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Self-Liberation and AnarchyContemplation about liberation of humans from authority - by Max Rebel
Individual freedom of all human beings is an indispensable condition for just, peaceful and egalitarian harmony in their relations. At the present, only a tiny minority of people in the world is experiencing life in the vicinity of what may be described as freedom to develop their natural capacity as humans and to realize their dreams. The absolute majority of us are not even close to life in true freedom, which is only possible to achieve through understanding of its real essence, through elimination of authority and hierarchy, through self-liberation and watchful defence of its victories against ominous and omnipresent agents of social inequality.
Self-liberation means acting personally for achieving freedom from hierarchy and authority through direct action, instead of passive dreaming, escaping from reality, futile hoping for noble leader to give you the right orders, liberator on white horse or ticket to heaven. Every individual can do something, a group can do much, and a strong anarchist organization can turn the entire despicable order upside down. The first and the most vital phase of self-liberation for an individual is self-enlightenment. This means seeking information and critically analyzing it, achieving insight, understanding the realities and the need for change, exploring possible solutions, and developing strategies for resistance, activism, projects and actions aimed at radical systemic change and social revolution. Thereupon, acting to the best of one's ability, especially in cooperation with others, is a natural way forward towards freedom.
Introduction
Whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you live, you can not be unaffected by the grave injustice that ravages our world. War, oppression, corruption and environmental destruction have become the standard of our life. Millions of our fellow human beings, including children, are suffering and dying of famine, diseases and violence every year. The vast gap between the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless, the ruler and the ruled, is consolidating and increasing. Violation of human rights, unemployment, debt slavery, mind control, intimidation and abuse by the bosses and leaders of all kinds is the norm.
Yet the wicked ruling classes of this world continue their tormenting and genocidal crusade against their subjects, unabated by the sweat, blood, tears and agony of the people. They revel in luxury and opulence paid by the toil and life of the ruled. The chain they install on people has different names, forms and colours - as state, monarchy, priestocracy, dictatorship, false democracy (elected or selected government of oligarchs), capitalism, market or empire - but it always is a yoke of slavery, grinding humans to maximize profit and power for the rulers.
I can not close my eyes on the rulers' unending everyday violence against workers, tenants, debt-serfs and debt-slaves, minorities, women and men, young and old. I can not block my ears from the cries and screams of people who face the bombs, bullets, bayonets and truncheons of the masters. Can you? Are you asking questions about the causes and consequences of the evilness you see? Are you searching for answers? You are not alone.
I have found my answers. Although new facts and nuances will constantly contribute to improving the analyses and strategies, the big picture is completely clear. All injustice in the world is directly or indirectly caused by the fundamental deficiency of human relations: hierarchy, authority and heteronomy. In politics it is expressed by total absence of democracy in all countries of the world; in economics it is the monopolization of productive resources and the means of life in the hands of the state and capitalists, and ensuing exploitation of workers, tenants, debt-serfs and other dispossessed people; in social life it is symptomized by ubiquitous discrimination, deprivation and unfreedom; on the global arena it is actualized by capitalist globalization, colonialism, imperialism and war; while in the nature it is materialised in ecological destruction by capitalism, market and growth economy. Yes, it is a multidimensional crisis.
There is a chance you might be one of those people who think that maybe monarchs, priests, governments and owners, or perhaps the "democracy" of rulers, will eventually do a better job and solve our problems. If this is your perspective, then you either have vested interest in maintaining status quo of the injustice imposed on others, or you are, with all respect, thoroughly fooled by the rich and mighty. In the latter case you need to regain your grip on reality, your will for freedom, self-confidence and self-respect. I think more information independent from rulers' domain, combined with critical thinking, will definitely help you. "To see what is in front of one's nose requires constant struggle." In this book I have presented my understanding of the essence, causes and effects of injustice and unfreedom, as well as freedom and social justice, and the ways and means for self-liberation. The main idea of this book is that the present wrong social arrangements with rulers and ruled, with owners and dispossessed, are harmful, wasteful and destructive, and shall be abolished and replaced by true democracy (i.e. direct democracy) and social justice.
Despite the overwhelming aggression by the rulers and the grievous injustice inflicted upon us by the state, capitalists and clergy, we are able to change this world, but only organizing and struggle can lead to freedom and equality for all. The rulers have never voluntarily given up the power and privileges robbed from the people. They have always used violence to defend inequality and injustice. Therefore, it can be necessary to either turn this system upside down, or smash it not to leave stone on stone, before it will be possible to build a better world. The aim of the revolution is not physical destruction, but abolition of hierarchic and authoritarian arrangements. Social justice, i.e. freedom, equality and solidarity in a stateless and classless society, will prevail. This is anarchism. Any society based on hierarchy, including state, capitalism and religion, is chaos, violence, unfreedom and injustice, while anarchy is individual freedom, social justice, humanistic harmony and ecological balance.
Anarchism is a political philosophy which correctly explains the problems of hierarchic societies and the most optimal solutions, and ensures the freedom of individual. Anarchy is a society based on individual and collective autonomy, without rulers, but not without rules. Rules in free society will be created directly by the people who are affected by them, both locally and within federation of communities united by common anarchic constitution and decentralized-horizontal cooperation, unlike the case in state, capitalism and religion, where rules are created by the ruling class and imposed upon the subjects, i.e. upon the vast majority of the populace. Anarchy is the same as direct democracy implemented in all aspects of life: political, economic, social and other, combined with the essential principles of freedom and social justice.
Direct democracy and anarchism are not beliefs, dogmas, unquestionable conceptions, or ideologies which need to be proved. They are expressions of human will to live in freedom. Knowledge is essential, of course, and a vast body of applicable knowledge and experience accumulated through centuries of struggle against rulers is available to everyone who cares. However, for accomplishing the goals of true democracy and anarchism, there is no need for any faith, natural law about human beings, theoretical proof, academic approval, scientific analysis or special education. Human beings' will to be free and live in true democracy is a self-sufficient reason for creating new realities. For getting rid of gods, masters and owners we don't need their opinion or authorization. For being free, we don't need any justification or anybody's permission or consent. What we need is networking, organization, strategy and relentless action. Anarchy and democracy are necessary, feasible and practical, and can be realized today.
On a deeply intuitive level I have always been an anarchist. However, research, analysis of information by critical reasoning, and accumulation of knowledge take time and effort. I have written this book for expressing myself, for sharing with others my worldview and the insight that I have reached, and hopefully for inspiring individuals to network and organize across all boundaries, and coordinated, purposeful direct action. Perhaps this book may help you on your own way towards self-liberation.
Freedom
Different interpretations of the concept of freedom of human being are abundant. It is therefore important to formulate a clear definition before a meaningful use of the words freedom and liberty of human beings will be possible in the context of unfreedom and liberation. In the following I will define the word freedom. But first we need to explore human relations, and particularly the substance of power, for power is a crucial factor in the concept of freedom. Power is also central for understanding the essence of social, political and economic equality.
There are gender-related sensitivities in English about the use of pronouns he and she in a text. In order to avoid possible confusion by changing between the two from place to place, and because I shun awkwardly clogging the book with the kludgy construction he/she or the like, I have in few cases used the pronoun it for referring to a human being, as a practical compromise where needed.
Relations and Environment
Every human being is a product of the environment that has created it, and a part of that environment throughout its life and, in some sense and to a certain degree, even after its demise. Human environment is the totality of its surroundings: other humans, their groups and societies with their culture, science and technology, the whole nature on the planet Earth and the outer space. To speak of freedom separated from the environment is a complete misconception. There is, for example, no real meaning in saying that freedom is to do whatever one pleases. In its short-sighted and artificial version, freedom, or liberty, is described by some as the possibility to act according to one's own whims without any rules whatsoever, but such definition is, of course, full of serious contradictions, and it lacks proper connection to the reality.
Observation and contemplation, performed within our nature in relatively unobstructed circumstances, bring one to a fundamental conclusion that no human being, and indeed, no one and nothing else either, can exist in total isolation. Each element of the environment, be that a human being, an animal, river, forest, industrial factory, financial organization, atom, flower or anything else that exists in time and space, has a relation to other elements and, naturally, to the movements, behaviour and actions of those elements. These relations can have different degrees of strength, depending on their character and the gap between the attributes of the elements, such as their bodies, appearances and time.
When I kick a football in my neighbourhood, my decision to kick, and the flying element, the football, will probably have neglectable, or rather no effect on the decision of the government to go to its next regular war against its own or another people. However, it may, with high probability, have an impact on my own body and, perhaps, the body of another human being, the head of a passer-by or an object, e.g. my neighbour's window. Let's imagine for a second, that my decision to kick the ball has been made without any strong influence from elements external to me, i.e. it has been solely my own choice without being forced by anyone else. This assumption in its pure and extreme form will in reality not be very probable, as there are always situations and factors preceding the moment of my seeing the football and the decision to kick it - situation and factors that usually create some kind of necessity, need, motivation, temptation or opportunity - contributing to, causing, necessitating, or even commanding my decision. Will my kicking of football be an act of freedom, if I do it seemingly by my own free will and with no regard to any of its consequences? Is it an expression of freedom to kick a ball wherever and whenever my whims drive me to it? My answer, based on my definition of freedom, which will be formulated later, is: no. A meaningful expression of freedom of human beings must take into consideration foreseeable consequences of their actions, as these will inevitably affect the situation and freedom of others and, in most cases, will create a reaction affecting the original cause of the action or its performer, and her freedom.
PowerHuman beings interacting with each other are necessarily and inevitably mutually influencing their situation, their actions and future possibilities for acting. The capacity of a person to act according to its own unimpeded wishes can, and in many cases will, affect the capacity of other people to act as they choose. When a person is crowned a king, it immediately deprives other people from a portion of their capacity to act by their will, because they can not be crowned in the same country or empire, and because they will be subjected to the king's power. Coronation of a king, election of a politician into office, appointment of a bureaucrat, adoption of a tax law, declaration of war or formation of police force are reducing individuals' capacity of acting: restricting their movements, or further limiting other expressions of their personality and behaviour. The power of one person, which is increased relative to the power of other persons, introduces an imbalance, which in turn reduces other persons' possibilities and choices of actions. Freedom of an individual is inseparably related to the power balance between that individual and other individuals, their groups, organizations, societies and natural environment.
Power is the ability to act or produce results.
For the present analysis it is necessary to distinguish between natural power and social (political, economic) power.
Natural power is a quality of an individual, e.g. physically strong body, high intellectual capacities, quick reaction, as opposed to some other individual's less physical strength, lower intellectual capabilities, longer reaction time. A person with stronger qualities can, in given situations, have greater ability to act and, therefore, exercise more power than a less strong one. Natural power of a human being can be a result of natural endowment inherent at the moment of inception or a consequence of subsequent development, or both. Examples of few more or less obvious qualities that are not part of an individual at inception or birth, but are rather acquired later in life, are knowledge of languages, any learnt specific knowledge, skill or information or improved physical and mental abilities resulting from a development process and years of experience.
Social (political, economic) power is a product of human relations, it is an institutionalized power. Social power is the ability of some to act upon or through other individuals or members of organizations, societies or any groups in general. Social power of one individual in a certain environment can be a result of the natural power of that individual, but it also can be, and in modern human societies most often is, a consequence of specific traditions, relations and political arrangements. Social power is a product of human culture. Examples of social power are the right and ability of a judge to order an arrest or convict a person or an organization, the right and ability of a politician to pass a law, a regulation, other important decisions or to make a decisive contribution to that process, the right and ability of a capitalist to hire and fire managers in companies, to sell, buy, exploit and destroy organizations and natural resources, the right and ability of clergy to manipulate, use and control people's minds and their resources.
Natural and social powers are not mutually contradictory or exclusive, for an individual they can evolve into each other. A person with much natural charisma, satisfactory intellect, and tendency to flatter and submit to leaders, and dominate others, may normally achieve a high social position and power with relative ease. In return, high position in a hierarchical society, i.e. high social power, can yield better chances for healthcare, education and personal development, it can lead to improvement of natural powers.
The fact that someone has more natural power than others does not necessarily imply that the more powerful individual will use its capabilities for repressing, exploiting, damaging or destroying others, but it will create a certain probability of such actions in a cultural environment nurturing and favouring authoritarian mentality. A big and strong human will not use its strength for subjecting other humans to its desires and needs, unless its individual mind and culture - which are mostly products of the group's, organization's or society's culture - will permit, accept, encourage or even require authoritarian actions. Unfortunately, the societies of our days are constantly producing and rewarding competitive, egoist, hierarchic and brutal culture of its members. Capitalism, imperialism, church and the state are some of the foremost manufacturers and consumers of hierarchy, authoritarianism, hate, animosity and inhumanity.
Power is a factor with size. Even a prison inmate has power to do certain things, although often very limited range of things, but the prison guard has usually more power, as it generally can take more actions according to its own will and, the guard has also power over the prisoner, thus it can, to some degree, impose its will upon the prisoner. When the power increases, the capacity to act increases accordingly. Unequal power distribution means that some people have greater ability to act or produce results, then others. Power and freedom are not the same thing, but they are inseparably connected. When an individual has social power to do a certain thing, it does not necessarily mean that the individual is free, because satisfactory power is only one of the conditions for freedom, as power is the ability to act, while freedom assumes that ability as one of its preconditions. To be free means more than to have power. Freedom, as power, is obviously a phenomenon with a measure, a degree. Even a prisoner has a certain degree of freedom, it can act according to its own will within given limitations, including physical limits. A person under hypnosis has little freedom, or a low degree of freedom, but it still has some ability to act, i.e. it has some power, arguably higher degree of power than of freedom, because it can act and even produce results, but not really according to its own will in full self-consciousness.
A basic condition for freedom of all individuals is the egalitarian balance of social (political, economic) power among them.
It is not possible to give an unambiguous characteristic to power without predefining what kind of power it is and in what circumstances it exists. I can not say if power is good, healthy, constructive or harmful, dangerous, destructive - without first describing that power in its environment. Example: the natural power of a person resulting from its strong and sophisticated intellect can not be characterized as good or bad in itself, although, it is generally more useful to be intelligent, of course. An intelligent person put to work in a capitalist company, in a state bureaucratic or military or religious organization, where the individual has come simply for securing its own survival or for increasing its material wealth, will not be able to fully realize its human nature and capacity, because the hierarchic, authoritarian, exploitative and wasteful essence and function of these organizations and the excessive social power of leaders will degenerate that individual and, indeed, even reduce or destroy its natural powers. That person may also be required to act using his power in a way that will adversely affect other people, or he may employ his power to help others, to do good.
Social power can be useful and positive mainly when there is an egalitarian balance between the social powers of all members of the society. Capitalism and the contemporary version of false democracy (i.e. representative government of oligarchs), encourage continuous and cruel battle for increasing one's own social power and wealth relative to, and at the expense of, the social power and wealth of others. In a false democracy, where people give up their own rights and powers to some elected anti-democratic, authoritarian careerist creatures, who then control, exploit, oppress and murder them for the benefit of the rich and powerful, the whole culture is focused on competing, winning and dominating. Those who manage to achieve more power by manipulating, exploiting and destroying others, are considered more worthy people, and they get credit, acknowledgement, admiration, yes, they are the heroes of false democracy. The situation in the economy and the religious organizations is not better either: the capitalists and their agents, the bureaucrats and the clergy, are rewarding people who can trample on fellow human beings for climbing up the ladder of power. Statist, bourgeois and religious culture is based on heteronomy and hierarchy, it works as an incubator for breeding out creatures who are dreaming of, and fighting for, power above others, and weak zombies who slavishly accept their own misfortune and willingly present their bodies and minds for regular, devastating and unending abuse by the ones who have got more social power.
There are no fundamental differences between the needs of social power of different individuals, except for those differences created by force, manipulation, tradition, religion and superstition. All persons have a need for certain amount of social power in order to be able to act according to their own will with respect to the consequences of their actions on other persons and their environment. Power structures in human groups based on inequality, where some have more social power than others, are institutions of coercion and domination. Such are the societies we live in today. Some people, usually a minority, have much more power than others, who usually are the majority. Unequal distribution of social power is the very source of the lack of freedom in societies. When a person or a family owns enormous landmasses, sea resources, financial resources or other resources and objects of value, while other persons have little, very little or nothing at all, a situation is developed that leads to an awful imbalance of actions, possibilities and choices, and this is the character of the capitalist society and its market. There can never be a meaningful freedom for people living in conditions of unequal distribution of social (and political, economic) power, whether that is given, inherited, voted, purchased or stolen. All forms of inequality of social power lead to a life with more opportunities for some and less for others and, as a result, they lead to limitation, restriction, oppression and exploitation of powerless persons, groups and societies by powerful ones.
It is logical to arrive at the conclusion that a definition of freedom of individuals shall be based upon certain conditions of their interrelations, and particularly, power distribution among them. The whole history of humans and their societies demonstrates a continuous evolution of human relations. It's hard to imagine that only recently, just about 200 years ago, the royal power system in France was destroyed. The royal dynasties had been in existence here far too long, in more than thousand years, and they were desperately and frenetically, but vainly, trying to oppress the opposition and postpone their own termination. From liberty's point of view, all institutions of unequal distribution of social power are inhumane and invalid, as they create conditions for, and also directly perform, oppression and exploitation.
Governments, nation states, empires, capitalist business companies and other forms of hierarchic human organizations are completely illegitimate organs, as they are products and sources of unequal political, social and economic power. The only reason of their continuous existence is their authoritarian brainwashing of the masses and the use of intimidation and force against the powerless people. Systems of concentrated power have developed throughout history, they have altered their forms, names, appearances and methods, but their true nature remains unchanged. Monarchy, dictatorship, false democracy - which is an oligarchy proclaimed "democracy" by state propaganda, an obvious misnomer - and other forms of unequal or concentrated power systems are deeply unjust, wrongful, harmful and criminal, they are detrimental to human mind and dignity. Economic organizations are no exception in this regard: private capitalist, state capitalist or mixed private and state capitalist economy, state-controlled socialist economy and various related forms of existing hierarchic economic systems, companies and corporations are brutal and shameless machines of oppression and exploitation, creating wealth and opportunities for some by manipulating and expending the powerless members of the societies. People who dominate and exploit others, who plunder and destroy natural resources, are not free. Their power enables them to do wrong, but they exercise no meaningful liberty, they are social cannibals and rapists who supply the state, the capitalists and the church leaders with their next meal consisting of the tears, sweat and blood of fellow human beings. They destroy the positive elements of human culture and the entire natural environment.
Self-empowerment is not at all negative or destructive in itself. Efforts directed towards maximizing one's power and freedom is based on an originally innate characteristic of humans. Humans and their organizations, like other animals, plants and multifarious elements of nature, are in constant motion towards higher degree of power and freedom, trying at the same time to maintain their cooperation and keep their interconnections and interdependencies essential to their survival. In its original stage, before society's education, manipulation and maltreatment have completely distorted them, children's behaviour is a clear proof of this. The problem begins when the struggle of self-empowerment changes into struggle for power over others. The cult of unequal power and power over others is the worst cultural disease in human societies, and it causes most of the known disasters, miseries, sufferings and tragedies.
However, not everyone, and not always, endeavour to increase their own freedom. Unfortunately, the majority of people around us are brainwashed and programmed for a life in hierarchy, under authority, or to a life with authority over others. These individuals have been taught and have become accustomed to be ordered, controlled, restricted, pushed around, exploited and punished, or to impose the same misfortunate strait jacket upon others. They usually do not revolt. Programming of humans for a life in an authoritarian society, in a society with unequally distributed social power, is a secure way for all individuals away from freedom toward slavery. Some humans become slaves of other humans, while others become slaves of their own bestial desire to manage, lead, control and exploit humans, animals and the rest of the nature.
Only equality of social, political and economic power can create preconditions for freedom of all humans. All nation states and the absolute majority of businesses, humanitarian and other national and international organizations are built and function with hierarchic power structure, which in its very nature and in its consequences is extremely corrupt and dreadfully antihuman. The question about how and why some people are attributed with less social power, and thus have less freedom than others, is so fundamental to the issue of freedom and its definition, that it deserves special attention.
Social Inequality
Social (and political, economic) inequality is the situation when some people have more power, rights or respect than others, fx. when capitalists own productive resources, i.e. monopolize these, while workers have to sell themselves for surviving, or when people vote for a politician, who then takes power positions in a state and rules over the population, or when the wealth in a society is very unequally distributed. On one side the worker, the voter and the poor, and on the other side the capitalist, the politician and the rich have unequal social rights and social power (as well as political, economic). Social inequality creates social classes: the rulers and the ruled, the dominators and the dominated. Social inequality is injustice, it is evil, it causes unfreedom, exploitation, suffering and destruction.
Historic records and present data show beyond any doubt that inequality causes health and social problems, and wars. Philosophers, researchers, writers and social activists have known this for centuries. Among the recent research work in this area is the one presented by British academics Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in their book The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. The two researchers have shown that health and social problems are fundamentally related to inequality. Higher social inequality causes greater health and social problems, e.g. worse physical health, mental health, child well-being, education, social mobility, trust and community life, and higher violence, drug abuse, imprisonment, obesity and teenage births. This new research adds to the mountain of proof for an old knowledge: the root cause of most social pathologies is inequality and social classes created by hierarchy. Inequality causes social evil not only within a nation, but also between nations, resulting from nationalism and colonialism, global capitalism, racism and statism.
Karl Marx has identified two main classes in capitalist societies: bourgeoisie and proletariat. In Marx's model, different property ownership rights and relations create social hierarchy, inequalities, and economic power conflicts between these two classes. Also other models have been presented for explaining stratified power structure in capitalist societies. By examining stratification of the social structure of Germany, Max Weber has developed a theory that introduces three independent factors which form the social hierarchy: class, status and power. Class represents a person's economic position in a society (e.g. owners, wealthy people, top business managers), status: a person's prestige, social honour or popularity (e.g. famous or honoured people who do not hold any substantial economic position), and power: a person's ability to get its way despite the resistance of others (e.g. influential employees of powerful state organizations). In some societies casts make up the backbone of hierarchic social relations, which in modern times can function in addition to essentially capitalistic relations and classes of owners and workers. Confucian Chinese societies consisted of four castes: gentry, farmers, artisans and merchants. In feudal societies the main classes were lords (nobles, aristocrats) and vassals (peasants, serfs). Slave societies consisted of classes of masters (slave owners) and slaves. In false democracy of today there are two main power classes: on the one side are the capitalists, various elites, the state with its parliament and government of oligarchs, while on the others side are the wage slaves and all other subjects. In some societies the bureaucrats or theocrats can constitute an important part of the upper class, while workers and lay persons belong to the lower class. Some people define modern social classes according to distribution of wealth. Yet others focus on social stratification caused by racist and sexist criteria.
Whatever concept we refer to for describing various social classes, the essence of hierarchic society is the same in every case: it is, in general terms, based on inequality of power (social, political, economic). Therefore, the main social classes can generally be categorized into two groups: rulers and ruled, owners and dispossessed, dominators and dominated. "Thus, in the contest of centuries between liberty and authority, or, in other words, between social equality and social castes, the question at issue has not really been the relations between society and the individual, or the increase of individual independence at the cost of social control, or vice versa. Rather it has had to do with preventing any one individual from oppressing the others; with giving to everyone the same rights and the same means of action. It has had to do with substituting the initiative of all, which must naturally result in the advantage of all, for the initiative of the few, which necessarily results in the suppression of all the others. It is always, in short, the question of putting an end to the domination and exploitation of man by man in such a way that all are interested in the common welfare, and that the individual force of each, instead of oppressing, combating, or suppressing others, will find the possibility of complete development, and everyone will seek to associate with others for the greater advantage of all." The roots of violence leading to social inequality, hierarchy and authority lie so deep in nature, that a look at the nature different from that of human beings as such is interesting in this context. Human beings are intelligent and emotional animals. Their genes vary from the genes of all other animals in nature so little, that there can be no doubt: all living organisms have few and very similar ancestors or one common progenitor dating back to the early stages of our planet or, possibly, to a time long before that, if early life forms have migrated to Earth from somewhere in the outer space. Even before the latest achievements of genetic science it was quite obvious that a great number of organs, their ingredients and function, the whole body, its conception, birth and growth, diseases and demise of human beings have striking similarities to those of other animals, and we use the same sources of food, water, air and light as other animals and plants do. The similarities are so great, that surgeons can use some organs and other materials from animals for replacing or repairing lacking and damaged parts in humans. "We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes." Environmental, medical, biological, physiological, psychological and other scientists are regularly carrying out tests of their hypothesis and new products related to human beings on animals. Research of animals, their groups and organizations are often used as an important input to human studies of similar character. The behaviour of animals within their families and groups, and the interaction between individuals, groups and colonies of the same or different kind of animals are being carefully studied not only for learning about those particular animals, but also about the whole nature, including human beings, as there usually can be found significant likeness, common causes and effects. The similarity of relations between human individuals and their groups, and interrelations between individuals and groups of other creatures on Earth, are interesting for the study of the origins of social hierarchy. Some basic observations should be mentioned here:
Of course, cooperation and peaceful coexistence are also normal part of interrelations among elements of nature. Cooperation often exists side by side with competition and destructive conflicts primarily caused by the very essence of hierarchy and authority, but a truly free cooperation can only occur between parties with equal power. Efforts towards cooperation between humans with unequal power in authoritarian environment cause oppression and exploitation of the weaker party by the more powerful one. Although some kind of minimal and temporary forced cooperation between parties with unequal power is possible and, in certain situations necessary, a true and just cooperation, i.e. voluntary common effort for common or mutual good, is happening more often among individuals with equal social power. In cases when the very existence of the whole organization and all its members is seriously threatened or when the more powerful class, ruling elite, makes the lower social classes believe that they are fatally threatened, a minimal, temporary, manipulated or forced cooperation between the powerful and the powerless is possible. However, the presence of certain cooperation on unequal terms between different social classes can not explain away the inherent problems of social inequality, hierarchy and authority.
A wolf pack is a good, but far from rare, example of strictly hierarchic and authoritarian organization in animal world. A pack is a family consisting of up to 20 members, but in winter time even larger packs can assemble. The pack has a clearly defined hierarchy with an adult pair being the highest authority. The alpha mail is the leader of the pack. Only the leading male and female, the alpha pair, possess the right to mate, and they usually are the parents of the other pack members. The pack establishes and actively defends its territory, marked by urine and faeces, against neighbouring packs. Wolf pack has its own social and political ceremonies, e.g. group howling. Members of a pack show behaviour typical for hierarchy: dominance, subservience, flattering, intimidation, giving and carrying out orders, aggression, envy, plot, as well as loyalty, etc. Organizations of elephants, ants, bees, dolphins and others also have hierarchic and authoritarian structures, although each with their own specific structures and nuances.
Power and social inequalities are so pervasive and abundant among primitive organisms around us, that it is sometimes tempting even to look at the inorganic physical world, which can give us interesting examples of hierarchies and other unequal power-based relations between individual elements in a group and between groups. Large elements in space, such as stars, planets and other bodies, have generally power enough to attract and gather other bodies and materials in their surroundings. They grow by eating up the smaller ones. Planets rotate around bigger and more powerful bodies, stars. In the process of the creation of Earth, smaller materials have been forced towards each other and into larger materials, forming huge bodies, who then swallowed even more material. The big and powerful eat the small and weak. Although relations of equals are evidently present also in the physical world, as the formation of materials by similar atoms can show an example of, power-based asymmetric interrelations in the whole universe are omnipresent.
Let's now get back to human societies. Originally, much like families of wolves, apes and other species, authoritarian human family has demanded total submission to the head of the family. We can still widely observe this phenomenon in the modern world, for example in most Muslim and Catholic families, and families in other relatively primitive cultures. The demand for submission is backed by social pressure, intimidation, raw force and cruelty. This social inequality has often been projected onto submission to absolute rulers in clans, tribes and larger organizations, and has been reinforced by religious brainwashing for total submission to gods and priests. Although social inequality and hierarchy, as well as equality and altruistic cooperation, can both be simultaneously seen in human societies just like among almost every other species, the crucial and unique point about human case is that we can apply our reason and will for making human relations one way or the other: hierarchic or anarchic, precisely because we have got the immensely powerful tools called human reason and human culture. In the human case, the cannibalistic unequal relations based on force, violence and brutality have been maintained and regenerated through primitive, underdeveloped human culture.
Influential classical Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle (4th century BCE) were typical preachers of apologetics for monarchy, aristocracy and slavery. Plato claimed that guardians shall have all the power, because they are the "wisest" members of the community. Aristotle argues in Politica that some men are inherently virtuous, superior and destined for ruling, being masters, while others are inherently inferior and suited for subjection and slavery, just like tame animals are better off when ruled by men: "...there is little difference between using slaves and using tame animals: both provide bodily help to do necessary things". In Physica he writes: "That is why the poets say 'It is correct that Greeks rule Barbarians'; for by nature what is barbarian and what is slave are the same." Similarly, the doctrines of Nazism and Jewism claim that respectively the Nazis and the Jews are superior races destined for ruling over the rest of humanity, the inferior races.
For Plato and Aristotle the social and racial hierarchy was not only limited to governing the inferior classes of citizens and barbarians. Their ideal for social organization placed women at the bottom of sexual hierarchy. Plato pointed out in Timaeus that "It is only males who are created directly by the gods and are given souls." Aristotle explained in Politica that just like the relationship between the human male and the tame household animal, also "the relationship between the male and the female is by nature such that the male is higher, the female lower, that the male rules and the female is ruled." One of the causes of women's inferiority, according to Aristotle, is their natural defect, as they can not produce semen which contains a full human being supplied by the man into the woman during intercourse, and while semen is the substance of a human being (human soul, human form), the woman provides only nourishment (the matter). The woman is colder and not fully human as the man is.
Not surprisingly, modern humanistic thinkers hold other views. In the words of Bertrand Russell: "Under the influence of democratic theory, we have come to associate justice with equality...". It is obvious that social inequality and social classes in human societies are products of human cultural and mental paradigms of the old times, decorated by all sorts of creative, desperate, pathetic and misanthropic excuses, titles and "justifications", and cemented by intimidation, force and violence. Times have changed, and so has our understanding of social inequality, which no longer can be justified by claiming an inherent right of the human rulers over their human subjects - human "tame animals" - or sanctions given by nature or god. We now hold the course towards the final emancipation of human beings, but it can not be realized without struggle.
So, there is no doubt that social inequality is still widespread in human societies, but can we do anything about it? Absolutely!
If the abolition of social (political, economic) inequality would require a revolt against certain wild sides of human nature with random inequalities of natural powers amplified, and negative emotions intensified by the state and capitalism, then humans would desperately and urgently need that kind of revolt now! That would be a revolt of reason against bestiality, of advanced culture against predator instincts. The positive fruits of that revolt would then be secured through anarchic education and culture. However, the imaginary need for "revolt against human nature" in modern societies is not as real as capitalist apologists would like to believe.
The abolition of social inequality is not about changing human nature, but about changing human relations for bringing these into harmony with the natural needs and qualities of every human being, it is not about making people identical, but about equality of rights (social, political, economic). Social inequality is badly affecting the vast majority of humanity, who are dispossessed by the ruling class and deprived of their powers, thus the abolition of social inequality is strongly appealing to individuals' natural instincts of self-preservation and self-interest as well as their natural social instincts. It is also important to remember that healthy human beings have also strongly developed natural egalitarian and altruistic instincts and empathy towards the loved ones, family, friends, and even strangers in need, despite the persistent and invasive heteronomous and authoritarian indoctrination in statist, capitalist and religious societies.
Social inequality, injustice and unfreedom are persisting nowadays not at all because the nature of the modern human is inclined to accept such conditions, but because of the brutal violence and mind control employed by the rulers against the people, against the sovereign and social nature of human beings, against human reason. Hence the only creative power of destruction in present conditions is the one that is applied for smashing the wrong world order and the yoke of slavery enforced on the people by the ill-natured class of rulers.
