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Solutions for a Stateless Society

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This is intended to be a group where we can discuss solutions to the many questions people have on running a stateless society as well as how to achieve a stateless society. All forms of liberty and anarchy are invited to join the discussion. I hope we can learn from others what they have done before us as well as advance concepts.

How do we achieve anarchy? (5 posts)

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  • Avatar Image Andrea said 5 months, 3 weeks ago:

    There are groups that believe force is necessary to combat the power that exists to obtain liberty or anarchy. Keeping in mind the principle of non-aggression I see how that act opposes one of the strongest values behind libertarian and anarchist theories. How do we throw off the state? Will it be gradual? Do we educate and wait for the inevitable collapse of the state? Do we create a movement?

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  • Avatar Image W. Edwin Hinds IV said 5 months, 3 weeks ago:

    We do not meet the state with force. We should never stoop to their level to reach our goals. That being said, establishing institutions that will be able to perform vital tasks upon the disappearance of the state should be our primary goal. The government, on its current course, will collapse under its own weight and political activism is for all intents and purposes dead***. Since we are living in the age of the post-left anarchy, what opportunities do we have?

    Now is the time for real action (NOT violence) and preparation. We can act now and prepare our communities and families. Preparations will need to be made to meet the primary needs of our little slice of the world after the collapse of government. These will be; defense, food, water and warmth. Secondary will be the need for; doctors, dentists, cobblers, tailors… shit, the list goes on and on. The point is, if we can train and perform these tasks now, while offering our services for barter ONLY, we can strike a significant blow to the state which is already weakened by a lack of tax revenue and a severe drought of positive public opinion.

    We can choke the state by bartering for services instead of using taxable means, while increasing the strength of the counter-economy in our local communities.

    http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2010/02/12/how-start-doing-agorism
    ***http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/selected/asfuck.php

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  • Avatar Image Punk Johnny Cash said 5 months, 3 weeks ago:

    The real changes are happening and will happen locally. I live in the inner city. The beauty is that much of what happens here is outside of the law. Even the presence of the people in my neighborhood the state opposes. This leads to a beautiful sense of anti-state without a philosophy to back it. Many of the migrants have no papers and they are not about to start paying or charging taxes. I was able to furnish my home outside of taxation.

    The migrants came in to this country without much need or want for the state it seems often. I see how there is much I can learn from them. Food and crafts are often sold by traveling vendors throughout the northeast here. Agorism is alive and well with the culture that is moving into the U.S. and they have never heard the word Agorism. It is just the way they are forced to live in being forced to live outside of a state. Our cooperation is what needs to end. This does not need to happen on a mass scale, but in pockets. There is a Catholic Worker House up the street structured like a commune. they grow their own food in what little yard they have and accept donations from area vendors. This makes their diet spontaneously selected by the local businesses and farmers markets that are out here, but this also provides for those who are unable to care for themselves and those that have no resources or little possessions. They run a small coffee shop with the rest of the building for living and an adjacent home with resources they are pulling together to provide for themselves as well as the many homeless here.

    I believe there is much to be learned from the marginalized of society when it comes to Agorism and Anarchism.

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  • Avatar Image W. Edwin Hinds IV said 5 months, 3 weeks ago:

    I am glad to hear about how you furnished without being taxed. The only problem is, the currency is also being taxed by use. Unfortunately using cash equates to being half-taxed. But as the old saying goes, a good plan now is superior to a perfect plan tomorrow.

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  • Avatar Image Punk Johnny Cash said 5 months, 3 weeks ago:

    We will get there. I’ve been slowly obtaining silver. I have seen some places down south that are dealing in silver and gold. Maybe someone should do a site or a business that we can do almost a check card based on a gold standard or silver or something of that nature…

    The problem with using cards though is that there is a paper trail and that makes some businesses tax. I believe cash is superior because it is harder to track the exchange of money. But yes you are correct as long as the state monopolizes currency.

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