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In reply to the discussion: We must NOT buy into the narrative that a cop's life is worth more than any other [View all]ellenrr
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so I'm interested in it.
Maybe you've known anarchists who, as you say, "are married to violence"; I haven't known any, and I know a lot of anarchists.
and I personally am not.
Is it possible that you are influenced by the propaganda of "the state", the US govt , which has most people convinced that all anarchists are bomb-throwing radicals with beards?
(I don't have a beard or a bomb.)
I won't say there are NO violent anarchists - there are.
But in my experience very few.
I would be interested in what you base your conclusion on.
Yes "the state", ie the hierarchical state must be destroyed in order to establish a stateless society. But not with violence or force.
There are other ways to destroy something. Hypothetically, if all people stopped believing in capitalism, capitalism would be destroyed. No bombs thrown.
Or like some people interpret "Jihad" to mean - "I must kill the unbeliever"
while Muslims will say it means to conquer our temptations.
I'm more on the "experiential" side of anarchism, than the theoretical, so I don't really know how anyone would think they could bring down the US govt with any means...