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We are not interested in playing the role of the activist, because we
know that a revolution is only real when everyone has taken back
control of their own lives. We are not interested in turning our
struggles as individuals into franchised solutions, because we are
not politicians under our masks.
We recognize an inherant tension between democracy and the freedom of
individuals to create their own lives as they see fit. Some of the
problems we find with democracy have been acknowledged by defenders of
democracy as well, but have only led to the development of amended
types of democracies (as various thinkers tried to prune the concept
into an acceptable shape). By contrast, our analysis has led us to
abandon the concept all together, because we find some fundamental
faults with the idea itself that can not be reconsiled by new
modifications or reforms. Our critique is of democracy in all its
various forms, whether representative or direct. We are not echoing
confused cries for more democracy, we are calling for its entire
abolition.
If I were asked to answer the following question:
what is slavery? and I should answer in one word, it is
murder, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended
argument would be required to show that the power to take from a man
his thought, his will, his personality, is a power of life and death;
and that to enslave a man is to kill him. Why, then, to this other
question: what is property! may I not likewise answer, it is
robbery, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second
proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?
An short essay about post-scarcity in the modern capitalist economy,
the role of trade unions in that context, and a hope for worker
collectives.
This is a guide that attempts to present an alternative to Microsoft
Windows by introducing the Linux operating system — a
successful anarchist project based on open cooperation and rooted
in the ideal of freedom.