Who: Political Music Video Anarchist

Who is a political music video critical of governments in general.

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Music

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• political
• politics
• libertarian
• anarchist
• freedom
• war
• alternative
• blues
• classical
• country
• electronic
• world
• music

[NYanarchy08]

Nice vid, but it's a little strange to see an anarchist video focusing entirely on the government without mentioning the need to overthrow capitalism too. It makes it sound a bit more libertarian than actually anarchist.

[phinc]

@NYanarchy08 You're right.

I wrote this before I really understood that connection.

[xmanningx]

who is this?

[phinc]

Matt Ames

[CrawdaddyJoe]

Anarchism? It rocks.

[diabolicalANARCHY]

1:25 fuck u im gonna smoke that weed anyway duchefuck

[hexzerg2]

@NYanarchy08 Well with anarchism then how could you have socialism? That requires a government. True anarchy would result in capitalism if you think about it because people would be able to trade freely.

[stevesanterre]

OWS

[TemujinBC]

Who'd paint yellow lines down the middle of the street??? Heheheh great line, great song.

[akaslex]

I love this song! It's a great Anarchist anthem : )

[spacerconrad]

Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call "price". Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, is a government lie.

—L. Neil Smith

[spacerconrad]

@GOTI

One of the major planks of the communist manifesto was central control of banks and the money supply. Sorry, but so long as that's the case, there's no free market. You can have an organization providing valuation and minting/printing services, as well as quality control and/or counterfeit protection, but a government run Bank (even if it's considered "private" like in the US) actively oppressing competitors is anathema to freedom.

[GodOfTheInternets]

@spacerconrad

Chile didn't have any tariffs, no price controls, no wage controls, a complete free market except for money (central bank). So yeah, it was a free market.

Chile was not socialist yet and there is no reason that I know of to doubt the gov't lying about the 3% rate (i don't know of any academic work denying this rate).

(Yeah I took Che's poster from my wall a while ago, he was a fucking Stalinist prick)

Central control of the economy is often not socialist in nature.

[spacerconrad]

@GodOfTheInternets

I'd say those numbers are highly suspect. First, does Chile *truly* enjoy a free market? People frequently mistake the US corporatist/fascist market as being laissez-faire, but that's no more true than Che was a freedom fighter (he was a brutal mass murderer, by the way). A Socialist country can claim whatever they want. With central control, they can claim employment for *everyone* regardless of whether they actually produce anything.

[spacerconrad]

@NYanarchy08

The problem with that idea is that capitalism is a system. It isn't really. What needs to be overthrown is the government-induced corruption rampant in a merchantilist/corporatist-dist­orted market.

Capitalism is merely the practice of placing value on goods and services, usually with a means to symbolize those things. Unfortunately, with the government-protected corporate setup, free market capitalism is not allowed to even exist.

[libertarianjury]

You can't have anarchy without capitalism! What, is someone going to coercively stop someone else from amassing capital? That would be a government, then. Capitalism =/= corporatism.