So, you want to call yourself an anarchist?
You like the idea of being your own boss.
You like the idea of having no bosses.
You just want to be left alone to do as you please.
Admirable goals, iyam.
But, you may want to consider what came before your discovery of these admirable aspects of anarchy.
You may want to consider being an agorist, or voluntaryist.
Anarchism, and anarchists, are a different breed from those two.
Those two are mostly pacifists, never daring to use the tools of the oppressors against those that kill to stay in power.
They may be more fitting to your disposition.
Maybe you have a family.
Responsibilities to others that preclude you being an anarchist.
No shame in that.
Not all of can be worthy of the title.
Here is a fairly short article that can give you some details on what it takes to be an anarchist, as opposed to an agorist or voluntaryist.
Some excerpts:
Well as through this world I've traveled,
I've seen lots of funny men,
Some will rob you with a six gun
and some with a fountain pen
But as through this world you ramble,
as through this world you roam,
you will never seen an outlaw
drive a family from their home.
-Woody Guthrie
Pretty Boy Floyd
Illegalism: The open embrace of criminality as an expression of anarchism, particularly individualist anarchism.
Clément Duval from War to Crime to Devil's Island to New York
The very first illegalist, and the man who would provide the initial intellectual argument for anarchists as criminals, was Clément Duval.
He had served as a line soldier during the Franco-Prussian War and while unclear whether he participated in the Commune, he was wounded horribly by a Prussian mortar shell and subsequently contracted smallpox while recovering.
He spent the next 10 years of his life recovering, including four years in hospital.
The Workers of the Night
The second foray of anarchists into the criminal milieu is due to one man, Marius Jacob, who just didn't seem to be able to fit in.
Initially, a sailor's apprentice on a voyage to Sydney Australia, he jumped ship at some point in time and among other employments tried piracy but found it too cruel to his tastes.
Upon returning to France he took up typography and militant anarchist activity that ended with him being caught with a parcel of explosives after a string of minor larcenies.
Jacob knew when he was beat, and thereafter never sought legitimate employment, rather he gathered around him a group of anarchists similarly alienated from the world of work and formed what they termed the "Workers of the night."
source
A book that further explores one anarchist's venture into idealism.
Anarchists seek to free us all from the coercive rule we suffer today.
Do you really want to bomb ukrainian women and children?
No?
But you support the 'democracy' that 'represents' you, don't you?
This is where anarchists are separated from the patsies.
Will you step outside your 'safety' zone to affect a blow to those that will kill you to rule you?
Will you reject any violence not directed at increasing your personal freedom from those that coerce you?
Then you may not be worthy of the title, anarchist.
Not an anarchist.
I'd give him a pass, if he had blown up an empty building, but he is just another tool patsie of those that oppress with violence.
That is all, for now, you may resume your otherwise mundane day.
To contest the characterization of your day as mundane, make a post of your own explaining why your day is not mundane and ping me, eh?
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