Does it make any difference if I choose to read anarchist books on paper or virtually?
>Reading gutter philosophy
>>7733461
Why do you think this ideology has no value?
The real problem with anarchism starts with people asking for a clear definition of what it is. There is no unity or agreement.
If Tao is finding the way of things and being in balance with your surroundings; Anarchism is finding discord chaos and imbalance, refusing to fit in or accept.
It's babbys first taste of independence, and considered shit-tier by any self-respecting thinker, why? Because most contrarian ideals have poorly formed value structures (mostly negations) and quickly become authoritarian and violent once they seize the slightest bit of power.
What are you rebelling against? You're living in the greatest age of mankind, shiny affordable handheld computers answer any question you could ever ask. Poverty and it's related diseases are close to eradicated. There are less people dying of war now that at any other point in all recorded history, despite the fact we have the largest ever global population. People are mostly free to travel, work and love as they desire.
Why be contrarian? Is it that you're reacting to some deep injustice in the world, or are you just a sour loser desperate for attention?
If you reject a system that has brought so many out of misery and into prosperity simply on moral grounds, without offering any tenable alternative, claiming only superiority of ideas, then expect to be rightly ignored.
Remember people were mocking Anarchists in the 1930s for being completely shut out by Lenin and Trotsky a decade earlier and having to flee for political asylum into the USA. Reading about this topic for anything other than historical context on the rise of the USSR seems pretty useless.
By the 1970s people stopped even bothering to pay attention.
An anarchist and a socialist are having a dinner conversation:
S: What is your favorite food?
A: I reject the construct of food, or favorites. By eating you are simply submitting to power, I will not make this concession, nor do I consent for you to do so on my behalf.
S: I like bread.
A: I hate fucking bread.
>>7733810
>If Tao is finding the way of things and being in balance with your surroundings
Taoist sects can't even agree on that.
>>7733810
>The real problem with anarchism starts with people asking for a clear definition of what it is. There is no unity or agreement.
Yeah there's totally no such thing as, Anarcho-capitalism, mutualism, or anarcho-communism, all of which have tangible goals and specific definitions for how that kind of society would function without a state.
>>7733403
Read Rothbard and Hans Herman Hoppe. leftist 'anarchists' are egalitarian statists in disguise
>>7733461
Here here sirrah
>>7734725
>leftist 'anarchists' are egalitarian statists in disguise
It's more that they don't know they're social democrats, but in a really retarded and inefficient manner.
>>7733810
Dude...
>You're living in the greatest age of mankind, shiny affordable handheld computers answer any question you could ever ask.
But the happiness is worse and worse. The computers can give answers, but not meaning to the lives of people.
>Poverty and it's related diseases are close to eradicated.
Not at all. The great majority of humankind is doomed to poverty. Think about third world.
>There are less people dying of war now that at any other point in all recorded history, despite the fact we have the largest ever global population.
[sources needed]
>People are mostly free to travel, work and love as they desire.
Are you living under a rock? Just look at all emigration crisis that appears from time to time!
>>7733810
This is not particularly a larger problem for anarchism than it is for any other school of political philosophy. There is a huge amount of disagreement within Marxism, within liberalism, within conservatism or reactionary thought defined broadly enough, even within specific disciplines of the above, for example within Keynesianism there are at least three distinct schools of economic and political thought.
>>7733461
Do you know what the anarchist cookbook is, you fucking retard?
>>7733810
You legitimately have no idea what you're talking about lmaooo dude. Wow, this is shocking even for /lit/.
>>7733403
It doesn't matter, and most anarchist literature is available for free online. Some basics to get you started:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread.pdf
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-berkman-what-is-communist-anarchism.pdf
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-anarchism-and-other-essays.pdf
Beware of those calling themselves ancaps or right libertarians. They're a meme ideology, literally. They exist solely on the internet and outside of the United States they're completely irrelevant.
>>7734725
No, I already looked at Ludwig von Mises Institutes and concluded that ancaps are retarded!
>>7735365
What about that?
>>7735387
I'm considering to get books in the Library you linked. But how about Wikimedia's Wikisource? There are some books there too...
Buy anarchist books at a bookstore and pay with cash. Leave no paper trail.
>>7736552
Why? Are the commercial bookstores in their right to profit from works they did not write? How can I know if they had not tampered the texts?
>>7736561
Pay. With. Cash.
>>7736566
The problem is not if I pay with cash or credit card. I always bought books withouth leaving pesonal identification. The problems are:
* it's right for the bookstores to profit from public domain texts?
* is copyright right in the first place?
* the texts will come as they were wrote, or they will come with massive ideological changes?
