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‘A country isn’t free unless its women are free’ – great stuff, but why do we have to have countries too?

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Groups no. Companies yes.

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I’m sure I will revive my enthusiasm for anarchy soon, it’s just some people are really stupid.

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Very interesting. In the previous thread I mentioned how the Arab spring is about anti-authoritarian ideas that are butning as far away as Brazil – good to see a follow up of this.

This could be the real reason the west is descending into mayhem.

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Diogenes once masturbated in public and said ‘if I could only rid myself of hunger by rubbing my belly!’

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I just stumbled on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism?wprov=sfsi1

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This video is very helpful too:

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Profit is the motive and monopoly is the means – therefore capitalism is corporate.

There are many for-the-sake-of-itself activities we perform that don’t seek expansion through exploitation.

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Which companies are you referring to?

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Capitalism always becomes corporate – shame how it’s become a reality.

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What about companies with a public image to maintain? What about companies which defend people against domination, trans people? There are also a few companies that defend privacy although I do find things increasingly panoptic with many of them.

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It all comes down to trust. I don’t see how private companies can be properly regulated if they play roles usually assigned to the state.

I was coming at these arguments with an anti-humanist anarchist view – there is nothing important about human beings and we should be doing better than just dividing up everything as property with a harsh work ethic with it too.

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Kevin Logan made a good point – hundreds die everyday in Iraq abd Syria due to terrorism, where was their candlelight vigil? This is what gives radical views credence as they know we don’t value their struggle, the media excessively reports and covers the deaths of 4 in London, but not 100-400 per day in Syria.

To me, terrorist means any army that is not authorised by the state.

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Progress/growth is a creed that sells, but is indeed harmful and so the authority of such a creed is bought into question.

Post Modernism is a critique after the fact, it’s where we are, we are already in it.

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I don’t think we can draw internal/external distinctions so easily. Values and beliefs are formed from otherness, with the other in mind, we are other to ourselves and so there can be no inside without the outside to begin with, they are inseparable.

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Here is a pdf @”thetrizzard” shared via PM:

http://www.unm.edu/~ithomson/Thomson.pdf

Also, this was an interesting read-

http://www.academia.edu/1738235/Lectures_on_Derridas_Violence_and_Metaphysics_2016

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