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[–] [email protected] 90 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Yeah, down with the violence of the state! Although, to prevent bad actors and armed gangs we do need to have some sort of militia to protect the vulnerable from the greedy and cruel, human nature being what it is. And to prevent said militia from turning into the very thing it was supposed to protect us from, we need some sort of oversight, preferably from a democratically elected body, that tells the militia how to act and prevent them from violating the rights of the people. Oh wait I just reinvented violence of the state hehe.

People in Somalia hearing that America has a 1.8% homelessness rate: "wow. Things are really just as bad over there."

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That's not what anarchists refer to as a state.

A common anarchist definition of the state is: The institutionized power structure which alienates people from the businesses of their daily lives.

If the whole constituency of the community that the militia protects is involved in controlling that militia, that's not state violence anymore.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (10 children)

If the whole constituency of the community that the militia protects is involved in controlling that militia,

Like having the militia answer to a democratically-elected government?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sigh, it always ends up being a semantic issue because people hear "anarchist" and think "no government". When really, the political philosophy of anarchism is a little different.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (30 children)

A common anarchist definition of the state is: The institutionized power structure which alienates people from the businesses of their daily lives.

So not the government at all, right? Because they aren't responsible for hardly any alienating in my experience. I would attribute any alienating I feel to corporations.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, this is a point espoused by people who see themselves as wolves, but end up finding out they are actually pigs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I was about to say. Everyone here who is looking at this through a laptop or phone are guilty of violence according to this comic.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

By killing all people who own land?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (14 children)

"Violence [is] The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived." - Robert A Heinlein

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I mean, this is literally an advocacy for racist authoritarianism, tho.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's advocacy for "might makes right".

If the little piggies had grown up in the wild, they would be Razorbacks and would rip the wolf to shreds and then eat him. Or perhaps the little piggies could have spent some of their wealth contracting wolfhounds to keep their houses safe. Instead, they trusted to their ivory-tower theories and got eaten.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wolfs do not normally loose to individual wild pigs

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The fourth little pig build it's house out of the skulls of wolves. Which wasn't very stable, but it sure got the message across.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

The fourth little.pig built his house out of depleted uranium and the wolf was like "dude... What the fuck?"

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (6 children)

So what you're saying is that it's okay for me to just walk into someone's home, murder the entire family and just live there now because I'm the most violent of all?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago

You just described colonialism.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's literally American history.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's literally most of world history.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yup, until the authorities turn up with their monopoly on violence and deprive you of your newly gained property

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

That anarchist wolf would make for a sick tattoo

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We were robbed of a truly incredibly human being when Graeber passed away. I'm a huge fan of "Debt: The First 5000 Years". And I'm heartbroken that "Bullshit Jobs" was the last publication he produced.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You may be happy to know he and David Wengrow wrote The Dawn of Everything. It was published posthumously but his fingerprints are all over it. Great book to boot! Pirate Enlightenment was also published posthumously. Haven't had a chance to read it but I think it's safe to assume it's great too.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Werewolf: The Apocalypse intensifies!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (39 children)

While I find anarchist ideas intriguing, I don't like how the comic seems to encourage a violent takeover of property like this.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yep. classic "the bad guy is actually good bc i drew him as a cool furry"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

The ultimate way to show dominance is to eat your opponent. I'm craving BBQ for dinner, thanks Lemmy!!

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