Biological diversity and natural differences between individuals can never justify social inequality in a civilized and truly democratic society. The strong shall never be allowed to abuse, rule, manipulate or exploit the weak as it is done by the state, capitalists, clergy and other rulers, and preached by nazi and fascist ideologies. The security for egalitarian relations, against social inequality, is actually one of the crucial functions of a just society. In a similar way, through reason and modern culture, we have managed to largely eradicate traditional forms of slavery, cannibalism and human sacrifice to gods that some of the ancient human ancestors have practiced. Hierarchy, authority and social inequality belong among primitive animals, while humans have generally passed that phase by their mental evolution, and have acquired all capabilities necessary for advanced human relations. It is now time for one more step toward final emancipation of humanity. The main factors holding our societies back now are the present backward authoritarian brainwashing, intimidation and violence inflicted on us by the ruling class.
Disparities and Priorities"But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?" This section is based on data from various sources, including: UNDP, Global Issues (by Anup Shah), Global Policy Forum, Business Week, New York Times, The Observer, National Priorities Project, MSNBC, The Washington Post.
Global Wealth and Income Disparity
At least 80% of humanity lives on less than 6 EUR a day. Half the people of the world live on less than 1.5 EUR a day, half of these poor people live on less than 0.6 EUR a day (70% of the latter are women). Of the total 2.2 billion children, 1 billion live in poverty. 25,000 children die each day due to poverty.
The richest 20 percent of the people account for 80% of world income. The wealthiest 20% of the world accounted for 85% of total private consumption in 2005, the poorest 20% just 1.5%. The wealthiest 10% accounted for 60% of all the consumption, the poorest 10% just 0.5%.
World GDP was 32 trillion EUR in 2006, with a world population of 6.5 billion. The wealthiest countries, with approximately 1 billion people, accounted for 24.5 trillion EUR (ca. 77%). The world's 500 billionaires were worth 2.5 trillion EUR (i.e. 0.000008% of the people own as much as 8% of world GDP). About 0.13% of the world's population controlled 25% of the world's financial assets in 2004. For every 1 EUR in aid to developing countries, over 25 EUR Cent is spent on debt repayment, often paid by the deceived public after the local and national kleptocrats have personally looted country's debt (and foreign aid). The distance between the richest and poorest countries was about 3 to 1 in 1820; 35 to 1 in 1950; and 72 to 1 in 1992.
The wealth of the 3 richest individuals now exceeds the combined GDP of the 48 least developed countries. UNDP reported in 1998 that the world's 225 richest people have a combined wealth (1 trillion USD) equal to the combined annual income of the world's 2.5 billion poorests people.
US Wealth and Income Disparity
The wealthiest plutocracy on Earth, USA, has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation. The richest 20% of USicans earn 10 times the income of the poorest 20%. The richest 1% of the population (the aristocracy of the wealthy) owns 50% per cent of the nation's wealth.
Weekly wages in 1998 were 12% lower than in 1973 on an inflation-adjusted basis, while productivity rose 33% over that period. The ratio of the earnings of top executives to blue-collar workers was: 42:1 in 1980, 326:1 in 1998, 419:1 in 1999.
The US poor are firmly deep-seated in their poverty, 60% of the bottom 20% in the 1960s had still the same status in the 1990s, and only 1% of them migrated to the top 20% during the same period. The average net worth of pale-skin families is 8 times that of African-USicans and 12 times that of Hispanics.
Global Water, Sanitation, Electricity
1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water. 1.8 billion people who have access to a water source within 1 kilometre, but not in their house or yard, consume around 20 litres per day. In USA that number is 600 litres per day, including 70 litres for flushing toilets.
Half of all people in developing countries suffer at any given time from a health problem caused by water and sanitation deficits. Millions of women spend several hours a day collecting water. 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation. 40 million people are living with HIV / AIDS, with 3 million deaths in 2004. There are 500 million cases of malaria, with 1 million annual deaths, 90% of these in Africa. 1.8 million children die each year as a result of diarrhoea.
25% of humanity lives without electricity.
Global Literacy
More than 1 billion people are illiterate. Less than one per cent of what the world spends every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000. Needless to say, it didn't happen.
US Education
By 12th grade, USican students are falling behind their international peers, especially in mathematics and science. Almost 50% of school-leavers gain no certificate or degree.
Pell Grant, the largest federal programme for poor students, covered 85% of the cost of four years at a public university in 1965, while in 2000 it covered just 39% of the bill. The Hope Scholarship, introduced by President Clinton, provides up to 3,000 USD of tax credits to fund university education, but it goes mainly to families earning between 30,000 and 90,000 USD, whose children would have gone to college anyway. States have cut their support on average by 35% since 1979.
Global Economic Priorities
Estimated additional costs needed to achieve universal access to basic social services in all developing countries (billion USD).
Basic education for all: 6
Examples of consumption and spending in USA, Europe, Japan and the world in 1998 (billion USD).
Cosmetics in USA: 8
Economic Cost of US Wars for USA
The economic cost for the whole world caused by the wars of USA, NATO, Israel and US client states since early 1990s has reached astronomic dimensions. The effects on humanity by the genocides and destructions committed by the Empire in the same period, and the havoc on ecology, are immeasurable.
An estimate of the economic cost just for USA of the war in Iraq since 2003 and Afghanistan since 2001, including congressional allocations, shows (billion USD):
Total since 2001: 920
The US budget for Iraq War for FY 2007 was 5,000 USD per Iraqi, which is 3 times Iraq's GDP per capita. US budget for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for 2010 has provisionally been set to 130 billion USD, it is now expected to be much higher. The average annual cost of sustaining just 1 US soldier abroad is 0.5 million USD for USA. The White House has recently estimated the annual cost of sustaining 1 US soldier in Afghanistan to be ca. 1 million USD in 2010.
Some estimates put the total economic impact of these 2 wars for USA at up to 2 trillion USD, even if USA completely exits Iraq within the next 3 years.
Joseph Stiglitz puts the final figure for Iraq war at a staggering 1 to 2 trillion USD, including 500 billion USD for the war and occupation, and up to 300 billion USD in future healthcare costs for wounded troops. Additional costs include a negative impact from the rising cost of oil and added interest on the national debt.
The total bill for the Iraq war is likely to top 3 trillion USD for USA. And that's a conservative estimate, according to The Washington Post.
The Origins of Social Inequality
Some of the most immediate causes of social inequality and injustice in the world are capitalism, statism, imperialism and religion, in other words, relations and institutions based on hierarchy and authority between individuals, groups, organizations and nation states. However, the initial causes of the present dismal hierarchic relations lie deeper in the nature and history.
Hierarchy and mutually destructive competition among the early living organisms, as well as altruism and cooperation between equals, have all been natural forms of relations created by the logic of life in its original phase and within given physical environment. Hierarchy has been and still is the essential quality of the organization in wild nature, i.e. a nature not created by, and not developing according to, human intellect and culture. The main factors, that most probably have caused hierarchic relations in the early wild phases of the history of life known to us, are:
Let's now try to picture in general terms the essence of natural logic of early wild life and how it has functioned as a process, taking into consideration the above mentioned factors. Elements of life, i.e. living organisms in a very early stage, had programs of survival and reproduction, in other words they were programmed to struggle for life and propagate by direct division or by other mechanisms for creating offspring. Reproduction has occurred without a kind of coordinated planning that could assure sustainable life and development for all elements within common environment with given resources, i.e. reproduction itself, seen as a separate phenomenon, has been a very unintelligent process, it has not taken into account the realities and limitations for future survival of all elements and the environment itself.
Occasionally such reproduction has led to temporary overpopulation of certain elements relative to the size and capacity of their environment. The overpopulation has been possible, because reproduction itself in wild nature has been unintelligent, not calculated, not planned for the environment as a whole. In conditions of overpopulation and their individual program of survival, elements have been forced to mutually compete and sometimes, seen from the human emotional stand, extremely brutally so. Because there are reproductive random differences between individual elements, those differences, which have been most suitable for winning in competition for survival in a given environment with scarcity of resources and other threats resulting from changing surrounding natural factors, have created advantages for some elements, and have passed on to the next generation, ensuring the survival of the fittest type, while the less strong and less fitted ones have been destroyed, and discontinued, as their disadvantageous qualities have not passed on, they have vanished. This is natural selection.
The process of natural selection and random heritable mutations are core elements of the evolutionary theory formulated by Charles Robert Darwin in 1859 in On the Origin of Species.
Ants are eusocial creatures, they have reproductive specialization and biologically different classes, e.g. the class of worker ants. Such classes, consisting of certain biological types of members, exist in many colonies of Hymenoptera (an order of insects comprising ants, sawflies, wasps and bees) and termites (order Isoptera). Worker ants clearly exhibit behaviour of kin-altruism. Ant colonies even employ stigmergy: a form of Swarm Intelligence, by self-organization and decentralized indirect coordination without hierachy. As we don't observe hierarchy among worker ants in ant society, it is tempting to suggest that perhaps social hierarchy occurs only in species with individual reproduction, which is generating larger genetic differences between individuals and various degrees of kinship.
Competition and hierarchy are far from being the only character and form of existence, cooperation is another essential factor for survival and evolution. Mutual aid and cooperation as significant driving forces, preconditions for existence and major factors in evolution, have been described and analysed by Peter Kropotkin in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, and by other scientists, philosophers, anarchist thinkers, activists and revolutionaries. On the one hand competition and hierarchy, on the other hand cooperation and anarchy, are and have always been two sides of interrelations in life.
However, the inequality of social power, hierarchy and authority are predominant forces, and constitute the major reasons for all the misery and tragedy and other dreadful realities of human individuals and societies of our time, because they are the seeds and realizations of destructive energy and aggression. The more technologically advanced human societies are, the greater danger hierarchy and authoritarian culture become for the very survival of humans and the Earth, and indeed, at the present they are the most real, awful and imminent threat to individual human beings and to our world.
The character and the logic of early life are the origins of inequality of natural power found today. Even minute original differences of natural powers of individuals, when exercised in the context of the early logic of wildlife with program of survival, unintelligent reproduction, population of multiple elements and insufficient resources, would eventually develop into larger inequalities of power and, as a result, into hierarchies, that we presently experience. Simply put, with the given program and environment, the most probable course of development of wild life would be towards forms where the strongest usually exploit or kill the weakest. Salmon eat smaller fishes, bears eat salmon, humans eat bear and salmon, etc. Within the same species the situation is not much different, cannibalism is typical for many species, and competition, oppression, exploitation and killing are certainly not unusual.
But if the origin of natural power hierarchy is a definite point of departure within definite environment in our history, what is the origin of social (political, economic) power hierarchy then?
Organizations with one or multiple power centres are most natural results of the definite early form and evolution of unintelligent life, i.e. life with a relatively simple or primitive program, as we know it. Social power hierarchy has originally been developed based on natural power hierarchies, for example: a more naturally powerful individual within a group, in most cases physically strong one, has subdued less strong ones in its environment for achieving its goals of survival and pleasure at the sacrifice of others. But even the originally strongest element needed to fight for every single case, every time and against every new challenger in order to keep its unstable dominant position, because no other individuals had given the dominator any permanent right to control others.
Now, here comes in the logic of early wild life again: the program of survival within a group with a dominator has created a situation when the less strong individuals had to find other solutions than direct battle, because they had no chance of successful frontal confrontation with physically stronger elements. The most realistic possible strategies for a threatened weak individual are: A) leaving the group and facing other external threats, B) unite and organize with other physically weak but willing elements and jointly resist or conquer the dominator, C) discover any possible needs of the dominator and try to serve those needs so that the dominator would consider the servant as necessary for its own survival and pleasure, and would therefore spare it. Observations of the present conditions corroborate that the latter alternative had been the most common choice, as it has increased the survival odds of primitive, unintelligent and atomized individuals in face of violence. However, although submission may be a successful strategy for survival of some separated individuals, it is a defeatist and enslaving one for the entire class of the oppressed.
It is easier to impose authority and hierarchy upon unaware, alienated, separated, atomized, segregated, disunited and disorganized individuals, than on self-conscious, coordinated, united and organized group of individuals. This is precisely why the most favourite strategy of savage rulers of all kinds, fx. monarchs, priests, politicians, presidents or business leaders, is "Divide and rule", while the Communist Manifesto calls for union: "Proletariat of the world, unite!". The strength of liberation movement of slaves under the leadership of Spartacus against the mighty Roman Empire was not in the physical power of the rebel leader, but first of all in the unity, organization, coordination and strategy of the slaves. A powerful and successful organization of oppressed and unfree individuals requires awareness, unity of idea, solidarity and comradeship, communication and coordination.
Force, violence and the strategy of submission and subservience have been quintessential for the creation of social hierarchy and for establishing relations based on unequal social power. From the moment when someone accepts the authority of a dominator, the authoritarian system is established, and is gradually solidified by other weak and subservient individuals' acceptance of it. Further concentration of power occurs when those perverted and subservient individuals are used by the dominator to fight and oppress others, especially in cases when the dominator itself is actually incapable of more conquests using only its individual natural power alone. This process has thus created a large population of servants, or slaves, within a given group, who have been able to compensate their lesser natural power or strength with subservience, and have engaged in a forced cooperation with the dominator on unequal terms.
By evolution during millions of years, the part of the human character expressing authority and subservience in human societies has been passed on to new generations through genes, and education. Hierarchic relations have been transferred to new individuals through training into submissiveness and dependency. Similarly, the dominator and other authoritarian individuals train some of their offspring for a role as future dominators. Other power classes, i.e. groups of individuals with social powers differing from those of the dominator and from those of the vassals, are also initially created by the same logic of wildlife and primitive programs of survival in a violent environment, and later in a society without sufficiently advanced intelligent and emotional culture. Representatives of these additional classes of social power are usually serving the dominator or dominators for controlling the vassals.
Natural evolution of early life forms - the ever-present differences of natural powers of individuals, the effects of their program of survival, unintelligent reproduction, overpopulation with insufficient environmental resources, and natural selection - has created the conditions of force and violence transformed into social inequalities and hierarchies, into dominance, subservience and pervertedness among humans. This points at genes as the initial culprits of the violent conditions which eventually, indirectly, have an effect of a regenerative tragic social defect. (Remarkably, the genes cause also instinctive altruism and voluntary egalitarian mutual help and cooperation, especially in kinship). The cruel logic of early primitive life is the ancient origin of force and violence that today embodies the political, social and economic inequality, authority and hierarchy.
Does this imply that social inequality among humans is natural or normal? Not at all! It is true that social inequality is not created by any supernatural fantasy-figure like god, but by violence and coercion. It has causes historically originating in the nature, but so have libertarian and egalitarian behaviour and altruism, while social inequality violates the very natural needs and feelings of fairness and justice of all the exploited, oppressed and disadvantaged people. The state, capitalists and clergy might think that social inequality is natural and normal - like slave owners have been thinking about slavery until the abolitionist struggle largely put an end to it in the 19th and early 20th century - but the suffering subjects know all too well that social inequality is neither natural nor normal nor good. It is abnormal, extremely harmful, and unnatural, because it plunders, abuses the natural capabilities, and violates the natural needs, rights, emotions and the sense of justice of the ruled people. Social inequality is in breach of human reason and dignity, it is against the true nature of sovereign social human being. What is normal or acceptable is decided by people, and can and will be changed by the ruled people in their struggle for liberation. Social inequality is originally created by force, and it still persists today because the ruling class is protecting it by propaganda, intimidation and violence.
Reproduction of Social Inequality
Newborn members of a hierarchic society are initially not suited to a life in subservience and slavery. They need to be mentally programmed. We all know how the behaviour of a child is evolving from a relatively simple and egoistic into more complex and generally balanced: we all have been children and many of us have brought up some of them. Children are not coming to this world with a ready-made program of life in a society. They acquire the most of their social skills and social intelligence through learning. Upbringing, education and self-learning of children as early as from the time before the physical separation from their mother at birth, and particularly until the end of their teens, are the most fundamental processes of making a social human being. "With so many mindbytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns." However, learning undoubtedly continues throughout the whole life, and not a few people happen to change later in their lives, sometimes pretty radically so, their beliefs, ideas, theories, personality, and yes, their entire understanding and vision of the human kind and the universe.
Children are learning all the time from everyone, everywhere and everything: in the family, neighbourhood, school, prison, military, from television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, advertisements, internet, friends and others. Although learning involves a great deal of memorizing, it is not just plain copying, it's an interactive operation, where the actions and reactions between the children and their environment play an essential role.
From the early childhood, human being learns about power. The child discovers fairly soon that its father and mother and other caretakers and adults are endowed with far greater natural powers than it has, that they are physically stronger and possess more knowledge about the world, which gives them additional natural power. A child is usually not living entirely enclosed in, and limited to its family. The rest of the environment is also productively interacting with the child. The program of survival in general, and also the wish to satisfy other needs, e.g. various pleasures and play, drive the child into an exciting journey of learning the vital skills necessary for further existence. The entire natural and social environment puts up a large set of challenges before the child, that has to be handled effectively. The ability of individual decision making becomes one of the highest skills the child has to learn then, and rather fast. What are so these challenges the child has to tackle?
Despite seemingly innumerable varieties of challenges, they can all be reasonably well defined into few main categories - these are the interrelations with: parents and other caretakers; siblings; children outside family; adults outside family; nature; the opposite sex; own body; human-made nature (science, technology, infrastructure, culture). Solutions to the challenges imply finding ways to tackle cooperation and conflicts in these interrelations, learning the necessary skills and repeatedly using them for future similar challenges, and continuously improving those skills. The culture of human society is so perverted and corrupt with authority exercised by a power-greedy bunch of dominators: bosses, leaders, bureaucrats, politicians, teachers, clergy, capitalists, police, military - both men and women - to such a horrifying extent and depth, that children have no other choices, but to follow the path of their prehistoric wild progenitors.
While those early living organisms evolved into a relatively more advanced life forms with corresponding qualities of social power in their organizations during millions of years, the child has only 13-19 years at its disposal, it must learn to survive and satisfy its other needs, or it will be destroyed. Basically, similar alternatives are available to the child as those that were valid for early living creatures long ago in an environment with interactions distinguished by unequal physical and social power, a hierarchy.
The realistic alternative strategies for a child are: A) to leave the family and the familiar society and to face other external threats (many children go to streets, criminal hierarchic gangs or simply withdraw completely - commit suicide), B) organize with others living in similar situation and jointly resist the dominators, C) study the needs of the dominators and try to serve those needs so that the dominators consider the child as necessary for their own survival and pleasure, and therefore spare it and use it as a suitable member of the hierarchy. But the children of our days have much less real freedom of choice of realistic strategies then the early primitive life forms had: the present culture actively preaches and teaches authoritarianism, it indoctrinates children and programs them for roles as servants or dominators. The disobedient are cruelly punished. Children learn the dichotomy of the society with unequal social power, the hierarchy, the capitalism: either go down and be exploited and devastated, or climb up the ladder of power, serving the authority and suppressing and destroying fellow humans.
The agents of dreadful hierarchy are well aware of the importance of brainwashing from early age. In the words of USican religious propagandist, anti-humanist, homophobe, right-wing conservative, Judeo-Christian moralist James Dobson: "Those who control what young people are taught and what they experience - what they see, hear, think, and believe, will determine the future course for the nation."
The mentality of a distorted average US citizen can be a demonstrative example of what a hierarchy-programmed individual looks like: the highest virtue is considered to be the moneymaking, the highest success and social position is that of a big money owner and luxury consumer, while capitalism, i.e. domination and exploitation of humans by humans, is the main official national religion, although numerous other religions, fanatic sects and puritanic hypocrite communities are also active, such as Greed, Belief in Authority, Judaism, Judeocentrism, Holocaustism (or Holocaustianity), Christianity, Judeo-Christianity, Islam, Anticommunism, Antisocialism and Cult of Cruelty-and-Violence. Brutality, hatred, racism, sexism, fascism, lies and violence are normal way of life. 2.5 million people are carrying their existence inside US prison walls as inmates (only 5% of them are violent criminals), thousands on death row. This is the highest number of incarcerated people in the world, double of the number of prisoners in China, which has 4 times larger population than USA. Many millions are working in the penitentiary, military, police, secret, security and other antihuman, violent and parasitic organizations.
The whole nation is characteristically defined by "90-9-1-0 division": ca. 0%, or an immensurable minority with enormous wealth is situated at the absolute top of the social pyramid, steering the reign of terror over the rest, this is the highest stratum of plutocracy; 1% of the population on the top of the power class-hierarchy with the lion share of capital; 9% serving them and controlling, suppressing, torturing, exploiting and murdering the remaining 90%. Numerous lobby groups (including the powerful Jewish lobby) and corporate interests direct the illicit government and Congress of the wealthy and powerful crooks who show alternating Democratic and Republican masks covering the same anti-democratic, corrupt oligarchic party ogre. "The spirit of graft and lawlessness is the American Spirit." Horrible destructions and massacres of hundreds of millions of people around the world (American Aborigines, Africans, Indonesians, Vietnamese, Koreans, Kampucheans, Afghans, Iraqis, Serbians, Colombians, Palestinians, Chileans, Argentineans, Nicaraguans and many more) committed by USican empire are, of course, accepted or treated with delight or connivance by the zombies of this fraudulent and perverted nation and its international agents and clients. Dreadful genocidal occupation of Palestine by the terrorist militarist state of apartheid Israel is supported, supplied and financed mainly by USican plutocracy. Consumerism, TV-mania, showholism, technomania, somnific and stupefying physical and spiritual junk food production and consumption on daily basis, disregard for the environment, bodily and cultural obesity, cult of hierarchy, disrespect for the world outside USA, social inequality and brutality are business as usual for the large population of disillusioned, degraded and hopeless USicans. The only short term solution for many of these anomic creatures has become the longing after the next fix of money and shopping dose and other varieties of addiction. Many wonderful people in USA are taken hostage by the murderous imperialism, ignorant nationalism, degenerative religiosity, fascist statism and dehumanizing capitalism in their country. "I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system." With various degrees of modifications, the same kind of distortion of humanity is continuously going on also in other parts of the world. Families, educational institutions, political parties, parliaments and governments, police and military, media and servile, disingenuous scientists are working hand in hand to maintain and further strengthen the existing social inequalities.
Authoritarian culture is highly degenerative and regenerative. The new generation learns how to surrender or dominate fellow humans and then practices these techniques in everyday life for getting its carrot: money, praise and stability, and for avoiding the stick: poverty, sweatshop, disease, prison and premature death. The deepest penetrated, extremely contagious and long lasting virus of dehumanization is the belief in authority, which people, and especially children, are continuously injected throughout their life in hierarchic, e.g. religious, statist, capitalist, fascist and militarist societies, often tempted by authoritarian education, false democracy, and imperialist "peace".
Reproduction of social inequality and authority is a circular and cyclic process: the society educates children in hierarchy; children grow up into subservient, passive or dominant beings, they exploit, oppress and destroy other humans and the natural environment; they bring up their own children the same way through family education, schools, media of the rulers and other institutions of hierarchy. During thousands of years only the appearance and forms of this cycle have changed, the essence remains the same: the intellectual and cultural character of many people and their philosophy of life in hierarchic societies are still approximately at the level of the early original wild stage of life. Not all the people are, however, corrupt and tainted by this cycle, and the evil circle of regeneration of hierarchy and authority is possible to brake, and the state, capitalism, clergy and other institutions of dominance can be eliminated with the will of individuals inspired and united by the idea of freedom and equality for all. "Don't be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there's no poverty to be seen, because the poverty's been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you.
Definition of Freedom
Freedom of human being is the situation when the human has the ability, resources and power to live, think, feel, communicate and act according to one's own individual will in equality and solidarity with all other humans without infringing anyone's freedom, in conditions not enforced by and not enforcing upon others, without submitting to and without imposing upon others any real or imaginary, earthly or heavenly, natural or supernatural hierarchy, authority, will or power. Freedom of human being is the life with direct democratic participation in the society, without any ruler, monarch, judge, state or government, any parliament, party, politician, representative or proxy, any classes or casts, any capitalist, owner or boss, any clergy, priest or prophet, any ideology, institution or system of unfreedom, any authoritarian or heteronomous tradition, any moralism, dogma or delusion: religion, cult, faith, belief, superstition, witchcraft, sorcery, deism, spiritualism, astrology, worship, holiness, god, satan, messiah, angel, ghost, spirit or soul, without being subjected to and without subjecting others to violence, force, coercion, restraint, intimidation, domination, manipulation, addiction, control, censorship, discrimination, oppression, ownership, market, exploitation, deprivation or harm. Thus, freedom of human being is the freedom of sovereign social being, as a natural fusion of positive liberty and negative liberty within balanced relations between humans, which is only possible in stateless, classless, egalitarian, secular and solidary society based on equal rights, conditions, opportunities and decision-making power for everyone, direct democracy in legal, political, economic, social and all other domains of life, self-management, individual and collective autonomy and decentralized-horizontal federation. Human life in dignity, true justice and stable peace can not be realized unless everyone becomes free. At any time and place, human being is free only to the degree by which one's life corresponds to this definition of freedom. The aim of anarchism is the creation of anarchy: a society where all humans achieve maximum freedom.
In hierarchic, authoritarian and capitalist societies freedom of one person will clash with that of another, for stratified and market societies are based on comdomex relations - competition, domination, exploitation, causing antagonistic conflicts between humans. Thus, in statist and capitalist societies freedom of all human beings is impossible, because the doctrine of the ruling class is promoting and guaranteeing unequal social power, and thereby unequal degree of freedom, it imposes social inequality, and thereby unfreedom for the vast majority. Freedom of human being is also impossible in religion and religious society, where human mind and will are enslaved by god, dogma, other irrational beliefs or priests. "Social solidarity is the first human law; freedom is the second law. Both laws interpenetrate each other and, being inseparable, constitute the essence of humanity. Thus, freedom is not the negation of solidarity. On the contrary, it represents the development and, so to speak, the humanizing of it." Only societies without ruling classes, built on social equality, are able to create and secure conditions in which the freedom of one individual will not deprive another person of her freedom. This can be achieved by applying true democracy (i.e. direct democracy) to all aspects of life, including political, economic and social realms, where free agreements between equals, direct democratic participation, equal economic rights and solidarity will make freedom of every individual possible, where people will make their own rules by which they want to live, and where laws will only be made directly by all those who are affected by them. The oppressed, dispossessed and exploited people in the present misanthropic world order are not free. They revolt against the rulers because they want to be free. They want to live in social justice, which requires that all the people have equal rights and freedoms, maximized for each individual and realized through voluntary cooperation of equals. This is what anarchism is about. Every human has right to live in freedom and dignity. The state and capitalism reserve that right for the rulers at the expense of the ruled.
Believe it or not, but from time to time I meet some unfortunate people who tell me that they do not necessarily desire to be free, and that they may prefer to submit to the will of monarch, government, capitalist, priest, god or other entity. My response to people with such disastrous inclination to self-enslavement is that whatever incredible, irrational or defective reason they might have to "voluntarily" give up their own freedom, they have no right whatsoever to impose unfreedom upon other human beings or to obstruct the course of others towards liberation, and that if they try, they will make themselves the number one enemy of human freedom. Nevertheless, I think that this type of delusional state of mind will become an extreme rarity when the liberation struggle will create new realities.
Cooperation between humans is a natural and necessary instrument of survival and happiness for all. It is perfectly possible to cooperate freely and at the same time not infringe the freedom of others, provided the cooperating and affected parties have equal social (political, economic) power and they equally participate in the decision making processes. In cases when the interacting parties are endowed with unequal social powers or social positions, their co-acting inevitably leads to a situation, where more powerful part exploits and represses the weaker part, as it is, for example, between private and state capitalists on one side, and workers on the other side. Workers do not have economic capital, while their antagonist counterparty, in this case private and state capitalists, have got it all, and thus, have much greater economic, political and social power, and can force workers to sell themselves to capital owners.
Freedom of an individual in its environment within human societies requires a satisfactorily high degree of development of its mental, cultural and emotional faculties, which are essential for understanding the effects of own actions for the freedom of others, for contributing to, and ensuring an egalitarian balance of social power among all members of the society, for feeling empathy for other humans and respecting their dignity and their needs. The logic of early wildlife, still in use by present days' power mongers, is not capable of ensuring freedom, justice and peace for all humans on our planet, moreover, if allowed, it always will deprive humans of their freedom in order to ensure greater social power and wealth for a group of privileged specimen. "Man does not become man, nor does he achieve awareness or realization of his humanity, other than in society and in the collective movement of the whole society; he only shakes off the yoke of internal nature through collective or social labour. Without his material emancipation there can be no intellectual or moral emancipation for anyone. Man in isolation can have no awareness of his liberty. Being free for man means being acknowledged, considered and treated as such by another man, and by all the men around him. Liberty is therefore a feature not of isolation but of interaction, not of exclusion but rather of connection. I myself am human and free only to the extent that I acknowledge the humanity and liberty of all my fellows. I am properly free when all the men and women about me are equally free. Far from being a limitation or a denial of my liberty, the liberty of another is its necessary condition and confirmation." The evolution of humans to this day has not created a basic global culture and ethic, which could make sure that every human understands and secures the freedom of all and everyone, and the reason for this misfortune and backwardness is not the lacking individual natural capabilities of humans in general, but the regenerative hierarchic and authoritarian culture imposed by the ruling class. Most of the humans living today are capable of understanding the acute necessity of freedom for all, many humans live a life without repressing or exploiting others. A number of brave humans with highly developed mental, cultural and emotional character actively struggle for a better world with equality of social power, and thus, freedom for all, a world without capitalism, state and clergy.
The most important factor leading to, and underlying, a future global free society - which means a worldwide society of autonomous communities where all individuals cooperate as equals, free from coercion, exploitation and manipulation - is a sufficiently high degree of freedom-culture of individuals. People in our days who still exploit or suppress others. Monarchs, politicians, bureaucrats, statesmen, clergy, capitalists and bosses of all kinds, colours, shapes and sizes, are not fully developed, complete human beings. They are spiritually decaying relics of the past, of the early wildlife. They are remnants of brutal and mindless life-form impeding real progress and freedom of humanity. They are the enemies of humanity.
All intellectual, technological and scientific achievements accumulated during millions of years of evolution have not brought even an inch of true human freedom and progress. In fact, the more powerful the technology of hierarchic culture grows, the more we approach the worst one of our possible future destinations, which is humanity's final and complete cultural, emotional, and subsequently physical destruction. It is not probable that we ever can alter or slow this unfortunate motion without radically changing human culture and interrelations. There is no truth in airplanes, battleships, missiles, bombs, guns, police, medicine and radio, when people everywhere are being devastated under the yoke of leaders, clergy, capitalists and other agents of hierarchy. The only praiseworthy endeavour in this respect is the freeing of humanity from this yoke. The only genuine achievement of our long suffered evolution will be the freedom for all in a society without authority and hierarchy, in other words: anarchy. Authoritarian culture causes disaster and despair, destroys human beings and the natural environment. Nothing less than deep, total and global revolution and egalitarian free evolution can save the humanity and other life on our planet. "No gods, no masters." Those who exercise or support hierarchy, do not employ their own freedom and their truly human capacities, if they still have any left in any meaningful way, they are creeps repeating the behaviour of the wild primitive creatures in their early phase of existence. They simply use their natural and social powers for carrying out an aggression against fellow humans depriving them of their freedom.
Equality of social, political and economic power and freedom for all will not only provide clean water, air, food, good health, safety and security for every single human, it will also release the positive emotions and the enormous creative energy inherently present in everyone before authority kills these qualities. It will unleash a myriad of cultural activities. Personal development and realization, play and recreation will be open to each and all, something that now is mostly reserved for the privileged elite. People will finally feel their dignity, which has been taken away from them by the oppressors and exploiters in stratified societies.
In human societies freedom for all can only be obtained by everyone taking it, defending it and securing it for the future by always smashing any system that creates or reproduces social inequality.
Unfreedom
Unfreedom is the lack of freedom. It may be characterized by heteronomy and subjection to hierarchy, authority, state, capitalism, religion, violence, force, coercion, restraint, intimidation, domination, manipulation, addiction, control, censorship, discrimination, oppression, ownership, market, exploitation, deprivation or harm.
Unfortunately, unfreedom is the cruel norm of humans life in every corner of the globe. It is exercised through intimidation and control by governments, police, military, bureaucrats, capitalists, religious and other leaders, it is expressed in poverty, hunger, misery, imprisonment, war, murder, torture, hate, mutual and self-destruction. Institutions of unfreedom, those who create it, those who enforce it, those who serve and maintain it and those who support it, are abundant and omnipresent. There is really no need for searching for relations, organizations, ideologies and beliefs, which are establishing and enforcing conditions for unfreedom in our societies, because they are here and there and everywhere all the time. It is, nevertheless, useful to take a look at the strongest, largest and most macabre factors that cause, spread and prolong the worst social disease of all, unfreedom. A possible list of all such factors would be almost endless, but it is worthwhile to remember some of the most dangerous of them, to know the face of the enemies of humanity, before we can learn how to eliminate them.
Ideologies of unfreedom
Belief in Authority
Authority, and the belief in it, are the worst factors causing social inequality and unfreedom. Belief in authority is an ideology, or perhaps a religion, expressed in various forms, developed during millions of years of unhappy evolution of living organisms and their organizations, it comes from the very early times of wildlife with its brutal, primitive logic. Further progress of humanity toward freedom for all can only happen if the reason and positive essence of humans take the place of the savage instincts of wildlife, and become the main driving logic of human life. It is past time for us to let go of the heteronomy and the grim illusion of authority.
Believing in, or voluntarily submitting to authority or any of its incarnations: a variety of leaders, gods and their institutions, is a sign of wickedness, weakness, extreme stupidity or complete lack of individual will. An intelligent, mature and healthy human being can never believe in surrendering and becoming a subject to anyone or anything. Consulting a specialist, or asking a doctor to operate a tumour is not an act of submission, and a teacher is not exercising an undesired form of authority by teaching you to read. But if they, bosses, politicians or anyone else try to control your life, give you orders, exploit and oppress you, create laws, set budgets and taxes, and make other decisions on your behalf - they impose authority on you and commit violence against you, taking away your freedom. "Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from my mind is such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. For such and such knowledge I apply to such and such a specialist. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the specialist to impose his authority on me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, and their knowledge, though reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure." The criticism presented here is against illegitimate authority. Anarchists distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate authority. Examples of legitimate (justified, acceptable) authority in social context are rare, typical ones are that of an adult preventing a small child from wandering into traffic, and that used by the society to stop authoritarians, capitalists, dominators and other sociopaths and psychopaths. Examples of illegitimate (criminal) authority, illicitly imposing and exercising social power over human beings, in hierarchic society are abundant, including that of the state, parliament, capitalist, boss, judge, priesthood and other rulers and dominators. Such authoritarian institutions and power agents are incompatible with true democracy, i.e. direct democracy. Elites have stolen power and wealth from the population, and hence possess more political, social and economic power than other humans. Illegitimate authority is an imposition of various forms of institutionalized power, oppressive and exploitative order and slavery upon human beings.
Until recently slave owners were trying to justify their authority over slaves by their own superiority, god, religion or racism. Authority in modern societies is an expression of a similar fallacy, it is based on brazen contempt and disrespect for human beings from whom the rulers and the rich have plundered their power, resources and money. Yes, our fight against rulers is about freedom, respect and justice. Concentration of power and wealth in the hands of various elites is a crime against humanity, and it shall and will be eliminated by the dominated and exploited people in the struggle for liberty and social justice.
Those so-called human beings who impose their authority and power upon humans, are nothing else but savage and cannibalistic crooks, simply disgusting refuse. The cannibalistic character of authority is explicitly expressed by the fact that leaders and dominators take away people's liberty and possibilities for self-determination, self-development, independent and critical thinking and decision making, direct and equal participation, equal chances for good education, health care, travelling, creative activities and other opportunities, while the authoritarians themselves revel in wealth and power robbed from their subjects. "The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle." People with authority are devouring their subjects' self-confidence, sense of purpose and life energy, as it can easily be observed among millions of the ruled who lose their optimism and hope, and en masse resort to alcoholism and other addictive and self-destructive habits, so convenient for the ruling class. This is far from being only a developing-world phenomenon. The ruled subjects in the West are similarly oppressed and brainwashed by their elite, even when many of them may have a better material life relative to people in Africa.
Indoctrination by belief in authority has now even resulted in a culture institutionalized by a system of special leadership schools and management courses, where future bosses are being trained in how to become good leaders, which in reality means becoming dehumanized cannibals. Leading, commanding, controlling, oppressing and exploiting humans by humans is cannibalism, it reduces human beings and kills them for feeding the pathetic ego of the leaders and for filling their bank accounts. Historical lessons indicate that any good day any of the rulers may taste the wrath of the oppressed and exploited people, or otherwise share the destiny of their imbecile predecessors, including Julius Caesar, Charles I, Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Alexander II, Umberto I, William McKinley Jr, Nicholas II, Talat, Djemal and Enver Pashas, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, John F. Kennedy, Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu.
Authority is a scam, and the belief in it is a severe delusion, a self-enslaving and self-destructive fraud.
Religion"Religion is a superstition that originated in human's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an organized institution that has always been a stumbling block to progress." Fear of punishment, ill luck, disease and death were used by our early progenitors in full extent to create a system of dogmas and phantasmagoria for intimidating and controlling gullible fellow human beings and for justifying the rule of humans over humans. A fearful or superstitious being can easily be suppressed, controlled, exploited and used as a tool for spreading unfreedom. Any religious person is a victim of deep emotional distress, which at some point of time has come out of self-control and later become magnified and solidified by religious beliefs, in other words: chronic distress and delusion. The concept of god is cunning, farcical rubbish, it is a result of hallucination caused by fear and hopelessness, providing a dose of relief to disoriented individuals and making them more strongly dependent on this concept, similar to prolonged exposure to narcotic and psychotic drugs.
A credible Darwinian theory about the genetic roots of a specific psychological characteristic that makes human brain susceptible to the mental deficiency expressed by religion is offered by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion. That particular characteristic, as Dawkins explains, has been acquired by humans through natural evolution not at all for religion, of course, but for something completely different. Natural selection has developed child's brain "with a tendency to believe whatever their parents and tribal elders tell them. Such trusting obedience is valuable for survival", because it is crucial to human survival that the accumulated experience of previous generations is passed on to children. The drawback of this important quality is child's slavish gullibility, which inevitably makes it vulnerable to infection by mind viruses, such as religion, or other superstitious and irrational beliefs and ideas. This hypothesis seems very appealing. It is in logical harmony with the science of natural evolution, offering compelling explanation of the facts. In other words, the propensity of human brain to the mental virus of religion is evidently an unfortunate by-product of evolution.
The by-product hypothesis about the genetic roots of human propensity to religion is also consistent with related conclusions in the field of evolutionary psychology. Children have a natural tendency towards a dualistic theory of mind. Dualists believe that the mind is some kind of spirit that can exist separately from matter, out of human body. Monists believe that the mind is a natural expression of matter, of the brain, and it can not exist apart from matter. Dualists readily believe in demons, spirits, angels, and can, for example, explain disease or undesired behaviour as "possession by devils", they can see spirits in anything and everywhere. Young children are even more dualistic than adults. Teleology, a tendency to assign purpose to everything (e.g. belief in destiny of a human, predefined by god), is also a typical native property of a child's mind. Dawkins gives an explanation of native childish dualism and teleology based on the science of evolution: these psychological properties have been useful for survival because they have enabled human brain to make rapid and efficient predictions about other entities and their movements in nature. Natural selection has favoured the genetic properties of dualism and teleology because these were useful for survival in a dynamic world full of dangers and threats, by making very rapid short-cut decisions and guesses in any situation. Also in light of dualism and teleology, the predisposition of humans, and especially children, to mental viruses like religion, is a calamitous by-product of natural evolution.
One simplified but useful analogy to this evolutionary by-product hypothesis is when a computer is developed for performing a range of useful functions for people, but its essential ability to efficiently install new software and its open data input channels make it vulnerable to a hacker attack that plants computer viruses which can take control of the machine, use it for another purpose, abuse it, make it run in closed cycles, incapacitate it, or simply destroy the system, just like a priest's religious virus does to human mind. The computer's susceptibility to harmful viruses is in this case a by-product of its naturally useful characteristics, particularly its open-architecture system.
Not every human being believes in religion or god. Personal circumstances, especially what a person has been taught since childhood, and individual qualities, especially a healthy balance between emotions and strong reason, play a crucial role in forming a critical mind, immunity against mental impairment, and ergo the ability to be free from religion.
Humans are not only intelligent, but also emotional beings. Emotions are nature's wonder. They can make us happy, glad, excited, loving, laughing. We can feel sympathy and empathy. Emotions are not only positive, they can also make us sad, angry, jealous, aggressive, depressed. Some of the most important emotions resulting from our early stages of evolution, are fear and anxiety. Originally, negative emotions were developed during early struggles of more primitive forms of life, as they enabled individuals to be more effective survivors, for better self-preservation under threats constantly surrounding them. Fear and anxiety, like certain other emotions, have been useful for survival, but they also have made it easier for the more powerful creatures to subdue, control or manipulate the weaker individuals, utilizing all the advantages that negative emotions in the weak individuals gave to dominators, combined with dominators' aggressiveness and ruthlessness.
Emotions have an amazing ability to encourage and facilitate or oppose and block critical analyses and decisions performed by human mind. A healthy balance between intellect and emotions is the sole guarantee for a meaningful life of a complete human being. Unfortunately, some individuals suffer from excessive and overwhelming emotions, they tend to get into strong imbalance or full chaos of emotions contra reason. Deficit of critical reasoning, combined on the one side with hopelessness, fear, anxiety, submissiveness, and on the other side with euphoric exultation, ecstasy, aggressiveness and cruelty, make up the cornerstones of the insane phenomenon called religion. Emotional turmoil of this kind is often combined with inexorably diminishing cognitive abilities and detachment from reality. This is how religion can succeed in controlling people, often brainwashing them from early childhood, causing highly erratic, irrational, bizarre and destructive behaviour.
Human beings with confused or dysfunctional minds, deprived of critical reasoning, are easily converted into dangerous machines programmed by religion. When the human brain is infested and damaged by the virus of religion, the human being's life is transformed into a dark existence controlled by nonsensical dogmas and absolutist moralism. Religion degrades human intellectual abilities and behaviour by such a great extent, that one of the very fundamental qualities of being human, the human reason, is subverted. Religion is one of the worst causes and forms of various failures of human reason, which blocks the normal process of thought and rational reflection, and leads to multidimensional breakdown on individual and group level.
Physical existence of humans, whose ability of critical reasoning is destroyed by pathological ignorance called religion, is a meaningless waste of human life. The schizophrenic fantasy about big-daddy-god may provide illusory consolation to certain people with weak characters and miserable minds, but alas the effect of emotional self-doping, persistent infantilism and paedomorphosis intrinsic to religious minds is equivalent to demise of these humans as reasonable beings. Religion kills thinking creatures, and voluntary capitulation to religious indoctrination qualifies for intellectual suicide.
Religion is spiritual slavery, a tremendous scam, an imposition aimed at simplifying and degrading humans, depriving them of their natural mental power. Religion is a conspicuous source of unfreedom, subservience, hate and a number of terrible, incorrigible global disasters that are devastating our world. "If God is, human is a slave; now, human can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose." Religious and authoritarian indoctrination from early childhood is the main cause of irrational beliefs and heteronomy later in life, but fear is also crucial for adult religious zombies. Religious persons are cowards, because they are afraid to take personal responsibility for their own lives, terrified by the fact that death is the end of existence, scared to death by delusions about hell and horrified by the perspective of free and critical reasoning and personal decision-making independent of priests, scripts and divine phantoms. Hence they resort to religion, big-daddy god and other superstitions for consolation, illusion, dogma, emotional narcotizing and comfort of mental slavery. Unfortunately this individual cowardice is often combined with sadism expressed in imposing religious doctrine, moralism and tyranny on others.
Intolerance, bigotry, hatred, self-denial, mutual denial, monopoly on various designs of god and other extremities and ludicrous nonsense, various crimes as coercion, plunder, torture and murder in the name of god, violation of freedoms and rights of women and homosexuals, fanatical warmonging, and confrontations of aggressive zealots causing devastating wars, are inseparable qualities of the repulsive phenomenon of religion.
Religious beliefs can be so degenerating that humans can become cannibals under their influence even now, in 21th century. Consider this: there are hundreds of ghastly murders every year in South Africa, Tanzania, Burundi and other African countries - so called muti ('medicine') murders - ritual human sacrifice practices committed by traditional healers (sangomas, there are 70,000 of them in South Africa), killers hired by them, other believers and criminals for harvesting human organs and body parts believed to give special powers of witchcraft. Usually, victims are first kidnapped or ambushed, then often tortured while organs are ripped off, cut off or cut out, because the criminals believe that the agony of victims adds value to the witchcraft power of removed organs. Children's organs are most valued in this macabre market, a result of peculiar marriage between religion and capitalism. Human sacrifice exists also in India. Just one example: in Digras village in Maharashtra, Hingoli district, 4 boys, aged between 4-12, were killed between December 2009 and March 2010 through ritual murder by a gang of a childless woman, who had planned to murder additional 7 children, believing that the human sacrifice would help her to fulfil her wish to become a mother. A local godman, after communicating with the gods and spirits, had prescribed the sacrifice as a solution to her problems. So much for African and Indian traditional religions, but these are not the only instances, the world is saturated with crimes related to religion and other insane beliefs and practices, including those of major religions.
Religious traditions can be quite morbid and sickening, also genital mutilation for religious reasons is widespread, e.g. circumcision of Muslims and Jews. In his book In Defence of Atheism, Michel Onfray writes on Jewish circumcision: "...the circumciser uses a knife placed beforehand on the mother's pillow in order to attract a maximum of propitiatory favor. He pulls the penis, grasps the foreskin, pushes back the glans, and cuts the flesh without anesthetic to remove the prepuce. After swallowing the wine he has been swilling in his mouth, he sucks the wound - this ritual aspiration is called the meziza - and then, says the Talmud, he draws the blood remaining in the wound into his mouth. He spits three times." Much of African clitoridectomy is performed by "total removal of the clitoris, labia minora and labia majora, followed by sewing together of the remaining tissue, often with thorns, leaving a matchstick-caliber opening for urination and menstruation".
In India, cases of witch-hunt are commonplace: villagers and tribesmen beat, torture and kill women suspected of being witches, possessing witchcraft or other divine powers. Often families of "witches", including children, are terrorised or killed as well. Villagers in India are often accused of witchcraft. In some cases religious murders serve as a method for violent settlement of personal, land or property disputes - another example of unholy but common blend of religion, violence and capitalism.
Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions have their own homicidal and genocidal praxis stemming from preachings and sanctions of their holy books and priesthood - just take a look at their horrible history and present state of affairs. Here is a very brief list, only to show some examples. In Turkey, violence against the infidels (non-Muslims), especially Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians, was morally acceptable largely for religious reasons, and was encouraged by many nationalist and racist religious leaders and imams. Orders and messages from the government, intended to incite hatred and aggression against the infidels as part of the genocide plan, fell on fertile ground among Muslim subjects, and the hunting season against human victims was opened. More than 2.5 million people were murdered by Turks and Kurds in brutal ethno-religious cleansing and genocide in 1890s-1920s. The massive rape, torture and murder of women and men, children of both genders, and elders, committed by Muslims during that period have been so gruesome that many people in Turkey till this day are unwilling or unable to face the facts of the horrific crimes of their ancestors.
Slave trade was very much an Islamic occupation long before the transatlantic trade began. An estimated 10 million non-Muslim men, women and children were enslaved and traded in slave markets by Muslims during more than thousand years. Slave trafficking between Africa, Middle East and Asia was particularly lucrative for Islamic traders. All this was sanctioned by Koran and Compassionate Allah, of course. At the same time millions of non-Jewish slaves, especially Slavs, were trafficked from Eastern Europe to Western Europe and to Muslim states by Jewish slave traders, and it is probable that the English word slave originates from this Jewish business. Jewish slave traders later played a major role in transatlantic slave trade from Africa to Americas, not feeling any moral guilt, as these slaves were also non-Jewish.
90% of the consumption of heroin in the West comes from Afghanistan, where the production has grown from virtually zero during Taliban to 130% of the entire world demand as a direct result of US-led NATO occupation of the country. Afghan poppy farmers openly admit that destroying Western societies by flooding them with heroin is part of their jihad against the infidels. Muslim and Jewish producers, smugglers, traders and money launderers of heroin, crack cocaine and ecstasy don't have great qualms of conscience because they believe the main users are in Western countries, i.e. non-Muslim and non-Jewish, so that profiting from destruction of infidel individuals and societies is some sort of jihad for these criminals - both Islam and Judaism clearly express intense hatred towards, and sanctions to harm, enslave and exterminate the infidels in any way possible.
How about Christians? Well, Europe has been in deep multidimensional cultural crisis, moral breakdown, ignorance and violence during the dark religious ages of Christian rule, especially in its first 1500 years. Europeans have been hyperactive in witch-hunt, torture and murder of non-Christians and wrong-Christians for centuries, and internecine wars between various Christian denominations have been the norm. Judeo-Christian religious doctrine has played an important role in European and USican violence against the rest of the world, imposing slavery and committing genocide on every continent. The Catholic Church has been among the best friends of the Nazis during WW2, it has also helped Nazi war criminals to hide when the war was over. The Palestinian Holocaust committed by Jews in apartheid Israel and Palestine is one of the modern practical implementations of Judaism. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are directly responsible for sexual discrimination, abuse and enslavement of women.
The list of religious insanities and grisly violence can go on and on, continuing very much also in our own time, and human victims are counted at least in tens of millions, while the ocean of human pain, suffering and tragedy caused by religion is immeasurable.
Since the beginning of human time, the religious indoctrination of total submission to gods has been useful for cultural reinforcement of total submission to the head of a family, which has been transferred onto total submission to rulers in larger organizations. Religion and religious organizations have always been essential parts of the cradle of power and wealth, they are continuously utilized by the clergy, monarchs and other members of power elite to destroy the free spirit of humans in an attempt to eternalize their reign and to maximize their profit. Their holy books are instruments of stupefaction, a way of propagating pest amongst the population. Their prayers are empty delirium, when repeated enough times, they sink humans into an infatuating trance and agony of self-deception. Preachers and clergy are pathological liars or misguided animals. They have a vital and vested interest in tormenting people with their unbelievably idiotic nonsense: they need to satisfy their own thirst of power over others and their egoistic desire to avoid loneliness by increasing the number of religious zombies around them.
In addition to being a serious threat to mental and emotional health and physical existence of all humans, religion is also big business, making huge profits for clergy, especially for those on the top of the hierarchy, by manipulating and exploiting believers and robbing the non-believers alike through state subsidies, religious tax, property ownership, financial investments and transactions and other corrupt arrangements. The state and capitalists are actively taking part in the global religious business grabbing their share of the loot.
Religion is a parasitic mental defect, a debilitating perversion with its poisonous ideas of gods, satans, angels, messiahs and the whole rest of its antihuman depraved sanctuary.
Egocentrism
Taking care of own personal needs and interests is normal, natural and necessary, but the exceedingly selfish motive for one's actions within a society is a relic from the savage past in human evolution. It is the fertile ground for all competition and conflicts, the building block of a bestial system called capitalism and the central tool of power brokers. "This 'rugged individualism' has inevitably resulted in the greatest modern slavery, the crassest class distinctions, driving millions to the breadline. 'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a handful of self-seeking 'supermen'. America is perhaps the best representative of this kind of individualism, in whose name political tyranny and social oppression are defended and held up as virtues; while every aspiration and attempt of man to gain freedom and social opportunity to live is denounced as 'unAmerican' and evil in the name of that same individualism." Without taking the needs and rights of other human beings, of the community and natural environment into consideration in decision making process and acting, there can be no justice, peace and freedom for all. Egocentrism prevents solidarity and unity among individuals and therefore supports and strengthens the power of dominators and exploiters.
Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism is a belief holding that one's own group of people, based on ethnic, tribal, cultural, racial, religious or linguistic characteristics, is better, more valuable, more worthy, more important than others, and superior to them. Ethnocentrism is a product of harsh struggle for survival, and competition among the beasts and groups of beasts living before our time, who have gradually developed into humans and other animals without essentially changing their group psychology. Ethnocentrism and nativism are unnecessary nowadays, as humans have accumulated more than enough knowledge about ethnicity, and about how it is possible to survive without fighting and destroying each other, but rather peacefully cooperating, interacting, and possibly integrating in such a way that no homogeneous group dominates others.
Many examples of ethnocentrism are well known, they are filling the books of history and the news media. One of the most prominent and infamous realizations of ethnocentrism is that of the Jews: worldwide religious, ethnic or traditionist followers of a historic-mythologic, primitive, illiterate donkey-nomadic tribe from the times of Egyptian, Babylonian, Iranian, Greek and Roman civilizations. The early Hebrews and their tribal settlements coalesced gradually on the fringes of ancient civilizations during the bronze age from successive migrations of marauders, marginalised nomadic pastoralists, people of lowest social orders, outcasts, refugees and runaway slaves of Mesopotamian and Egyptian stocks into what was the land of Canaan, an Egyptian province inhabited by Canaanites.
The resulting multifaceted mix of polytheistic, shamanic migrant gangs and Canaanite clans (one of Canaanite gods was El, as in Isra-el), self-identified through circumcision, was overwhelmed and scattered by the more advanced Philistines, moving down from the north in the 11-10th century BCE (Before Common Era). Many of their clans in northern Palestine were assimilated by Assyrian conquerors during the 8th century BCE. Eventually the original Canaanite / Hebrew settlers of Palestine vanished into history. In the 6th century BCE a Persian-sponsored priesthood of Yahweh cult (actually Yahweh Sabaoth, i.e. the tribal military commander-god) settled in Judaea and invented Jews, i.e. fabricated the Big Lie by concocting a fake Jewish "sacred history", known to the Jews as Torah (or Pentateuch) and to Christians as the first 'five books' of the Old Testament.
The first one thousand years of this grand hoax of "history" have absolutely no empirical foundation, no connection with historical reality whatsoever. The entire body of this Hebrew fantasy tale is aimed at mythologic contriving of the Jew with the blueprint created by a bunch of racist and sexist priestly conmen, conjurers and storytellers. Quite ingeniously, but tragically for the entire world, the divine Jew was produced from the dead Hebrew by trickery of misanthropic priestcraft. With invention of the Jew, the modern, multiethnic, global Jewish tribe was launched, later growing to comprise various Semitic peoples, as well as Khazars (9th century CE - Common Era) and other multicolour converts into this backward racist sect, identified by genital mutilation, reinforced by endogamy (customary inbreeding) and the doctrine of supremacism and violence against non-Jews inculcated by religious books, including Torah, Talmud and other Rabbinical dark-minded, moralist propaganda writings.
This particular Jewish propensity and methodology to manufacture lies and tales for manipulating and exploiting others, for gaining power, wealth and privileges, and for benefiting their chauvinistic and materialistic tribalist agenda, have since the cooking up of Jews and Judaism in the 6th century BCE been vigorously employed by their opportunistic followers throughout the world, including the construction of morbid concepts of Christianity (the Christians invented Jesus, who has never existed), anti-Semitism, Zionism, Holocaustism (or Holocaustianity) and the tartar offspring of Judaism and Christianity: Islam. After the Roman conquest of Jerusalem nearly 2000 years ago, the last remnants of the Jewish part of the town's population fled and dispersed in the Mediterranean area. Zionism, one of the modern Jewish mythologic inventions, is a characteristically racist, fascist and genocidal doctrine inspired by historical sadistic massacres of neighbouring peoples by Jewish gangs, and Jewish occupation of the murdered peoples' lands until that tribe was finally vanquished by Rome.
Jewish converts of various ethnicities from around the world, who subscribe to or support Zionism, are now violently claiming their "god-given" right to territories much larger than what their remote spiritual predecessor: the selfish, atrocious and loathsome Hebrew tribe had stolen from its historic neighbours and lost millennia ago. These are lands where non-Jews have been living, inhabiting areas much larger, and during longer time, than Jewish intruders and occupiers have done with the help of the British and USican imperialists. Methods used by the Jews today are essentially the same as before: massacres, intimidation, torture, destruction and expulsion. Weapons are different now, hugely more lethal and powerful this time, financed and supplied by international and USican Jewry. Judaism is their baleful religious fantasy, an authoritarian sectarian cult, a product of simplified, distorted and sordid plagiarism from ancient religions, tainted by their tribal psychosis, concocted in Torah, Talmud and other scripts, their holy books, prescribing a nostrum of inane observances, self-narcotizing prayers, insane bigotry, racist xenophobia, extra-tribal violence, fanatic irrationality, grotesque hypocrisy, avaricious deceptiveness, bizarre rituals and genital mutilation for salvation from their self-proclaimed inherited sin and self-inflicted inbred immorality.
Christianity, Islam, Zionism, anti-Semitism, as well as Holocaustism - or Holocaustianity - are derivatives of this Hebrew cult, essentially branches of Judaism. The main driving force behind Jewish international plot, their global economic and financial hierarchy and dominance, and their crimes against humanity in Palestine and elsewhere is their fanatical, rabid and nonsensical belief that Jews are superior to other peoples, that their god has chosen them for a special, privileged role: to rule over the rest of humanity. The ridiculous Jewish gibber about their "god-given" special mission is similar to Nazi racial theories about Aryan mission, and deserves the same destiny. Discrimination, segregation and oppression of non-Jews in apartheid Israel and stealing land in apartheid Israel and Palestine by dispossession, expulsion and genocide are far from the only instructions pathetic, bloodthirsty Jewish tribalists get from their god. Another one, consummating the display of their chronic unscrupulousness, Mammonite greed and scorn for universal human values, is the murdering of enslaved Palestinians in occupied territories for selling their organs for profit (IDF organ harvest). No wonder ethnocentrism has been the cause of untold sufferings, and still is the reason behind so many tragedies in our world today. Ethnocentrism is one of the worst expressions of organized sadistic barbarism.
Sometimes extremely zealous ethnic groups collide. German Nazis, another hierarchic racist organization, tried to expose and destroy the Jewish plot in Germany, Europe and elsewhere, after numerous attempts by other nationalists and ethnocentrists in many countries in previous centuries had been unsuccessful. Of the two racist ideologies and organizations Judaism and Jewry were the most resilient ones, and they survived also this time, further enormously strengthening their power, especially in North America and Middle East. During World War 2 the Jewry contributed on the level of governments and capital elite, in particular using their positions in state, finance, trade and media, especially in USA, to crushing the Nazis. As masterful historical and political hoax conjurers, they also have extorted, and still continue to extort, huge reparations, indemnifications and political benefits from postwar Germany and other European countries, directed into building the Jewish militarist empire in Middle East and genocidal colonization of non-Jewish peoples. However, European power centres of Jewry were substantially reduced after the war.
Globally, Jewish power is realized through Judaism, Zionism, Judeo-Christianity, Christianity, Global Jewish Thought Police (vehemently imposing Holocaustianity and false-flag 'anti-Semitic'-thought-control and censorship), apartheid Israel, tribal loyalty, worldwide Jewish network, and a system of invisible governments and power brokers who occupy and corrupt most significant media, and political, financial and other organs inside various nations and international institutions. They work, often clandestinely, for their Judeocentric agendas behind the scenes, taking over vital political, social and economic power positions everywhere and by every means possible. Jewism, including Judaism, Jewish ethnocentrism, Jewish tribalism, Zionism, and organizations and networks of international Jewry, constitutes a perilous threat to our world's freedom, peace, stability and justice, because Jewism is guided by an ethno-religious doctrine of racism, supremacism, dominance and militarism, in effect, principally similar to German Nazism, but more powerful.
However, Jewish ethnocentrism is only one of the many perils of that kind: German, Anglo-Saxon, Turkish, African Tribal, Russian and Japanese ethnocentricity have also proven to be effectively destructive and fatal.
Nationalism"Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by 'patriotism' I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice... Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship." During the recent centuries nationalism - the loyalty and devotion to a nation - has been one of the main reasons behind indescribable destruction of human lives, human infrastructure and the natural environment. It has caused an unprecedented arms race, building huge systems and vast reserves of super powerful weapons capable of destroying the whole world many times over. "A nation is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry and a common dislike of their neighbors." Nations are large organizations, they are human superstructures, and their conflicts have large-scale devastating effect on planet Earth and its inhabitants - even the outer space is gradually filled with spy satellites and new weapons flying and hanging above our heads.
Nationalism is a classical example of unfreedom, as it suppresses the individual's freedom and subjects it to national interests. The driving force of nationalism is the ideology of a nation - an organization with certain ethnic, religious, cultural, linguistic, territorial or other grouping properties - being necessary and superior to other nations. The original creation of nations and their present existence is based on four main reasons:
Internal threats to power hierarchy, mutual threats between nations or other real or contrived threats serve as further justification for prolonging the existence of nations. All national ideological structures, as intrinsically authoritarian and hierarchic institutions of unfreedom, deserve one common destiny: total elimination. "We should place human, universal justice above all national interests. And we should abandon the false principle of nationality, invented of late by the despots of France, Russia, and Prussia for the purpose of crushing the sovereign principle of liberty... Everyone who sincerely wishes peace and international justice should once and for all renounce the glory, the might, and the greatness of the Fatherland, should renounce all egoistic and vain interest of patriotism."
Patriotism"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." Patriotism is a double-edged sword. On the positive side it contains strong affection and passionate love for one's home, fellow human beings, local nature and the country. Patriotism is sometimes a potent source of motivation for legitimate struggle for freedom and independence against foreign invaders. On the negative side, chauvinistic patriotism is a dangerous obsession employed by the rulers for committing crimes and waging wars.
Dogs are social animals like humans, but their behaviour is usually more prominently hierarchical, similar to that of wolfs. Before an authority they signal with their tail, sometimes putting it between their legs, other times sticking it in the air exposing their anus and, in any case, they slavishly await an order, a command. When the master commands, they bark or attack. Even if there is no one around to attack or bark at, they still will bark on a command, and will later try to find something to focus on.
Xenophobic, chauvinistic and jingoist patriots are like dogs, but they are loyal to the land, the king, the president or the priest. They are proud, often ecstatic, and always ready for action and sacrifice in the name of the fatherland. For them the authority is the nation with its government or the local power entity. "Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, and conscience, and slavish enthralment to those in power." When commanded to bark or attack, they will immediately obey. The commands are pronounced and symbolized via a system of figures and artifacts, e.g. military leaders', ministers', president's or monarch's speech, physical body, name or picture, the word patriotism itself, uniform clothes, national anthem, flag, a medal, shiny leather shoes, a sword, a weapon, a bomber or fighter airplane, a submarine with its traditions, cheering women waving flags and sending kisses, etc. "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." With a hypnotic excitement of reduced humans, as subservient agents and soldiers of the power elite, chauvinistic patriots are always ready to attack in the name of the nation and its leaders. Jingoist patriotism thrives in the hands of the masters particularly well in conditions of external threats or internal crises. It can, indeed, not exist without fear mongering any longer period of time. Internalization of nationalist values leads patriots to their shameful and meaningless life and demise in conflicts and wars for the bosses.
Xenophobic, chauvinistic or jingoist patriotism is a vice utilized by the power elite for bringing physical bodies, emotions and hypnotized and diminished minds of primitive humans into service for its own morbid needs.
