The Best Way To Think About Anarchism

[a] Great Embarrassing Fact… Haunts All Attempts To Represent The Market As The Highest Form Of Human Freedom: That Historically, Impersonal, Commercial Markets Originate In Theft.

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.

Look At Labor Policy. What's The Point Of Making Everybody Work Too Much? It's Not Very Useful. It Is Destroying The Planet, Actually. But It's Great At Keeping People Off The Streets.

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.

Revolutionary Constituencies Always Involve A Tacit Alliance Between The Least Alienated And The Most Oppressed.