As always, I shall retain the tradition of beginning with those timeless lyricisms of the Stones, please allow me to introduce myself. I am Royce Christian and I am an Anarchist. Contrary to the popular stereotype, I am not a hooded, bomb wielding bringer of chaos an destruction. Far from it. I love life and long to create a better world, not to rape, pillage or destroy — as some would have you believe.
My philosophy is Anarchism, a long and varied tradition for which many thousands of men and women have sacrificed time, thought, blood and tears. My understanding of the world and adherence to Anarchist principles is the product of much thought and serious consideration. I have arrived at these conclusions not through youthful rebelliousness or misanthropic, anti-social awkwardness but through the desire for freedom and liberty. I don’t particularly appreciate an old man, a few thousand kilometres away whom I have never met (and never shall) interfering in the everyday activities of my life — and forcing me to pay for his trouble!
To satisfy those who are so concerned with labels and orientation, as I write this I am an Agorist with an increasingly Mutualist philosophical foundation. I’m generally at peace with most Anarchisms, although I have a dislike of Anarcho-Capitalists. More precisely, I’m in a state of transition, redefining much of how I once conceptualised my ideas. I cannot tell you where I stand exactly, but I know that I am a fervent Anarchist. You can take it, or leave it.
Royce Christian
Well I’m glad I found your blog. I love to come across different perspectives on life. Enjoyed reading your posts.
Thanx for putting a link to my blog. Maybe you´ll attend the demos for G8 meeting in Italy, in Sardinia (July). I want to gather around 100 Romanian young people and to go take part in a non-violent Direct Action. My reasons would be to criticize the capitalist wars in less developed countries, the lack of affirmative measures concerning the climate change and also against all the financial mess made by the United States. They pretended to be the single superpower but they went to China and begged kneeling in front of the Communists for some Chinese $Bns in the world economy.
Hey there Royce,
You can dislike anarcho-capitalism all you like, but if you’re genuinely an anarchist, and the world progressesto anarchy, it will be anarcho-capitalist.
Markets are the only coercion-free way to enable mutually-beneficial exchange: there is no other mechanism. I think you are conflatingtheeffects of crony-capitalism (the US model since the mid-1800s) with actual, free, markets.
Now – let’s get on with our common ground: getting rid of the political parasite class by any means necessary.
To paraphrase Diderot: man will be free when the last politician is bludgeoned to death with the severed arm of the last police sniper.
Cheer
GT
I got here by searching ‘guerrilla capitalism’.
Sorry the name didn’t work out, I always did wanna read that old book that I saw in Loompanics!
I’m so glad you’re on wordpress.
Makes it easy to comment!
I also like your format. I’ve ran into wordpress formats that suck.
The one with three columns especially. I get so tired of scrolling those that I just delete the friggin link.