Saturday, June 14, 2008

A Request For My Fellow Anarchists

Many times, in debate anarchists are asked, "how do we get from here to there?". The question, even if unanswered isn't an argument for statism. There is still the self-evident truth that the state is illegitimate and needs to be abolished. In most cases, if the question is posed by the statist they're implicitly acknowledging that truth anyway.
However, the question as an argument against statism is not what I want to address. Rather, I have a request for my fellow anarchists, and this includes anarchists of all creeds. It calls for you to live your life defiantly and self-sufficiently. It calls for you to set an example for others to show how anarchism makes your life happier.

My request: Seek change through Civil Disobedience, exercise freedom of association, and use agorism as much as practicable to get what you need.

Civil Disobedience is the most effective and most moral way to change the political world around you. Freedom of association is the most effective and moral way to change your personal life. Agorism is the most effective and moral way to be self-sufficient and change your material world. I request of anarchists to live in the manner that they would under a free world, because once we are actively living in such a manner, there will be essentially no difference between a free world and the world we know.