Imperialism
Imperialism is the advocacy and policy of domination of nations or peoples by another nation or entity. Thus, imperialism is a higher power hierarchy than the one of a nation itself, standing on the shoulders of people living under the dominant nation's or people's control. Double oppression and exploitation of the subjugated people, their infrastructure and natural resources in colonies, satellite and client states are the hallmarks of imperialism. After conquering a people, territory or country, an empire usually controls the acquired colony or the subordinate state either through imperial direct military occupation and government body, or through kleptocratic puppet regimes installed locally, who operate under the control of imperial leaders. The main objectives of imperial conquests are often the empire's need to gain more territory, market, human and natural resources, and to satisfy the imperial elite's lust for more power and wealth. In any case, the majority of the conquered people become a victim of double enslavement, being oppressed and exploited both by the local masters and the foreign ones directly or indirectly, at the same time.
Imperialism is necessarily grounded on the belief that the empire's power centre, its elite and the dominant nation or people, are more worthy than the conquered people or nations, i.e. ethnocentrism, racism, nationalism and religion play an important role for expanding an Empire and maintaining the imperial yoke, usually developing superiority complexes among the dominant people and sustaining complexes of inferiority in the colonies and subject states. An example: in the present Russian Empire, not unlike the former Soviet Empire, the Russian people, culture and language are believed to be more valuable and worthy than other peoples with their cultures and languages, living in the internal and external colonies. Such belief is held both by imperialists and by the most servile part of the colonized population. The expression "nerussky", meaning non-Russian, is a widespread derogatory adjective used to describe minorities and their culture in Russia, including Russian colonies. Similar complexes and depreciatory methods are developed by the racist pale-skin people against dark-skin people and other non-pales in USA and elsewhere, against the pales by the darks, against the Palestinians by the Jews, and so on.
Some USican veterans of Vietnam war have frankly admitted their beliefs about the Vietnamese people being no real humans, a belief which is a dehumanizing complex of superiority, that has led to the mass murder of 5.1 million Vietnamese and the destruction, pollution and poisoning of their entire country and its nature by the US imperial power together with its client states, including Australia, New Zealand and Republic of Korea (South Korea). The number of victims of US Empire killed in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and elsewhere in Asia has already surpassed 10 million people, in addition to deaths in the aftermath of the US wars in the region caused by related mines, poisoning, pollution, disease and economic sanctions and hardship. Moreover, tens of millions of humans in the region were maimed, crippled, wounded or psychologically impaired and devastated. The total number of human victims and the extent of destruction caused by USA in the whole world have reached horrendously large dimensions, and the USA represents only one of the modern terrorist states.
Imperialism is a particularly high tower of power hierarchy, a double crime, committed against the people in colonized, satellite or client states by enforcing a double oppressive and exploitative system of power upon them, and against the population in the centre and the top of the Empire by making them accomplices in imperialism. In the present reality, the entire world has de facto become a single brutal empire controlled by a global militaristic oligocracy of superpowerful national and transnational imbecile, bloodthirsty elites, who cooperate and compete by trampling on humanity.
Presently the largest, most destructive and dangerous empire in the world is the US-UK-Jewish Empire. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the evil Empire has renewed its expansion strategy and multiplied its efforts for further conquests. Its latest focus is set on Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Georgia (for further eastward expansion of NATO and isolation of Russia), other countries of the former Soviet block in Caucasus and Central Asia, and Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine for imposing imperial control over energy resources and for enforcing its hegemony in strategically significant areas. Demonization of Russia and Serbia and attacks against these countries and their interests in the world since early 1990s are part of the same grand plan of the elites. Empire's onslaught against human rights and democracy is also gathering higher momentum in parallel with its devastating wars around the world.
Resistance and struggle against imperialism is fully legitimate, no matter who the fighter is. Anti-imperialist movements contribute to the liberation of colonies from Empire, weaken the global elites and expose their true nature, which in the final analysis is beneficial for the struggle of liberation from capitalism and the state.
Fascism and Nazism
Two representatives of the most inhumane, sadistic, autocratic political and social systems in modern Western history are fascism and Nazism. A sharply hierarchical pyramid of power, fascism is based on extreme nationalism and highly centralized totalitarian authority, which controls practically all aspects of individual's life, and the nation: its economy, social and foreign policy, education and media with harsh military and police methods and brutal repression of all opposition. Distinctive characteristics of fascism include despotic power hierarchy, collusion between state and capitalists, plutocracy, chauvinistic nationalism, xenophobia, cult of power, force, violence, brutality and cruelty, cult of strong leader, militarism, primitive moralism, and scorn for reason, intellect, culture and everything humanistic.
Nazism is a variety of fascism, first practiced in Germany in 1930's and 40's, based on a farcical ideology of supremacy of an illusory race called Aryan, which, according to Nazi racist mythology, allegedly has got the right to rule over the rest of the human kind. Nazis have committed most heinous crimes against humanity, they have enslaved, exploited and exterminated tens of millions of human beings. Nazis have provoked, incited and waged extremely bloody and destructive wars across the world, torturing and murdering physically or mentally disabled people, Christian priests, religious and sexual minorities, tribalist minorities (including Gypsies and Jews), Soviets, Slavs, and many other non-Germanic peoples, democrats, socialists, communists, anarchists, pacifists, intellectuals and cultural workers, anti-Nazi Germans, other anti-Nazis, people who were considered by the Nazis unwanted or unworthy, those who did not accept the Nazi ideology or regime, and Allied soldiers and citizens. Nazis, together with Japan and other Axis-partners, were the main culprits in the WW2 Holocaust of more than 70 million people, and many more seriously injured and traumatized. However, during that war alone the US-UK Empire carried out some "smaller" Holocausts of civilians, fx. in Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, just as a warming-up before US imperial Holocaust of Korea and Vietnam.
Nazism, an utmost anti-human, criminal, racist and supremacist doctrine and movement, bears principal similarity to Jewism, and both ideologies have been created by rascals to counteract their inferiority complex. Thus, Jews believe in their own superiority, and with the help of Judeo-Christian believers are perpetrating the Palestinian Holocaust, and are causing and waging many genocidal wars around the world, recently employing apartheid Israel and US Empire as their main tools. The Jewish element in US strategy is so pervasive, that some of Empire's campaigns have easily recognisable modus operandi: every time the Empire howls "anti-Semitism" and flies high its flag of "contra-anti-Semitism", it is an unmistakeable herald of its next false flag operation being in making for political censorship and persecution, aggression against human rights and democracy, mass murder, or other crimes against humanity in apartheid Israel, Palestine and elsewhere in the world. "anti-Semitism" is a misnomer. What Jews really mean by "anti-Semitism" is anti-Jewism, which is a collective term comprising anti-tribalism, anti-racism, anti-apartheid, anti-fascism, anti-militarism, anti-genocide, anti-criminality, anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, anti-Judaism and anti-Zionism. "The hunt for anti-Semites is a hunt for pockets of resistance to the new world order, like Nazis going house to house." Both the history and the present confirm the bloody truth about fascism. In the contest of human debasement, few reservations award monarchic, religious, bourgeois and other statist elites the dubious honour of the top second and third places, while fascists, racists and Nazis, the biggest criminal scumbags ever produced by any dysfunctional society, crown the podium.
Fascism and its modifications can be found in many countries in the history and at the present. Now all the governments in the world are practicing methods of fascism to various degrees. In their nature and essence, all governments, false democracies (parliament and representative government of oligarchs), capitalist economies and other related hierarchies are simply different incarnations of fascism.
Racism
The evolution of life on Earth has created an enormous variety of life-forms, different kinds of living organisms. Within one species there are still different groups with some inherent characteristics differing from those of other groups. The natural instinct of survival of all living organisms has not only caused cooperation and cruel competition between different individuals within groups, but also competition and conflicts between different groups, because groups have functioned for increasing the chances of survival of its members and of the group as a whole. Humans, similar to many other animals, have inherited some of these low-level, primitive tribal instincts related to the survival of groups. Naturally, such instincts contribute to separation, discrimination, animosity and hatred among groups of people, among so-called races. Sufficiently high level of human intelligence and positive emotions can overcome tribal and racial instincts, and thereby secure balance and peace for all.
Unfortunately, as in other matters essential to power hierarchy, social inequality and authority, also in this case the primitive, negative prejudices and beliefs of humans, as those underlying racism, are being exploited by power brokers in full extent for achieving the goals of their own self-interest. They contribute to amplifying existent minimal fear of the strange and alarmist feeling about other groups of humans, creating a whole system of destructive and oppressive dogmas, and emotions based on hatred, fear, envy and aggression. Racism is a belief that one's own race is superior to others, or that the race is the primary vehicle of all important aspects of existence. Humans, who for different reasons have not been able to fully develop their intellectual and emotional being, easily fall victims to racist ideologies, and become racists and tools in the hands of the leaders of hierarchy. "Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the colour of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men - how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?" Racism is often instrumental and essential for domination, explotation, slavery and ethnic cleansing. The enslavement and murder of millions of human beings, including Africans, Native Americans and First Nations by the pale peoples of Europe and USA, of Armenians in Ottoman Empire and Turkey by Turks and Kurds, of Palestinians and other non-Jews by Jewish and Judeo-Christian extremists of USA and apartheid Israel, and most victims of WW2 are only few examples of the effects of racism, although ethnocentrism, nationalism or religion may also play an important role in many crimes of this type. Institutionalized racism is still going strong, among other places in Australia. "Near the end of apartheid, black South Africans were being jailed at the rate of 851 per 100,000 of population. Today, black Australians are being jailed at a national rate that is more than five times higher. Western Australia jails Aboriginal men at eight times the apartheid figure. The tragic irony is that the notion of race is groundless. Archaeology, the study of fossil records, anthropology, biology and genetics have established that modern humans have originated in Africa 200 000 years ago, and have migrated to other parts of the world since. We are all related, we are one large family. Biological or genetic differences underlying most racial teories, attitudes and prejudices are miniscule, indeed, in terms of colour they are skin-deep, dark skin has during tens of thousands of years of evolution been favoured through natural selection for protection of human skin from strong sun, preventing skin cancer in hot places like in Africa, while pale skin has been favoured by natural selection for better absorption of sun rays, producing vitamin D in less-sunny areas like in Europe.
Racial profiling, mapping and stamping/marking are nowadays still institutionally utilized in USA. It is widely and officially practised for "White", "Hispanic", "African", "Native", "Asian" and "other races", except Jews, most of whom consider Jewry a race, "the chosen people", and act accordingly in apartheid Israel, Palestine, USA and elsewhere. Racism, as well as ethnocentrism, tribalism and nationalism are utterly fallacious and harmful social doctrines. What concerns the place of origin, in a sense we all are immigrants. Every human being living today is either an immigrant or has ancestors who have migrated from place to place some time in history. The important differences between human beings are not racial, but cultural, including language, tradition, ethics and religion, which are being fully exploited by the ruling class of the world for separating and antagonizing people - divide and rule, as it serves well the elite's eternal bloody quest for wealth and power.
Racism, as other authoritarian ideologies, serves the power elite for its ends of creating and maintaining hierarchical structures. Racists are authoritarian criminals.
Sexism
Sexual prejudice, stereotype and discrimination are core elements of sexism, an ideology and a system of gender-based hierarchical power order, ensuring one sex higher social position than the other. The main goal of sexism is to gain power by exploiting, oppressing and inflicting harm on people with a different sex.
The most widespread form of sexism outside the West is patriarchy: the rule of male population over the female part. All major religions of the world have been, and still are, negatively discriminating women by favouring men in social power structures, including families. Even in the most progressive countries of the present with laws against sexual discrimination, religious organizations have practically retained their right to exercise blatant sexism within their religious communities.
Feminism is another form of sexism, actually sexual racism against men, based on female chauvinism, misandry and demonization of men, predominantly inherent in modern Western societies, where feminists overtly and covertly promote matriarchy, and struggle for achieving power positions and privileges over the male population. Many feminists openly preach superiority of women, and subjugation, oppression, exploitation and destruction of men.
All kinds of sexism against males, females, intersexes and transsexes (misandrogyny, transphobia) are creating antagonistic animosity and conflict between the sexes and between individual human beings, leading to separation, segregation, hatred, exploitation and dehumanization of representatives of all genders. Sexism plays in the hands of those who have vested interests in maintaining the existing pyramidal power structures based on social inequality, competition and atomization of humans. As in the case of racism, the members of all sexist sects, adherents of sexist ideologies and supporters of sexist movements are causing and propagating prejudices, lies, distrust and nonsense of their superiority, essentially for furtherance of own goals and ambitions for grabbing the power in hierarchic structures.
Homophobia
Homophobia can have different causes. One possible primeval cause may be the very ancient evolutionary instinct of survival of the genes through maximization of sexual reproduction among our more primitive ancestors. There are also other, very real and powerful cultural and social causes of homophobia. When our ancestors developed interhuman relations based on the power of one sex over the other, and of one person over the rest of the family, they realized that a serious threat to their power system was the deviation from the rules of heterosexuality - erotic relation between opposite sexes.
Patriarchy and Matriarchy are pyramidal power structures securing the dominance of men and women over the opposite sex and the whole family. Rulers in sexist and hierarchic cultures fear people with another sexual orientation, preference or lifestyle, including homophiles (humans feeling erotic love towards other humans of the same sex) and bisexuals, because these can be principally dangerous to the established power relations, social positions and traditional roles and obligations in the old-style family. Indeed, the entire institution of authoritarian and sexist family is seriously threatened by homosexuality.
Though the power elite within families, and racist, fascist, Nazi, statist and religious people are often the most fanatical homophobes because of their fear for pulverizing their power base, there are also some other people who are homophobes, but for different reasons. Such non-power homophobes are ignorant, or they have irrational fear, aversion of homosexuality, one of the reasons being that they are brought up with belief in authority, under oppressive rule of moralism of the power elite.
Homosexuality in itself is not necessarily anti-authoritarian, as homophiles can perfectly well serve or be part of the existing class of the power elite, suppressing and exploiting the powerless in the same manner as heterosexuals do, but homophobia is certainly antihuman, because it imposes unfreedom.
Moralism
Moralism is a set of principles, maxims and rules of behaviour, controlling people's life and actions, reducing their freedom and increasing intolerance and social inequality. The principal difference between moral, ethic and moralism is moralism's goal and effect of reducing individual's freedom and increasing and perpetuating the belief in, and dependency from, many structures of authority, including clergy, religion, god, state, capitalism and other dogmas of unfreedom, supporting social hierarchy, degenerating individual's ability of independent thinking, forcing its rules of inequality or mobocracy upon the heads of humans, and misleading people into a trap of slavery and despotism. In parallel and in addition to statist laws, religious dogmas and other preachments of injustice, the moralism serves to sustain the pyramid of power. Thoughts and actions of humans, which are directly or indirectly in conflict with the principles of hierarchy and authority, are often banned and condemned by moralism. "I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world." Moralism is heteronomous morality aimed at breaking down the human free will and repressing criticism of unfreedom, because it is created by those who have held and still hold power over others, causing unfreedom of humans in the first place. Moralism hangs over an individual like a Damoclean Sword, threatening at every moment to hurt or kill it by emotional or physical punishment, if any maxims of a reigning moralism are broken.
Moralism is much larger than the easily identifiable phenomenon in religious societies called moral police. Moral police in religious, primitive societies - especially Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Hindu - intimidate, harass, assault and kill men and women as punishment for anything not approved by moralist gangs and their religious and statist leaders. Violence is used against anyone who dares to defy moralist standards. People are regularly kidnapped, beaten, maimed or killed e.g. for wearing clothes not approved by moralist leaders, for not covering all of the body, for visiting cafes, for listening to music or dancing, for meeting or speaking to a person of the opposite gender, for having a boyfriend or girlfriend, for having a partner or spouse from another religion, etc. Moral police is now becoming well established also in many European countries, where immigrants from primitive, religious cultures are increasingly imposing their moralist standard and violence upon the host society, trying to sink Europe back into the Dark Ages. Yet, moral police is only a tiny portion of the effects of moralism, which is much more than the savage unfreedom and violence imposed by religion.
Examples of modern sado-masochistic moralist maxims are preachments urging us to capitulate to the reign of patriarch, matriarch, monarch, god, priest, government, police of the rulers, military, capitalist, tradition and reactionary and narrow-minded bourgeois values.
Non-moralistic ethic can only be non-oppressive, based on humanistic values for an individual within society, with respect for others and for diversity, with solidarity, sympathy and empathy, it is non-coercive, empowering individuals to strive for maximum freedom and equal social power for everyone, including the individual who holds such free social-ethical norms. In free society of the future, individuals will live according to their own ethical and moral rules ensuring freedom for everyone, social equality and free cooperation, but not for imposing rules of authority and hierarchy upon others as it is done by moralism. "Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship." In the societies of the present, moralism serves as a tool of oppression. It supports the rule of the state, capitalists, clergy and other social, economic, political and racial power classes who stand over the rest of the population, depriving them of their freedom, reducing and holding them down in their bitter condition of unfreedom with the help of, among other measures, the huge weight of countless rules and laws of moralism with their authoritarian notion of good and bad.
Moralism is an imposition of emotional slavery, a strait jacket put on the victims of capitalism, religion, racism, sexism and the state, which shall be cut into pieces and burnt to ashes - in popular jargon such attitude and actions are called: fuck moralism.
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic, political and social doctrine about making surplus value for some people at the expense of others and the environment. Surplus value is a result of robbery based on a fundamentalist concept of theft: private property. Capitalism, with the help and guarantee of the state, gives the class of capitalists and other rulers right to exploit the rest of the population, steal from it, suppress its rights, put it in constant condition of want, anxiety, fear, misery and dependency, and force it to earn money by selling itself, its work and its capabilities to capitalists. Capitalism is a form of institutionalized parasitism that legalizes exploitation and plunder of workers and other people outside the class of rulers, and destruction of natural environment, performed by capitalists through private or state ownership of capital, i.e. monopolization of productive resources.
Anarchist philosophers, writers, activists and revolutionaries - including Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Errico Malatesta, Murray Bookchin, Noam Chomsky and hundreds of others - have clearly exposed the anti-human character of capitalism. Even Adam Smith, who is celebrated by capitalist apologists and market fundamentalists as their godfather, has described the parasitic and immoral essence of capitalism in The Wealth of Nations already in 1776. The evils of Capitalism were further detailed in the analysis of political economist Karl Marx in Das Capital.
Capitalism has now become a religion, where private property, market, price, money, profit, interest and rent constitute its Holy Sevenity, and state, authority, dominance, egoism, greed, atomization, oppression, exploitation and total prostitution are its Angels. Capitalism promotes comdomex human relations (competition, domination, exploitation), which cause injustice, hate, enmity, and destruction of humanistic culture and human beings. Capitalism, as poisonous weed among flowers, is widespread across the world spoiling and corrupting humans. A human being becomes commodity for sale, as everything else in capitalism. "Capitalism only values a person as representing a certain amount of the commodity called 'labour power', in other words, as a thing. Instead of being valued as an individual - a unique human being with intrinsic moral and spiritual worth - only one's price tag counts." In some places, e.g. in US Empire, capitalism is an official national religion, which holds the population in a specifically fanatical, frenetic and psychotic state of mind, helped by other religions working hand in hand. In different countries and empires, capitalism is mixed with various other ingredients of authority and dominance, but always yielding the same result: material wealth and power for the few; poverty, misery, powerlessness and hopelessness for the many; brutal and wasteful handling of human and natural resources; large scale environmental destruction; conflicts, wars and diseases; torturing and killing millions of our fellow humans every day. "Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force." Growing in conditions of unfreedom imposed by the capitalist religion, people learn from early childhood about success and failure, winning and losing, competition and brutality, dominance and cruelty, authority and hierarchy. They learn how to worship and pay tribute to the god of bottom-line, how to oppress and exploit other human beings, how to lead, control and manage them, how to manipulate, enslave and destroy them. As a reward for their complete dehumanization they are promised material wealth and luxury. Those unfortunate individuals, who do not believe in the religion of capitalism, are harshly punished by being crushed, starved, expelled from the main economy into prisons, or just slowly tortured or killed as economically inviable and unwanted elements. Aggressiveness, competitiveness, greed, ruthlessness and market mentality are the qualities of people believing in and practicing the religion of capitalism.
Much like other religions, capitalism is prepared for a real salvation for itself and for its believers: to go down the drain of history as toxic, hazardous, abominable and revolting waste of human evolution.
Institutions of Unfreedom
Capitalist System
Capitalist system is an extremely cruel hierarchical and authoritarian economic, political and social power system for domination and exploitation of humans by humans, based on the doctrine of capitalism. Capital is a common designation for the means of life, i.e. the means of production, distribution and exchange, land, resources and infrastructure, often expressed in amounts of money or other symbolic or material valuable objects. Capitalists, i.e. the owners of capital, can be of private, state, religious or other sort. The fundament of the capitalist system consists of private property, capitalist market, surplus value and state power. The capitalist system is organized crime.
Capitalists are thieves, and the theft is realized in different ways. The main methods of robbery are:
Capitalist business units, companies and corporations function according to principles of fascism, or Das Führerprinzip: a clearly defined autocratic hierarchy with an individual or a power-gang on the top of the pyramid: the owners and their henchmen, the management. No real opposition or criticism is tolerated, people are hired, fired or harshly punished at the whim of the leaders on the top or by management at other levels. The owners, members and chairperson of the board of directors, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, vice presidents and other bosses are the self-righteous despots of business world. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler are moderate models for many business leaders of our time. "Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade." Even in organizations where the leadership is less brutal, most of the workers never participate in processes of making important decisions. They just don't count for anything else than for doing what they are told to do in their monotonous job tasks day in, day out, as mindless robots. As a model of "progressive" business management, participation of some representatives from large groups of workers have recently been allowed, in limited extent and with restricted power, into sessions and meetings of the board of directors - a miniscule victory of workers or a charitable admission from high bosses in the state and capitalist elite with no real meaning or significance. When workers try to take the management of a workplace into their own hands, even after the capitalist parasites have abandoned the place in debt and chaos, the state often responds with police and military repression, and yes, it also fires with live ammunition into the unarmed and peaceful crowd of workers and their supporting demonstrators, as it was the case in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 21 April 2003, after the takeover attempt of Brukman factory by all 55 female workers in December 2002. Violence against workers is a norm in capitalism, also in the evil Empire. "American labor history is unusually violent, considerably more so than in other industrial societies. Noting that there is no serious study, Patricia Sexton reports an estimate of 700 strikers killed and thousands injured from 1877 to 1968, a figure that may 'grossly understate the total casualties'; in comparison, one British striker was killed since 1911." Capitalist and statist societies are stratified social systems, they consist of power classes, meaning there are groups of people with essentially different political, social or economic power. The powerful people constitute the ruling class, while the rest of the population is the ruled or the powerless class. In many societies the population can be defined into three classes: the rulers, the managers and the ruled - in this case the managers serve the rulers for oppressing and exploiting their subjects. All wage workers and those who are deprived, oppressed or otherwise excluded from power belong to the powerless class, while the leaders make up the ruling class together with the state, capitalists and clergy. The class of rulers employs force and manipulation for protecting and maintaining the hierarchy.
Private possession of an oppressed person, which may be larger than that of another powerless person, does not make that person a ruler. Classes are not about the size of private possessions, they are expressions of social, political or economic power and private property. Classes can easily and clearly be defined by their relation to capital and power. Who owns the capital and who rules the society - these are the essential questions for defining the social class membership. Capitalism has been practiced in its many versions:
The world's most desperate clarion of state-subsidized, state-financed and state-protected rapacious private capitalism married with market fundamentalism is the ruling class of the Anglo-Saxon tandem regimes in USA, UK and Australia. These elites are the worshippers of profit-and-market god of inequality, at constant genocidal war not only against the people in other countries, but also against their own population: the workers, the unemployed, everyone outside the ruling class, against democracy, human rights and the environment. Ruthless elites in predominantly private-state mixed capitalist countries follow suit with their own dismal record against humanity, including NATO countries, China, Russia and others. Purely state capitalist economies and concepts are mostly historic, but those were not better then their private counterparts. Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator, and Lenin, the Russian Bolshevik dictator, favoured state capitalism. Loyal to his statist ideology, Lenin knowingly confused state capitalism with socialism and, unfortunately, utterly discredited the term 'socialism' when he actually described his ideal of state capitalism in 1917: "...socialism is merely state-monopoly capitalism which is made to serve the interests of the whole people." Soviet economy was, as Lenin had predicted and designed, state capitalism, not socialism, because socialism can not be centralized, hierarchic or statist.
The two capitalist systems had much more in common than the Cold War propaganda would like to admit: state capitalism with one-party dictatorship in Soviet vs. private capitalism subsidised or financed by state with two-party dictatorship in USA-UK Empire. Differences between internal factions within Soviet party leadership since late 1970s were in reality deeper than those between the two formally separated parties in USA. In both cases the corrupt elites - not the working class - control the economy and the politics. "In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time." The classes of rulers have the same mission in all kinds of capitalist systems, this mission is the same as that of the elite in a monarchy and in all other forms of hierarchy: to rule, i.e. to control, manipulate, oppress and exploit.
Work is the main source of capitalists' and state's wealth, but those who work, do not control their own work and its product, but the leaders, capitalists and bureaucrats do. The surplus value created during production of goods and services is completely under the control of the capitalists and the state. This kind of work for salary likens therefore slavery, often called wage-slavery. Just cooperation between parties with unequal social, political or economic power in a hierarchy is impossible, the more powerful party manipulates and exploits the weaker part, in this case the capitalist is the powerful party as it controls the means of life - the capital. Any work in capitalism has five main parties involved:
The management, the capitalists and the state are conspiring and cooperating for setting people into conditions of dependency, making them constantly eke their subsistence, so that the population will be forced to go on the street, to sell themselves to capitalists or the state. Workers have no control over the work itself, the products, the surplus value, and those who are affected by the work have normally no control over the side-effects of the work, environmental and social consequences or any other vital issues related to capitalist businesses. Work in capitalism has one quintessential goal for the rulers: to supply the capitalists, the state and other members of the ruling class with wealth and power. Work in capitalism, i.e. in unfreedom, is serfdom and crime, aimed at profit maximization for the rulers, who are the criminals, while the workers, other affected parties and the environment are their victims. "Grow or die" is the motto and the formula for capitalist success, but unsustainable growth is leading toward the death of our planet. "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." Work is similar to a typical case of prostitution motivated by need. It is wage-slavery, in which workers are prostitutes, the capitalists and the management are slave drivers, or rapists, while the state is the pimp, or mafia boss receiving its own share of criminal income in return for protecting slave-drivers' and rapists' right to continue their business undisturbed. The legal basis of this prostitution is the law of the capitalist state, a system of rules and punishment forcing people to accept the fact, that some individuals control the means of life while others are set in, or often born in, a role of serfs, prostitutes or wage-slaves.
Wage work and capitalistic employment are criminal activities: the capitalists, or the management hired by them, enter into an unequal contract with a worker, who has no capital and no other alternatives than selling itself to capital owners, i.e. prostituting. After the contract is validated, the worker becomes the capitalist's and management's tool, or whore, part-time serf, part-time slave or simply a subservient and voiceless mechanism, a robot, a money making device for rulers.
The eternal war of greed in capitalism, combined with privatization, deregulation of financial markets, fraudulent financial institutions and capitalist system's other intrinsic and deeply flawed components - concentrated and monopolized control of productive resources and the means of life, capitalist free market and competition, profit motive, unbridled moneymaking frenzy and capitalist state economic policies - cause bubbles and economic cycles: rise and fall, boom and bust, prosperity and depression, periodic overproduction, inflation and unemployment, which have tremendous negative effects on humans and the environment, throwing powerless people out and around like hunted animals, creating poverty and misery, hopelessness and enormous human tragedies. Standard modus operandi of capitalist elites include debt-financed, hyper-leveraged profit scheme in cartel with the state - a recipe for catastrophe. Add to this the class war between the rulers and the ruled and complete absence of democracy in capitalist societies, and you will get the picture of reality with destructive chaos and crisis created by the disastrous capitalist system. "It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon. You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone. The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring together idle hands and work. This is all hailed as a great success, and it is a great success - for a very small sector of the population." In her book called The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, published in 2007 (there is also a documentary with the same title), the Canadian writer and journalist Naomi Klein is brilliantly decoding the grim realities of the disastrous doctrine of free market economy and its history since the early 1970s. The Shock Doctrine is advocated by Milton Friedman and his Chicago School of Economics, the 'Chicago Gang', preaching free market that is even less regulated than the one that led to the Great Depression.
Originally, shock therapy was a psychiatric technique in 1940s with electric shocks applied to mentally ill patients, which later was employed by CIA for torturing prisoners, getting information, erasing prisoners' memory and implanting authorities' orders into their minds. CIA sponsored and conducted dreadful experiments also on citizens in North America. Somewhat similar, but on a massive scale, The Shock Doctrine is about shocking people into obedience in times of crisis for imposing upon them the unbridled capitalism of the worst kind. It prescribes application of capitalist shock treatment throughout the world - sudden release of prices, deregulation of financial markets and currency, withdrawal of state subsidies, immediate liberalization of trade within a country, open imports, privatization of all publicly owned assets and public sector in general (even the military), radical cut in social spending, crushing the labour unions and massive assault on human rights, especially in the aftermath of various crises. This doctrine is openly admitted by those who carry it out, and they are proud of the global destruction and exploitation it performs, the book contains ample quotes from the capitalist masterminds.
The Shock Doctrine was violently imposed in Chile in 1973, after general Augusto Pinochet with the help of CIA deposed the democratically-elected government, killed president Salvador Allende, and tortured and killed also tens of thousands of other people who did not approve his fascist dictatorship and free market economy of the Chicago Gang. The Shock Doctrine has also been applied in Argentina by a murderous fascist dictatorship like the one in Chile, as well as in Bolivia, Margaret Thatcher's UK, Poland, Russia with a brutal crony and gangster version of capitalism, South Africa, the Asian tiger economies in South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Iraq after its occupation in 2003 by the US-UK-Jewish Empire and in many other places around the world. Institutions like the World Bank and IMF are often playing an important role in the plunder of people initiated by The Shock Doctrine. "Some of the most infamous human rights violations of the past thirty-five years, which have tended to be viewed as sadistic acts carried out by anti-democratic regimes, were in fact either committed with the deliberate intent of terrorizing the public or actively harnessed to prepare the ground for the introduction of radical free-market reforms." Predictably, the economic shock therapy creates a miniscule group of winners, corporations make huge profits from disasters, crises and wars, while the rich rulers can move into their luxurious gated communities. The majority of the people are the losers who get capitalism's planned misery, decaying public infrastructure and services, declining incomes, rising unemployment, increasing economic gap and rising prices, making ordinary people unable to afford housing, privatised education and healthcare. Globally, this doctrine has led to violent death of millions of people, and several deep economic, social and political crises, e.g. the collapse of Argentina in 1999 and its ensuing crisis until 2005. Working and other dispossessed and disadvantaged people in the world always pay the price.
