RE: Homeless Seattle + Anarchism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6BhJL6IEQ - Original video by HeyRuka

Excuse the shitty, none widescreen, quality, I had to reset to factory settings, and forgot to set it back to optimal.

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[OuTofJoY]

@Tylzen

As an "anarchist", I take the term at face value with appeal to its etymology - lit. "no rulers", a thoroughly "horizontal" society.

This is the historical root of "anarchism" as a series of political movements, which were "social" in orientation (or with an understanding of "individualism" rooted in society.)

The perception of anarchism as "magical individualism" unable/unwilling to account for society is a later phenomenon - ex. "anti-state capitalism."

[Tylzen]

@OuTofJoY I am fully aware of that, and if I were in a debate with someone, I would ask them to clarify what they meant about the fundemental terms, and how they define them.

[MistressArte]

Isn't that how Australia started? XD I <3 Aussies ^__^

[Tylzen]

@MistressArte Haha yes :D

[no2religions]

@Tylzen It would seem that you have the unfortunate misunderstanding that anarchism is anti-organization. Not the case, and organizing to defend yourselves from a groups intent on subjugating you is certainly an anarchistic principal. In fact, revolution in an anarchist sense can quite accurately be seen as self defence against the existing state. Preventing new states would simply be a continuation of that project. Peace! :)

[h8red42]

The thing i remember from being homeless,You cant get a job without an address,you can't get an address without a job.that is a tough cycle to brake.

[OuTofJoY]

@Tylzen

Part of the problem with discussing "anarchism" (and to lesser degrees, politics in general) is that it degenerates into "semantics hell" very easily. Terms like "capitalism", "socialism", "the state" and "anarchy" are used so differently by people that half of the time people are talking past each other.

[Tylzen]

@F0xism That is because you are too busy making babies, they are delicious.

[F0xism]

@HeyRuka Lol, so do I. I just haven't teased Tylzen in many many moons.

[HeyRuka]

@F0xism no! I like his hair (: