The Great Divide-Will Anarchist Infighting Destroy the Freedom Movement?

Anarchists uselessly squabble with each other over who is less of a hypocrite, or more of an anarchist, or whose preferred anarcho-society is better.  Much of the divide lies between the libertarian “right” (anarcho-capitalists, individualists) and the libertarian “left”(anarcho-communists, collectivists).

Meanwhile, elitist think tanks ponder things like when they should kick off the next false flag needed to destroy more freedoms; which map of a reconstructed middle east works best for building world government; how many more prisons will be needed to contain peaceful people for the growing list of victimless crimes; which disease they should use to scare the public into accepting forced vaccinations; and how to build up the police state in America in order to secure the acceptance of austerity measures like we see in Europe. Certainly the most evil statists in the world disagree on how to implement the world they want to see, but they are in the positions they are in because their actions are unified.

As it has been pointed out, the solution may lie in understanding each other, not as anarchists or any other identification, but by empathizing with each other as human beings. It’s possible to put our differences aside and figure this out after we deal with the global dictatorship. As long as the majority of the world thinks statism is a good idea, none of us will have the way of life we so desire. This self-induced divide and conquer is not beneficial to anyone. It only serves the state. It only serves to keep us all in slavery. It only serves to make what kind of world we want to see stay within the realm of the imagination.

Panarchism (the concept of simultaneously coexisting networks of anarchism) is possible. In fact, it makes way more sense than trying to convince the whole world that your ideal society is the best. None of us really know what the best is, anyway. However, we can discover what is not the best and turn ourselves away from it. We can always learn from each other too, even if it seems we are at opposite ends of the anarcho-spectrum.

The people who have engineered the condition of the world we now appear to be stuck in want us to continue fighting. They know that as long as our actions are at odds with one another, they can continue business as usual. Anarchists of all types should be united as long as such tyrants exist. For we have far more in common with one another than we do with the statist control freaks and their minions. All we need to do is concentrate on building bridges, not walls.

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