Return with me to days of high adventure, the 1920’s Europe, roaming gangs on the Right would meet the roaming gangs of the Left in massive street violence……..chuq
Return with me to days of high adventure, the 1920’s Europe, roaming gangs on the Right would meet the roaming gangs of the Left in massive street violence……..chuq
Good discussion & information, & it IS a good thing there are those among the public who will stand up to violent evil. I can only wish they wouldn’t make the assumption their end justifies the means they use to achieve it. In my opinion, that phrase is all too often used to justify one’s own prejudices, rather than to achieve some noble end. By using such tactics, they become the very thing against which they struggle in others.
If they are willing to use their staffs and numbers to DEFEND, that is one thing, and possible to achieve what a true anarchist believes in, which is a consensus of common decency. Sadly, very few understand that true anarchy merely means a society which governs itself, because every member governs their own self, not just their self interest…. Anarchy means, literally, “government without leaders”, thus removing any hierarchy. No single member is more, or less important or valuable than any other, no matter what social function they fulfill. All social functions help the society at large, and the individual benefits thereby.
But, it’s a concept which isn’t popular in a world in which personal responsibility is, frankly, unknown to the greatest majority of society’s members. The word itself is understood by just as few…. The world we live in seems intent on maintaining all sorts of hierarchies, whether religious, national, or just differences in skin color…
Silly humans….
gigoid, the dubious
Anarchy was very attractive to me in my younger years…..chuq