"The essential principle of anarchism is individual autonomy".
Emma Goldman.
If one thinks about it INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY is an inevitable truth of human nature, therefore a politics that does not recognize that will fail.
A politics that has faith in human nature will succeed.
By the way I personally am a wholly NON-VIOLENT libertarian.
Individual autonomy does inevitably exist.
But everything around us in a Consumerist, Capitalist and Authoritarian Society is aimed at dampening and deadening it.
And people seem to need a bit of kick up their individually autonomous arses to get it going!
Particularly in the sense of THINKING for themselves!
This does not mean that we are not also communal and social beings that desire to be altruistic and co-operate. Of course we are. But we need to be set free to fulfill these parts of our nature.
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Emma Goldman and her partner Alexander Berkman were also Greens before the time of Green politics!....
The newspaper that she wrote for was called -
"MOTHER EARTH".
She was an early example of the strong link between Feminism and Green Politics.
Let's face it - ALL nations, countries, armies and wars are ultimately BULLSHIT.
She consistently and indefatigably stuck to that belief in human freedom and in its power to eventually do the right thing.
An inspirational person - apart from the violence.
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I personally am not a doctrinaire anarchist or trapped in the ideology of anarchism.
I see myself as primarily a LIBERTARIAN. Obviously a LEFT LIBERTARIAN.
That means I put the emphasis on individual human freedom, rather than opposition to the state per se.
Anarchists oppose coercion but not voluntary organization.
All coercive and unjustified authority should be questioned.
Emma Goldman.
If one thinks about it INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY is an inevitable truth of human nature, therefore a politics that does not recognize that will fail.
A politics that has faith in human nature will succeed.
By the way I personally am a wholly NON-VIOLENT libertarian.
Individual autonomy does inevitably exist.
But everything around us in a Consumerist, Capitalist and Authoritarian Society is aimed at dampening and deadening it.
And people seem to need a bit of kick up their individually autonomous arses to get it going!
Particularly in the sense of THINKING for themselves!
This does not mean that we are not also communal and social beings that desire to be altruistic and co-operate. Of course we are. But we need to be set free to fulfill these parts of our nature.
============================================================
Emma Goldman and her partner Alexander Berkman were also Greens before the time of Green politics!....
The newspaper that she wrote for was called -
"MOTHER EARTH".
She was an early example of the strong link between Feminism and Green Politics.
Let's face it - ALL nations, countries, armies and wars are ultimately BULLSHIT.
She consistently and indefatigably stuck to that belief in human freedom and in its power to eventually do the right thing.
An inspirational person - apart from the violence.
-----------------
I personally am not a doctrinaire anarchist or trapped in the ideology of anarchism.
I see myself as primarily a LIBERTARIAN. Obviously a LEFT LIBERTARIAN.
That means I put the emphasis on individual human freedom, rather than opposition to the state per se.
Anarchists oppose coercion but not voluntary organization.
All coercive and unjustified authority should be questioned.