Bill H.R. 1540 passed last night with a nearly unanimous vote. For those of you living under rocks, this bill is the National Defense Authorization Act, which is renewed every year, but which this year includes the declaration that…
Yeah, that's exactly the type of shit I'm talking about. In fact, I just made that same argument to someone who suggested I get off the grid instead of complaining about society. If anyone is interrested, I took this topic to another site,…
There is a decent parallel to the advent of air travel. In the sixties, the planes weren't full, the food/service was great, the bureaucracy/red-tape was minimal, FLYING WAS GREAT. Air travel was the great liberator, today, it is completely…
I think for the first few decades of its life, the internet grew too quickly for its creators to control it, and the younger generation's ability to manipulate it outstripped anyone else's ability prevent them. But now they are figuring…
Exactly, information technology, in the end, serves power, not the people. The information highway it was for its first decade of life was no different from a drug pusher's front, to get people hooked to the drug. Now the axe starts to fall.
I am a strong supporter of Marxist Communism. Marxist Communism is Anarchist due to its lack of a state. The USSR, China, North Korea, and Cuba are not Communist. The only one of these I have any real respect for is Cuba. My heroes are Emma Goldman, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engel, and anyone fighting for freedom. My Soviet music is only there because the meanings of it are positive and they are beautiful songs.
In Marxism and in most strains of anarcho-communism the goal is the same (As Engels put it, the state "withers away"), however the means are different. Marxists believe that there needs to be an authoritarian transitionary stage between Capitalism and true Communism, while anarcho-communists advocate skipping socialism, as, to paraphrase Bakunin, "Slavery begets slavery".
You might want to read up on the CNT-FAI in the Spanish Revolution and how they were back-stabbed by the Marxists, etc, before you confuse the two.