Daily Anarchist (DO NOT WANT)

[anticap]

I was poking around Daily Paul for the lulz, and found a tantalizing link to a spin-off called Daily Anarchist (http://dailyanarchist.com/). (Like Glenn Beck, they're trying to usurp the name of MLK, among others.)

This would be funny, but these are the same brand of right-wing extremists who managed to usurp "libertarian" (which was originally synonymous with anarcho-communist) in just a few short years after deciding that they wanted it for their own. Is it only a matter of time until they do the same with "anarchist"?

Imagine a future where "anarchist" evokes images not of Peter Kropotkin, but of of Walter Block. *shudder (http://dailyanarchist.com/2010/09/06/daily-anarchist-interviews-walter-block/)*

The Right is good at this stuff. Damned good. Much, much better than the Left. Look what they've done with "communism": it now means totalitarian dictatorship.

It would be interesting to see a swarm of anarcho-communists, collectivists, and syndicalists descend on their site and usurp it via forum posts and article submissions, and see just how serious they are about "building a voluntary [online] society without permission."

[this is an invasion]

The Right is good at this stuff. Damned good. Much, much better than the Left. Look what they've done with "communism": it now means totalitarian dictatorship.

Actually I think this is the fault of the Left...

[gorillafuck]

Anarchism doesn't evoke an image of Peter Kropotkin even nowadays...

[bcbm]

It would be interesting to see a swarm of anarcho-communists, collectivists, and syndicalists descend on their site and usurp it via forum posts and article submissions, and see just how serious they are about "building a voluntary [online] society without permission."

i think it would be a lot more interesting to see a swarm of anarcho-communists, collectivists and syndicalists practice their politics in such a way that they become relevant to people and thus don't have to worry about whether some right-wingers are shitting on anarchism's good name.

[Ravachol]

Who cares about names anyways. Anarchism is (or ought to be) materialist practice, not idealist mumbling. Anarchism ought to propagate itself by simply existing, by being put into practice not by having this or that name in the DailyMail or the NewYork Times.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Man, Walter Block has a really shiny head.

[AK]

Wtf are those pictures doing at the top of the page? Since when were Gandhi, Lincoln, Jesus and MLK anarcho-capitalists? :confused:

[HEAD ICE]

Wtf are those pictures doing at the top of the page? Since when were Gandhi, Lincoln, Jesus and MLK anarcho-capitalists? :confused:

that's actually Henry David Thoreau, right wing libertarians in the USA consider Abraham Lincoln to be worse than Hitler

[Nihilist_Pig]

I've had an idea for some time now: why not bring up the topic of voluntary cooperative associations for mutual help at their forums (ot YouTube) and gradually move the topic onto the idea of a communal society?

[Tablo]

I've had an idea for some time now: why not bring up the topic of voluntary cooperative associations for mutual help at their forums (ot YouTube) and gradually move the topic onto the idea of a communal society?
Too lazy and a waste of time.

[AK]

I've had an idea for some time now: why not bring up the topic of voluntary cooperative associations for mutual help at their forums (ot YouTube) and gradually move the topic onto the idea of a communal society?
But the individual must be granted ultimate liberty!

[Jazzratt]

I've had an idea for some time now: why not bring up the topic of voluntary cooperative associations for mutual help at their forums (ot YouTube) and gradually move the topic onto the idea of a communal society? Because they're shrill and ignorant? You'd be shouted down long before you could get more radical than voluntary cooperative associations.

[Nihilist_Pig]

Why? I was under the impression that they're generally not against such things...

libertariannation.org/a/f12l3.html

[Zanthorus]

Why? I was under the impression that they're generally not against such things...

libertariannation.org/a/f12l3.html

Of course they aren't, they'd love to divert the struggle of the proletariat into the sphere of 'civil society' and private interest rather than engaging in a direct struggle for political supremacy, which they attempt to dissuade the workers' from with facile talk of 'voluntary association' and 'freedom'. Arguing with so-called libertarians is a waste of time. 'Freedom' in civil society remains much the same was it was in Athenian democracy, freedom for slaveowners. The monster of social privilege will only be crushed by taking the battle into the sphere of the political and, much more importantly in fact, the social, and destroying the beast so that never again will it raise it's head and hurl it's deceitful cry of 'freedom'.

[Omnia Sunt Communia]

Non-violent resistance is arguably the only glue that binds all four men into a single category. This is the sole reason I have chosen them. For too long anarchism has been equated with window-smashing, fire-bombing, youthful rebellion and crappy music. I figure it is past due that anarchy, at least of the free-market variety, be synonymous with peaceful co-operation. This is the image I am hoping to portray with the help of these gentle visages.

Fail


I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword


A man of rare common-sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,--that was what distinguished him. Not yielding to a whim or transient impulse, but carrying out the purpose of a life.

[Os Cangaceiros]

anarchism has been equated with window-smashing, fire-bombing, youthful rebellion and crappy music.

:cool: