Freedom from wage slavery
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What are we looking for?
What are the kinds of freedom that we (anarchists) are looking for that can't be guaranteed by a state?
I mean, if I only wanted to smoke pot without having my door smashed by the cops, being triggered and arrested, I would not be an anarchist, but rather a democrat...
So, what are we looking for? What is our aim, as anarchists?
DEATH TO ALL WHO STAND IN THE WAY OF OBTAINING THE FREEDOM OF WORKING PEOPLE!The anarchists are not promising anything to anyone. The anarchists only want people to be concious of their owns situation and seize freedom for themselves. - Maria Nikiforova
Freedom from wage slavery
What you are talking about is what one may call, bourgeois rights. Freedom isn't defined by what specific acts we are, or aren't allowed to do. These "rights" are the crumbs we are fed for subservience.
The freedom we, as anti-capitalists, as revolutionaries, or whatever term you wish to identify with, is one of a new totality. Freedom is defined by ourselves, by our desires, by our communities. Not by those who wish to oppress us.
This freedom is our autonomy.
It's freedom to be ourselves.
It's freedom from bourgeois rights!
[formerly Cthenthar]
Revolutionaries don't spend all day on a messageboard. Action is realisation of the polemic.
"When the lie returns to the mouth of the powerful, our voice of fire will speak again." - quote EZLN
“Development develops inequality.” ― Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Freedom from paid slavery. Now you must have money to smoke a pot. So you must sell yourself to a bourgeoisie member to earn money. When you're sold, you're property of your employer. You must do whatever s/he wants. And we're looking a freedom from that.
"Property is theft."
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
"the system of wage labor is a system of slavery"
Karl Heinrich Marx
Freedom to control the course of our own lives and how we use our time here.
Freedom of each to fully be themselves, to be true to our own personal sentiments and values.
These objectives are absolutely incompatible with capitalism.
"Give me a place to stand, and I will sit on your face."
- Trotsky in the opening speech to the third congress of the Fourth International.
