Re: Tough questions please!

An answer to Niels. The transition period between direct action and statelessness is, I think, a very thorny issue.

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[cflying]

Agression is the issue. Large countries use their tax base to bribe the world. The US uses forced taxation to bribe its' own federated states, as well as, other nation states. Drugs, guns, gambling, sex, medical care, and banks are all heavily regulated. You can be killed, imprisoned, or heavily fined if you voluntarily enter into any of those fields. Individual rights, sovereignty, and voluntary action do not mean anything when you do not possess power.

[Klarkster]

This is a very difficult question, during the soviet so called "transition" Lenin wanted an authoritarian state to deal with Russian people in the way they were familiar with.

It seems to me that an anarchist revolution must insist on the exclusion of the state from power, else suffer from hypocrisy.

This is my difficult question:

Is the position of non-violence realistic, when the state has all the power and won't relinquish it?

[LibertyIsNotGiven]

Empires fall and leave power vacuums. I think that is almost unavoidable, but I also think it is manageable if enough people have been previously exposed to the idea of liberty. What's disturbing in the U.S. is that so many people are ultra-nationalistic. I've been called a traitor before, so it's not hard to imagine a bunch of so-called patriots taking up arms "for God and country" in a collapse scenario. As for making the transition, I remain sold on agorism at this time.