However, despite the disastrous and tragic consequences of his fundamentalist capitalist doctrine, Milton Friedman, the infamous Jewish-USican economist who created The Shock Doctrine, received Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976. Not surprising, taking into account the fact that Nobel prizes have also been awarded to people like the Jewish-USican politician and war criminal Henry Kissinger, personally responsible for the Holocaust of 1 million people in South East Asia and other crimes against humanity in Asia, Latin America and elsewhere, who received Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, and the US president Barack Obama, who received Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, an ardent US warlord in colonial, genocidal wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, continuing in Iraq, preparing for Iran, and helping apartheid Israel to complete the Palestinian Holocaust. He was nominated for his 'peace achievements' 11 days after becoming president of USA. In his 'historic' Peace Speech (Nobel Lecture) upon receiving the prize on 10 December 2009 in Oslo, Barack Hussein Obama II elaborated his notion of peace: "...I am the Commander in Chief of a military of the nation in the midst of two wars. ... Still, we are at war. I'm responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans [USicans] to battle in the distant land. Some will kill and some will be killed." This reincarnated Bush further stated: "...make no mistake, evil does exist in the world ... so yes, the instruments of war do have a role to play in preserving the peace ... the soldier's courage and sacrifice is full of glory ... war is sometimes necessary ... we honour them [USican soldiers and mercenaries] not as makers of war but as wagers of peace." The message of this amazing Nobel Peace Lecture could not be clearer: war is peace, and peace is war. Aggression, occupation and genocide are freedom, democracy and justice. How innovative and typically USican! Even boundless lies and crimes are justified in the name of power and profit. Obama's colonial wars are accelerating while he receives his 'War Is Peace Prize' from his clients in Norway. In Afghanistan alone there will in 2010 be 100,000 US troops and 121,000 US mercenaries (paid killers and other security contract criminals) after Obama's recent increase of the occupation forces there by 30,000. Accompanying the royal entourage from USA, as part of the war ballyhoo managed by the Nobel Committee, Toby Keith, the USican singer of war anthems, warmonger and promoter of US militarism, terrorism and genocide around the world, was invited to perform in 'War Is Peace Prize' Concert on 11 December 2009 in Oslo, Norway. What a macabre circus from transnational brokers of realpolitik. In addition to wars and war crimes, Obama has also led the campaign of bailout of corporations by forced redistribution of astronomic wealth from ordinary people into the hands of the very capitalists who had caused the catastrophic financial crisis since 2007. Nobel Peace Prize, i.e. 'War Is Peace Prize', has been awarded also to other warmongers and criminals, e.g. Theodore Roosevelt (1906, US Empire), responsible for imperialism and war crimes in The Philippines, Panama, Puerto Rico, Cuba and elsewhere, Menachem Begin (1978, apartheid Israel) and Yitzhak Rabin (1994, apartheid Israel), both of whom are responsible for the Palestinian Holocaust, occupation of Palestine, theft of land, illegal settlements, war crimes, crimes against humanity, racism, apartheid, torture and terrorism. Alfred Nobel himself was the inventor of dynamite, which he patented in 1867, and a major armaments manufacturer and arms dealer in his time.
Every time the capitalist bubble bursts sending the world into deep economic crisis, the state - the good friend of the swindling class of rich - takes astronomic sums of money from the population and gives it to the rich, so these crooks can survive through another cycle, thus ironically saving capitalism by forced and inversed-socialist redistribution of wealth and resources. This should come as no surprise, because in dictatorship, false democracy and oligarchy the state and capitalists are always in collusion.
States, capitalists and their military-industrial complex are also using arms race, intimidation, provocations and devastating wars for reinforcing the New World Order, expanding markets and conquering international rivals in an effort to recover the faulty capitalist economy and to increase the wealth and power of national and transnational elites.
A classical example of what a bloody crime a capitalist crisis can lead to, is the case when USican Empire found itself at a low point of its economic downfall in the beginning of year 2003. The Bush family, backed by powerful Judeo-Christian mafia mainly in Israel, USA, UK and Australia, launched an illegitimate and genocidal war against Iraq. Among important events preceding the imperial war of aggression was the US and UK governments' fraudulent campaign of scaremongering in UN and global media against Iraq, falsely claiming that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, had direct and close cooperation with Al Qaeda, and was able to, and intent on, attacking the West and the aparthied Jewish State within hours. All such claims were untrue, of course, as it was already widely known at the time. Hitherto in this Iraq war 1.5 million Iraqis have been killed, 5 million children have become orphans (half of the country's children), 4.7 millions Iraqis are refugees, and destructions in Iraq are immense, with grave consequences for the region and the world.
The war was very convenient for the Bush and Saudi families engaged in long-standing lucrative business dealings, having vested personal interests in seeing the disobedient Iraqi regime destroyed at any cost. Ironically, Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader until he was beheaded through hanging by the local US-collaborators during this war (much of his familiy was also demonstratively slaughtered by USA), has long been enjoying a cordial friendship of US capitalists, US government and CIA, receiving their sponsorship, weapons and political support, and making the elite in USA richer with oil- and weapon-dollars, as he was useful to the Empire until the geopolitical situation in the region and the Jewish agenda evolved in a slightly different direction.
On top of these all, for the US president Bush Jr. this war was a form of Judeo-Christian Crusade against the infidels in Iraq, as he, a retarded alcoholic recently salvaged and converted by the infamous evangelist bigots in USA, who was installed in White House together with Cheney through rigged elections in 2000, had become profoundly religious. Even motives of personal vendetta were involved, as George W. Bush was mumbling that the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein had dared to make an attempt to kill his papa, Bush Senior, because of the previous US aggression against Iraq and subsequent blockade of Iraq since 1991, in which 1.3 million Iraqis, more than half of them children, perished. The fatality rate of diarrhoea per 1,000 cases increased in Iraq 12 times: from 1.6 in 1990 to 19.3 in 1998. Iraq ranked 50th on the UNDP's Human Development Index in 1990, while in 2003, at the onset of the second US war against the country after years of sanctions, it ranked 126th. The war contributed to a temporary boost of the imperial capitalist economy through military expenditure and corrupt reconstruction projects in devastated Iraq paid by Iraqi oil, in an effort to delay or prevent another imminent crisis of capitalism. This war was waged despite an overwhelming opposition from UN and the majority of the world's population. The central planners and initiators of the war against Iraq were the Israeli lobby, US oil oligarchy and the military-industrial complex. Although internal capitalist crises of Empire have often been important causes of wars, other related and far-reaching factors come into play as well. Here is a summary of the main reasons behind this US war in Iraq:
War crimes for profit and power committed by Uncle Sam and its client states are unlimited. Another one in the latest series started in 2001 in Afghanistan, planned by US capitalist and imperialist regime in the 1980s, when the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan as a reaction to US-staged coup and killing of the president of Afghanistan who was leading a Soviet-friendly, social reformist, women's rights supporter and largely secular government, while the country had signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation with Soviet Union since 1978. However, the conquest of Afghanistan has been in the centre of The Great Game between the British and Russian empires for the last couple of centuries. That unceasing rivalry was later transformed into the confrontation between US-led NATO and the Soviet Union for controlling Afghanistan's natural resources, particularly energy resources and related infrastructure, and the geopolitically important position of Afghanistan for US-UK-Jewish imperial program of world dominance.
New opportunities for riches and world hegemony are the basic reasons once again. This disastrous war of colonization is targeting Afghanistan's strategic location near major energy sources and routes, Afghanistan's border with Iran, and especially countering the growing power triangle of Russia, China and India. The US-led NATO and Australian slaughter of the Afghan people has become a déjà vu of Vietnam, though unlike the Vietnam case, this time also other NATO countries eagerly participate in the genocide of Afghans. The jingoist German elite has already enthusiastically celebrated its first significant military baptism in Afghan blood during the massacre of innocent people in Kunduz on 4 September 2009, including many children, in what was Germany's greatest war crime since the end of the Second World War - the Fourth Reich is apparently on the rise. The victims, 142 killed, were Afghan villagers who had rushed to siphon off fuel from stalled tankers. Children were carrying water buckets and cooking pots. Mohammed Daud, a witness, said: "It was a scene from hell, hands, legs and body parts were scattered everywhere." Beneficiaries of this war, which now is spilling over to Pakistan in accordance with US strategic plans, are the global class of wealthy rulers, particularly oil and weapon magnates, and other war profiteers.
One of the side effects of the US-NATO neo-colonialism in Afghanistan is that now 90% of the consumption of heroin in the West comes from Afghanistan, where the production has grown from virtually zero during Taliban to 130% of the entire world demand as a direct result of US-led NATO occupation of the country. Afghan poppy farmers and resistance fighters openly admit that destroying Western societies by flooding them with heroin is part of their jihad against the infidels. Ironically, drug-lords, as well as warlords and the US-poppet regime of corrupt mafia government of Hamid Karzai, are armed, sanctioned and financed by NATO. Also Hamid's brother, who is involved in drug trafficking, has been receiving regular payments from CIA. Money talks its bloody tale, as capitalists wallow in luxury, while their victims succumb to suffering and violent death. Another social problem that was banned during Taliban, but which is revived as a thriving business under US-led NATO occupation, financed by the money poured from the West into the pockets of Afghan warlords and corrupt officials of the US-puppet regime, is the male child sex slavery, popularly called bacha bazi ('dancing boy' or 'boy for play', typical age 10-15). Many of these sex slaves die as a result of rape or other abuse, or are murdered by the order of their masters. Unsurprisingly, Afghanistan's 6 million children are the most tragic losers of this US-NATO war of aggression and colonialism.
The G20 summit at Pittsburgh on 24-25 September 2009 did not present any adequate measures for regulating the faulty capitalist financial sector, curbing speculation and fraud, rebuilding the industry destroyed by the crisis, halting the elimination of jobs and falling living standard of the workers, helping the victims of the present economic and social disaster, and preventing similar capitalist system failure in the future. So far so bad, as expected, but the leaders at G20 were obviously making themselves busy with matters of "higher priority" than trying to save the world from meltdown of capitalism. Leaders of the West and the apartheid Israel were energetically manufacturing their regular casus belli, much like it was done before the war in Iraq, but this time the masters of France and Germany have also joined the gang. Iran is the next victim in line, extremely rich in energy resources, a country that has been the wet dream of Western capitalists for decades. "According to the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a military coup has taken place in the United States, with the Pentagon now ascendant in every aspect of foreign policy. It doesn't matter who is president - George Bush or Barack Obama. Indeed, Obama has stepped up Bush's wars and started his own war in Pakistan. Like Bush, he is threatening Iran, a country Hillary Clinton said she was prepared to 'annihilate'. Iran's crime is its independence. Having thrown out America's favourite dictator, the Shah, Iran is the only resource-rich Muslim country beyond American control. It doesn't occupy anyone else's land and hasn't attacked any country - unlike Israel, which is nuclear-armed and dominates and divides the Middle East on America's behalf. In Australia, we are not told this. It's taboo. Instead, we dutifully celebrate the illusion of Obama, the global celebrity, the marketing dream. Like Calvin Klein, brand Obama offers the thrill of a new image attractive to liberal sensibilities, if not to the Afghan children he bombs." The dangerous trio of US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy (supported by the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel) was theatrically howling in front of the entire world: "Iran's nuclear program!". Pathetic and predictable, as this fear mongering looks as a tragicomic rerun of the morbid Iraq show about Saddam's alleged weapons of mass destruction in 2003, before the Empire launched its war of destruction, plunder and genocide in Iraq, Empire's second war against Iraq since 1991. US Empire, violating its obligations to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT), has helped Israel, India and Pakistan to build nuclear weapons. At the same time it violates the right of Iran to enrich uranium for civil purposes, a right that Iran has according to NNPT. Because of its energy resources and geopolitical significance in Middle East, Iran has long been a target for the imperial capitalists and their war machine, especially since the end of WW2. Democratically elected, secular, social reformist, democrat, women's rights supporter government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq was not welcomed by the Empire, because it would reduce the power of Western capitalist rulers to plunder Iran. Mosaddeq began a policy of nationalization and independence. "Our long years of negotiations with foreign countries... have yielded no results this far. With the oil revenues we could meet our entire budget and combat poverty, disease, and backwardness among our people. Another important consideration is that by the elimination of the power of the British company, we would also eliminate corruption and intrigue, by means of which the internal affairs of our country have been influenced. Once this tutelage has ceased, Iran will have achieved its economic and political independence. The Iranian state prefers to take over the production of petroleum itself. The company should do nothing else but return its property to the rightful owners. The nationalization law provide that 25% of the net profits on oil be set aside to meet all the legitimate claims of the company for compensation… It has been asserted abroad that Iran intends to expel the foreign oil experts from the country and then shut down oil installations. Not only is this allegation absurd; it is utter invention." UK's Winston Churchill and US' Dwight D. Eisenhower deposed the democratically elected government of Iran in a coup d'état by CIA Operation Ajax in 1953, and strengthened the monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. Shah, who was strongly supported by the West, became increasingly autocratic, and with the help of Savak (Gestapo-style state organ in Iran built by USican CIA) launched a rein of terror against the people of Iran, which led to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. "One of the regime's new officials said the Shah's Savak intelligence men were Nazi-type criminals. And how could I argue with this when reporters such as Derek Ive of the Associated Press had managed to look inside a Savak agent's house just before the revolution was successful: 'There was a fishpond outside', he told me. 'There were vases of flowers in the front hall. But downstairs there were cells. In each of them was a steel bed with straps and beneath it two domestic cookers. There were lowering devices on the bedframes so the people strapped to them could be brought down on the flames. In another cell, I found a machine with a contraption which held a human arm beneath a knife and next to it was a metal sheath into which a human hand could be fitted. At one end was a bacon slicer. They had been shaving off hands.' Derek Ive found a pile of human arms in a corner and, in a further cell, he discovered pieces of a corpse floating in inches of what appeared to be acid. Amid such savagery was the Iranian revolution born." Since the Iranian Revolution the Empire constantly and aggressively targets this nation, threatening, intimidating, provoking and attacking Iran in any way possible. Iran is not building nuclear bombs, but nuclear power plant capacity for electricity generation. Even the US-UK-Jewish Empire has confirmed this. Nevertheless, if Iran will ever build nuclear weapons in the future, it will be a direct and natural consequence of the threats and provocations by the Empire against Iran, and the imperial wars against Muslims and others.
In the 1970s nuclear physicists recruited by the CIA started working in South Korean clandestine nuclear weapons programme. Secretly from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), South Korea has since the 1980s carried out uranium conversion in secret facility, secretly extracted plutonium, carried out covert uranium enrichment experiments in the period 1993-2000, and enriched the uranium to 77 percent, close to bomb-grade. This program of deception of the IAEA was in August 2004 confidentially admitted by the government of South Korea. IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei was pressured and intimidated by South Korea and USA not even to disclose the facts. South Korea got away practically with no reaction at all. The program for developing South Korea's own nuclear weapon capacity came in addition to the large arsenal of nuclear weapons already deployed by USA in South Korea since 1958, prepared for aggression against North Korea, China and other countries in the region. Bush's 'nucelar' moralism and the double standard of the US-UK-Jewish and NATO Empire are more striking when the case of South Korea is compared with that of Iran in 2009. Deception and hypocrisy are basic virtues of transnational capitalist elites.
The West has threatened Iran with sanctions and war, promising action before the end of 2009. The Jewish elite of apartheid Israel has even indicated possible use of nuclear bombs in their forthcoming strike against Iran, unless Iran immediately and completely subjects itself to the will of the most powerful terrorist thugs of this world.
All this is a spectacular show of the transnational elite's priorities and its contempt for human rights and needs during a severe economic crisis caused by capitalism. Predictably, the statist left is readily supporting every regime change plot by transnational rulers (even against democratically elected ones like in Venezuela, Gaza and Iran) for expanding the Empire onto new colonies and for opening up new resources and markets for the escalating capitalist world order, accompanied by massive campaign of deception of the public by Western and Zionist media.
Capitalism is one of the most immoral and horrible institutions of unfreedom, it brings exploitation, slavery and destruction, it is utilizing and amplifying human negative emotions and behaviour: fear, anxiety, greed, egocentrism, aggression, hatred, brutality and ruthlessness. Capitalism is a bloody genocidal war against humanity.
State
In common language the word State is used with several different meanings: in some cases it can mean a relatively large group of people, also called nation or nation state, inhabiting a specific territory and organized under common political, legal and military authority, while other definitions may describe it simply as the Government. The first definition includes Government as the ruling organ inside the state, while the second definition presents the state as the Government. Also other definitions of state exist, and so, a clarification of the terms state and nation is a prerequisite for further considerations. Within the frame of this text following definition is chosen:
Nations and states are organizations. Nation is a large organization, and it includes all the people and the state, where the state is the ruling organ in a nation, the authority. Any state typically consists of the following functional parts: 1. executive power (emperor, monarch, president with ministers or other forms of government including local and central rulers and the whole body of bureaucracy); 2. legislative power (parliament); 3. judicial power (court); 4. power of violence (prison; police; military; secret service; security service and other forces of state violence); 5. propaganda power (media owned or controlled by state or plutocracy). State is not the same thing as the whole people, state is the body of rulers with their power services and forces, while nation is the whole specific group of people.
Dictatorship, fascism, Nazism, absolute or constitutional monarchy, other forms of autocracy, false democracy (parliament and representative government of oligarchs), religious tyranny, e.g. Jewish, Christian or Islamic rule, are just some of the various forms of state practiced in nations around the world. Despite the seemingly large differences, all kinds of states share one important quality in common: they are institutions of unfreedom. States have many functions, but the most fundamental ones are connected to their power relations with the people, the individuals and groups within the nation. Power relations between the state and the human beings subject to the nation are intrinsically hierarchical, because the state stands above individual humans, it is separated from the society and rules over it. All states are illegitimate, corrupt and violent, they represent the authority of the ruling class, they govern over the rest of the population, indeed, the states are the authority.
There are no possible or imaginable crimes, as brutal and bestial as they may be, that the states do not commit all the time. Everything from war, theft, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping, torture and murder to racism, to psychological and physical slavery, is business as usual for the states. On the top and behind the power of states the ruling class resides, the cliquish bunch of rich humanoid culprits responsible for all these crimes and many more. Elites are inherently criminal, their mission is to generate and impose injustice through the state, and they eagerly carry out their hideous duties - noblesse oblige - so the suffering and destruction of humanity will not end until the rule of the state and elites is eliminated.
Initially, the state has developed as an extension of authoritarian family, which demanded total submission to the head of a family. This has been transferred onto total submission to absolute rulers in clans, tribes and larger organizations, reinforced by religious indoctrination of total submission to gods. The hardest job for authoritarian humans has probably been to found a state or its preceding forms of hierarchic organization, because once they have managed to establish it, authority evolves into a self-enforcing, efficiently surviving organism, a strongly viable organization based on authoritarian indoctrination, intimidation, force and violence. The hierarchy and authority in general, and the state in particular, are immensely powerful and resilient. But what are the origins and the source of that state power and its ability to survive despite an unending flow of brutal crimes against humans committed by the states?
The origin of violence that has led to creation of power classes and the warden of injustice, the state, its horrible crimes and its ability to survive can probably be found in an interplay of the genes of the primitive ancestors of humans and prehistoric environmental realities. In a dismal combination of those monstrous genes and external conditions specifically favourable for formation of powerful authority, the individual program of survival has eventually led to what we know as hierarchic organization. Organization is a fantastic "discovery" made by those primitive life forms - who perhaps deserve the epithet beast - possibly the most important discovery in the history of life hitherto. As an effective instrument of survival, individual beasts with their individual aims have come together to join their energy and natural powers for common goals of existence and regeneration, struggle against natural disasters and other threats. Synergetic effects have obviously been too great to ignore, the organized group of individuals can have more power than the simple sum of the powers of the individuals. The secret of synergy of an organization is in... of course, cooperation! Togetherness, mutual help, coordination of actions, united forces and common programs, in one word: cooperation, has been a key factor for survival. But this factor always worked in parallel with another one: competition, even between members of a group or an organization. Competition between elements with individual programs of survival and satisfying other needs has often worked at the same time and place as cooperation. Most probably, the early instincts of dominance and cannibalism, some of the intrinsic qualities of many archetypal beasts, have caused the violence leading to hierarchic organization.
Hierarchy is a result of many factors working during millions of years, forming interrelations. Weak individuals have cooperated with stronger beasts on unequal terms for securing their own survival within a group. When a group has defeated another one, the surviving victims, if there have been any, have accepted the new masters. The Judeo-Christian doctrine vividly sanctions this kind of slavery: "When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace. If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you, then all the people in it shall serve you at forced labour. If it does not submit to you peacefully, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it; and when the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword. You may, however, take as your booty the women, the children, livestock, and everything else in the town, all its spoil. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you." - Deuteronomy 20:10-14.
The source of authority and dominance is pure bestiality, and the modern state is built on it. Progressive forces of humanity have always been struggling to smash authority and to free humans from hierarchy, because freedom, equality and solidarity are the most optimal principles for organizing fully developed, intelligent and emotional human beings. Sometimes the struggle has succeeded, and dictators, monarchs, clergy, capitalists and other dominators and supporters of power elite have met their well-deserved destiny, and still the authority and the state have hitherto had a nasty habit of coming back, restoring the chains of slavery they once have created. Nevertheless, all states will eventually die, it will just take a little longer time and more effort. Human reason and compassion will win the battle for freedom against the darkest side of ancient human culture: the brutish belief in authority. States have managed to survive to this day because of their intimidation and violence against the subjects, but also because large enough number of people among us are mentally and emotionally still at the level of our barbaric progenitors with their notion of authority. Hierarchy of power and wealth is regenerative, it reproduces itself by programming newborn babies into the monsters the system needs: subservient creeps and dominant cannibals.
Engels traces the origins of the modern state to the historical social development from collective family and clan based society into one with commodity market and economic classes. The state had become necessary for protecting the property of the new ruling class against the dispossessed, for maintaining the new order by enforcing unjust property rights and social inequality. "The state is therefore by no means a power imposed on society from without; just as little is it 'the reality of the moral idea', 'the image and the reality of reason', as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a product of society at a particular stage of development; it is the admission that this society has involved itself in insoluble self-contradiction and is cleft into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to exorcise. But in order that these antagonisms, classes with conflicting economic interests, shall not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, a power, apparently standing above society, has become necessary to moderate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of 'order'; and this power, arisen out of society, but placing itself above it and increasingly alienating itself from it, is the state. In contrast to the old gentile organization [clan or tribal collective organization], the state is distinguished firstly by the grouping of its members on a territorial basis. The old gentile bodies, formed and held together by ties of blood, had, as we have seen, become inadequate largely because they presupposed that the gentile members were bound to one particular locality, whereas this had long ago ceased to be the case. ... The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies which have managed without it, which had no notion of the state or state power. At a definite stage of economic development, which necessarily involved the cleavage of society into classes, the state became a necessity because of this cleavage." When the state is created as protector of the dominant classes and their property, it grows like a bureaucratic cancer cell, becoming a parasitic self-generating organ of violence and suppression of resistance from the disadvantage classes, engolfing ever larger areas of control over the society, and extorting money from the subjects for financing state organs and operations - essentially a racketeering arrangement that benefits the rulers and the rich. "In order to maintain this public power, contributions from the state citizens are necessary - taxes. These were completely unknown to gentile society. We know more than enough about them today. With advancing civilization, even taxes are not sufficient; the state draws drafts on the future, contracts loans, state debts. Our old Europe can tell a tale about these, too. ... In possession of the public power and the right of taxation, the officials now present themselves as organs of society standing above society." The main purpose of any state can in short be described as this:
The tools used by the state for obtaining its goals are great many, some of them, however, more central and important than others, for example:
Ibn Baz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, issued a fatwa in 1993: "The Earth is flat. Whoever claims it is round is an atheist deserving of punishment." It is said that he later has slightly modified his position in face of hard facts. The belief in state and capitalism represents the modern flat-earth theory. Statist and capitalist apologists are in disbelief during every crisis they cause, but they go on producing another tale to justify and prolong the agony of their religion. Like zombies with their feet on fire they stare at dire facts and still claim that their system is fine, although its devastating effects on the entire world are constantly causing mass murder and such an immense suffering of humans that even a blind mufti can see it all. Perhaps the ruling class has been getting away too easily for too long, it is time it starts tasting its own medicine.
There is no other cure for the state and the social inequality that has created it, but complete annihilation.
False Democracy
The word democracy has a Greek origin, it consists of two parts: demos (people, common people, community) and kratia (cracy: rule, government). Democracy has originally been a designation for a direct and equal participation in making all political decisions by all citizens, or "free men" as it has been defined at the time, in some ancient Greek societies, especially in old Athens. Thus, democracy could imply direct self-management by the people, but the word democracy has during centuries acquired many different meanings, and has filled itself with strange, sometimes highly controversial, false and contradictory concepts. Democracy is utterly discredited, as a matter of fact, there is no democracy anywhere in the world, but the word democracy is nonetheless widely used to describe many of the existing states. The power brokers, the class of rulers in all places on our planet, are using the word democracy for referring to representative or parliamentary state, which is simply their oligarchy and hierarchy, driven by a desire to only make an appearance of democracy, and to confuse people.
Here is what the rulers mean by democracy: people should be allowed to elect one dictator among several candidates, but someone must be chosen, people are not allowed to get rid of all the candidates, break free and self-manage themselves directly. People are allowed to vote for one political party among one, two, or many, and then the innermost central clique of power brokers within the selected parties forms a government and rules the society. What the rulers want with democracy is to always be on the top, always rule, always oppress, rob and exploit the population. Some relatively honest members of plutocracy, if this contradiction in terms can be used at all, in mass media sometimes call their regime representative government instead of oxymoronic "representative democracy" or "parliamentary democracy", reminding everyone who still needs to learn it, that in reality oligarchs, inbred politicians and other dictators rule over disempowered subjects. And this shameless hypocrite rule of a government is labelled democracy, which was supposed to mean people's democratic self-management.
No human beings would ever allow anyone else to control their lives and rule them, govern them, make laws on their behalf, and then oppress, exploit and kill them, and still call it democracy, no one would ever allow these things to happen, that is if they were not intimidated, distracted and forced into it. Those who knowingly and voluntarily give others the right to decide on their behalf, to make decisions affecting them, to control and govern their lives, are idiots or subservient and wicked primitive animals, not advanced humans, because humans have an inherent need and great ability to be independent and free from others' power, if they are not manipulated or forced into submission. False democracy is unfreedom, it deprives people of their independence, places the power in the hands of the ruling class and in broad daylight makes mockery of self-determination, self-management, freedom, equality and solidarity. It imposes the rule of the state and its illegitimate collection of pathetic and cruel laws. Statist-democracy is a complete farce, it is a hierarchy, as the social, political and economic power rests with a tiny group of rich and powerful individuals and families, while the rest of the population is only allowed to elect somebody among the bestial humanoid breed of rulers. "Voting is not an expression of power, but an admission of powerlessness, since it cannot do otherwise than reaffirm the government's supposed legitimacy." After deciding who will rule over them, the electors lean back and watch what happens in the society, without any realistic possibility of interfering, participating, or deciding anything. They live in hopeless powerlessness after the election as before it, they never manage their own lives. It is much like slaves would elect their masters among mutually competing candidates, or like an imaginary "democracy" in prison, where a condemned person would be allowed to choose its torturer and executioner among some candidates, all of whom would then go on tormenting or killing him.
McDonald's, Coca Cola, nuclear bomb and "representative democracy" have one essential thing in common: they all are harmful junk products of USican debased cultural blend of capitalism, religiosity, militarism, racism and violence. In 1787 the US Constitution was created by Founding Fathers, a bunch of political sorcerers who founded the oxymoron of "representative democracy" in practice. Their principle of government had, of course, nothing to do with democracy, as it was specifically designed for serving the power into the hands of oligarchs in the young US Empire broken away from the British Crown. Some citizens' voting to install one or another ruling cockroach to govern the people is the opposite of democracy. And so, USA was from its very political birth marked by elite's deception and manipulation of the people aimed at creating a powerful illusion for controlling them. Other countries in the West gradually adopted their own versions of this fraud against democracy and humanity. False democracy in USA was not invented completely out of the blue. Monarchic parliamentary system had already existed in Britain for centuries before the US Constitution. Although the sly Fathers did not have to include the role of a monarch in the latter, they accommodated the old British experience to the New World in creative ways for effectively preventing any trace of democracy also in USA. Monarchy and aristocracy were replaced by oligarchy and plutocracy. False democracy of voting for rulers, invented and baptized in USA, is the most anti-democratic hoax ever. To the same 'made in USA' category of peculiar deceptions and weapons of mass social destruction by the elites belong also pathological anti-socialism and anti-communism, delusional Judeo-Christianism and moralism, religious capitalism and market fundamentalism, tyrannical Holocaustism and the pervasive thought-control dupery of anti-Semitism. Unsurprisingly, the nation that has fabricated the hoax of false democracy is also the centre of the most genocidal and evil empire the world has ever seen.
False democracy is presented by the rich and powerful as the very basis of modern Western civilization, but Western civilization and democracy are two of the most widespread misnomers in the world, as there are no such things at the present. The Western version of false democracy is simply plutocracy and oligocracy (oligarchy), and the state law and political parties are its instruments. Western civilization is rubbish, a stupid nonsense, used to fool the population in western colonial, imperial nations. Western imperialists have always been, and still are, destroying our world's cultural heritage, natural environment, massacring people everywhere where the Empire has an economic or political interest, installing puppet, despotic regimes for suppressing and exploiting whole societies and especially people belonging to lower social classes.
Western civilization is an expert in Holocaust. Just between the 17th and 19th centuries approximately 80 million people were exterminated in the Americas, and 40 million in Africa (20 million just in the Congo). 20 million Africans were forced into slave ships, half of the slaves did not make it to the 'New World'. Some indigenous peoples, e.g. KhoiSan in Africa, were totally exterminated. Only during the 20th century, the wars and famines manufactured by Western civilization and its economic policies imposed on the subjects have killed another 150 million people around the world. Western civilization has enslaved, exploited and exterminated humans everywhere it has set its foot.
Western civilization is a buzzword, the real meaning of which is sadistic, racist capitalism and imperialism, driven predominantly by a wealthy minority with the help of disillusioned zombies and fanatical psychopaths. The true meaning of this buzzword is morbid mix of profitism, authoritarianism, militarism, fascism, mass-murder, destruction and slavery at home and abroad.
The present hierarchical arrangement of power, misleadingly called democracy, is a big, nasty deception. As a first phase during the coming liberation of people, in an effort to make a relatively peaceful start on the way to a better society, it may be worthwhile to try a replacement of the present version of oligarchic state by an assembly of direct democracy. Here, direct democracy means that each and every individual directly takes part in decision making processes about all matters that affect that individual, and all persons have equal rights in the process. It is necessary to emphasize that direct democracy is not simply about law-making referendum, but about making all political, social and economic decisions that affect people and their environment, without rulers: no representative government, no bosses in business organizations, no capitalist control of economy and no private property. In case of positive development of such a transition, the subsequent evolution can eventually lead to total anarchy, which means a truly democratic society without rulers and capitalism, a society consisting of free individuals cooperating as equals in the spirit of solidarity.
Political Parties
A political party is an organization of individuals with common ideology or program about governing the society. Political parties yearn for power, which they seize in nations usually through forming a government, taking seats in the parliament or both. When political parties are not represented in the government, they function as opposition to the ruling parties. Political parties which do not obtain sufficient votes, do not get seats in the parliament or participate in the government. In such cases they exercise their power, however limited it may be, trying to influence the parliament, the government and the general public through publications and broadcasts, meetings, demonstrations and other campaigns, or by making alliances with other parties.
