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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Self Defense Against Cops is Murder — Just Ask the Cops

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The ability of individual people to defend themselves is a central aspect of anarchism of every variety. One of the first things every state does is monopolize violence and so prevent people from defending themselves as they see fit. Every anarchist understands that under the state “people are institutionally prohibited from defending themselves.”1 Every anarchist understands how absolutely necessary this prohibition is for the survival of the state.

How can this be true?! As a recent interlocutor had it, “I’m not sure where you get the idea that most people are institutionally prevented from defending themselves. There are statutes in every state that delineate the legal means of doing so, up to and including homicide.”2
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Communism works, just ask your bosses

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There’s no historical or contemporary evidence that communism is practical, where “communism” means, at a minimum, the elimination of private property.3 This is a commonplace in political debate. It goes without saying. It doesn’t need support. Everybody knows it. It’s just obvious that communism can’t possibly work. But, as with so many such beliefs, it’s completely wrong. There’s plenty of evidence that communism would work, there’s plenty of evidence that it’s a natural state of human organization, almost a default. The evidence that it would work just fine lies in the fact that it keeps breaking out all over despite the extraordinary and ongoing expenditures of power and wealth the ruling class has exercised throughout the history of the United States to prevent it.4
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