian

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    Whats wrong with the extermination of millions of people, not enough?
     
  14. NGNM85

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    I agree with about nine tenths of that. It's essentially what I've been saying this whole time, to no avail. My only complaints are with points three and four as I feel they're a little too vague and I think leaves a little too much room for misinterpretation. So I'm about one half of a centimeter to the left of this, but otherwise it's what I've been saying all along.
     
  15. ungovernable

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    Then that's not freedom of speech.

    Anarchists are allowed to tag anarchy signs everywhere, but not their ennemies ??? That's fucking hypocrisy

    And stop talking about private proprety, now YOU sound like a fucking fake anarchist.

    A popular anarchist slogan says "empty walls - speechless peoples" this means that anarchists encourage tagging and other arts in the public space AND private proprety.

    So basically, you say anarchists are allowed to tag anarchy symbols on public space, but not their ennemies. THATS NOT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, THATS ONE-WAY FREEDOM. You contradict yourself.

    So, you agree that in an anarchist society we would allow White Power concerts for the blood and honour with nazi crowds and bands like Skrewdriver playing hate songs and doing Sieg Heil on the stage ??

    And you also think that peoples who oppose to this break their freedom of speech, so we are fake anarchists??

    Please answer the question and confirm.

    So the RASH skinheads, bands like oi polloi, the antifa groups, and everyone who are against nazi gigs are fake anarchists, they are fascists and authoritarian ??

    You said i might be a fascist because i have the same ideas as the spanish revolution, the commune of paris, first international, makhnovtchina, etc...

    So i will re-formulate:

    You think that all examples of anarchism in action and anarchist revolution (including but not limited to : commune of paris, first international, makhnovtchina, anarchist squats, spanish revolution, kronsdadt sailors, etc etc etc) are acting like fascists and authoritarians, therefore they are not true anarchiste, and all anarchists in the history are fake anarchists (since you failed to provide an example of anarchists not censoring their ennemies) since anarchists doesn't act like fascists

    You think the counter-revolution doesn't exist in a revolution ? You are an ignorant.

    Secondly, it's not 19th century thinking, some of the examples i quoted still exist today, and even today THEY ARE NOTGIVING FREE SPEECH TO THEIR ENNEMIES.

    Nothing has changed between 19th century and 21st century, the fascists are still the same and a revolution still has ennemies.

    You still don't understand that it's because of racist propaganda that peoples start to commit hate crimes. Just like the turner diaries inspired many murders.

    Once again you didn't answer my question:

    "To be a true anarchist, you must give the freedom of speech for nazis to organize and make groups like the Ku Klux Klan, the american nazi party, the national alliance, etc.... You must also tolerate the bourgeoisie and the capitalists to express themselves and build new capitalist political partys against the revolution..... (and then you will be surprised when they organize a counter-revolutionnary army like the nationalist camp in the spanish revolution). Nazis are allowed to do public speech and say they want to see all black peoples dead and say the gas chambers never existed (like the KKK was doing), this is what you call freedom of speech. And those who would oppose to fascist propaganda would be fascists. Is it true ?"


    So in an anarchist society, you think we should tolerate the KKK, the nazi party, the national alliance, the blood & honour, and all nazis organisations ?

    Then once they are enough peoples to build an army and take back the power, then only at this moment it will be the time to react (and lose, because it's too late)

    You are now talking in law terms, that's disgusting for someone who pretend to be an anarchist.

    So now, there are limitation to your so called free speech ? I thought free speech applied for anyone and everyone, for any circumstances ??

    Disinformation is always a threat.

    I said and i'll say it again that this should NEVER be tolerated inside anarchist communities. If they want to hold this kind of disinformation speech, then they should be kicked out and they should go say their speech with the nazis and other fascists, ELSEWHERE.

    Anarchists communes have social contracts, and social contracts always oppose to fascist propaganda.

    In france, the neo-nazis have opened schools to teach the childrens a different version of the history. They teach them the gas chambers never existed, that the nazis were good peoples and the resistance were the bad peoples, etc etc etc... Those childrens are all brainwashed. A journalist recently made a documentary on this school and about the neo nazi movement and everything was filmed...
    So your point of view is that those peoples are free to brainwash the children and teach them hate values, because it is what you call "freedom of speech"

    You said it's easy to prove them wrong because meny evidences exist but at this age you can't know...