The famous one-dimensional left-right ideological scale of political parties originates from the seating arrangements of the 1789 French National Assembly, where Third Estate consisted of revolutionaries and sat on the left side, and members of the First Estate, the nobles, sat on the right. The left-right scale in modern times is intended to describe political parties' power basis, affiliations and programs:
The anomic statist-leftist parties, including the so-called social "democrats" (parties of capitalism), state socialist and statist labour parties of all sorts mingling and conniving in corridors of power, have long betrayed workers and other people belonging to the ruled class by becoming ardent promoters, compradors and beneficiaries of the ruthless capitalist and imperialist world order, and by being thoroughly anti-democratic, anti-socialist and anti-labour. Social "democracy" is not an institution of the working class, but a strategy of oligarchs for making their own savage rule, capitalism and market fundamentalism survive in modern conditions, because without strategic tricks like social "democracy" the enslaved, subjugated and exploited people would wake up, stand up and smash the system in their eruptive wrath, making oligarchs and other wealthy and powerful villains run for the ratholes, go up in smoke, meet Madame Guillotine and float in rivers, as the history has witnessed numerous times before. Indeed, oligarchs and other rulers have much to lose, and they know it, but their subjects have really nothing to lose except their chains, and have everything to gain, including freedom, dignity and social justice. The reason why political parties are flirting with false democracy is an innate desire to prolong their privileged position and the status quo without all-out war against the subjects, readily adopting any false flag that will fit the spirit of time, changing their political colours like chameleon. Many major leftist political parties with fancy, deceptive names disguising their rotten bourgeois nature are not only accepting and supporting the organized crime of capitalism, neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism, but even monarchy, e.g. in UK and other European states, becoming its accomplices and perpetuating the rule of kings, queens, princes, princesses and other monarchic social parasites and vermin. "I read the Social Democratic newspapers. I saw their disgusting attitude towards anything that bore even the slightest revolutionary character, and I realized that there could be no reconciliation between a revolutionary party and a party trying to earn a reputation for 'moderation' in the eyes of the government and the bourgeoisie." The statist left parties do not miss any opportunity to declare their support for every colonialist regime change project (even against democratically elected governments like in Venezuela, Gaza and Iran) launched by the transnational elite, including regime changes by bombing of Serbia (1999), destruction of Iraq (1991 with the following blockade, and the new war since 2003), Afghanistan (since 2001), and the recent Zionist plot being planned for breaking Iran open for transnational capitalist world order. The fake left movements never challenge the fundamentally wrong system of capitalism, false democracy and imperialism, they wholeheartedly support it. But this is nothing new, this has been painfully clear to anarchists at least as early as at the beginning of the First International. Bolshevik Party's (later self-baptised "Communist Party") hijack and corruption of the 1917 Russian Revolution is just one of the infamous examples of betrayal by the statist left. "All the statist parties, including the Bolsheviks, limited the boundaries of the Russian Revolution to the installation of a social-democratic regime... The party threw itself into infiltrating the factory committees and the soviets of workers' deputies, doing its best to obtain in these organs of self-management the most mandates possible in order to control their actions... While the mass of workers considered them to be the organs of social and economic self-management, the Bolshevik Party looked on them as a means by which it was possible to snatch the power of the sinking bourgeoisie and afterwards to use this power to serve the interests of the Party. This divergence played a fatal role in determining the future course of the Russian Revolution. ...(toward the Bolshevik Party's) final objective: State Capitalism of the enslaving salariat." All political parties, no matter how left or right they are placed on the deceptive ideological scale, are statist, they protect the state and use it for promoting own corrupt agenda of governing. Power and government is the dream and the Holiness of political parties. They want power over the people, they want to rule, they want to oppress and exploit the subjects of the state, not substantially different from what and how a monarch does. The monarch usually places itself on the throne or inherits it, and hoodwinked and/or terrified subservient herd of humans accept it, while the party leaders are elevated to that position with contribution from sponsors, and voters from the same herd. Political parties are well adopted to, and integrated into, the state hierarchy, their supreme goal is not freedom or justice for all, but power and privileges to the party bosses, their sponsors and wirepullers. Not only parties' programs, but also their internal organizational design is perfectly suited for their task of taking the state power or taking part in it: they are hierarchical, they are controlled by centralized authority. "Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war." Political parties are tools of the wealthy and influential people for grabbing the central power in the state, or influencing and controlling it as much as possible. The wealthy and powerful elite of the ruling class is sometimes directly represented inside the elite of political parties, but more often they stand behind the scenes as backers, supplying the party leadership with money, contacts and instructions. The political party leadership, party's inner power clique, holds the handles of control and makes the most significant moves, when a large number of phoney careerist party members are doing disservice to naive electors by taking part in leaders' complot for power, and presenting it as democracy. "The political parties, or more accurately, the inner clique that controls them, select the candidates for whom the people vote. The candidates express the will of the party and not that of the people. The platforms of the contending parties are adjusted to trick the voters into balloting for their candidates. Then the immense machinery of mass hypnotism goes into high gear. The press, the radio, television and the pulpit brainwash the public. The stupefied voter casts his ballot for candidates that he never nominated and never knew, whose names he forgets, and whose platforms he has perhaps never read. The electoral swindle is over. The voters go back to work (or to look for work) and the politicians are free to decide the destiny of the millions as they see fit." If the powerless people could realize how boundlessly they are cheated by political parties and their false democracy, they might die of laughter, if not of depression or wrath. False and completely meaningless promises are given to voters, election campaigns are conducted requiring huge human, financial and other resources, a big propaganda machine is set in motion for one purpose: get as many votes as possible. If successful, the party leadership grabs the power and starts to plunder and abuse the people - business as usual. And this is what they call democracy. If a political party boss would have at least a minimum of decency, it could openly say to its voters: don't worry about thinking, I'll do it for you, don't care about decisions, I'll make them for you, don't stress about the money, I'll take them from you, and don't ever dream about freedom, because I'll control and use you, the only thing you can and should do, is to vote for me once in a while, when I call upon you.
During every social revolution initiated by the masses in modern times, where people have achieved radical social change and established libertarian socialist economy, self-management and true democracy, the statist parties have always thwarted the revolution and derailed it into a form of state, party dictatorship, bureaucracy, false-democracy of oligarchs, capitalism, or simply have used outright force and violence against the revolution. This sort of subversive role has been played also by statist-communist parties, e.g. when Bolsheviks infiltrated and hijacked the councils (soviets) of workers, peasants and soldiers during the Russian Revolution of 1917; when Bolsheviks waged war against anarcho-communist Ukrainian revolution of 1918; and when during the Spanish Revolution of 1936, which had succeeded in creating an anarcho-communist and anarcho-syndicalist society in large parts of Spain, the Soviet-allied Spanish Communist (Marxist) Party essentially suffocated the revolution well before the military triumph of the fascist Franco forces.
Political parties are conjurers in a theatrical performance of pure swindle performed by the power-greedy leaders and other members of the ruling class before the very eyes of manipulated, disillusioned and frightened public, who seemingly consciously and voluntarily votes for setting the party leaders on the throne and then opens its pockets and wallets, pulls down its trousers, preparing for abuse by the next pack of self-selected or elected hierarchs and a set of bloodsucking bureaucrats appointed by the latter: an outstanding example of unbelievably abominable and corrupt political culture.
Statist Law"Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government." During thousands of years people have lived in their families, tribes and communities according to early forms of law: custom, tradition, religion, morality, magic, etc. The earthly main law enforcement authority, often also the lawmaker, in those prehistoric times was the chief, but there was, usually, another power above the chief, god or nature. These laws were compulsory for members of the community and were enforced by the ruler, the chief, with the support and help of group members, especially those who were strong and who loyally served as ruler's police force.
During early history people held different beliefs about the law. Some believed it was the will of god, others believed that the law was commanded by nature, or that the nature is only manifesting the will of god, and many believed that the human ruler in their community was revealing god's or nature's will by presenting laws to the people and enforcing it. The law had many functions, among other things it ensured relative stability and peace combined with impudent social inequality and injustice, it facilitated economic activities and resolved disputes in an atmosphere of economic inequality and pyramidal power relations. For breaking the law, guilty persons were punished by the chief or other members of the community, the penalty often being amplified by the fear of god or gods. The severity of punishment depended on the character and gravity of the offence, it could be mockery, corporal punishment including beating and torturing, expulsion, sacrifice to deity or death by other means.
Little has changed in the essence of authoritarian law and its atrocities against the people since the times of tribal culture. In modern democracies law is an assembly of rules of conduct intended to control individuals' and organizations' life and behaviour. There are several lawmakers in democracies, but the main legislative body is the national parliament, although other institutions of state, such as government and court, are also participating in law making to various degrees. Typical forms of punishment for individual humans for breaking the law in civilized societies are humiliation, fine, forced impositions and orders, expulsion, imprisonment, physical and psychological torture and death penalty. Organizations as such can also be punished, often by fine, prohibition, dissolution and other measures.
Some international organizations can in certain cases be regarded as legislative bodies, when their decisions are ratified by states. United Nations can serve as a typical example of this, although its resolutions clearly reflect the extremely unequal power structure of UN and, depending on the self-interest and political programs of powerful nations, they are often vetoed or blatantly ignored by rogue states like Israel, USA and UK.
Yet, despite extensive and excessive law making and enforcement, there is no justice and no peace for all in the world, and the reason for this is that the authoritarian law is a deeply flawed concept. Its principal defect is the lack of agreement, because state law is an imposition of the will of the rulers upon the people. No law can ever be just and fair, unless it is made by direct participation of all those who are affected by it. Therefore, the law of the state is consequently coerced upon people to comply. Authoritarian law is force, restraint and punishment, created by the ruling classes of the past and present. It is the network of terror and entrapment used by authority to practice its power for controlling the people.
There is no logical or fair reason why a person by own free will should obey the law, when that person has not participated in its making and can not change it. The whole idea of obeying an authoritarian law is as ridiculous and crazy as the idea of obeying a god or a holy spirit or another insanity. To obey such law is tantamount to submitting to the will of the strong, be that the will of a king, capitalist, statesperson, politician, police, other crooks or a bunch of these.
Here are some examples of how a statist swindler is accustomed to justify the law: "obey the law because somebody has decided so, because it is written, because it is my will, because the boss said so, a group of people in an impressive building in downtown says so, a pathetic pompous figure with a funny hat and coat called judge says so, because it is decided by parliament, because priest, mullah, rabbi or god say so, etc.". No, these are no reasons, but elementary rubbish. The truth is that their law represents the will of the strong and the will of the rulers, and one should obey it only because, and as long as, the breaking of law will induce a reaction of punishment, and punishment is painful, it can be terribly unpleasant and even deadly. As most of the humans are strictly bound by their individual programs of survival and their wish to satisfy own physical, mental and emotional needs, as they also feel concern for the consequences of their own punishment for their loved ones, they tend to give in or give up. Their motive for obedience is the fear of punishment, fortified by debilitation of their ability to critical reasoning in conditions of constant oppression. "The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror." For a person grown up in a hierarchic society under the rule of authoritarian law, it can be very hard to imagine a life without it. Many humans are really perplexed thinking: how is it even possible to exist or coexist without law created by the state? Well, this kind of astonishment and confusion is perfectly natural, given the conditions in which humans are brought up and educated. They have memorized too many dogmas about authority and law, but they have not learnt the essence, origins and the mission of the system, and law is one of rulers' cruel methods for keeping them in darkness. Authoritarian laws cause tremendous harm to humans, leading to their physical and spiritual enslavement. In earlier times law was believed to be the will of god, later it was the monarch and other autocrats. Now in many nations the parliament and government have taken their place, though lawmakers of today commit crimes of the same kind as their predecessors have always done before them, they create the basis for enforcing the will of the rulers upon the ruled. Laws of a modern hierarchic society protect interests of the power elite of our times: capitalists, statists and clergy.
Imagine a person X, who has not been completely brainwashed and paralyzed in fear by the propaganda and actions of the state, finds the system of political, social and economic inequality very strange and unjust. X utilizes all necessary means and takes resources from the state, the monarch, the capitalists or other rich and powerful rulers and privileged thieves of the kind, and returns these to the people whom the rulers have looted and deprived. Will the actions of X be fair and just? Absolutely! Will the authoritarian law and the agents of the power let X go unpunished? Of course not! The law of the state is a mechanism of perpetuation and protection of injustice.
If the law would really serve any just cause, it would always be made and changed directly by all those who are affected by it. In other words, a just law would be like a mutual, multilateral, living agreement. But in that case law would cease to be an authoritarian law and would, indeed, become more like an agreement, because coercion is the intrinsic quality of authoritarian law (or state law), while agreement is based on direct participation and consent by free will. If law would be made directly by all the affected people, it would not be injustice and unfreedom anymore, but would be able to function as a fair warrant for freedom for all. It should always be possible to effectively change the law by those who have made it and who are affected by it in new circumstances, when obeying the agreed law is no longer possible or reasonable. For this case, such a just law would approach the definition of agreement. Where is no agreement between free and equal parties, there is neither justice nor peace.
When a parliament, a court, a government body or a president makes a law, it becomes one more weapon in elite's arsenal in the war of the ruling class against the subjects. That weapon is then used on those who have never accepted it, or participated in its making, perhaps have never even heard of it. It is not at all surprising that people break such laws, indeed it is the most natural thing to do, for why should one obey any law made by others if not because of sheer fear of punishment? People who work hard for a state or capitalist all their lives, damaging their health, would naturally hate those laws, which protect the robbery and murder committed by the state and capitalists against them. And there are many laws doing exactly that, for example laws about state and private property, which give right to the state and capitalists to control the means of life and thereby force the oppressed people into wage and tax slavery.
The powerless and exploited people do not make any law. In best case some political party careerist may have participated in a decision making process, pretending it represents the electorate, but in reality the electorate has as much power to make or change a law as TV-junkies on a sofa with coca cola and popcorn have power to create or change the one-way corporate news they are consuming. This powerlessness is initially not caused by any natural or congenital apathy or apoliticism, but by the very mechanism of making and enforcing the laws, by the state violence and propaganda, by its authoritarian culture supported and reinforced by capitalists and clergy, in other words, by rulers' mission of exclusion, alienation and finally degeneration of the ruled people.
Statist law is wrong and illegitimate, because it is not made by direct and equal participation of all the people who are affected or obliged by it. It is the will of the rulers compelled on those powerless who neither have agreed to it, nor have participated in its making, nor always are aware of it, nor are they able to change it when necessary. There are also other basic problems with statist law and decision making processes. One such problem is the evil authority-law-authority circle: the authority has power to make and change laws, while the laws protect the interests of authority and strengthen its power. This evil circle is deeply rooted in false and corrupt democracy in contemporary nations: the parliamentary oligarchy with the power centralized in the hands of the state and capitalists, and a brutal, utterly unjust economic, political and social doctrine of capitalism.
Court
Court is a hierarchy of persons and groups administering the statist law, it is the state's judicial power.
The history of court is long, there have been courts based on Cuneiform Laws in ancient Mesopotamia already 4500 years ago. Courts enforcing the well known Code of Hammurabi existed 3800 years ago in ancient Babylon. The development of courts has been marked by their separation from executive and legislative powers of the state in more progressive nations, and differentiation between specialized courts in a complex judicial organization. There are often separate courts specialized in hearing and resolving cases of civil, criminal and military issues, and a power line of vertically arranged courts of appeal, higher courts and supreme court.
All modern religious and state courts are built according to the logic of the same power relations as those characteristic for religions and states, they are pyramidal structures both within each court, usually one judge being the apex of power within a court, and among different power levels of courts, where the top level is the highest or supreme court. Courts administer the law established by the state, including articles of law made by the courts.
The law, irrespective of what part of the state has been its formal legislator, is an illegitimate creation, because it does not constitute a living agreement between individuals, but an imposition of the state upon the heads of its subjects. Judges and other state agents in courts are the embodiment of the appalling injustice inherent to all forms of authority. Use of the word justice connected to the mission and function of statist courts is simply a hoax. The three important ingredients of this hoax are: the law made by power brokers of the state, the hierarchical nature of the courts and the idea of punishment.
Statist courts with their judges are as much an expression of democracy as the antihuman system of capitalism is, this means that they reflect and enforce the inequality and social injustice existing in the society, including racism, nationalism, sexism, plutocracy, fascism, intolerance and authority. Judges are central, elevated and almost sacred figures in the authoritarian machine of courts. Puking wrongdoings and protecting the crimes and violence committed by the state, capitalists and clergy, they are impostors who pretend to be wise and impartial, but are infinitely faulty, corrupt and plainly partisan, guarding the existing unfreedom. For example, the rulers and the winners of wars are never found guilty in the courts of their states, under their power or influence, and the statist courts are inseparable part of the whole spider web of the ruling class.
In addition to being a manufacturer of cruelty and a guardian of the state, their court is also a show room of horrifying, and for the power elite sadistically amusing and satisfying, performance.
Prison
Prison and jail are institutions of confinement of people condemned by the ruling class and its agents, they serve several functions:
Depending on country and its jurisdiction, arrest and incarceration are usually performed by state police, private police, secret and security services or military personnel by their own decision or by order from higher authorities, e.g. courts. There are multiple purposes of imprisonment, for example protecting certain sectors of society from danger, but the main goal of punishment is to protect the ruling class from rebellious, capitalistically inviable and non-profitable persons through isolation, incapacitation, intimidation, oppression, extermination, and through the effect of deterrence.
The whole concept of punishment, so essential for the prison system, is a relic of an infamous sadistic past of early humanoids, when the enemies, prisoners and rebels were often beaten, maimed and eaten by victors for satisfying their bodily and other morbid needs. In present societies the mentality and culture of punishment is inculcated deep into human children from very young age, and the primitive, harmful concept of punishment is kept alive during the entire life of a person with the help of a huge network of punishing institutions as schools, workplaces, prisons, markets, sports, and other similar schemes. There is no rational need or social benefit in using punishment in human societies.
Punishment is revenge, it causes pain, and inside the person who suffers the punishment in many cases it develops a desire and a plan of counter revenge, often leading to recidivism and a long-lasting evil cycle of punishment-crime-punishment for the same person, which also negatively and heavily affects that person's family and friends, and drains society's resources. Harsh punishment is capable of effectively destroying a person's feeling of self-respect, respect for other humans, empathy, and normal social skills, which eventually develop into much worse problem for the society than the original sin against the rulers' law has been. Not seldom punishment is inflicted upon wrong people, i.e. people not responsible for the lawbreaking they are punished for. Some innocent or contrarchy inmates become proarchy criminals after being exposed to inhumane and pernicious realities inside the penitentiary system.
A large portion of the population in prison is a victim of the mindless cruelty of the state bureaucracy and lawmakers, who imprison and punish people often without any other reason than the need to justify their authority over the people and to keep their stupid prison machinery running busy. From the view of power analysis, most of the lawbreakers and troublemakers can be categorized in two main groups:
Proarchy (creating and supporting hierarchy and authority) and Contrarchy (resisting and fighting hierarchy and authority), and while the former is related to actions which tend to cause or increase the hierarchy of humans over humans - some humans exercising their power upon others, controlling, coercing, intimidating, harming and exploiting others - the latter is trying to reduce it by rebelling against it, it is resisting and fighting authority or simply trying to survive defying terribly unjust power arrangements in the society.
Not all proarchy people are official lawbreakers, e.g. state leaders, capitalists and clergy commit serious crimes against humanity all the time, they manipulate, oppress, exploit, torture and murder humans and destroy the natural and human-made environment as part of their normal business, but their crimes are not condemned by the law and therefore they are never punished. The law, the court and the prison are not only keeping the main proarchy criminals of our time free from punishment, but they actually protect and defend them. Only the small proarchy wrongdoers are prosecuted, because they threaten the rulers' monopoly on theft, violence and other authoritarian crimes. Rapists, killers, thieves of low caliber are normally chased, while the big and the biggest ones go free, they even get promotion, medals and receive honors for their misdeeds, they are cheered and praised as heroes.
The US government, military leaders and other USican proarchy criminals and war profiteers of our time would be punished extremely hard, probably a couple of millions of them would get death penalty for their crimes against the peoples and countries of Latin America, USA (holocaust of natives), Indonesia (holocaust of 1 million people in Indonesia by USA-UK backed and armed kleptocrat general Suharto and his army gangsters), Vietnam, Kampuchea, Laos, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, East Timor, Yugoslavia and a long world-wide list of other peoples and countries, if they were to be tried according to the same laws as persons belonging to the lower social classes are. But never anyone of these big criminals have been punished for their crimes against humanity and democracy, they even get much more money, political power and fame during and after their crimes, than before.
Vladimir Putin, the president of Russian Federation and a former KGB spy, together with the military leadership of Russian Empire launched in 1999 a new phase in a genocidal war against the separatist Chechnya, a Russian colony in Caucasus. Chechnya had already been levelled and tens of thousands were murdered since 1994, but the new war under his leadership took the tragedy of the Chechen people to record heights. Instead of being put to trial accompanied by his generals, officers, soldiers and sponsors, he gained more popularity and power, because the laws, courts and prisons are created to serve people like Putin and Putinists, the imperialists and war profiteers.
The rulers, the state and the capitalists who continuously exploit the powerless and moneyless people are never put in prison for their crimes, although the robbery they commit is of so great magnitude and gravity, that it is even hard to grasp. Lesser proarchy wrongdoers are in large part produced by the existing punishment culture, the prison system and the authoritarian and brutal logic of the state, capitalism and other religions. Proarchy lawbreakers are a direct outcome of the authoritarian and hierarchical relations in societies and they will never disappear unless the underlying social structures are dismantled.
Contrarchy lawbreakers are those who do not accept the existing authoritarian system of human interrelations and organizations, they protest and rebel against it and fight it. These people attack the system in any way they can, directing their fist and their weapons on the state, police, military, political and economic leadership, bureaucracy and authority in general. They try to avoid, disobey and damage the capitalist social and economic machine. Not all of them understand the extent, causes and effects of the injustice in the world, but at least on intuitive and subconscious level they comprehend very well the vicious nature of social hierarchy, and they resist it as ardently as they can. Contrarchy lawbreakers and troublemakers are not establishing or supporting any coercive regime or inflict harm upon fellow humans, but they wrestle with the ruling class and its guards in all possible ways. Some examples of contrarchy actions and initiatives, which often can be observed in every country of the world, are:
Contrarchy lawbreakers are a creation of an unjust law and social system, they represent a natural, often healthy, reaction to all the wrongs that are intrinsic consequences of social injustice. Prisons are unable to resolve this issue. The only thing the prisons can do is to prolong the agony of the ruling class by waging a violent war against the rest of the world, and we all are paying a high price for this.
Prison is a socially wasteful concept, but a big cash machine for capitalists and other opportunists involved in the prison-industrial complex. The present prison system should be obliterated and millions of people should be set free, and while the proarchy lawbreakers would need a program of social rehabilitation, treatment and help before they will be able to return to their communities as free and equal individuals, the freed contrarchy people could actively take part in smashing institutions of injustice and unfreedom, first of all the state and capitalism, before the building of a better life for all can begin.
Police
Police is the agent of the state responsible for enforcing the statist law, detecting and preventing crime. Crime is defined by the rulers as any act of breaking the law, and the law of the state always serves the rulers, thus crime is an action of defying or challenging the power of the state and its rulers, and police is the rulers' militarist agency, their warrior against the people. The existence of police is based upon the fundamental crimes of humans in ancient and present times: the creation of power hierarchy, the willingness of authoritarian elements to serve dominators as spies and soldiers, and the effort of the weak to survive through subservient behaviour. Police of the state and capitaism is the incarnation of terrorism, violence, brutality, blood-thirst and sadism built on inequalities of social and natural power among humans.
A large portion of the population paralyzed by fear, brainwashed and impregnated with authoritarianism to their bones and into their spines, believe that police is necessary and useful, that police is about helping an elderly person to cross the street and to catch dangerous criminals. The reality could not be further from truth. The friendly and cozy play of some police officers every now and then are nothing but a ludicrous performance for the gallery, a cover operation and a deceitful mask. Those proarchy criminals who the police pretend to fight are created by the very same state, capitalism and police. The proarchy little fishes are only imitators of the big sharks and followers of the power logic of the time, while the really big criminals are never threatened by police, because they are the masters of police, they are the leaders, the bosses, the private property owners. The only big and dangerous crime is that of dominating, oppressing, exploiting and harming people, which is to say that plutocracy, police and the rest of the state are the major criminals.
There is a war going on everywhere, it is the war of the rulers against the rest of the people, and police is part of the rulers' army. The main mission of police is to reinforce injustice, to prevent rebellion and revolution. Police is the terror force of the state. If necessary, police calls in resources from other branches of the state, such as military and secret and security services for crushing any attempts of the slaves of the state to free themselves from the yoke of the higher power strata.
Police of the ruling class is necessarily a pyramidal organization under the leadership of dominant elements of the state, it is never democratic, never defending the population, never controlled by the people through direct democracy. Police of statist or capitalist society is a group of henchmen, contract killers, terrorists, violent psychos and corrupt crooks who take care of their own interests and serve their wealthy and mighty masters. Police in hierarchy is the weapon of the rich and powerful, it is the forefront soldier of the enemy.
Family
Family is a socially organized group of persons related by marriage, blood, common ancestry or adoption. A family can consist of one or more households. The size, composition and functions of a family have changes during the evolution of human beings, and at the present they depend on cultural, religious and national characteristics of people. Despite considerable differences between family structures and functions at different times and places, the most usual nuclear family still remains the basic unit, including mother, father and children. Some of the important functions of families are socialization of its members, partaking in upbringing children, common economic arrangement and mutual support. Many families are established with love and other positive emotions and intentions.
Unfortunately, most families are built as cruel hierarchies controlled by patriarchs or matriarchs, the family rulers. Many families of the world are institutions of brutal enslavement of women, especially in religious and primitive traditional societies, where marriage can be forced upon both genders. The worst cases and the largest numbers of female enslavement at the present are to be found in a range of cultures dominated by Islam, Hinduism and African tribalist traditions.
Conversely, in Western feminist cultures the institution of family is becoming a tool in the hands of women for oppression, extortion and exploitation of men, especially in relation to children, separations and divorces. It is theoretically possible to build a family based on social equality and mutual respect for freedom and dignity among all its members, and with similar relations to other families, individuals and the rest of the society. The content of these relations is, however, closely connected to the existing culture in the larger society, which the family is a part of. In statist, capitalist and religious environment a single family can not exist and function completely by its own notions about social justice, because the surrounding world will inevitably influence and interfere into the family's life in many ways, bringing the traditions, laws, rules and mentality of the society upon and into the family.
All families with children are inherently hierarchic, with natural and social hierarchies. There is no reasonable way to avoid the fact of natural power differences, because children are from their birth completely helpless and dependent on grown-ups. Children are physically, intellectually and emotionally fast developing and growing creatures, with their major growth and learning period placed in the early years of their lives. This development and gradual increase of their natural power is the reason why the family with children is necessarily a natural hierarchy. Children are normally gaining more and more natural powers with age and consequently more social powers, until they acquire ability to become independent from their parents. During childhood, humans are extremely vulnerable to external forced and influences, therefore care and protection is an important duty of adults towards children in and outside families. Children's' temporary inability to function fully and independently on their own in their early life causes the natural hierarchy, where adults have much more natural power.
The essence, openness and vulnerability of childhood is exactly what the authoritarian system uses and abuses for regenerating hierarchy in society. Children are strongly influenced inside and outside families in the spirit of authority and dominance, obedience and servility, fear of punishment and anxiety for the future. Family is not the only, but certainly an important place where children are taught alienation, cruelty, sense and rules of private property, egocentrism and clan mentality. The most fundamental principles of authoritarianism, religion, coercion and capitalism are injected into the children inside the family with the help of the state.
Family is one of the main schools for perversion of children, it shapes them well suited for a life under or in authority, reproducing all the inequality and injustice known to adult family members, irrespective whether they wish to consciously transfer their misfortune further to their children or not. The reason for this depravation is the parents' sincere desire to help their children to survive in a brutal society when the family no longer can protect them. A range of skills necessary for successfully lying, manipulating, competing and winning, discriminating, dominating and exploiting are given to children by their parents directly through socializing and indirectly by showing examples of their own behaviour to the children. Family is the first place where children learn about we and they, us and them, about segregation and discrimination, about the culture of pack, flock and herd, about an exclusive kind of solidarity reserved only for the included, initiated and privileged ones. These are the negative effects of the bonds of kinship.
The state and clergy are often actively engaged in preaching family values. They encourage establishing families, because families are the basic building blocks of the social hierarchy, from the top of which the ruling class is sucking all the power and wealth from the rest of the population. The state has a vast section of special laws for controlling the marriage, separation, divorce, conflicts, inheritance, taxes and other rights and duties and privileges related to marriage and family. The rulers consider the family as their power domain and their means of additional control of individuals. The power system requires registration of couples, imposing impossible, false and ridiculous vow before the priest, god or the state. Witnesses are brought in during marriage, separation and divorce. The law defines even how many people can marry together, in some jurisdictions it is limited to one to one, in others one to more and so on. Not content with so much control, the power brokers have additional rules about what genders can involve in marriage and what can not, often people of the same sex being banned from institution of marriage or adoption.
These statist and religious arrangement and control of family are a disgrace to human freedom and dignity. Many states have created new effective rules for controlling people's interrelations not registered as marriage, even cohabitance and love are controlled, registered, followed, regulated. When registered contracts fall apart, the authorities come in, of course, and control persons' lives even more than before, this time favouring the one or the other part in economic and legal quarrels. Women in Western countries, especially those tending towards feminism, often employ this mad system for dominating, controlling, punishing and exploiting men. Wife and husband..., witnessed by..., forever..., holy spirit... and holy shit - what a vomit! The beautiful emotions and relationship that may occur between two or many persons are converted by the authority into a controlled process of degeneration, commerce and decay. People loving each other are more often than not ending up hating and despising each other, but that is not a matter of concern for the system, because the main mission of marriage and modern families is not happiness, but to provide the state and religious organizations with powerful tools of control over humans and to produce children well-prepared for an existence within the next generation of physical, mental, emotional, wage and tax slaves and masters.
Marriage and family are arrangements for monitoring and controlling ownership, indeed, it is mostly about ownership, the marrying parties own each other and their children, the authorities own all of them, and when they are registered by the state or clergy, the property contracts and ownership are solidified, becoming more intrusive and complete. Authoritarian family, forced marriage, marriage as mechanism of trade, domination, abuse or enslavement (especially of women and children), marriage of children, and marriage imposed, registered or controlled by state, religious or other entity, are all various forms of unfreedom related to the tradition and institution of family.
Free and egalitarian societies will not control human erotic interrelations, love, and the form, size and content of cohabitation, they will only ensure maximum freedom and social equality for all. The only registration and check by the society related to human cohabitation that can be justified is that of children and their conditions, only for ensuring their safety, freedom, rights, health and good care. Needless to say, even maximum individual freedom and most optimal social checks of children's conditions can not guarantee love and happiness, as these feelings depend more upon individuals, relations and culture.
Educational System
How can the dominant class in hierarchic society make sure to bring about a continuous chain of generations of serfs for exploiting them with impunity? Education, or rather miseducation, is the answer. It is extremely important for the survival of the state, religion and capitalism to make sure that people through their childhood and adolescence are indoctrinated heteronomous and authoritarian values and specialized for capitalist economy and statism. Human beings are not really intelligent and emotional creatures for the system, they are raw materials and tools for the rulers, the military and profit makers. In order to produce the right type of tools, a huge intricate machinery of authoritarian miseducation is set in motion.
The 'education' is planned, programmed and designed by the elite and its servants for moulding the money and war making robots they need. Independent, creative, critical anti-authoritarian thinking and acting is banned and punished, while obedience, flattery, standardization, cruelty, selfishness, greed and uniformity are taught and accepted. "The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime." A culture of competitors, winners and losers, leaders and subjects, profit and fame hunters is transferred to the next generation of humans through anti-democratic education. The goal of educators is to prepare law-abiding manufacturers and consumers of useless and often harmful things, mindless and heartless soldiers and state police, unscrupulous leaders and loyal executioners, and all these is for building and protecting the wealth and power of the ruling class and perpetuation of injustice.
Media of The Ruling Class
Media is another dimension of mind control performed by the leaders and the wealthy, in addition to the traditional authoritarian education, which plays its detrimental role in the life of youth. Depending on the type of state system and social order, media is run in more or less centralized fashion by the power elite for manipulating the population.
Curious but unsurprising examples of how murderous dictators and war criminals of USA, Germany and Soviet Union can be hailed and united by the media of the ruling class: Adolf Hitler was TIME Magazine's Man Of The Year in 1938, Joseph Stalin in 1939 and 1942, Richard Nixon in 1971 and 1972, Henry Kissinger in 1972, George H. W. Bush in 1990, George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. These people have committed so serious crimes against humanity, and they have so much innocent human blood on their hands, that it is perfectly understandable why the media of the rulers would crown them as heroes in the elite's nadir of bourgeois moralism.
The more the state resembles an autocracy, the more concentrated media power is in the hands of few persons or families. A common feature of media in all kinds of states is, nevertheless, its role of propaganda and mass control in the interests of the power brokers.
