#statism

[wageronancap]

[nando161mando]

When you realize who the baddies are…

[ancaporado]

Growing up I never attended church or any kind of religious ceremony, I had no idea what they were or were like. Then I saw how when people pray they face a common idol or altar and speak in unison, turns out I'd been at a religious ceremony every morning for 12 years.

[brantheblessed]

Eminent Domain

[blackwolfmanx2]

$13 BILLION War On Gun Owners!!

Another wasted tax money on keeping Americans defenseless.

[madame-helen]

[volunteerismandanarchy]

Statism is the root of many evils!

[aronarchy]

Anthropologists and philosophers have asked whether agriculture could have been the tipping point in the power balance between men and women. Agriculture needs a lot of physical strength. The dawn of farming was also when humans started to keep property such as cattle. As this theory goes, social elites emerged as some people built up more property than others, driving men to want to make sure their wealth would pass onto their legitimate children. So, they began to restrict women’s sexual freedom.

The problem with this is that women have always done agricultural work. In ancient Greek and Roman literature, for example, there are depictions of women reaping corn and stories of young women working as shepherds. United Nations data shows that, even today, women comprise almost half the world’s agricultural workforce and are nearly half of the world’s small-scale livestock managers in low-income countries. Working-class women and enslaved women across the world have always done heavy manual labour.

More importantly for the story of patriarchy, there was plant and animal domestication for a long time before the historical record shows obvious evidence of oppression based on gender. “The old idea that as soon as you get farming, you get property, and therefore you get control of women as property,” explains Hodder, “is wrong, clearly wrong.” The timelines don’t match up.

The first clear signs of women being treated categorically differently from men appear much later, in the first states in ancient Mesopotamia, the historical region around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Around 5,000 years ago, administrative tablets from the Sumerian city of Uruk in southern Mesopotamia show those in charge taking great pains to draw up detailed lists of population and resources.

“Person power is the key to power in general,” explains political scientist and anthropologist James Scott at Yale University, whose research has focused on early agrarian states. The elites in these early societies needed people to be available to produce a surplus of resources for them, and to be available to defend the state—even to give up their lives, if needed, in times of war. Maintaining population levels put an inevitable pressure on families. Over time, young women were expected to focus on having more and more babies, especially sons who would grow up to fight.

The most important thing for the state was that everybody played their part according to how they had been categorised: male or female. Individual talents, needs, or desires didn’t matter. A young man who didn’t want to go to war might be mocked as a failure; a young woman who didn’t want to have children or wasn’t motherly could be condemned as unnatural.

As documented by the American historian Gerda Lerner, written records from that time show women gradually disappearing from the public world of work and leadership, and being pushed into the domestic shadows to focus on motherhood and domestic labour. This combined with the practice of patrilocal marriage, in which daughters are expected to leave their childhood homes to live with their husbands’ families, marginalised women and made them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse in their own homes. Over time, marriage turned into a rigid legal institution that treated women as property of their husbands, as were children and slaves.

Rather than beginning in the family, then, history points instead to patriarchy beginning with those in power in the first states. Demands from the top filtered down into the family, forcing ruptures in the most basic human relationships, even those between parents and their children. It sowed distrust between those whom people might otherwise turn to for love and support. No longer were people living for themselves and those closest to them. Now, they were living in the interests of the patriarchal state.

This is interesting.

[whatifsandspheres]

One of the things I hate about these recent conflicts in cultural terms, not in terms of lives lost or inhumanity, is the fact that instead of getting more people to question and stop believing in countries and nations it's gotten people to double down on nationalism and statism. Especially for younger people I had hoped the result would be a shift toward a new paradigm where even more people would-- together with the help of technology-- realize how outdated and backwards, uncivilized and inherently divisive borders and nation states are and how the state needs to not only be ripped from the nation, but that all its contrived organs of government be vivisected from its tumorous parasitic bodies and washed clean, some put into use, others discarded. When I say things like nobody deserves to live in the "holy land" it's not because the Palestinians don't deserve and haven't proven they deserve to live in their ancestral land, no. I say it because I know the hate and the fervor that the Zionists have and how they will perpetuate a Nazi-like trans-generational animosity toward whoever stands in the way of their self-entitlement. Just like before the official formation of the state of Israel and the attacks on Jewish communities in other parts of the world in order to artificially create migration of Jewish people to Palestine-- the Zionist hate resembles the Nazi hate. The divisions between Ukraine and Russia have always been present from what I've read, but Western Europe seriously exploited them. After this I see polarization, not union as there could potentially have been before 2014. The way the UN is handling these situations in failing to enforce ceasefires without any conditions, unconditional ceasefires, shows it hardly serves the global interests at all, and it exposes itself as a farce of a governing body for all but USA and it's favored partners. The Congo basin and surrounding countries are overflowing with violence and the world leadership seems to be more interested in securing a slice of the mineral wealth that those people are being massacred and genocidally slaughtered. Nobody is casting into doubt the state? The nation as a concept which has only failed and failed and failed even if it managed to drag civilization this whole way limping and leeching off of humanity? It's a vestige, it needs to be euthanized. We are a global species. Borders don't protect diversity, they nurse hegemony that's too lethargic and weak to compete with how dignified our cultures can coexist with each other when we aren't artificially pitted against each other with excuses and false pretenses. I'm disappointed in the youth, but it's the older generations like mine which are truly to blame.

[anarchistin]

When revolutionaries attempt to undo the class inequalities created by private ownership of capital by giving complete control of capital to the state, this simply makes the class that holds political power into the new capitalist class. The word for this is state capitalism.

Wherever you see political representation and bureaucratic management, you will find class society. The only real solution to economic and political inequality is to abolish the mechanisms that create power differentials in the first place—not by using state structures, but by organizing horizontal networks for self-determination and collective defense that make it impossible to enforce the privileges of any economic or political elite.

This is the opposite of seizing power.

— crimethinc

[wageronancap]

How are you gonna "I would have sided with the patriots of 1776" if you can't even say "kill this tyrannical judge"

Bro the patriots literally tortured colonial cops, they didn't wait for an appeals court to give them permission to rebel lmao

[nando161mando]

Today marks eight years since NSW prison guards held the young man down and caused him to suffocate, despite him repeatedly saying he couldn’t breathe.

[ancaporado]

Imagine selling your soul to be a rich and powerful senator in the global empire and you still have to take the train with the plebs as they call your out for stealing from them to murder children. I love the pain in his face.

[illumanarchy]

[blackwolfmanx2]

Real Talk:

Voting knowing the elections are rigged is tantamount to gambling for the money you've lost. The odds are not in your favor fam.

[madame-helen]