These nutters are known in France as the "boer".
None of them ever have or ever will have anything to do with anarchism, mainly because they are from religious communities.
Also I guess they're used to trading one oppressive regime with another, and don't want to repeat the mistake.
Sorry said:
Some anarchists murdered some priests. Some of them were justified, others not. I'm still an anarchist, and I still don't murder priests. Go figure.
In the laughably unlikely event of an anarchist revolution, when you are opposed by the priests and the immams and the nuns and the bhuddists and the monks, as well as 99 percent of the remaining population - well, you'll have to murder a few people in order to take power, surely?
Not contemplated offing a few toffs, should they stand between you and their castle?
Whatever happened to "eat the rich"?
As much as the systems that keep people poor must change, and resistance to globalisation is of fundamental importance, and oppressive Western governments must be opposed, unfair trade subsidies starving the developing world - I don't really think anarchism is doing anything worth noting to motivate people into joining them.
And it's a point of fact, ironically, that it's the Christian development agencies, and the Make Poverty History lot, with their huge public awareness and effective partnerships with many other agencies, who are making far more progress in terms of tipping the balance of global empowerment towards those who need it most.
I just think, in all honesty, it is the anarchists refusal to accept religion as anything other than a system of mind control which is its greatest failure.
That and all the infighting and arguing over petty points of principle.
Anarchism will always be limited to the athiest, in that respect, which thereby denies it the wealth of social networks and community relations it so desperately needs, if it is to be taken seriously.
But if you genuinely do help the more vulnerable in your respective communities, in a constructive way, then more power to you, seriously.
I just think it's a shame such an irrelevant issue - i.e. someone's belief in a God or whatever - should be automatically put down by the principles of anarchism in the way it is.
Is it really only the Godless people who think they can lead this world into a new age?
Maybe a new thread topic. Who knows? Who cares?
Most of you will have read this far and ignored the valid points in favour of trying to land some insults - but you'll be having the same secular arguments you have now in five years time, and nothing will have changed for you.
A prospect I would find somewhat depressing if I were involved in promoting anarchist thought.
