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Tom Rinaldo

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29. My sense is that Anarchism requires more than adopting an ideology to work - it takes a culture
Sat Jan 5, 2013, 04:00 PM
Jan 2013

From what I understand the closest we have seen to that coming about was in Spain where a robust anarchist movement worded at the grass roots level for decades before a self governing system came to fruition in large parts of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Obviously Anarchy can't be imposed op a people, it's values can be taught (and were taught at the town level in Spain) but it has to be embraced by the people in order to take root. When that happens things begin to function differently. Health care I suspect would be recognized as a human right at the community level and the community would support institutions and professionals who provided it for those in need in a manner akin to addressing all other basic human needs such as education food and shelter.

In our current culture we can only practice using the tools that anarchy develops in isolated cooperative settings - this society as a whole is not prepared to function in those ways.

No because they support Big Brother with the social issues davidn3600 Jan 2013 #1
No they are not. 80% support SS/Medicare as is. banned from Kos Jan 2013 #2
the Teabaggers in Congress want Government to fail louis c Jan 2013 #4
Many do. Remember how Rick Perry called SS a Ponzi scheme? banned from Kos Jan 2013 #7
Not really. They're big "law and order" types Ken Burch Jan 2013 #3
Aint THAT the truth! Populist_Prole Jan 2013 #23
YES. They're authoritarians. backscatter712 Jan 2013 #31
They're more like serial arsonists and vandals MrScorpio Jan 2013 #5
They support a religious based oligarchy. nt Lex Jan 2013 #6
Teaorists OccupyManny Jan 2013 #8
I agree with this statement. I have heard that there are various kinds of anarchists & patrice Jan 2013 #9
With the exception of extreme right wing libertarian anarchists, Anarchy has strong core principles Tom Rinaldo Jan 2013 #14
We did have quite a bit of Tea Party amongst us. I knew that was throwing things off quite a bit. patrice Jan 2013 #21
My sense is that Anarchism requires more than adopting an ideology to work - it takes a culture Tom Rinaldo Jan 2013 #29
Great story from Spain tama Jan 2013 #33
Being based on social capital and mutual support tama Jan 2013 #32
Hierarchic class societies and authoritarian power structures tama Jan 2013 #30
No thats completely absurd. n/t Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2013 #10
Try this on for size and explain "absurd" louis c Jan 2013 #11
conflating Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2013 #12
OK, now I get it. louis c Jan 2013 #13
Talk about ending the war on terror and see what these "anarchist" Teabaggers do Fumesucker Jan 2013 #15
No, the real Tea partiers were more like anarchists Downtown Hound Jan 2013 #16
No, because they are run by corporate interests, whom their actions benefit. Fire Walk With Me Jan 2013 #17
Well, that silly shit got shot down pretty fast. Comrade Grumpy Jan 2013 #18
They're closer to Libertarians Prophet 451 Jan 2013 #19
Dumb definition of anarchy alcibiades_mystery Jan 2013 #20
"Get your government hands off my Medicare!" YoungDemCA Jan 2013 #22
They talk like they want to be anarchists Tsiyu Jan 2013 #24
That is what my son calls them. mmonk Jan 2013 #25
Gandhi was a Tea Bagger? Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2013 #26
Anarchism has many definitions louis c Jan 2013 #36
Teabaggers are both libertarian and authoritarian at the same time. backscatter712 Jan 2013 #27
Bullcrap tama Jan 2013 #28
Nope, teabagger equals bat shit crazy person. kydo Jan 2013 #34
They are not anti-government, they are anti-social programs. ZombieHorde Jan 2013 #35
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