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Say, You Want A Revolution? February 1, 2009

As more and more people are exposed to the salient fact that civil government, even your government, is a vicious gang of armed thugs whose sole purpose is to establish fear through the use of power so that they may insulate the interests of the exploiting class, the better the prospects for liberty become. The state, as we know it, is rapidly self-annihilating through the use of its own illogic. The state creates war so that there may be peace. The state institutes capitalism so that it may produce socialism for the rich. The state protects industry so that we may have equality of opportunity. The state violates your rights so that it may preserve your liberty. And so on. IT is contrary to human nature, human decency, and human flourishing. It MUST fail.

And so, to borrow a slogan from the Wobblies: We need to create a new society within the shell of the old. What a postindustrial society would look like has been speculated on by many bright minds: some of them libertarian, some of them not. Either way, change, real change, is coming sooner then you think. The state is an industrial-age dinosaur, hovering on extinction while new communities, replete with Peer 2 Peer ethos, are burrowed deep within its skeleton. The seeds are in place: we have the technology to allow an efficient, green, decentralized economy to hit the ground running. There is an economic crisis that, in all likelihood, will spell the end of the American Empire while global guerrillas and resilient communities begin to dominate the landscape. Order will be created spontaneously through the process of stigmergy and other forms of self-organization.  All that is needed is an educated populace; one that will produce a society conducive to human flourishing (involving peaceful activity, gay liberation, anti-racism, feminism, and other forms of social equality), and perhaps more importantly, one that recognizes that we, the human race, CAN do better.

So you say you want a revolution?

"Tractors block the Athens-Thessaloniki motorway near the city of Larisa, as farmers continue to occupy key junctions on the route and other roads in northern Greece, effectively slicing the country in two"

Wildcat Strikes Break Out Across The U.K. (note: a wildcat strike is one taken without permission of union officials) — Cool Video Included

22 Year Old Unarmed Oscar Grant Fatally Shot By Police:

Subsequent protests are broken up (apparently there is no right to assemble!) by fascist thugs.

Thousands Protest Across Russia

Iceland Government “Collapses”:

This is coming to America some day. Winston Churchill once said: “Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.”

Well I think Churchill sucked and was a mass murderer, but I hope that he’s right on this one.