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A complete tear-down simply confirms the end of the status-quo, with no implication of anything better rising from the ashes.

Most anarchists would advocate a strategy of ‘prefiguration’, often summarised as ‘building the new world in the shell of the old’. You don’t have to tear down the old system before you start building its replacement.

In anarchy, those with power reign supreme over those without. Most power and resources are already consolidated in a tiny minority.

Once a society has reached a condition of anarchy, there would, by definition not be a tiny minority with a concentration of power and resources. Anarchy means no rulers/authority.

It doesn’t says by who until the 4th paragraph, information that should be in the headline

The answers here should put you the right track to find more reading but you could also post this question over at !anarchism101@lemmy.ca

archive.is usually works to remove the paywall: https://archive.is/lQVvD

Can’t wait till the NFL has a minute of silence for the thousands of Palestinians killed by Israel’s military campaign this week… 👶… 🧓… 💀… 🪦… 🪨… …

The police exist to defend capitalists’ interests. The state can’t call on a social worker when they need somebody to beat striking workers, or tear gas a riot.

Well don’t talk too loudly about it or everyone will be wanting some!

Also, !completeanarchy@lemmy.ml, which is more recently active, actually

You should cross-post to !anarchist_memes@lemmy.ml (it could use the activity!)

English translation (from Google Translate):

Last generation: 27 climate demonstrators in Bavaria were preventively imprisoned

In the run-up to the IAA motor show, the police in Bavaria took activists from the last generation into so-called preventative detention. The procedure is very controversial.

By Kai Biermann

September 2, 2023, 4:14 pm

According to Last Generation, Bavarian authorities have currently put a total of 27 supporters of the group in prison without trial or verdict. This means that the number of activists in preventive detention has almost doubled, the group writes in a statement. They are therefore being held in the Stadelheim and Memmingen correctional facilities.

A large number of them were apparently taken into custody in connection with the IAA International Motor Show, which is scheduled to take place in Munich from September 5th to 10th. The last generation had announced protests against the fair. According to Last Generation, at least 16 of those affected are in custody until September 10th.

Eleven more are expected to serve longer sentences. According to Munich police, ten of them were taken into custody during a blockade on Friday. The Munich district court then ordered that they remain in prison until September 30th.

Nowhere as long as in Bavaria

Legally, this police approach is called preventive detention because it is not detention for a crime that has been committed. The police laws of the different states allow this for different lengths of time. In Bavaria, up to one month in prison is permitted, which may be extended by a judge for a maximum of another month. In other federal states, however, it is usually only a few days.

The so-called preventive or preventive detention is very controversial. The relevant laws were originally created to prevent terrorists from carrying out attacks. However, this form of detention is now also permitted in the case of the “imminent commission or continuation of an administrative offense of considerable importance for the general public,” as the Bavarian police law states. Lawsuits against this have so far been rejected in Bavaria. However, a final clarification about the legality of this approach is still pending.

This form of deprivation of liberty is all the more problematic because the protesters will not face imprisonment if they are convicted for a blockade. The corresponding procedures regularly only end with fines.

Carla Rochel, the spokesperson for the Last Generation, writes in the statement: “The question we as a society have to ask ourselves at this moment is: Do we think it’s okay that protest for all of our basic right to life means prison instead of climate protection is answered?”

‘Innocent until deemed inconvenient.’

I feel compelled to point the author is hardly unbiased.

No author is unbiased. If you think they’re unbiased it’s just their biases are the same as yours or those of the status quo (whatever you might consider that to be).

I just don’t have it in me to accept anything at face value because someone says so.

Thankfully, you don’t have to! You have a brain in your head, so you can read the arguments being made, think about them, and critically evaluate them. You can try to come up with counter-arguments, or failing that, look around for counter-arguments other people have made and critically evaluate those too.

The commenter above gave you sources for the quotes, so you can find copies of them and read the complete argument being made in those works.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Details here if anyone is interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_on_eight-thousanders#K2

This is the stat the top-level comment is misinterpreting:

As of February 2021, 377 people have completed a summit of the mountain, while 91 have died trying, a staggering 4:1 ratio.

I’m not very familiar with him, but possibly some of Benjamin Tucker’s talking points? Particularly the ‘four monopolies’.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tucker

Fuck that industry and everyone that fuels it.

There’s nothing up there worth dying for, or worth letting someone else die.

FYI, you can edit your post (including the title!)

Thanks!

give srsly wrong a listen

Can you recommend an episode or two to start with? Something representative of their typical quality, format, and tone? Preferably recent, too?

(Sorry if this is a bit of a weird request. I just like to know I’m giving a podcast a fair go, without having to listen to, like, 5 episodes to figure out what it’s usually like. 😆)

An aside, but you should consider crossposting this to !anarchism101@lemmy.ca - it could use the posts!

EDIT: It could use more subscribers, too, of course!