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Kropotkin’s (R)evolution

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Kropotkin presents a scientific basis for understanding evolution as cooperation based rather than competition based. This presents a clear counter argument to social Darwinism which masquerades as scientific. The great anarchist Kropotkin, advances that Nature as we observe instructs us to mutual aid for the benefit of one another. However, I question the scientism of Kropotkin. If there ought to be no Gods and no Masters there ought to be no Nature. This lends to a metaphysical understanding forming the basis of anarchism . It includes the radical paradox of equality and freedom. How are the two to be reconciled? How does radical individual agency pair with the incredible interdependency of all life? The answer in the synthesis of mutual aid should be unrestrained from any a priori reliance on a Superior Authority whether it be Gods, Masters, or Natures from which we derive the basis of anarchism. Anarchism like mysticism is direct experience. It is lived in action and i

Christian Anarchism and the Abolition of the Family

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     Perhaps one of the most radical passages of the Bible is in Luke 12:53, “They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” This is the best support for the Christian Anarchist’s advocating for the abolition of the family. The idea being that primacy of familial ties is in effect a form of racism in which those with blood ties are elevated above other human beings. This may seem like a radical notion with no good outcomes, but imagine a world in which we all care for each other regardless of specific familial preferences. Likewise, the individualist anarchist Ayn Rand compared partiality towards consanguinity with racism, as a small-scale manifestation of the latter. “The worship of the family is merely racism, like a crudely primitive first installment on the worship of the tribe. It places the accident of birth above a m

Abuse by the Night-Watchman

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Minarchist Councilism Mini-Manifesto  What we are witnessing in this country is a police riot. A police riot is a riot carried out by the police; a riot that the police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining as a violent confrontation; an event characterized by widespread police brutality; a mass police action that is violently undertaken against civilians for the purpose of political repression. The term "police riot" was popularized after its use in the  Walker Report , which investigated the events at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago to describe the "unrestrained and indiscriminate" violence that the police "inflicted upon persons who had broken no law, disobeyed no order, made no threat." The night-watchman State has thus been militarized by neofascists.  So what then does policing policy mean to the minarcho-councilist night-watchman? The notion of “policy” presumes a state or governing apparatus which imposes