Browsing Comments by holdoffhunger

My heart is with you Ferrer, always. From the moments when I was a isolated and alienated child in kidnergarten to the moments I was an Anarchist fighting to abolish the state while behind prison bars. You are an infinite source of inspiration.

Kropotkin was a master, a genius. His vision of an Anarchist world may not have been the first, but it was the brightest. And unlike past utopian dreamers, his vision became an authentic reality.

We Anarchists always talk to each other about avoiding hero worship, and then you read about a person like Durruti. No tyrant, no corrupt police officer, no paid-off politician was safe around this man. In his youth, the banks he robbed poured money into Anarchist and labor union resistance movements through Europe and South America. And in his age, he stood and fought at the front lines of the largest Anarchist society ever witnessed by society during the Spanish Civil War. To us mere Anarchists, such a being is almost godlike.

I was young and poor when I first discovered Chomsky. The material is perfect for helping the mind crash through walls that authoritarian society has placed its confidence in. Chomsky's words might not do much to illuminate what a brand new Anarchist world will look like, but they are enough to establish the fundamental requirement of abolishing modern, 21st nation-state imperialism.

Murray Bookchin's thought is sometimes called Democratic Municipalism, and its theory closes matches that of Democratic Confederalism in Revolutionary Rojava. His ideas live on.

There is no point is arguing about firsts in history. Bakunin may not have been the first Anarchist, the first Anarcho-Collectivist, or the first Anti-Authoritarian, but he was among the first to perfectly articulate the evil that is authority.