All Societies Are Based On A Sort

The Best Way To Think About Anarchism Is As A Combination Of Three Levels. On The One Hand, The Sort Of Instinctual Revulsion Against Forms Of Inequality In Power; On The Other Hand, A Reappraisal Of What One Is Already Doing In Egalitarian Relations; And Then The Projection Of These Principles On All Sorts Of Relations.

Capitalism Is Like This Fractal Thing Where Anything That Contains An Element Of Capitalism Anywhere Inside It Is Just Something That Turns Into Capitalism. It Is An Incredibly Defeatist Attitude. If You Choose To Look At Reality That Way, I Suppose You Can, But You Have To Do Enormous Violence To Reality To Do So Consistently.

If Your Father Is An Air-conditioner Repairman From Nebraska, Its Conceivable That You Might Become A Ceo, But You Can't Imagine Being The Drama Critic For The New York Times. So If You Come From A Background Like That And You Want To Actually Have A Career Which Involves Doing Something Noble In The World, What Can You Do? You Can Join The Army. That's About It. Or You Can Work For The Church. That Explains A Lot Of The Focus Of Right-wing Populism. The Right Wing Figured That Out, That People Want Enough To Survive And To Do Good.

What About Precarious Labor? It's Actually Not The Most Efficient Form Of Labor At All. They Were Much More Efficient When They Had Loyalty To Their Workers And People Were Allowed To Be Creative And Contribute - You Know That What Precarious Labor Does Is That It's The Best Weapon Ever Made To Depoliticize Labor. They're Always Putting The Political In Front Of The Economic.

The Example Of Russia Reminds Us That Keeping Up That Enormous Dead Weight Of The Security Apparatus Required To Enforce The Ideological Conformity To Preempt Anything That Looks Like An Alternative Or A Social Movement Is Destroying Capitalism.