woody harrelson: 'i'm an anarchist'

[bcbm]

http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/movies-and-tv/201306/woody-harrelson-game-change-hunger-games-sequel-films


DETAILS: You've said that playing a cop has made you more sympathetic toward the police. Did playing Steve Schmidt in Game Change make you sympathetic to Republicans?
Woody Harrelson: I like Steve Schmidt. But I tend to not like politicians, because it's a subtle form of prostitution. Or maybe not so subtle.

DETAILS: So you dislike Democrats as much as you dislike the GOP?
Woody Harrelson: It's all synchronized swimming to me. They all kneel and kiss the ring. Who's going to take on the oil industry or the medical industry? People compare Obama to Lyndon Johnson, but I think a better comparison is between Obama and Nixon. Because Nixon came into office saying he was going to pull out of Vietnam, and then he escalated the war. A lot of us were led to believe that Obama was the peace president, but there are still, I think, 70,000 troops in Afghanistan. Corporations like Grumman are so powerful that—I don't know, is this the kind of shit we want to talk about? It's making me depressed.

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DETAILS: You're an advocate for legalizing marijuana. Do you think recent events make it more likely?
Woody Harrelson: I can't imagine that it's going to happen, no. The deeper issue is, what does it mean to live in a free country? In the U.S., something like 80 percent of people in prison are there for "consensual crimes." The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy—we fight wars for capitalism and for oil. I keep coming back to the same goddamn subject. I guess because it's what really bugs me the most.

DETAILS: Do you want to get more involved in politics?
Woody Harrelson: No. I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.

[Goblin]

I love him. Very underrated actor. I highly recommend you guys watch Natural Born Killers.

[Fourth Internationalist]

Seems like an anarcho-individualist but yet not capitalist. Hm. Interesting.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Isn't Woody Harrelson's dad a former contract killer who's in (or was in, he might be dead) "supermax", too? I always thought that was an interesting bit of trivia.

[Ele'ill]

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[RadioRaheem84]

I love Woody Harrelson. I think he's a brilliant actor but it seems like anarchism in America these days is a catchall term to describe people with highly mixed beliefs that go from progresive to libertarian. I doubt he's a Ron Paul supporter but I could see his views as being more libertarian than actually Emma Goldman anarchist-socialist.

[Orange Juche]

I don't remember what it was I saw him in or do, but it gave the impression to me he was really left... so if he is an anarchist, I'd say he's leftist on that in some capacity and not a faux-internet anarchist/"anarcho-capitalist".

[The Intransigent Faction]

I love him. Very underrated actor. I highly recommend you guys watch Natural Born Killers.

Done, and done, and done again, as I'm sure you can tell. :P

[MarxArchist]

He advocates the abolition of private property and or all forms of wealth accumulation with a worker controlled industrial economy and or an individuals right to homestead? I think not. I think he's speaking of "no system" sort of dictionary type anarchy. A Henry David Thoreau type "anarchy".

[ed miliband]

according to his wikipedia page he's taken part in actions with earth first, lol.

he's also a 9/11 truther.

[bcbm]

pretty sure i saw him the the black bloc one time

[A Revolutionary Tool]

He narrated some documentary one time, he just reminded me of a liberal "anarchist".

[Pirate Utopian]

Better than nothing.

[The Intransigent Faction]

according to his wikipedia page he's taken part in actions with earth first, lol.

he's also a 9/11 truther.

Dunno about Earth first, but to be fair the "official story" of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory. "They're Muslims and Muslims hate our freedoms, so they attacked us!"

Or maybe I'm just bending over backwards to defend this guy. :P

Honestly, even if he is an anarchist, no anarchist would want others to be 'anarchists' just because its a view taken up by a celebrity and without any real understanding of anarchism, so whatever.

Anyway even if he's not an outright anarchist, when he said "I think people could be just fine looking after themselves", that's a huge step ahead of most people I know who ride the cynic bandwagon.

[bcbm]

Dunno about Earth first, but to be fair the "official story" of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory. "They're Muslims and Muslims hate our freedoms, so they attacked us!"

thats not really what 9/11 truther means at all

[Geiseric]

thats not really what 9/11 truther means at all

I take the whole illuminati thing with a grain or more of salt. But it isn't impossible that there were bombs at the bottom of the WTC. for some reason the air force was also on vacation that day and bomb sniffing dogs weren't also at the buildings as they usually were for the past few weeks before 911 sure to warnings they received by phone.

I think people have seen pictures of explosions at points below the plane impact points as well.

[bcbm]

just stop

[Flying Purple People Eater]

So some rich kid says he's an anarchist. Woop-dee doo, what's so fascinating? People on campus do this stuff all the time.

"I don't believe in politics - I'm an anarchist." How can you not believe in politics, especially if you're an 'anarchist'? They aren't going to disappear while you're boycotting battery-hen eggs or protesting chemtrails.

[bcbm]

pretty sure 51 is well past 'kid' age

[Orange Juche]

He narrated some documentary one time, he just reminded me of a liberal "anarchist".

Anarcho-Naomi Kleinist?

[Anglo-Saxon Philistine]

"I don't believe in politics - I'm an anarchist." How can you not believe in politics, especially if you're an 'anarchist'? They aren't going to disappear while you're boycotting battery-hen eggs or protesting chemtrails.

I thought that "chemtrails" were an obsession of the extreme right, though. Are there actual "anarchists" who protest "chemtrails"?

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

I thought that "chemtrails" were an obsession of the extreme right, though. Are there actual "anarchists" who protest "chemtrails"?

Politically illiterate "anarchists" who are anarchists only insofar as they label themselves such, who are really just daft conspiratards. Chemtrails, smegtrails, NWO, black helicopters, 11/9 tr00f, feminising drinking water, flouridation... There seems to be a tremendous unsatisfied demand for mental health wards.

[Flying Purple People Eater]

I thought that "chemtrails" were an obsession of the extreme right, though. Are there actual "anarchists" who protest "chemtrails"?

Hippy anarchists all the time.

No offense to hippies. Just these types of hippies.

There are signs in parts of the countryside that have stuff about militant veganism and phrases like "LOOK UP - CHEMTRAILS" emblazoned in bold font on them.

[MarxArchist]

I take the whole illuminati thing with a grain or more of salt. But it isn't impossible that there were bombs at the bottom of the WTC. for some reason the air force was also on vacation that day and bomb sniffing dogs weren't also at the buildings as they usually were for the past few weeks before 911 sure to warnings they received by phone.

I think people have seen pictures of explosions at points below the plane impact points as well.
I'll back you up here and say i think it totally possible that capital, in the form of the US state, would kill it's own citizens in order to further capitals global agenda. It's quite unpopular to say this but I don't care. What I won't do is run around screaming 9/11 was an inside job. I can think of 99 million other reasons for people to oppose capital and their state. Reasons one can demonstrate with materialist analysis. 9/11 leaves us with mostly speculation and or a lack of undeniable evidence. My personal view if asked "is it possible the US government did it or let it happen" would be yes. I read two of David Griffins books and have watched the loose change things and have actually read most of 'The Grand Chessboard' and can say some of the conspiracy theories do make some sense but it's the same with the JFK assassination. And if the CIA killed JKF what next? The intelligence agencies and military have done so much that we can prove we should focus on that- like the current NSA nonsense. Or how the US state department openly admitted almost 500,000 Iraqi children died as a result of US sanctions alone and how they said "it was worth it". What exactly is worth killing half a million children? Mind boggling yet people (most Americans) don't care for some reason. 2,000 people died on 9/11 but, well, the US state manufactures millions more victims as a matter of publicly known policy.