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RE: Anarchy, Anarchists + Personal Paths To Freedom 🏴
All ideologies are utopian. To suggest any other ideal than anarchism/self-governance is suggesting that using force is necessary. The idea that you have to in live separate from everyone else if you want to be an anarchist is silly because you are assuming the utilitarian aspects must be achieved in order for an ideal to be lived by. If this was the case, nobody would be living anywhere as all dogmas and collectivist ideologies people hold eventually fail.
I think people get caught up in the "utilitarian trap" as they think it's a requirement of an ideal to be possible for the most amount of people at a given time. Nothing works like that, in actuality, I believe anarchism is the most pragmatic of all utopias.
But you do have to live isolated to be an anarchist, nothig silly in that, in this type of situation you have to be pragmatci, humans are socila animals and anrchism doesn't fit in with a society, because we all either need a leader or hopefully are leaders in either case you are not an anarchist.
Ever heard of philosophical anarchism?
Philosophical anarchism is an anarchist school of thought which holds that the state lacks moral legitimacy while not supporting violence to eliminate it.
So how are you going to eliminate the state? Look I see a lot of older people here, most from first world countries who rely on their state pensions to live on, yet these guys are the most enthusiastic anarchists, do you think they are willing to forfeit there pensions as long as government cease to exist? So who is going to bring down the state, manifestos, or a lot of articles on a small social media? Like they say if you're going to talk the talk you've got to walk the walk.
You don't eliminate it, you let it fall; the State comes down on its own. It happens time and time again throughout history.
And time and time the state comes back, you just have to look at history it has been a back to back history of state after state, each with a different ideology you have Egypt, then Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Japanese, European kingdoms until the modern day, democracies, communist, socialist etc, every time a state with a government that feeds off of the people shows up, anarchy I think has about 180 years as an idea and it has never passed that stage it is still only an idea. A snail moves faster than anarchy.
Most things you do on a day to day basis are voluntary, not forced. Anarchismus (Voluntarism) aims only at finally getting rid of the force and sanctioned violence still left in our lives. The world is way more Anarchist than it seems, friend.