Here's a one page article by Ad Bustersmagazine suggesting that anarchism is a viable alternative to neoliberalism.
Another World is Possible - Adbusters | Journal of the mental environment
The article cites the Spanish Revolution, which had a strong anarchist/syndicalist component in support of its position and even includes quotes from Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, which was his first-hand account of his experience as a member of the POUM militia, which fought alongside anarchist militias during the Spanish Civil War.
Today, anarchists have been involved in alternative globalization protests, hurricane relief after the Katrina and super storm Sandy disasters, formation of the Occupy movement and so on. Historically, they were involved in the labor (where they played an energetic role in winning the 8 hour workday, feminists and anti-nuke movements. Areas such as the Exarchia district in Athens have a strong anarchist presence today, while whole territories such as Chiapas and purportedly Rojava are supposedly partially influenced by anarchist ideas.
Marina Sitrin, in her recent article "The Anarchist Spirit" even notes that many of today's social movements (like the Recuperdad in Argentina) around the world have included horizontal or anarchist-like organizational principles on their own.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/anarchist-spirit-horizontalism
"The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle." George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
Here's a one page article by Ad Bustersmagazine suggesting that anarchism is a viable alternative to neoliberalism.
Another World is Possible - Adbusters | Journal of the mental environment
The article cites the Spanish Revolution, which had a strong anarchist/syndicalist component in support of its position and even includes quotes from Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, which was his first-hand account of his experience as a member of the POUM militia, which fought alongside anarchist militias during the Spanish Civil War.
Today, anarchists have been involved in alternative globalization protests, hurricane relief after the Katrina and super storm Sandy disasters, formation of the Occupy movement and so on. Historically, they were involved in the labor (where they played an energetic role in winning the 8 hour workday, feminists and anti-nuke movements. Areas such as the Exarchia district in Athens have a strong anarchist presence today, while whole territories such as Chiapas and purportedly Rojava are supposedly partially influenced by anarchist ideas.
Marina Sitrin, in her recent article "The Anarchist Spirit" even notes that many of today's social movements (like the Recuperdad in Argentina) around the world have included horizontal or anarchist-like organizational principles on their own.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/anarchist-spirit-horizontalism
"The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle." George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
I am definitely an anarchist at heart, but humanity as a whole isn't evolved enough yet to pull it off.
Here's a one page article by Ad Bustersmagazine suggesting that anarchism is a viable alternative to neoliberalism.
Another World is Possible - Adbusters | Journal of the mental environment
The article cites the Spanish Revolution, which had a strong anarchist/syndicalist component in support of its position and even includes quotes from Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, which was his first-hand account of his experience as a member of the POUM militia, which fought alongside anarchist militias during the Spanish Civil War.
Today, anarchists have been involved in alternative globalization protests, hurricane relief after the Katrina and super storm Sandy disasters, formation of the Occupy movement and so on. Historically, they were involved in the labor (where they played an energetic role in winning the 8 hour workday, feminists and anti-nuke movements. Areas such as the Exarchia district in Athens have a strong anarchist presence today, while whole territories such as Chiapas and purportedly Rojava are supposedly partially influenced by anarchist ideas.
Marina Sitrin, in her recent article "The Anarchist Spirit" even notes that many of today's social movements (like the Recuperdad in Argentina) around the world have included horizontal or anarchist-like organizational principles on their own.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/anarchist-spirit-horizontalism
"The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle." George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
Mid 1990s Somalia doesn't strike me as a good example to emulate.
What ever do you mean? Somalia is something the USA should aspire to be, man.
I am definitely an anarchist at heart, but humanity as a whole isn't evolved enough yet to pull it off.
certainly not at this point. the best case scenario is a centralized, anti-competitive corporate state, as the next biggest power fills the void left by government. worse than that would be regional warlords aggregating after years of chaos. both of these options strike me as decidedly dystopian.
I am definitely an anarchist at heart, but humanity as a whole isn't evolved enough yet to pull it off.
DAMMIT! I thought it was going to be about colonizing mars or something cool like that.
"Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Servile and even ceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared. Nobody said 'Senor' or 'Don' or even 'Usted'; everyone called everyone else 'Comrade' and 'Thou,' and said 'Salud!' instead of 'Buenas Dias.' Tipping had been forbidden by law since the time of Primo de Rivera; almost my first experience was receiving a lecture from a hotel manager for trying to tip a lift-boy. There were no private motor cars, they had all been commandeered, and alll the trams and taxis and much of the other transport were painted red and black. The revolutionary posters were everywhere, flaming from the walls in clean reds and blues that made the few remaining advertisements look like daubs of mud. Down the Ramblas, the wide central artery of the town where crowds of people streamed constantly to and fro, the loud-speakers were bellowing revolutionary songs all day and far into the night...There was no unemployment, and the price of living was still extremely low; you saw very few conspicuously destitute people, and no beggars except the gypsies. Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and freedom. Human beings were trying to behave as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. In the barbers' shops were Anarchist notices (the barbers were mostly Anarchists) solemnly explaining that barbers were no longer slaves. In the streets were coloured posters appealing to prostitutes to stop being prostitutes." George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
But the people already pulled it off. And what about the present-day examples cited by Sitrin?
Tigerace117
You don't know what anarchism is. It is a socialist society based on the principles of self-management, mutual aid, decentralization, egalitarianism, etc. and was formed by 19th century intellectuals. Ⓐ
How is Somalia an example of this? Oh, wait...it isn't.
"As far as my purely personal preferences went I would have liked to join the Anarchists." George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
Orwell was there. How about you?
If anarchists could stop arguing amongst themselves for 10 minutes maybe they could actually get something done
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The new world in the shell of the old.Well if they did, I know what they'd tear down... but what would they ever build?
The new world in the shell of the old.
You are aware that the state is just the end result of warlords, right?
in our case, it's the end result of votes. unfortunately, most voters are currently being corralled into two gerrymandered tribes.
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