    It is false to say that the neo nazis have no political reprisentation, there is a lot of nazi partys and other political organisations

    and nazis might be 1% of the population, but the racists are WAY MORE popular. Nazis is just the worst of all.

    And history teached us that 1% of the population can easily become the majority of the population without you even notice. That's what happenned in 1942. And this is what is happenning now in russia.

    wow then you are a fucking big idiot, you are probably the most stupid pseudo-anarchist i ever talked to.

    I will repeat it again: YOU SHARE THE GUILT OF ALL THE HATE CRIMES BASED ON TURNER'S DIARIES WITH THOSE WHO COMMITTED THE MURDERS, BECAUSE YOU SUPPORT AND YOU DEFEND THEIR FREEDOM OF SPEECH

    There is NO PLACE for this kind of bullshit into anarchist communities.

    Fuck off man, there are many topics here about repression against anarchism and i don't see you defending them, you prefer to defend your fascist friends because you are a nazi hugger. You didn't make 20 pages of argumentation to defend the 6 anarchists who were emprisonned in belgrade recently, nor did you defend the freedom of speech of the anarchist repression in belgrade.

    Yes you are guilty of those murders because you defend those who provoked them. Just like the peoples who supported the Nazi Party freedom of speech in 1942 share the guilt of the holocaust

    You don't even have the balls to make a direct answer.

    Yes, you believe the nazis are free to organize themselves into hate political groups, they are free to make the political partys of today's new government, and on top of all we DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT to fight against them or else we are fascists and authoritarians who destroy freedom of speech

    You didn't answer the question.

    Organized religions like chruches and the vatican doesn't "unjustifiably infriges on the rights of others" so this means that in your fake anarchist society, christians would be allowed to have their chruches and the vatican would still be here, no religions would be abolished, etc...

    So since peoples who volounteerly want a capitalism system aren't infriging other's right, they would have the right to rebuild capitalism system, with money, bosses, bourgeoisies, big multinationals, McDonald's, wal-mart, etc ??? Right ??

    I don't want to defeat religion, i want to defeat organized religions. And yes, you destroy religions by force, just like how you destroy capitalism.

    Capitalism is also very hard to defeat because there is a lot of peoples who believe in it, just like religion. So you think capitalism will be abolished by building schools and not by violence ?? It's the same thing.

    Yes, you are a hippy.

    You said many times that you don't think a revolution can be achieved by violence in the western civilization, you are against violence and you believe for freedom of speech for everyone. You also believe the capitalists and the fascists have the right to build political partys and build the future governments.

    yes i know enough about you to say you are not a real anarchist, you are a fucking idiot, a nazi hugger, a capitalist who love private propriety, an idiot who would use the police to fight against his ennemies, an ignorant who say all examples of anarchist revolutions acted like authoritarians and fascists, a moron who see fascism everywhere, etc...

    Hahahaha good luck trying to convice everyone their god doesn't exist and that they should destroy the chruches, mr. hippy.

    The battle is for their children ? Education ? You believe in freedom of speech, don't forget that if their parents doesn,t like your education system they can build their own schools to brainwash the childrens like they are doing in France. They can even educate their childrens alone and brainwash them, like the National Alliance are doing. THATS CALLED FREEDOM OF SPEECH, don't forget, you believe you can't opposite to it.

    That's only limited to the few provided examples ? FEW EXAMPLES ? I provided a list of ALL the most notorious anarchist revolutions.

    I also said I DEFY YOU TO FIND ONE SINGLE EXAMPLE WHERE THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH OF THE FASCISTS WAS NOT BROKE. And you failed. You were never able to provide ONE SINGLE EXAMPLE of anarchism in action where freedom of speech was given to the fascists. You are an hippy who live in an imaginary world, you probably never participated to an anarchist project, you probably never been part of an anarchist organization. Or else you would understand that NOBODY tolerate freedom of speech for the fascists.

    And what do you base yourself on to say it's not consistent with anarchism ?

    Almost ZERO anarchist theoricians support freedom of speech for the fascists. And don't quote noam chomsky, he's not an anarchist. That's another question you failed to answer. You can't even provide one single theory of anarchism where freedom of speech is given to the fascists.

