Barry Pateman - Class, Community and Anarchism - Part 1 of 5

A talk by veteran anarchist Barry Pateman on class, community and anarchism.

The talk was organised by the Wellington Region branch of the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement, and took place on Sunday May 24th, 2009 at the 128 Radical Community Centre in Wellington, New Zealand.

Part 1 of 5

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[comradshaw]

I think Barry Pateman is my new favorite person.

[skulldrix]

Freedom is worth dying for.

[zbigniewzapora]

@dubified89

There can not be and that's what I was trying to say. I'm sorry if I was not clear aobut that.

[dubified89]

@zbigniewzapora how can the market be free when it's governments that issue the currency?

[zbigniewzapora]

@AnarchyDavey

yes I agree. and to me it doesnt matter what other people believe as long as they don't impose their beliefs on me. That would make me voluntarist I guess.

[AnarchyDavey]

@zbigniewzapora Call yourself whatever you want, just understand as Rothbard did, that capitalism has nothing to do with Anarchism going back to Proudhon.

"Furthermore, we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical." -Rothbard

[LouiseMichaels]

Thank you Barry for still speaking out and saying succinctly that capitalism is a wicked, vicious system. For that needs to be stated, considered, and understood by new young working people who still face this monster and need elders words!

[zbigniewzapora]

@zbigniewzapora

There is no capitalism in the world since there is no free market in currencies. Capitalism is free market. Free market is capitalism. If there is no free market in everything it is not capitalism but interventionism (since only governments using coercion can intervene in free market). BTW I'm anarcho-capitalist :)

[zbigniewzapora]

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose."

John Maynard Keynes