Doing Being: A Midwestern Anarchist Consulta
totally out of control, 21.03.2009 00:00
On May 8-10, 2009, anti-authoritarians from across the Midwest will gather in the Twin Cities to network, learn and grow, and lay plans for the future.
More than six months have passed since we confronted the forces of hierarchy and oppression outside the Republican National Convention. On September 1, 2008, we got a little taste of what we are capable of when we coordinate our resistance. Since then, we've experienced some of the most severe repression to follow a mass mobilization in our lifetimes, as activist after activist has been harassed, kidnapped, and charged with felonies. The aftermath of the RNC shows that our enemies will stop at nothing to prevent us from finding each other and organizing together.
Over the past decade, North American radicals have repeatedly created temporary upheavals such as the RNC protests, but these have not always contributed to the development of long-term structures in which we can build momentum. As the RNC recedes into history, we are now at a crossroads: we can transform our temporary networks into permanent connections so future generations will not have to reinvent the wheel, or let them fade yet again. The purpose of this gathering is to accomplish the former. Let us counter our enemies' repression by putting down roots--and sharpening our thorns.
One day, hopefully soon, we will be ready to move from our current necessary defensive efforts to resume the offensive. We can build a sustainable liberation struggle, a culture of resistance capable of toppling empires--but first, we have to work out how to sustain and improve the networks and capacity we have built in the past few years.
This consulta will involve discussions, workshops, and updates on the state of our communities and struggles, as well as games and other fun activities. There will be free food, places to stay, and childcare for those who need it. Bring updates from your local communities, ideas, zines, food and other gear to use or share.
For more information or to RSVP (and please do!), email  nocoast@riseup.net. We'd like to know how many are coming and from where, and if you need or can offer rides from your town and/or childcare; please also let us know if you have any other special needs or skills.
Can’t wait to see you here,
your friends and lovers in the Twin Cities anarchist community
 e-mail:: nocoast@riseup.net
going
27.03.2009 - 16:14
There should be a crew of people leaving from Milwaukee to go to this. Maybe we could set up a ride board at the CCC. Or if anyone needs a ride you could stop by the space and ask around.
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Anti-anarchists
03.08.2009 - 21:42
All anarchists see the State as an illegitimate form of forced coercion on liberty and the Population....To claim an area of Riverwest as its one political area called Exarchia is to replace a State authority with another, and thus, a complete nullification of all anarchist philosophy.
Let us exam the actions of this self appointed group to destroy property and attack people. What Political philosophy do they put forward? As a political movement, what is their ideology?
Individual anarchists believe in natural free market competition and personal property....but this group has claimed destruction of personal property and means of production...even claiming to assault police officers with their masked thugs....offering the community nothing better....their actions reject Individual Anarchism
Individual anarchists
Individualist anarchism refers to any of several traditions that hold that "individual conscience and the pursuit of self-interest should not be constrained by any collective body or public authority"[1] and that the imposition of "the system of democracy, of majority decision" over the decision of the individual "is held null and void."[2] Benjamin R. Tucker, a famous individualist anarchist described by leading European individualist and author of 'The Philosophy of Freedom' Rudolf Steiner as one of the best of libertarians (ref Liberty vol xiii, no 11), held that "if the individual has the right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny."
Individualist anarchism is seen by many as one of two main categories or wings of anarchism – the other has been called socialist anarchism, and also collectivist, communitarian,or social anarchism.One view is that the individualist wing of anarchism emphasises negative liberty, i.e. opposition to state or social control over the individual, while those in the collectivist wing emphasise positive liberty to achieve one's potential and argue that humans have needs that society ought to fulfill, "recognizing equality of entitlement". Another distinction is that unlike the social wing which advocates common ownership as a means to eliminate unequal economic power, individualist anarchism is supportive of means of production being held privately, and in the case of the most prevalent strain of anarcho-individualism, advocates that goods and services be distributed through markets.[11] Moreover, they are not opposed to unequal wealth distribution, accepting this as a consequence of free competition. In addition, unlike communist anarchism, anarcho-individualism is at best a philosophical/literary phenomenon rather than a being a social movement.[13] Philosophical anarchism, i.e. anarchism that does not advocate revolution to eliminate the state, "is a component especially of individualist anarchism."
See...
Heywood, Andrew (2000). Key Concepts in Politics. New York: Macmillan. p. 46. ISBN 0312233817.
^ Horowitz, The Anarchists (2005). Aldine Transaction. p. 49.
^ Tucker, Benjamin R. (March 10, 1888). "State Socialism and Anarchism: How far they agree and wherein they differ". Liberty 5 (16): 2-3, 6.
^ a b Ostergaard, Geoffrey. "Anarchism". The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought. Blackwell Publishing. p. 14.
^ Ostergaard, Geoffrey. "Anarchism". A Dictionary of Marxist Thought. Blackwell Publishing, 1991. p. 21.
^ Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero. Language and Politics. AK Press, 2004, p. 739
^ Morris, Christopher W. 1998. An Essay on the Modern State. Cambridge University Press. p 50 (uses "collectivist" and "communitarian" synonymously)
^ Wolff. Robert Paul. "Anarchism". The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, 2e. Joel Krieger, ed. Oxford University Press Inc. 2001. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press
No, Exarchia members are not Individual anarchists...their actions and claims violate these principles.
Socialist Anarchists
Socialist anarchism
Where individualist forms of anarchism emphasize personal autonomy and the rational nature of human beings, socialist forms of anarchism sees "individual freedom as conceptually connected with social equality and emphasize community and mutual aid."[10] Unlike individualist anarchism, which stresses the importance of private property, socialist anarchism rejects private property, seeing it as a source of social inequality,[11] and posits a future society in which private property does not exist and is replaced by reciprocity and egalitarian society.
See
Ostergaard, Geoffrey. "Anarchism". The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought. Blackwell Publishing. p. 14.
Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero. Language and Politics. AK Press, 2004, p. 739
William Outhwaite (2003). The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought p. 13. Wiley-Blackwell.
Ian Adams (2001). Political Ideology Today pg. 120. Manchester University Press.
Ronald H. Nash (1980). Freedom, Justice, and the State p. 23. University Press of America.
The claims of Exarchia do not reflect reciprocity and egalitarianism in the social order as a result of the removal of an imposed authority....instead, they say "Fuck the Police" and destroy property, and claim control of their own political boundaries with an imposed authority of violence against persons and property.
They forsake Social Anarchism.
Anarchists without Definitions
anarquismo sin adjetivos was a philosophy developed by Fernando Tarrida del Mármol to bridge the gap between these different ideas.
Anarchism without adjectives was an attempt to show greater tolerance between anarchist tendencies and to be clear that anarchists should not impose a preconceived economic plan on anyone—even in theory. Anarchists without adjectives tended either to reject all particular anarchist economic models as faulty, or take a pluralist position of embracing them all to a limited degree in order that they may keep one another in check. Regardless, to these anarchists the economic preferences are considered to be of "secondary importance" to abolishing all coerced authority, with free experimentation the one rule of a free society.
see
Ostergaard, Geoffrey. "Anarchism". The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought. Blackwell Publishing. p. 14.
Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero. Language and Politics. AK Press, 2004, p. 739
William Outhwaite (2003). The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought p. 13. Wiley-Blackwell.
Ian Adams (2001). Political Ideology Today pg. 120. Manchester University Press.
Ronald H. Nash (1980). Freedom, Justice, and the State p. 23. University Press of America.
The Actions of Exarchia are the most perverse according to any Anarchist tradition by imposing an authority of their own through violence....which is contrary to the reorganization of the means of production advocated by any Anarchist group....Anarchist without Definition seek a greater unity between competing philosophies. Exarchia violates principles of both and thus as a group, are an antithesis and enemy of any anarchist without definition...
and, their actions polarize the community to turn a blind eye towards police misconduct. As corrupt officers need crime to exists to hide thier ill deeds, Exarchia has inspired the worst forms of forced coercion by a State authority...
They are not anarchists...
only criminals
in need to justify their ill deeds in their own minds.....
so in this regard, there is no difference between them, and an AIG executive, a lobbyist for check cashing places, a corrupt official, or many other paths that people walk and often stumble failing to do the right thing.
Paul Peck>
Anti-anarchists II
03.08.2009 - 22:52
To Anarchists of kinds, the central social evil is the coercion of illegitimate Authority....and the role of the State as an agent of such.
Without going into lecture, the central evil for anarchists is the coercion of authority....
When one commits a crime against a person whether it is beating a police officer unconscious, or destroying property such as the North Avenue attacks or vandalism, or general mayhem....that is a coercion of authority against an individual.
To an anarchist, this is the greatest sin, and a harm to society.
Crime has no place for the Anarchist.
Coercive authority by the State is an institutionalized form of evil to an anarchist....but private acts of destruction not directed at the state (even the beating of a Police officer.....a person doing their job in order to obtain the only means of production offered by the State)....is also a "Sin".
For engaging in personal efforts to impose an authority on others and their property through vandalism, rather than acting in a manner to promote greater social liberty and freedom denied by the State, there is only one course of action the members of Exarchia can do to remain true to the anarchist cause....
and that is to turn themselves in for the past wrongs against the work of all true anarchists, and for the wrongs of using crime to illicitly coerce their will on others and their property in a similar manner as is inherent in an organized State....
But those who claim such these crimes in the name of Anarchism do not have this kind of courage or morality....
and coerce through crime more violently than those they claim to have a case against.
As such, they engage in the greatest Sins in the eyes of Anarchist everywhere.
They do not have the courage to do what is needed to show solidarity to the Anarchists of Greece or elsewhere that they claim to support. They have neither the courage to be true anarchist, they have no courage to do what is needed to become such.
They chortle in their joy
It is truly sad.
Paul Peck>
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