I really, really hate little scenario games that go like this: - TopicsExpress



          

I really, really hate little scenario games that go like this: Anarchist X is elected president and immediately abolishes the government by executive order. Now what? // Abolishing the state can not be a government program, if for no other reason then because the state is incapable of creating the alternative non-state social, civil and economic institutions that would keep new states from immediately arising. Those institutions, being rivalrous to all states, MUST emerge out of illegality (under statist law, anyway). That path of emergence will look something like this - 1. almost completely suppressed / only theoretical 2. thriving covertly underground 3. illegal but operating more or less openly with near impunity as a result of declining state power and 4. holding sole survivor status between it and the state. THAT is what I am talking about when I mention abolition of the state - rivalrous, hostile and active displacement of it by an open-ended set of non-state / non-aggressive alternatives. That, my friends, is revolution.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 01:29:02 +0000

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