Media in statist and capitalist world operates by oppression and exploitation in a brutally efficient manner: it makes profit for the owners of the media, e.g. through sales, advertisements and forced licences, and also serves as a power tool for the rulers, including capitalists and the state, through mass propaganda. The state and corporations are often the sole, largest or major owners, sponsors or advertisers in many media outlets, the underlying technology and the infrastructure. The control of mass media is so vital for the rulers, that they are ready for any action to prevent its collectivization / socialization and democratization. Capitalism is a socioeconomic system based on private property (i.e. monopolization of the means of life in the hands of an unscrupulous minority), which necessarily secures the power of the capital owner class over mass media. This is especially expedient in conditions of false democracy, where the state can not formally, officially or openly take the whole media into own hands for protecting capitalism. This is how the elite normally takes charge of the media: the rulers simply own it, although they also can control it through extensive advertising, or master it through power machinations.
Those who own or control the mass media, have enormous power in their hands. Usually this power is divided between the state, capitalists and religious leaders. There is really no escape from mass media, it is everywhere: TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, music, video, film industry, mobile devices and internet. As a perfectly drilled and well orchestrated concert, the various groups and branches of power hierarchy are playing their message directly into our minds through our eyes and ears, yes, sometimes literally so, and always too much. Two obvious goals of statist, religious and capitalist mass media come into one's mind: firstly it works very finely for intrusive marketing of goods and services driving people into an addictive, unending and destructive cycle of consumerism, and secondly, it creates and conveys political, social and general or specific cultural information designed to manipulate people into state-programmed behaviour and actions. "The advertising industry's astronomical rate of growth is neatly reflected in year-to-year figures measuring total ad spending in the U.S, which have gone up so steadily that by 1998 the figure was set to reach 196.5 billion USD, while global ad spending is estimated at 435 billion USD. According to the 1998 United Nations Human Development Report, the growth in global ad spending 'now outpaces the growth of the world economy by one-third.'" Although different strategies and techniques employed by the rulers using mass media are now relatively well known, it is however extremely difficult, if not impossible, for an ordinary human, not familiar with the workings of the system, to comprehend the methods, depth, extent and consequences of the mind control performed by mass media owners.
During his speech on 5 November 2009 for the Peace Prize that he was awarded by the Sydney Peace Foundation, John Pilger gave a striking account of Australian statist and corporatist media and its role in subversion of truth. Here is an extract. "During the first world war, the British prime minister David Lloyd George confided to the editor of the Manchester Guardian: 'If people really knew [the truth], the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and they can't know.' What has changed? Quite a lot actually. As people have become more aware, propaganda has become more sophisticated." "One of the founders of modern propaganda was Edward Bernays, an American who believed that people in free societies could be lied to and regimented without them realising. He invented a euphemism for propaganda - 'public relations', or PR. 'What matters', he said, 'is the illusion.' Like Kevin Rudd's stage-managed press conferences outside his church, what matters is the illusion. The symbols of Anzac are constantly manipulated in this way. Marches. Medals. Flags. The pain of a fallen soldier's family. Serving in the military, says the prime minister, is Australia's highest calling. The squalor of war, the killing of civilians has no reference. What matters is the illusion. The aim is to ensure our silent complicity in a war of terror and in a massive increase in Australia's military arsenal. Long range cruise missiles are to be targeted at our neighbours. The Rudd government and the Pentagon have launched a competition to build military robots which, it is said, will do the 'army's dirty work' in 'urban combat zones'. What urban combat zones? What dirty work? Silence. The exact methods and tools of the ruling class for controlling or influencing media vary from nation to nation. In some, e.g. Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, the rulers exercise absolute or high degree of direct control, while in other nations a combination of more subtle mechanisms of control can be at work. The final goals and effects are the same in all cases: to perform successful control of the mind and behaviour of the population aimed at imposing and perpetuating the authority of the masters, and manufacturing consent in support of elite's agenda and projects.
The horrendous implications of private and state ownership of business organizations, infrastructure and natural resources are clear to everyone who has given it a thought, but state, private and corporate control of mass media is even worse, because it deprives humans of their freedom of information, will and capability of independent thinking and critical analysis. The central problem here is not the fact that the media sends out some information to a large group of people, but the phenomenon of the ownership and control of mass media by the ruling class, which actually means that the rulers, including capitalist elite, decide what people can know and think. In a society based on freedom and equality, solidarity and social justice for all, no one can own mass media, no one can control it, no one but all who are affected by it.
Mafia
During centuries since the late Middle Ages mafia has been shrouded in mystery, although there is nothing new about mafia principally differing from other proarchy criminal organizations. Mafia is an association of authoritarian criminal bands originally established in Sicilian countryside. The internal organization of each mafia cell is hierarchical, based on blood oath, rigid moral code of conduct and secrecy. The original mission of mafia has been the struggle against various foreign conquerors of Sicily, but this has gradually and fundamentally changed, evolving into a proarchy criminal society aiming at power and wealth for its leaders, most often through drug-dealing, racketeering, gambling and prostitution.
Another infamous example of a secret esoteric organization, a characteristically religious and sexist mafia, is Freemasonry. Freemasons form their mafia cells as Masonic Lodges cooperating locally, nationally, regionally, and also globally. A Masonic Lodge is a hierarchic, clandestine, fraternal power order, a cabal, ideologically rooted in a blend of religious mysticism, Christianism, Judeo-Christianism, Judaism, as well as ambitious goals and activities for power plot and conspiracy.
In modern times the word mafia is often used to describe many different proarchy criminal organizations working for acquiring wealth and power over others by robbing, exploiting, controlling, intimidating and murdering the population. The most interesting thing about mafia is that in its essence it is substantially similar to how governments and capitalist business units work.
Priesthood
There is no bigger antihuman crime, than that of controlling the minds and emotions of humans for the purpose of exploiting them, and a brilliant example of this is the power of religious leaders, the priesthood. The priesthood works under the cover of a prehistoric discovery of a weapon of mass destruction, the religion. Appearing as a mediator between humans and their own horrible and nonsensical imagination called god, the priesthood sneaks into the heads of the people leading them to self-rejection and destruction for accumulating wealth and social power in the hands of the religious elite.
The priesthood and clergy are the most manipulative hypocrite conmen and dangerous power brokers of all times. While the state and capitalists commit their crimes against the people without any greatly successful effort to hide their true intentions of dominance and exploitation, the priesthood acts pretending to be a representative of a higher authority, a supernatural top management, a heavenly sacred government, a divine power, but in reality they only represent their own earthly utterly corrupt flesh and will, because all those mystical and spiritual powers and gods are blatant, shameless and ghastly lies.
Human beings living in a world full of physical and social threats and distress, will naturally develop some negative emotions. Such emotions have originally had an effect of intuitive and swift reaction to unfavourable or dangerous factors for ensuring better self-preservation and self-protection of individuals and the human kind, instead of carrying out lengthy analysis of every threatening situation. Negative emotions as strong fear and excessive anxiety, lack of necessary amount of self-confidence and other predominantly negative feelings can be overwhelmingly strong in humans in certain situations. When these powerful emotions get out of individuals' self-control, caused by internal genetical, biological or external environmental factors, and start to be dominant source of behavioural driver, even overriding normal intellectual analytical abilities, humans become hostages of their own emotional imbalance. This is exactly what the priesthood needs, this is when the fairy-scary tale makers take charge and begin to manipulate the human mind with a system of divine carrot and stick, using and amplifying all possible negative emotions that can be found, or created by a religious doctrine.
When the priesthood says "loyally serve god the all-mighty", it means "obey our rule and serve us", when it says "follow god's will", it means "follow me", when it says "the holy book", it means "the text that I or other swindlers have concocted" and finally, when it says "god", it really means nothing. Priesthood is a particularly wicked section of the ruling class employing mass hallucination and ecstasy, deceit and fear of punishment as methods for controlling the minds and the will of human beings, for using them as small, obedient pieces in a big religious sham of power conquest.
Gerontocracy
Gerontocracy is a rule by elders, a social organization where an old person or a group of elders exercise control. The apparent reason why gerontocracy have survived as a form of organization in certain cultures and circumstances is the assumption that only old people have sufficient wisdom and experience necessary for governing a society. The basic issue of relevance is, however, not whether elders are more or less clever or experienced than people at other ages, but whether they shall rule anyone else at all.
The natural roots of gerontocracy lie in the circumstances of growth of a human child. Children are not born with all the knowledge, intellectual and emotional faculties necessary for independent decision making in complex social context. Consequently, during the first years of their life children are dependent on the adults' and elders' abilities, gradually growing and achieving higher and higher levels of self-empowerment, until they become capable of meaningful social decision making on their own.
Gerontocracy is a result of an abuse of the natural power position of elders related to children, and children's sense of gratitude and indebtedness for the care, hard work of upbringing and sacrifices made by elders. The elders, who abuse the superior natural position that they enjoy when children are still small, tend to hold on to power, in other words become some kind of bosses, when children have grown up. Gerontocracy is a social hierarchy and, as other forms of authoritarian organizations, is based on oppression of individual's free will, on a set of excuses aimed at justifying the dominant role and rule of the elite in a social hierarchy.
There is really no need to fall into reverie or unending philosophical debate about who is more intelligent among different ages, sexes, races, cultures, ethnicities or professions. Of course, it may seem tempting to go to the roots of the definition of human being and the possible variations of its intellectual capacities, but that will always lead to a side track from the issue of social justice, freedom and happiness for all humans. As long as there is a human society, its members are destined to relate to each other, and any kind of authoritarian or hierarchical relations among individuals with own will, will cause unfreedom, injustice and tragedies. Even children, who by their very nature are less powerful than adults, should not be ruled by elders but supported, not controlled but guided, not oppressed but cared, not coerced but advised, not punished but educated and socialized, encouraging development of their free will and sense of personal responsibility, social equality and solidarity.
Gerontocracy is a rule by some humans over others, and therefore faulty and harmful.
Labour and Trade Unions
Labour union, or trade union, is an association of labourers in a particular trade, profession, factory, other business, state organization, or across many sectors of economy, that seeks to improve working conditions, and economic and social well-being of its members through group action. The history of trade unionism begins in the early 19th century in Europe, Great Britain and USA. Capitalists and governments have been ferociously fighting against the birth and growth of trade unionism. Thousands of workers have been massacred by state courts, police and military forces and by capitalists' own private paramilitary gangs. The history of trade unionism has been quite bloody, but also awarded with episodes of victory. Shorter working hours and better conditions, reduced racial and sexual discrimination are some of the improvements that trade unionism has achieved through strikes, political and legislative struggle and direct action during centuries.
But we should face the reality: the enemy has survived and is still strong, exploitation and oppression of workers by the state and capitalists continue. Despite numerous victories, the labour has not managed to challenge the position of capital at any extent worth of mentioning. Whenever a particular labour union achieves higher salaries for its members through negotiations or strike, the ruling class immediately initiates a series of well drilled actions, exercising their dominant power and stealing what has been re-appropriated by labourers.
Class struggle through labour strike is not futile, but a unionist labour movement dismally reduced to the level of just a little higher salary for a group of people is not really a class struggle, but an illusion of it, a palliative instead of cure against the fundamental injustice of capitalist economy. It only initiates a reaction from the capitalist and statist power brokers, either taking the increases back from those who think they have won something or from the rest of the internal poor and oppressed population, or from the population in other countries, thereby making a labour group of possible winners accomplices to imperialist plunder and genocide. Capital uses many different methods for stealing the fruits of an illusive increase of salary or other marginal improvements, few of which are especially worth of mentioning:
The reason behind the reaction from the ruling class is its program of maximizing the profit rate. The materialistic and power interests of the state and capitalists are closely interwoven, they play together. With a complex and sly network of political measures, laws, rules, regulations, licenses, prices, rent, taxes and interest rates the rulers will always win at the end of isolated sporadic salary quarrels, because they have got the necessary and sufficient political and social power, and control of capital.
Three fundamental shortcomings of the decaying bureaucratic trade unions can be summarized as this:
CNT-FAI during the Spanish Revolution of 1936 is an inspiring historic example of how a labour union successfully employs radical strategy and tactics for initiating a major social revolution, and contributing to the creation of libertarian socialist economy, decentralized and horizontal federations of industrial collectives and agrarian communes, and true democracy.
Revolutionary strategy and tactics, global solidarity and total direct democracy within and between unions are necessary for reviving labour and trade unions as class struggle organizations, and transforming them into Global Labour Unions. The present reality of unions is, unfortunately, too far from leading to any victory over capitalists and the rest of the ruling class.
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
It is given different names: rule of the proletariat, dictatorship of the proletariat, workers' rule, workers' state, communist state, socialist state, people's rule, etc. One can find numerous other names and misnames as well used for cosmetic decoration of an old, well known phenomenon - social hierarchy. Lots of new names may be made in the future for disguising social inequality and oppression. People with authoritarian symptoms don't give up too easily, they create and recreate their political monstrosity inherited through generations of humans stricken by pathological germ of domination and submission. Rule of Uncle Sam, Soviet State, Caesar, political party or the worker class are nothing but the same old litter, they are various forms of social dominance and parasitism. No matter what words are used to describe the fancy of rulers, they are painfully transparent for people who suffer under their yoke.
When a person or a group rule other people, the subjugated humans are inevitably oppressed, their natural abilities for independent thinking and acting are suppressed and diminished, their intellectual and emotional capabilities are degraded and their general well-being is crumbled, frequently causing long lasting disabilities, often lifelong disease of submissiveness. However, there is always a minority of the subjugated people who keep their dignity and free spirit alive and become rebels, as anarchists have by their actions proved countless times. To rule or reign over humans is a crime, also when it is a dictatorship of party-bureaucratic state imposed by a "communist", "socialist", Marxist, Leninist, Stalinist, Trotskyist, Maoist or whatever other political party or so called "vanguard of the proletariat". These people always start with "dictatorship of the proletariat" and always necessarily end with "dictatorship over the proletariat", unsurprisingly - as their ideology, programs and strategies are deeply and thoroughly anti-democratic, meanwhile the rest of the society goes down the drain of hierarchy as well, of course. Anyone who is ruling over other humans is guilty of evisceration of free human spirit. Any ruler calling itself social-democratic, socialist, communist, worker or popular is no less dominator than monarchs, fascists, capitalists, state or priesthood. "The Bolshevik practice of the last ten years shows clearly the counter-revolutionary role of their dictatorship of the Party. Every year it restrains a little more the social and political rights of the workers, and takes their revolutionary conquests away. There is no doubt that the 'historic mission' of the Bolshevik Party is emptied of all meaning and that it will attempt to bring the Russian Revolution to its final objective: State Capitalism of the enslaving salariat, that is to say, of the reinforced power of the exploiters and at the increasing misery of the exploited." In the sense of social justice, dictatorship of the proletariat has quite the same effect as the rule of the wealthy and other types of dictators. It causes authoritarian social cancer, inevitably and effectively transforming the proletarian party nomenklatura into a savage ruling class, not an iota better than its capitalist or fascist counterparts. Dictatorship of the proletariat is a sharply hierarchic form of statism with corrupt and despotic party brutes or glitterati on the top and enslaved population at the bottom. Mikhail Bakunin has already 140 years ago brilliantly explained the intrinsic self-perpetuating character of dictatorship of the proletariat promoted by Marxists. Bakunin has expressed this with striking precision and satire. "For Marxists anarchism or freedom is the aim, while the state and dictatorship is the means, and so, in order to free the masses, they have first to be enslaved... If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself." An example of terrible dictatorship of the peasant-proletariat was the regime of Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot in Cambodia in 1975-79. Originally, Khmer Rouge came to power as a consequence of the bombings, destruction and mass murder committed by USA in Cambodia during the Vietnam war. Pol Pot's statist villains called themselves "communists", and during their totalitarian, anti-intellectual, primitive, agrarian social engineering and slavery program committed genocide against Cambodians, they tortured, starved and murdered innocent people everywhere, e.g. in dungeons and death fields, they completely destroyed the entire society.
During this 4-year Cambodian Holocaust 2 million people were exterminated until Khmer Rouge was removed from power by Vietnam in 1979. The gangs of Khmer Rouge were then armed, financed, trained and politically supported by USA, UK and their client states, and eventually helped by them back to power in the early 1990s. This happened while Cambodia's government (which was fighting against Khmer Rouge terrorists since 1979) and the country's long-suffered population were stifled by US embargo, generally supported by the West and the UN. This case shows a peculiar symbiotic alliance between a dictatorship of the peasant-proletariat and the evil Empire. Moreover, Khmer Rouge's hatred and contempt for individual freedom, intellect, culture and humanistic values closely resemble the attitudes of Nazis, who ironically were calling their doctrine "socialism", just like Khmer Rouge abused the term "communism", making mockery of the idea of social justice by so naming their special concept of slavery.
Every historical or ongoing experiment with dictatorship of the proletariat is undeniably demonstrating the malignant effects of such tyrannical statist organization, thus verifying analyses and predictions made by anarchists on the subject at least as early as in the beginning of the First International, when this conception came into common focus as part of Marxist strategy, long before it was first unluckily implemented by the Bolsheviks.
Militarism
The ruling class in a society has a constant need to protect itself from local oppressed people, from rulers in other societies and their subjects. Military forces are absolutely necessary for defending the rich people's wealth and power, whether the threat comes from own slaves or rival rulers. Authoritarian institutions will always exist in a state of war, they can never live in peace, because authority is based on oppression and robbery, which will naturally attract other ruling social vultures to challenge the established elite for grabbing part of the loot and for further tormenting the population.
In all historical and present military conflicts the same pattern reemerges again and again: military force is employed for imposing authority or fighting in its defence. Sometimes it is nearly impossible to ascertain the originator of a particular long-standing military conflict, but that is really not relevant in this case. A matter of higher importance is the common general cause of all military conflicts, the authority. Instead of cooperation, equality, freedom and solidarity, the authoritarian culture produces inequality, with resulting conflicts and revival of authoritarianism in subsequent generations of people. Here is the root of reproductive violent conflicts, wars and militarism, it is inside the brains of humans who are used to think in terms of installing authority or submitting to it. This mindset will undoubtedly persist so long as hierarchic social organization and inequality survives, or so long as it is allowed to exist. "All peaceful persons should withdraw their support from the army, and require that all who wish to make war do so at their own cost and risk; that neither pay nor pensions are to be provided for those who choose to make man-killing a trade." Some of the major militarist criminals of recorded history, like Julius Caesar, Alexander Macedonian, Constantine, Genghis Khan, Timur Lenk and more recent figures as Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Churchill, Bush, Blair and other Ottoman, Russian, British, US and Israeli leaders and the leaders in their client states are only few examples of utterly evil and disgraceful incarnations of human vultures. They all have been heavily dependent on military force for imposing their rule upon other humans, massacring them by millions, enslaving the survivors, stealing land and resources and creating empires. Such human samples deserve to be spat on, thrown shoes at their faces and exhibited in hall of shame and special museums of scornful representatives of hierarchy, but they are nevertheless publicized widely and admired deeply by the media of rulers.
Well, not surprisingly media and military powers of the ruling class make up a symbiosis, like vultures and jackals could do, though the latter are not so malicious as their misanthropic human counterparts. But media is not the only symbiotic partner of the military leadership. Its biggest accomplice is the industry which manufactures weapons and new technology, and conducts scientific research for generals and soldiers, thus making astronomical profits through state budget, subsidies, privileges and tax cuts, meanwhile devastating the planet and its people. The global military-industrial complex is the single most powerful human-made monster with a program of worldwide destruction, abuse and massive waste. "Since the second world war, the 'arsenal of freedom' [USA] has overthrown 50 governments, including democracies, and crushed some 30 liberation movements. Millions of people all over the world have been driven out of their homes and subjected to crippling embargos. Bombing is as American as apple pie. The Rudd government justifies its proposals to spend billions on weapons by referring to what the Pentagon calls an 'arc of instability' that stretches across the world. Our enemies are apparently everywhere - from China to the Horn of Africa. In fact, an arc of instability does indeed stretch across the world and is maintained by the United States. The US Air Force calls this 'full spectrum dominance'. More than 800 American bases are ready for war. These bases protect a system that allows one per cent of humanity to control 40 per cent of wealth: a system that bails out just one bank with $180 billion - that's enough to eliminate malnutrition in the world, and provide education for every child, and water and sanitation for all, and to reverse the spread of malaria." Encouraging trends and social movements have arisen during the latest wave of militarist aggression of Russia against Chechnya, of apartheid Jewish state of Israel against Palestine, of USA against Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine - massive anti-militarist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist resistance is gathering momentum around the world. However, an inherent naivety marks the movement at the present. In their peaceful struggle the protestors waste their energy on ineffective appeals to their states about stopping wars and reducing military budgets, but rulers deride masses and drive on their blood dripping enterprise. This form of protests can never yield a worthwhile achievement, because the fundamental cause of militarism and wars is the social hierarchy, which is an intrinsic quality of authority. No less than complete annihilation of authority can ensure lasting peace.
Militarism is not only a product of the elite's hunger for imperialist conquest, an even greater reason for ever increasing military budget and secret and security services is the rulers' fear of revolution. The ruling class is scared to death by the very idea and the possibility of collectivization / socialization of economy, socialization of power, social justice, true democracy, of losing their dominance and control, of ominous and omnipresent risk of rebellion. US President Lyndon B. Johnson's favourite mantra aimed at justifying the Vietnam Holocaust committed by US Empire was: "We have to stop the communists over there or we'll soon be fighting them in California." Military forces, military intelligence and other spy organizations are inseparable parts of any state, because they constitute the second line of defence against the populace. Police is the first line, but in certain developments the police is unable to withstand a massive insurgence. Surely the police will use all of its available force for massacring and intimidating people as they always have done, but their detested gangs can easily and quickly be smashed by well organized revolutionaries with enormous motivation and indomitable will. For such cases paramilitary and military forces are also used by the state, because capitalists, statists and priesthood won't take any chances. In worst cases the ruling class turns to foreign military violence against own subjects as a military force of last resort.
In many militarist nations, especially USA, UK, other NATO countries, their client states, Israel, Australia, Russia and China, vast resources are being utilized by the military-industrial complex for research and manufacture of ever powerful weapons and automated, integrated, intelligent systems for conducting war and controlling people. Scientists and engineers have been working on such projects during several decades for military, state security and police aims, and have already achieved considerable success in several fields, particularly related to global and space surveillance; hard and soft spyware; cyber war; tracking, incapacitation and assassination of social and political activists; urban warfare; military robots; information war (e.g. propaganda, disinformation, manipulation and mind control); bombing; weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, biological, etc.) and weapon delivery systems. Authoritarian and hierarchic structures in human societies are leading to creation of dreadfully destructive and awfully brutal masters over humanity, capable of further enslaving and eventually annihilating our malfunctioning kind.
A nuclear cataclysm of unimaginable scale is but one of possible dreadful outcomes of a diverse, immense and growing global weapon arsenal, and the US Empire is the most earnest pusher of this development. The ensuing nuclear winter - in addition to full scale ecocide by other side effects of the global nuclear game - will cause such a dramatic climate change that will dwarf any possible effects of worst case scenario predicted for global warming. And that can happen at any moment, e.g. by an order from just one human on the top of the evil power pyramid, with increasing probability, judging by the Empire's present level of militarism and escalating global tensions. The US government has a detailed gruesome plan for this endgame in existence since late 1950s in complete accordance with its first-strike doctrine, and all systems are ready, always in stand-by mode, waiting for a singal from a Judeo-Christian lunatic like Bush or just a noise trigger. Such a dismal scenario of global destruction is possible and very real, not only because of hierarchic social relations and militarism, but also because no system is infallible, and complex products of militarism can easily get out of control. Further militarization of hierarchic societies and international relations, and development of ever more capable military technology and weapon systems are leading our world down the path of militaristic disaster.
Military organizations of the ruling class are distinctly pyramidal. Layer upon layer are leaders implemented throughout the entire system, making any military force a perfect tool for enslavement and oppression of the populace which is foolishly supplying and financing this monster. Defeating rulers' military force is usually not a piece of cake, but it is possible, very realistic and necessary. Successful strategies and tactics can be employed for bringing about the demise of this despotic militarist rule, but in all cases a network of powerful revolutionary organizations is needed, which shall be based on freedom, equality and solidarity among its members, without rulers, in other words network of anarchist organizations working for worldwide transformation of societies, because militarism is not a parochial evil, but global.
International Organizations
The 20th century has been a fertile period for establishment and growth of international organizations, especially the time after WW2. International organizations are membership institutions consisting of representatives from two or more nations, operating across national borders for specific purposes. At least 6000 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and 600 Intergovernmental Organizations (IO) exist at the present. Close international coordination and cooperation is being universally recognized as most useful, necessary and urgent for efforts towards peace and stability in the world. Although such a trend is undoubtedly positive, the world's ecology, health and social justice are showing signs of steady worsening, often expressed through poverty, war, other disasters and violations of human rights.
United Nations (UN) is the largest multipurpose worldwide organization established by charter on 24 October 1945. UN is an alliance of nations intended to play a central role in resolving international conflicts, securing peace and promoting cooperation and social progress in the world. UN is also a "roof organization", which coordinates activities of a large number of international agencies. Before UN another such organization was in existence, League of Nations, established by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and disbanded in 1946.
UN was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, but the world is still ravaged by wars, poverty and environmental destruction. Devastating wars waged by imperial USA, UK, Israel and Russia represent only a small collection of tragedies the people of the world are undergoing now, when military conflicts, diseases, poverty and despair are widespread across the world. The cause of the world's catastrophic situation is a composition of factors including imperialism, capitalism and state power.
Ignoring the will of the majority of Security Council members, overwhelming majority of UN and of the world's population, the United States, United Kingdom and Australia stepped on 19 April 2003 into a new phase of their 12-year-long genocidal war against Iraq, after their campaign of brazen lies, intimidation of UN members and corruption of leaders of their many client states. This war was just another episode in the Jewish-Anglo-USican conquest of the world's natural resources, this time oil of the Middle East. Other imperial and colonial ends are also part of the agenda, such as securing apartheid Israel's monopoly of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in the region, entering the final stage of the Palestinians Holocaust perpetrated by the Jewish State, preparing power basis for new wars and military expansion in the region, and strengthening the global dominant position of the USA and US Dollar. In the light of latest events, debates are alive concerning the realism of UN's role, mission and possibilities for achieving the goals outlined in its charter.
UN, like the majority of intergovernmental organizations, is just a loose alliance of nations, of governments. To say that UN is not successful, is the same thing as to say that the world's nations are not cooperating. The top of the power in UN is nothing else than a group of representatives from the most powerful national states. States' leaders are not cooperating, there is no question about that, it's almost too obvious. The interesting question is, why? But the answer to this question is simply another derivative of a more basic problem, the problem of the states. Let's imagine for a moment that UN is miraculously transformed into, or replaced by an organization, or a forum, or a network of delegates mandated by their communities everywhere in the world, according to the will of the people expressed through local direct democracy. The rulers' interest for profit and power in such an organization would not be an issue here, of course. Will this work better as an international entity? Certainly not with the present statist and capitalist structure of societies, because the leaders and capitalists in the nation states would protect the interests of the ruling class and ignore or override any decision made by the people or through this kind of forum. The core problem resides much deeper than just the matter of international organizing, although this is also important. The core problem is the state and capitalist system, which functions merely for supplying the rich and powerful with money, and for protecting them from the exploited people.
The states' leaders - many of them imperialists - hand in hand with super rich capitalists constitute the top layer of the world's ruling class. These people do not and can not cooperate in a way that will secure social equality and justice for all, and thence, peace and stability in the world. Their problem is in their very nature as members of a particular social class, they are inherently defective, because the motive that controls their behaviour is greed for profit and power, competition and conquest, authority and dominance. They are not concerned about human values as freedom for all, social equality and universal solidarity. The real concern of these powerful and deadly dangerous simpletons is the satisfaction of their hunger for money and power, and they try to satisfy it by all means, even if it would lead to total extinction of humanity.
The power structure within UN reflects the power relations between the states. On the top of UN pyramid is the Security Council, a club of world power elite, where superpowers with large nuclear military capacity, Russia, China, France, USA and UK, are represented as permanent members, and 10 other countries are non-permanent, elected members. At the present USA is the most bloody and terrifying imperialist superpower in the world, with UK and Australian leadership as its errand boys and apartheid Israel as its henchman in the Middle East and a world spy. Combined with refined techniques of corruption, intimidation and outright terrorism and aggression, this murderous nexus and its client states block and undermine a multitude of progressive efforts made by other members.
William Blum in his Anti-Empire Report of 4 November 2009 (www.killinghope.org) presents one of many revealing examples of the US' total contempt for United Nations. Take a look at the annual vote since 1992 in the General Assembly on the resolution for ending the vicious US embargo against Cuba: "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba".
When the global big bully USA is set to choke the entire people of Cuba as it is doing for the last 50 years, UN becomes simply powerless, although the votes for ending the embargo represent the absolute majority of the world. The problem here is not the United Nations as such - the reason for the long-standing impunity of US and Israeli crimes is the deadly power of US military capacity. William Blum reports on how the embargo-phase of US state terror against the people of Cuba began:
"...from State Department documents: Within a few months of the Cuban revolution of January 1959, the Eisenhower administration decided 'to adjust all our actions in such a way as to accelerate the development of an opposition in Cuba which would bring about a change in the Cuban Government, resulting in a new government favorable to U.S. interests.' On April 6, 1960, Lester D. Mallory, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, wrote in an internal memorandum: 'The majority of Cubans support Castro ... The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. ... every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba.' Mallory proposed 'a line of action which ... makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.' Later that year, the Eisenhower administration instituted the suffocating embargo."
Cuba is only one of the many cases of US and Israeli subversion of United Nations and their arrogant violation of UN resolutions. The UN General Assembly has passed hundreds of resolutions criticising and condemning the apartheid Israel for violation of United Nations Charter, Geneva Convention, international law, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, for occupation of Palestine, illegal settlements in occupied territories, the annexation wall, killing civilians, mass murder, war crimes, violation of human rights, military provocation, deadly and destructive aggression against other countries, and more.
The General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 on 10 November 1975 by 72 to 35 votes (with 32 abstentions), dedicated to Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, where it - appalled by Israeli racist crimes against humanity - also "Determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination". US has routinely voted against resolutions which criticise Israel. Just between 1972 and 1990 US vetoed 29 UN Security Council resolutions or criticism against apartheid Israel. The threat of a US veto prevents many serious resolutions against Israel from even getting to a vote. Security Council resolutions that do get to a vote are being significantly watered down, hoping that the US might not veto them. The evil Empire intentionally undermines United Nations by persistently protecting war crimes, crimes against humanity and violation of human rights committed by US, apartheid Israel and their client states.
Other big powers are not innocent either. The extent of dirty power play of top members and their corruption is so great, that UN's formal existence should be considered a rare curiosity. The political, economic and military wars in the world are transferred by members inside the UN, where they are continued just with slightly different means, and superpowers are sometimes trying to use UN simply to acquire an appearance of legitimacy for their plunders and other crimes.
The following is a list of some other seriously destructive international organizations managed by the same criminal transnational ruling elite:
Intergovernmental organizations are merely extentions of the existing national states with all their wrongs and intrinsic impossibilities for achieving social justice and peace. No reasonable ground exists for claiming that such organizations should be able to work for the best of all humanity, when in reality the states and the rest of the power elite are the biggest enemies of it.
Development of global social forums is paramount for creating a powerful world-wide mass movement, or rather a network of movements working against hierarchy, capitalism and imperialism, for freedom and social equality for all and everyone in the world. International organizations of rulers will never achieve this goal, they can only lead the world into the chasm, the final abyss destined for authoritarian societies.
