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"Who will build the roads?" It's a phrase every anarchist has heard. Statists utter the phrase like a magical incantation that defends their ideology. But there is a valid point hidden in that phrase. Anarchism doesn't have a good record of implementing large scale infrastructure projocts. However, that should been seen as a feature rather than a bug.
Credit cards. Smartphones. Social media. All of these technologies are widely used. All of them are sold to us as being fun, conveinent, and practical. All of them are being used to build a cage around us.
The universe we occupy is a very complex system. The human brain prefers simple answers. This combination leads to some fascinating beliefs.
Stoicism has received a bad reputation as of late. I suspect that's in part because it is a good guard against propaganda.
Friedrich Nietzsche famously declared God to be dead. Max Stirner, less famously, declared the same. The faithful disagree, but their statements within context, that the Enlightenment diminished belief in Christianity, are undeniable. Today we live with the consequences of the Enlightenment and they're not all good.
Socialists, communists, and many other leftists see themselves are rebels. They believe that they're revolutionaries fighting against a corrupt and oppressive society. While there are some rebels amongst today's leftists, many of them are actually rule followers to the extreme. Rather than fighting against society, they're fighting for it.
Of all the branches of anarchist theory, illegalism stands as the most honest. It does away with all of the pretension that plague so many other schools of anarchist thought. Unfortunately it doesn't get its deserved time in the spotlight. Don't worry, despite the title, this won't be written in poetic form.
When people think of Holocaust denial, they typically think of white supremacists. However, communists have their own version.
No, I haven't taken a leave of my senses and suddenly become stupid enough to believe that communism is a workable philosophy. But a quick read of history since the Bolshevik revolution in Russia will lead you to conclude that communism, at least as a strategy for gaining power, is very effective. It is that point I'm discussing in this post.