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user-inactivated · 2895 days ago · link · · parent · post: Articulate, intelligent Presidential candidates with a proven track record?
That's the thing the actual anarchists get right. Those dysfunctional general assemblies and the punk rock piety that makes groups of anarchists insufferable is all about figuring out how to make the utopia work before trying to build it. They're starting with the ethics and trying to figure out the politics by experiment. If it ever comes to something they've proven that we don't need hierarchies of power or capitalism to function, if it doesn't, well, trying to transcend violence and exploitation is more admirable than declaring them to be good.