In Defense of Anagorism

political economy in the non-market, non-state sector

Tag: society

  • Quotebag #83

    “Just take anarcho-capitalism, perhaps tweak a few premises, change your semantics, and apparently you’re a ‘left-libertarian’!”—Shenlong

    “Death to the mainstream!”—Summerspeaker

    “Most people who blog on political or social issues, probably, fear what might turn up if the Human Resources Gestapo do a Google on them.”—Kevin Carson

    “♥ Embrace your desires, don’t discipline them.”—Summerspeaker

    “While some anarchists may contest the ideology’s association with criminals, losers, outcasts, queers, and rejects of all kinds, I passionately embrace this designation. I’ve no compunctions about declaring that my lack of status within the existing system goes light-years toward explaining my opposition to it.”—Summerspeaker

  • Core political beliefs

    Following in the footsteps of Vox Corvegis (2012-08-04), Nominatissima (2012-07-30) and Clarissa (2012-06-25):

    These should be taken to pertain to me personally, not to the anagorist movement as a whole (very likely a distinction without a difference, but…) Anyway:

     

    • Power corrupts
      Because power corrupts, I have no difficulty rooting for, and siding with, the underdog, or anyone who I have reason to believe to be in a relatively disempowered condition. I am unabashedly biased in that I will side with employees against employers, tenants against landlords, debtors against creditors, and in general, individuals against institutions, before even ascertaining the facts of the case. After doing so, I might change my mind.
    • Information is power
      therefore reverse engineering is not a crime.
    • Nonzero tolerance policy
      If you’re trying to eradicate a phenomenon (however atrocious) entirely from existence, at some point the cost of eliminating that last remaining bit of whatever it is will be ginormous. That said, when it comes to War On Poverty, I’m a non-pacifist. Few goals animate me as much as proving Jesus wrong on that “poor you will always have with you” prophecy.
    • Degree, not kind
      It would be unconscionable to disagree with the non-aggression principle, but it is also the case that the implications of the non-aggression principle are shockingly anti-egalitarian. I suspect that this is because catapulters of the non-aggression principle tend to operate with the assumption that the difference between aggression and non-aggression is testable and dichotomous. I suspect a lot of facts about life are less than entirely clear-cut.
    • Social equality
      I strive to treat others as equals, barking neither up nor down the food chain.

     

     

  • Quotebag #79

    “If the human condition was immutable, we’d still be living in caves.”—Charlie Stross

    “A good piece of evidence that capitalism is in crisis are the increasingly loud exclamations to return to a ‘real’ capitalism. Reminds one of the cries that the USSR was not a ‘real’ communism.”—Purple

    “Capitalism, being based on a system of exchange, is inherently hierarchical. Because an exchange system privileges whomever is most able to say no, this advantage is cumulative and ultimately coercive to those on the losing end of exchanges.”—David Benfell

    “I wonder if Western individuality is such a burden, that it tends to lead to low self-esteem. The individual against the world is a disproportionate affair.”—musteryou