    You keep saying that freedom of speech for everyone is a concept of anarchism, but that's just a CLICHÉ



    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    So you finally admit that you live alone in your imaginary world, you finally admit that you can't find ONE SINGLE EXAMPLE of anarchism where lies and propaganda by their ennemies was tolerated.

    That's exactly what i said: you are an irrealistic hippy who can only write shitty unrealistic theories, and worst of all is that you know you have no historical exemples to back up your thoughts on.

    Wow man, when peoples ask you "is it possible to realize an anarchist society" what do you tell them ? You don't even have a single exemple to provide them !!! in over 2000 years, NOBODY was able to achieve your society.... When will you realize that it is IMPOSSIBLE ??

    Or you are just a fucking idiot who think he have the right to speak but you don,t care about other's point of view.

    Why the fuck did you register on a DEBATE forum if you refuse to argument with others, and consider their opinion ? I thought anarchism was about questionning yourself ? No matter, you are acting like a fascist anyway ;)



    Another question you have not answered.

    You think that one's freedom of speech is everyone's freedom of speech. You can't break someone's freedom of speech without breaking everyone's freedom of speech. If you defend someone's freedom of speech (even if he's the worst of the assholes on earth) you are defending everyone's freedom of speech and not defending his freedom of speech.
    So what about prisons ? Why don't you fight for the liberation of racist murderers ? After all, anarchists are against prisons. And you wouldn't be defending the murderer's freedom but everybody's freedom.
    Freedom is a whole, just like freedom of speech...
     
  16. ungovernable

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    No you don't agree with this text, you are a fucking liar and an idiot

    You think the nazis and the fascists have the right to organize and have their own platforms.

    You said that you agree that nazis should have their own political partys, their own organization, their own platforms, etc.. You don't make the distinction between the right to talk and the right to organize.

    The text say there are very limited occasions where you can limit this freedom of speech. You pretend that if we start to limit freedom of speech, you will be the next. You also pretend that if you break someone's freedom of speech, you break everyone's freedom of speech.

    You believe that the turner's diaries is freedom of speech, well this is exactly a fascist platform, the nazis organize around it, the book is a "fascist revolution how-to". And you defend their right to express themselves.

    and more importantly, this point which you are totally contradictory with:
    You said multiple times that we must not smash the small groups because it is easier to counter them when they are public, you said that the real threat is when they go underground, etc..

    You also said that you think the nazis are allowed to get together, organize, they are allowed to have their own concerts and events, they are allowed to have political partys, etc...

    YOU ARE CONTRADICTORY, SOOO MUCH CONTRADICTORY.

    You are a real big joke.... Shame of anarchism !
     
  17. ozf

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    not sure if i've done the quote thing right, but anyway..

    ungovernable that is not so much freedom of speech, as freedom of action. freedom of speech is passing along your views by speech, whereas that is performing an action by defacing a building.
    p.s. sorry if the way i worded it sounds patronising, didn't mean it to :S
     
  18. dwtcos

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    Ungovernable what is that documentary about the schools called? And do you think it is available in english?
     
  19. dwtcos

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    Also Ungovernable "You don't even have the balls to make a direct answer"
    Can we stop that? I understand that the word "pussy" may have been due to the language barrier, but I don't think you can really excuse yourself for that one.
     
  20. NGNM85

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    Ungovernable, this is fucking pointless. I'm really resisting this illogical impulse to address all of this bullshit, because if anything has been proven it's that such an undertaking would be a complete waste of time. If you didn't understand it ten times in a row, you're not going to suddenly get it the 11th time around.
    It's also been made abundantly clear that you not only aren't interested, but aren't even capable of an adult conversation. Again, I'm certainly not 'Mr. Congeniality', but I really do make an effort to attack people's ideas, not the people themselves. You're posts are absolutely saturated with childish taunts, name calling, any and all kinds of vitriol pouring off the page. Telling me I'm stupid, an asshole, a nazi apologist, or whatever else is not intelligent, nor is it impressive. Moreover, I punctuate my criticisms with clearly articulated thoughts. (Or, rather, vice versa.) That's how arguments work.
    Sir, I have shown you more courtesy than I am required, and certainly more than you deserve.
    I can only be thankful there’s only one of you.
     
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