AnarchistWithoutAdjective
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I agree with the venerated Ms. Goldman on her assessment of love, but would not ever want to live in the economic society espoused by her and the anarchist/terrorists of her day. I am a proud, successful, self-made business owner and would never want to live in an economic system that did not directly reward innovation, private property and ownership. Relationship Anarchy is an entirely different animal in my book.
How is it any different? The thing is that we see you as the terrorists, private property requires the threat of violence, how is that any different from terrorism? Do you think that it's terrorism to fight ISIS when they're murdering and torturing people? When people work at your business do you give them the full value of the products that they create (or service) or only a wage? They have no choice other than to accept that wage because if they don't they won't be able to survive, they won't be able to survive because if they try to grow food etc. the government will use violence against them. How is this not an abusive human relationship?
Personal property is the stuff you need and your house etc, private property is stuff like a factory or a shop or something that you didn't make that others need, you can only justify preventing people from accessing these things if you don't see them as humans (just like the Nazis didn't see the Jews as humans, I'm sure Hitler also worked hard to kill them all but that doesn't mean it was fine) because no matter what fucked up logic you use telling someone that is starving to death that they can't have one of your 10, 000 burgers because you claim to own them is not OK, especially when they "oh so greedily" ensure their means of survival and you use the threat of violence against them, although I'm sure those starving Africans just need to work harder. What makes you think your claim to ownership is legitimate because I think that the only thing making it so is the hordes of police men who will beat up anybody that disagrees with you.
Stop dehumanizing the systems of distribution, these are relationships between living, breathing human beings. From my perspective it looks like you couldn't care less about screwing someone else over if your not in love with them. Does it only become exploitation when it's someone dear to you? Oh, and just so you know the system rewarded the inventers of the ebola vaccine with the knowledge that no matter how hard they tried to get it tested it wouldn't because the Africans didn't deserve to get the vaccine, they're too poor to live (no I'm not making this up, I wish I was). Capitalism is thwarting innovation more than it's inspiring it, inventions and discoveries are made by people who are interested in them, they don't need to be rewarded. Imagine if people were allowed to follow their passions as long as nobody was starving to death, imagine the innovation that Capitalism is destroying. This system of organization is dystopian, Capitalism kills so I don't care whether you like it or not I will not let this systematic slaughter continue. You are the one who has to justify this, every day you go to work you contribute to the continued suffering and death of humans, you choose to contribute.
This is a system that forces humans to relate to people in a certain manner, do you think that the resources that people create should be distributed according to who can exploit the most (or who had ancestors that exploited the most) and that everybody else should just die if that's what it takes, is that how you want society to operate? That is capitalism. Or do you want the resources to be distributed according to who actually needs them? That is Communism. Do you think that people should be able to do whatever they want as long as they're not screwing over anybody else? That is Anarchism.
Just to make it clear this is not political, Anarchism is only political when people force their politics on us and we have to tell them to fuck off and explain how to organize without their shitty politics because people don't know how to live without them. When I say that my Relationship Anarchy is Anarchism I mean that I don't force anything on anybody, I treat people with basic respect, no bigotry, no forcing them to do anything with the threat of violence, that is Anarchism. No "friends", no "husbands", no masters (boss), no slaves. We are all humans, drop the pointless titles already. Drop the assumptions that you have built up, stop percieving exploitation as OK, the only reason we had chattel slavery for so long is because people just accepted it as a fact of life. It's time to question how you relate to people other than with stereotypes like boss and worker. That is Relationship Anarchy.
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