A good example of an alternative social network, fast growing, though in its infant beginning, is the World Social Forum (WSF). It makes an important contribution to peace and justice through global cooperation and social organizations of people in different cultures and geographic locations. Globalization of freedom, social equality and solidarity is a movement with growing power and significance. WSF and a range of NGOs as Greenpeace, Medecins Sans Frontieres (also known as Doctors Without Borders or MSF) can become viable alternatives to statist international organizations.
The World Social Forum is one of classical examples of global social cooperation free from imperialist, statist and capitalist agendas and ingredients. WSF developed as a response to imperialist policies of capitalist globalization. International institutions as WB, IMF, WTO have for decades made decisions that have ruined lives of the people around the globe. People in the so-called Third World (developing countries), and poor and excluded people in industrialized countries are suffering from devastating effects of capitalist and imperialist economic globalization, and the dictatorship of states and leaders that drive it.
Another World Is Possible - is the slogan of World Social Forum. It provides a forum for discussing alternatives, exchanging experiences and ideas, strengthening alliances between social movements, unions of the working people and NGOs. The first WSF was held in January 2001, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, timed to coincide with the WEF in Davos, Switzerland, as its counterweight. WEF is an exclusive club of chief executives of the world's largest and most influential transnational corporations meeting political leaders and academic stooges in Davos to chart the global economic agenda. The World Social Forum is not really an organization, there is no united front or platform. "The World Social Forum is an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and interlinking for effective action, by groups and movements of civil society that are opposed to neoliberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism, and are committed to building a planetary society directed towards fruitful relationships among Humankind and between it and the Earth." (from WSF Charter of Principles).
Mind Control
With perceptible traces of a child's innocent genius people sometimes wonder if this brutal world is real, if their life is real, if it is really possible to live in such a cruel and unjust world. After all, if this life is real, why is the population not rebelling and bringing down the inhuman authoritarian system that constantly degenerates and devours them? "The strongest bulwark of the capitalist system is the ignorance of its victims." During its brief awakening in-between the frequent and forceful seances of mind control conducted by the brokers of power and profit upon the invented, constructed and manipulated homo economicus, a human being is able to question the basics of the system. This condition of short recovery is like the one of a hypnotized patient who suddenly wakes up and makes an effort to comprehend the situation, or a drunkard who in a rare moment of sobriety ponders about his misfortune. The machinery of mind control deployed by the rulers and profit makers is so immensely comprehensive and thorough, that a person who briefly wakes up and questions the system, deserves the adjective "incredibly lucky".
Mind control is not a mystery or an imagination, it is the most usual, the most widespread and normal business of the social elite. The subordinates must be kept under control, but the rulers would have absolutely no chance to achieve this objective without controlling the minds of their subjects. The necessary conditions under which a homo economicus can be created, maintained and exploited, can be described with the abbreviation IMADAF: Ignorance Manipulation Atomization Distraction Addiction Fear Ignorance Arguably the first and central condition of mind control is ignorance. It is extremely important for the ruling class to keep the governed people in a state of ignorance, and it is doing so by constantly hiding vital information and knowledge, inhibiting, blocking or counteracting non-institutional social media projects, and by controlling the mass media with its infrastructure, and the system of education. Government cannot exist without the tacit consent of the populace. This consent is maintained by keeping people in ignorance of their real power. Manipulation Whenever some essential information is leaked out or it can no longer be kept completely secret, another weapon is activated by the elite: manipulation, performed through lies, exaggerations, under- and overstatements, omissions, hoodwink, overwhelming repetition and purposeful persuasion. Edward Bernays, the Jewish-USican father of mind control engineering and psychological manipulation of the public in the US Empire, considered this particular crime of the ruling class necessary propaganda in 'democracy', and named his scientific art of deception public relations (PR), while German Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels, who's ideas and achievements had so fascinated Bernays, was more unceremonious about it, he simply called it propaganda.
Atomization Some humans manage, however, to get enough information and gain valuable social and political knowledge and arrange the distribution of it. Such cases are extremely harmful to the bosses and owners, because interaction, open and intense communication among the oppressed people can develop unity, which is a great strength and a fatal threat to the state and capitalists. The rulers know this all too well, therefore they engage in massive activities on all fronts for keeping individual subjects separated, isolated and atomized, often using the well known methods of racism, nationalism, sexism, moralism, religion, profitism, competition, promotion of egocentrism, and false claims of spurious scientists of the state and capital about the incurable and all-embracing selfishness and greed of homo economicus, who is supposed to be the lowest building block of social hierarchy and the wet dream of economists of capitalism.
Distraction In cases when atomization is not satisfactorily extensive and deep, further mind control is conducted by distraction through workaholism, commercial advertising, cultivation of consumerism and shopping, commercial sports, TV mania, obsession by celebrities, model mania, fashion, excessive pornography, gambling, cult of violence and various intoxicating substances as alcohol, nicotine, caffein and other narcotic and psychotic drugs. Distraction is an unbelievably powerful tool in the hands of the elite, it brings enormous profits to the elite, and at the same time distracts people from the fundamental issues of social injustice that affects them.
Addiction All factors of distraction eventually cause addiction, either because they are endlessly repeated, or because they are biological generators of dependency, or both. Addiction is pathology, it perpetuates the process of distraction, and thereby makes the circle of mind control complete.
Fear Nevertheless, there are always few runaways from the system's mind control machine, and a small number of individuals succeed in getting loose from the distraction-addiction circle. The bosses and private property owners have one more weapon ready loaded in their arsenal: fear. Through intimidation, imprisonment and harsh punishment of activists and rebels, the authorities achieve a double goal, they incapacitate the breakaways from the mind control machine, and use such stories as deterrent by spreading fear among the rest. Fear is also created and propagated by a constant harassment of the subjects with an omnipresent enemy, a deadly threat. Politicians and state servants fly new scarecrows every time they need to stir up a mass hysteria. Fear among the subjects is paramount to the survival of authority.
All methods and conditions of mind control have side effects, they destroy a human being as such, and create ever more wealth and power for the rulers, as the methods employed are always part of the profit business as well, worked and financed by the subjects.
Future Institutions of Unfreedom
Human intellect and imagination are true miracles, they can be tools of freedom and happiness or a terrible curse to all, the result depends really on how they are built, what they are trained and used for. The authoritarian culture trains and uses human brains for establishing and operating institutions of unfreedom, such as capitalism, religion and the state system, for making wars, oppressing and murdering people and destroying the nature, because all these are necessary activities for realization of the mission of authority: generating profit and power for the elite.
The creative energy of human intellect is wasted on the task of continuously inventing new and ever stronger institutions of oppression, technologies and methods of mind control. The pattern of the creation of unfreedom is evident, it exploits the natural weaknesses and imperfections of human body and mind for placing them into submission and dependency. If humanity manages to survive under the yoke of the destructive system of our time, which is leading humanity directly to self-extinction, the future authoritarians will certainly create more and new institutions of unfreedom, even of worse kind than the present ones, unless we deconstruct the whole system in time.
Liberation
Preface
The final liberation of humanity from hierarchy and authority will be the next exceptionally great achievement in the entire history of life, perhaps only second to the fantastic evolution of the life itself. For the time being humans are not free, they are hostages of their own belief in authority and hierarchical relations and their culture of submission and dominance.
Human interrelations based on social inequality, and the resulting power classes, are the most disastrous corollary of our natural evolution hitherto. Diseases, wars, poverty and premature death are symptoms, but the division of human society into classes such as power elite and rulers, power brokers and agents, the oppressed and exploited, is the real cause of human misfortunes. The absolute majority of all cases of human pain, suffering and tragedy are resulting from harmful beliefs and interrelations, but they can be prevented, cured or much relieved by radically altering human master-slave sado-masochist mentality.
The practical realizations of authority and hierarchy are existent and evident everywhere around us and, too often, inside our minds. The state, capitalism and religion are the foremost incarnations and sources of authority, hierarchy and social inequality, but there are numerous other institutions and ideologies of unfreedom, which continuously destroy humans and the world. They are the corrupt qualities of the present educational system, authoritarian family, false democracy and national and international imperial undemocratic political and business organizations. The majority of human beings are oppressed, manipulated and exploited all the time by the ruling class, its media and violent agents of power as the state and private police, military units, secret and security services and paramilitary groups. Leaders, bosses and managers are grabbing wealth and power from the rest of the populace, reducing oppressed humans to the level of controlled robots used for war and money making mechanism and later discarded as waste. The present social system deprives people of their freedom and dignity, isolates and degenerates them into primitive consumers. Even the so-called "democracies" of our days are wasteful sickening factories, consuming human life and the nature as raw materials for producing profit for the owners and leaders.
The controlled and exploited majority of the people is not the only victim of hierarchy, also those who belong to the ruing class are destroyed by it. Indeed, the leaders, bosses, managers, capitalists, monarchs are imbecile humanoids, who have not been fortunate enough to fully develop into true humans, their further development being withheld by the pathological system of dominator-serf relations, though in a role of dominators, thereby keeping them in the wild stage of our ancient progenitors. One day, the dominators will have to face the ultimate dilemma of their history: self-liberation and transformation into humans with a culture of freedom for all, social equality and universal solidarity, or a fast-track ride toward abyss and extinction by the hands of their former slaves.
Already millennia ago people have been greatly concerned about social injustice. The oppressed class, revolutionaries and activists have broken the malevolent chains of authoritarian culture, and have worked to alter the world through direct action. Millions of people have given their lives in the struggle against hierarchy and unequal power-based relations, but the enemy, the class of rulers, has managed through bloodshed and devastation to delay the liberation of humanity. The vision about a society of freedom, equality and justice is, understandably, not a modern invention. However, the will and the spirit of liberation are now alive in people's minds, and they are growing stronger. The wave of insurgent wrath against injustice is going to rock the bestial class of rulers and other dominators deep through their spine and roots, and will bring them down together with their hierarchy to ground zero, into stinky dust and rubble. There is no safety or salvation in building big armies, police, financial skyscrapers and empires, because the whole class of rulers and exploiters shall eventually vanish down the hole. "Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government. Anarchism is the destruction of misery, of superstitions, of hatred. Therefore, every blow given to the institutions of private property and to the government, every exaltation of the conscience of man, every disruption of the present conditions, every lie unmasked, every part of human activity taken away from the control of the authorities, every augmentation of the spirit of solidarity and initiative, is a step towards Anarchism." Anarchists are anti-authoritarian activists and revolutionaries. They organize and struggle against the ruling class for creating a society based on freedom, equality, solidarity and true democracy for all, i.e. a society without state, politicians, capitalists, clergy and other rulers. Freedom of every individual is very important for anarchists, and they will not hesitate to act against authoritarians who deprive people of their freedom by imposing the yoke of slavery and hierarchy upon them. "Let me say, with the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love." Self-liberation means acting personally for achieving freedom from hierarchy and authority through direct action, instead of passive dreaming, escaping from reality, futile hoping for noble leader to give you the right orders, liberator on white horse or ticket to heaven. Every individual can do something, a group can do much, and a strong anarchist organization can turn the entire despicable order upside down. The first and the most vital phase of self-liberation for an individual is self-enlightenment. This means seeking information and critically analyzing it, achieving insight, understanding the realities and the need for change, exploring possible solutions, and developing strategies for resistance, activism, projects and actions aimed at radical systemic change and social revolution. Thereupon, acting to the best of one's ability, especially in cooperation with others, is a natural way forward towards freedom.
Dreaming about nirvana or moksha, as liberation from samsara, may be appealing to some, especially ignorant or dejected people and those who seek psychogenic escape from dire reality. True self-liberation has nothing to do with religious or spiritualist conceptions, it is about achieving freedom and justice through democratic social revolution in the real life, here and now. People all over the world need such a real and fundamental social transformation, urgently and everywhere.
Each human being has a unique personality, capabilities and personal circumstances, thus no one can realistically create detailed instructions or advices for everyone else to follow in this case. Exactly what any person should and can do best for moving towards self-liberation and for helping others on the way, is up to that individual, as this is actually all about how to live the life and to make it more meaningful. For example, to name only three individuals, very different, out of millions of people who have strived for self-liberation and have contributed to the struggle for emancipation of humanity in their own, different ways: Bertrand Russel (1872-1970), social critic and philosopher; Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876), anarchist revolutionary and social philosopher; and Nestor Makhno (1888-1934), anarchist militant revolutionary.
Russell dedicated his life to writing, and promoting humanistic ideals and freedom of thought. In Russell's own words: "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair... Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me." Bakunin dedicated his life to fighting on barricades, writing, and promoting anarchism, i.e. freedom of individual, social equality and solidarity in a stateless society without capitalism and religion. In Bakunin's own words: "I am a fanatical lover of truth and freedom which I consider the only surroundings in which intelligence, consciousness and happiness develop and increase." Makhno was born in an extremely poor family in Ukraine. He got very little education and worked during summers since he was 8. Makhno had to leave the school at the age of 12 in order to work for survival. He later became an anarchist revolutionary, and in 1918 formed the Anarchist Black Army in Ukraine, heroically fighting for freedom, equality and true democracy, against statists, capitalists, imperialists and nationalists of all kinds, including German and Austro-Hungarian imperialist armies, Ukrainian Nationalist army (Petlura), the White Army (monarchists, capitalists) and the Red Army (Bolsheviks, Marxists). Anarchists started building a society in Ukraine without government, based on free communities, workers' and farmers' democratic councils, economic exchange coordinated by councils, self-management, freedom of speech and assembly, and secular education in modern schools by Francisco Ferrer's model. Makhno completely dedicated his life to the struggle for human freedom and social justice. All his life he remained a practical, down-to-earth person, man of action. Although he did not like abstract theorizing and philosophizing, he was an excellent organizer, and he accomplished much. In Makhno's own words: "I remain convinced on the grounds of my practical fighting experience that anarchism is as revolutionary, as diverse, and as sublime in every facet as is human life itself. Even if I only felt the remotest glimmer of sympathy for anarcho-revolutionary activity I would still call on you, reader and brother, to take up the struggle for the ideal anarchism, for only if you fight for this ideal and uphold it will you understand it properly. Anarchism is revolutionary in this and many other aspects. The more awake a man is, the deeper his thoughts about his situation are. He will recognize his state of slavery and the anarchistic and revolutionary spirit within him will wake and show itself in his thoughts and actions. It is the same for every man and woman, even if they could never have heard of it. These three persons have in their own individual ways worked for liberation of humanity, and their achievements inspire us and add to the accumulated knowledge we need. However, there is no need to emulate anyone. The crux of self-liberation is the constant quest for truth, acting to the maximum of one's ability by setting thoughts and words into practical actions and projects, and helping others. Everyone's freedom in a society is essential for one's own freedom, and self-liberation is prerequisite for liberation of others. Criticism of the existing unjust world order is very useful and important, but tangible results necessarily require fundamental systemic change, which can be achieved through revolution. Therefore, one's positive energy and efforts towards self-liberation should enable one to maintain focus on these realities, where networking, organizing and implementation of effective strategy into direct action are paramount for success.
Liberation of humanity is the elimination of all forms of authority and hierarchy, and the creation of relations built upon freedom of individuals, equality of political, social and economic power, and universal solidarity.
Vision"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." It is evident that the world's severe social, political, economical and ecological problems can not be resolved without fundamental alteration of the structures the societies are built in, and the ways they operate.
A uniform human culture everywhere in the world is neither desirable nor plausible, the existent diversities and the pace and extent of changes are too great for that. A magnificent yet realistic vision of the future should therefore not be constructed as a finished blueprint one-size-fits-all model, but as a veritable manifestation of foresight in social ideas inspiring to a range of diverse yet applicable and effective antisystemic projects and direct actions for self-liberation and for creation of a better society based on freedom, equality and solidarity.
My own vision has, of course, not appeared out of the blue or developed in isolation. It is a result of continuous movement towards deeper and better understanding of relations and causes of things, but it can never be absolute. Many thinkers during millennia have created their visions of a just society. In my view, the humanistic social theory that best explains the grave problems and effects of hierarchic human relations, and proposes meaningful, realistic and sustainable solutions, is anarchism. Anarchist philosophers, writers, activists and revolutionaries have in the last two centuries developed their humanistic vision of a just and peaceful society during their struggle against the ruling class.
I admire people who have dedicated their life to the struggle for freedom and social justice, who have left a strong heritage by their altruistic and brave revolutionary actions, or have developed ideas and analyses, which have inspired me and have influenced my perspective of the world. Although my views are influenced by a wide range of people, I would like to mention here at least few of those many who in my opinion represent courageous struggle, anarchism or true democracy: Spartacus, Nestor Makhno, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Joseph Déjacque, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Errico Malatesta, Murray Bookchin, Noam Chomsky, Iain McKay with the collective of An Anarchist FAQ, and Takis Fotopoulos (Inclusive Democracy project).
Millions of anarchists have been fighting for freedom and social justice, and some of them have not only dedicated but sacrificed their life for the incessant struggle against the hierarchy and the vicious ruling class. Anarchists do not worship any boss or dogma of any kind, so there are no such things as "Bakuninism" or "Kropotkinism". Anarchism develops from real-life practice. Anarchists do not create cult of leaders, unlike authoritarian movements of Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, Maoism etc., where "the great founder-teacher-leader" must be slavishly followed by default.
The works of humanistic thinkers, including anarchists, are a source of information, knowledge and inspiration to me, but I expose everything to my own critical scrutiny. There are no unquestionable authorities for me. The rebel is always inside me. I take what I comprehend to be true, what best explains the facts, and what can be applied in the real world. Then I regularly revisit my conclusions to challenge and re-examine them against any new facts or data. Anarchism is not a religious or authoritarian political dogma. Anarchism is a social philosophy with its roots in the real world struggle, and it is evolving in time and space. The unshaken foundation of anarchism is its correct and relentless criticism of all forms of hierarchy and authority (including state, capitalism and clergy) and its goal of a society based on freedom, equality and solidarity for all in true democracy.
What follows here is a glimpse of my vision.
Basics and Realization
HUMAN RELATIONS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
The essence of human interrelations is crucial for social justice. A society based on freedom of individuals and equality of their political, social and economic power will inevitably imply egalitarian relations. Such egalitarianism means coexistence and cooperation between individuals and groups without rulers and subordinates, a society without authority and hierarchy, where free agreement between equals is the key to just solutions acceptable to all.
Anarchy is a common designation for libertarian-egalitarian societies without hierarchy and authority. The following is a list of some of the ideologies, institutions and systems of unfreedom, which are incompatible and irreconcilable with anarchy and true democracy:
Sometimes new or synthetic words (neologism) can bring about diversity, variety and nuances in a context where old words have been in use for centuries. Anarchy is an old beautiful word fully capable of describing a society based on freedom and equality, but some new terms may also be useful, especially for explaining or emphasizing certain aspects of anarchy:
freegal, freegality, freegalitarian - free and egalitarian - about human relations and society based on freedom of individual, equality and solidarity, i.e. interrelations without rulers and capitalism. Synonymous with anarchy.
The meaning of social justice, as many other words used by authoritarian people, is often distorted for serving the task of mind control performed by the ruling class. Thus, a clarification is urgent, and here it is: Social Justice is a condition or situation distinguished by maximum freedom of all individuals, social equality, free agreements, solidarity, and the absence of hierarchy and authority - this implies human relations without rulers, oppression, exploitation, capitalism, clergy and state. Social justice is realizable. Indeed, it is not only perfectly possible to combine social equality and individual freedom, but also necessary for creation of a better society.
The emancipation of humans will result in a condition where individuals are free, and cooperate as equals in the spirit of universal solidarity. Further betterment of justice in human relations will constantly strive for maximization of the freedom of each and everyone, while maintaining and improving social equality. Social justice is a condition of egalitarian balance of power of free individuals. In any case, when the balance is broken, some individuals will acquire more power than others, be that social, political or economic power. An imbalance will necessarily lead to infringement of freedom of some individuals by others, therefore it is quintessential to social justice that the whole society and everyone in it work for maintaining and maximizing the freedom of each individual and social equality at the same time. The best guarantee for success in such evolution is a culture of constant power analysis, i.e. research into how the social (political, economic) power is distributed at any given time, how various new factors affect power distribution, how to manage the risk of imbalance before it may occur, averting the rise of any institution of unfreedom, and how to restore the balance if it is broken. Power analysis should become part of the personal culture of each and all humans, part of their social engagement and activities. "I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom." The work with analysis, planning and implementation of concrete anarchistic political, social and economic projects is crucial to the success of anarchy. However, the enormous variety of ideas, cultures, geosocial factors, and the creative intellect of humans across the world make it unreasonable to expect that one specific detailed model of anarchy will fit all. Total anarchy is a fundamental idea of social justice, and a realistic, universal ideal towards which people endeavour, but the practical realizations of anarchy, faithful to its basic principles, will inevitably vary with time and space. The following is a short summary of concepts, given here as an input to the process of creation of social justice.
ORGANIZATION AND DECISION MAKING
Organizations, networks, forums, communities, assemblies and federations are forms of coexistence, contact and cooperation between individual humans and groups. No modern society can exist without organizing. Organizing is necessary for performing mutual and common tasks, e.g. building and operating large infrastructure, performing production and distribution of goods and services, protecting the natural environment and ensuring sustainable use of natural resources, defending social justice, anarchy, and the life, freedom and health of individuals. No sober thinker, not even a naive primitivist, can with sufficient realism claim life in a society without some form of organizing. To live outside any organization or network is the same as to live alone on a desolate planet, which is not a plausible form of freedom.
The core principles for social, political, economic and cultural activities and organizing in anarchy are the power equality of all members, their individual freedom, and universal solidarity.
There is no state, government or capitalist system in anarchic society. With respect to organizational structure and function, this means that all decisions which affect individuals are made by them as equals, thus people exercise equal social, political and economic power in decision making. Every human, who is capable of thinking and expressing its will, will therefore be an equivalent member of decision making process. This is totally impossible in representative or parliamentary false-democracy, where decisions are made by politicians, bureaucrats, leaders, private property owners and various representatives. Direct face-to-face debates and voting with consensus or agreed majority rate are well known and proven methods for solving practical problems of decision making in relatively small organizations, usually with a number of members up to one hundred persons. For large societies direct voting can now with modern technology be performed as easily and efficiently as in a small group of people, but face-to-face debates between participants in case of large number of individuals, e.g. during federal / confederal referendum, would need to be supplemented by other solutions for open public deliberations, including televised debates, radio, paper media, internet, etc. In case of voting based on majority rate instead of consensus, the minority's interests, needs, claims and rights shall always be respected, discussed and, if possible, compromises shall be achieved or alternative solutions considered. Minority's needs and problems are an important concern in anarchy.
The basic principle of organization is direct democracy, self-management, free agreements between autonomous communities and assemblies, coordinated through decentralized and horizontal federations and networks.
For ensuring human freedom and social equality, for guaranteeing the rights of minorities and for ensuring a reasonable degree of stability, as a solid foundation for, and in addition to free agreements, an anarchic constitution (anarchist constitution) and anarchic laws shall be implemented. Anarchic constitution and laws, which are based on the principles of anarchy: freedom, equality and solidarity, are created and subject to change through direct democracy by all those who are affected and obliged by them. Direct democracy is about decision making and participation with equal political, social and economic power by every citizen who is affected by those decisions. All citizens will equally participate in referenda and in their local assemblies through direct democracy for making anarchic constitution, laws, decrees, decide on international policy issues, and more. On federal, regional and local scale the citizens will through direct democracy conduct trials, decide on budgets, social, economic, ecological and cultural programs, projects, etc. Based on similar principles, all citizens will equally participate in making also other important decisions in their own communities, and in their economic, educational, professional, scientific, health care and other organizations.
Participation in direct democracy, i.e. democratic society without government, politicians and representatives, is not only the most important social, political and economic right of every individual member of that society, but also an obligation. A negligence of this obligation and social passivity will inevitably lead to deterioration of democracy into hierarchy, putting the power in the hands of demagogs, politicians, bureaucrats or other proarchy elements. It is very important that the right and obligation to partake in direct democracy be supported by education and training from early age. Direct democracy will only succeed as a stable form of organization if it is deeply rooted in the culture and people's way of thinking, becoming a second nature for all members of society.
Anarchy is a form of cooperation without rulers and bosses, without hierarchy. Such a cooperation is realized through free agreements, and decisions are made by those who are affected by them. Naturally, larger societies will need efficient solutions for discussions, voting and decision making. It is not feasible to gather millions of people together for making all possible decisions all the time. Referendums can serve as a suitable tool in certain cases, fx. law-making and policy-making in a nation, and ratification of international agreements. In order to enable efficient large scale current cooperation, federations of communes can be organized based on relations through residence, work, study, cultural activities or other. The relations between communes and other organizations participating in a federation will be similar to those of individuals within one organization, and so no organization in a federation dominates or exploits others. This is when the role of mandated delegates comes in.
Every organization and assembly will be able to send delegates to participate in the federation's meetings and other working sessions. There is an essential difference between mandated delegate and representative, where the latter is the nonsense of parliamentary rule and political parties. Delegates in anarchy don't make laws or exert power or control over the population, they coordinate the implementation of the communities' policies and decisions, and report back to their communities, strictly according to their mandates, while decisions (constitution, laws, policies, etc.) are always made by all members of the society who are affected by those decisions, preferably in a face-to-face forum or assembly through direct participation with equal rights. A delegate is the voice, eyes, ears and the carrier of the decisions of its community, it is the coordinating member from its community in the federation, but not its representative. Every delegate carries a mandate issued by its community, describing the delegate, the community, the start and end dates of the validity of that mandate. Any community member can be a delegate at some point of time in a rotating order with agreed frequency, no one is a specialized or long standing delegate, and any delegate can be recalled or replaced by its community at any moment with immediate effect.
Historical experience has established some interesting examples of fair modes of selection of delegates, e.g. by sortition, i.e. lot (lottery) among the members of a community, with a limitation of the number of times each person can hold the same kind of delegate-mandate in one's lifetime, depending on the feasibility of such a quota in concrete and specific conditions and the size of the community.
In statist, capitalist or other kind of hierarchic society, the core organizations are power pyramids with the power residing at the top, or they are circles with the power concentrated in the centre, while anarchy can be described as a freegal organization or network of organizations with the power equally distributed among all members. A hierarchy is governed by leaders with their authoritarian laws, state police, military, secret and security services, while anarchic society is self-managed through equal participation of all its members, according to free agreements. All entities of common public services are under direct democratic control of the society.
Authoritarian apologists often claim that true democracy is utopia, because the general population is allegedly incompetent, democratic decision making is too slow, wars can not be fought by a committee, etc. Thus, they conclude, it is best to leave decision making to wealthy elites, party bosses and other evildoers. This is utter nonsense, a pathetic effort to legitimize hierarchy and social injustice. Centuries ago, monarchists and slave owners were using similar arguments for justifying their own rule.
Let's take a quick look at the concept of democracy in terms of its practical realization, as well as some basic clarifications and theoretical suggestions.
Collective decision making in anarchy may generally take longer time than that in authoritarian organizations, it requires more communication, deliberation, and subsequently more time and coordination, than the process involving a single dictator or a few leaders colluding behind closed doors in a hierarchy. In any case, training and experience in anarchist cooperation are the way to go. Humans learn fast, the hardest thing is to begin. Moreover, modern information and communication technology contributes to increasing the efficiency and quality of collective decision making processes, even with very large number of participants or long physical distances between them.
Full implementation of true democracy, i.e. direct democracy, is crucal for the success of anarchy. Direct democracy is not about making absolutely all decisions in the society collectively by absolutely all the individuals all the time. That would be impossible. Direct democracy means that every human being participates in making decisions which affect that individual, relative to the extent by which the individual is affected, directly and without representation, with equality of rights for information, deliberation, voting and decision-making among all participants, in legal, political, social, economic and all other spheres of life. Exactly what kind of decisions will be made collectively in the social system of organization called direct democracy, especially in large societies? Actually, the complete answer to this question in a particular society is one of the fundamental decisions that need to be made collectively by the members of that society, and declared by its constitution.
Persons with specialist knowledge or function, e.g. doctors, pilots, engineers, scientists, lawyers, police, will, of course, perform their lawful duties, serve and inform people; direct democracy does not in any way replace such functions, but specialists and experts will not be allowed to dictate their will to others, create social hierarchies or impose any esoteric or bureaucratic tyranny as it is done in capitalist and other statist (also left-statist) societies by politicians, bureaucrats, economists, managers and other agents of power. The final word and decision must always rest with people who are affected. It is important to distinguish between specialist functions for serving, helping, informing and advising people, and such positions and actions in the society which impose power hierarchy upon the people, dominating and exploiting them. Direct democracy is abolishing the latter.
There is a certain minimum of decision categories which, in my opinion, necessarily belongs to the process of direct democratic decision making, unless one is willing to accept corruption and degeneration of the system into false-democracy of oligarchic representation, parliament, government and political parties, intrinsic to capitalist and other statist societies.
On federal / confederal level, categories of decisions made only through direct democracy, by referendum of all citizens, shall include the following:
Local communities elect delegates to councils through direct democracy:
In hierarchy (fx. state, capitalism and theocracy), the constitution, laws, policies and other decisions are created by the ruling class and imposed on the subjects. Naturally, the elites need to apply much force and violence of the state police, authoritarian courts, military, security and secret services, private contractors (mercenaries, paramilitary gangs, private police) and ruler's propaganda machine for enforcing their will and other injustice upon the alienated population. On the contrary, in anarchy and democracy, the constitution, laws, policies and other vital decisions are implemented through a mechanism of democratic self-enforcement. This is possible in true democracy because all citizens directly participate in making laws, policies and all other essential decisions that affect them. Councils, committees and the militia in anarchy, which function under citizens' democratic control, are only parts of the public system of self-enforcement and supervision of social justice and anarchic order, while the crucial factors enabling the self-enforcement mechanism and self-institution in anarchy are democracy itself and anarchic education and empowerment of individuals.
Direct democracy shall be thoroughly implemented to the largest possible extent for decision making within:
In the economy, direct democracy includes:
In courts, the role of the judge as the elevated big boss will no longer be needed or acceptable, it is obsolete:
For rapid response to community's special urgent needs, e.g.:
This summary of decision categories, which in my opinion naturally and necessarily fall into the domain of direct democracy, is neither detailed nor exhaustive. It is useful just for demonstrating the main scope of groups of decisions that need to be made democratically in a decentralized-horizontal federation. Additionally, there is a great number of complex problems and technicalities to be resolved for making democracy work, e.g. the relation between local communities, their relation to the federation, definition of citizenship, voting rights in cases of disputed mental disabilities or anti-social crimes, the exact functioning and voting power of delegates in councils, the size and number of councils, the way communities and councils are confederated, and many more issues.
Clearly, the total number of social decisions a citizen has to make is high, including a large number of referendums. It is essential for avoiding system overload and voter apathy that every proposal and draft is presented in concise, clear, easily understandable language, empowering voters to quickly grasp the essence of it, to determine if that particular issue is of interest to them, and to make up their mind about voting. The system should be designed not to encourage frequent, insignificant, petty propositions and excessive law-making fever, as these will waste much resources and time for everyone. Furthermore, strong anarchic constitution and fewer laws will have an effect of less bureaucracy and more empowerment of the citizenry to be actively and directly involved in democratic self-management of the society. All difficult practical issues related to true democracy are problems to be solved, just like any other problem that has been resolved by human creativity, ingenuity and incremental improvement of whatever is created and tested. No problem pertaining to democratic organization and its efficiency can ever justify centralization of power and creation of hierarchy.
An incurable weakness of statist socialists, statist communists, Marxists and authoritarian left in general is their obsession by centralization of power and the notion of vanguard. Every conceivable scenario of centralized society, including state-communist and state-socialist monstrosity, has already existed, and is also now the standard of the day in social-democratic bourgeois countries, always with the same outcome, causing injustice, tragic consequences, suffering, death and destruction. Left centralist and authoritarian theoreticians tirelessly continue inventing excuses for why decision making power, voting, lawmaking and policy-making should be represented by elites, though elected ones. They promote gibberish like "democratic government", "democratic representatives", "democratic centralism", "deliberative representative democracy", "delegation of autonomy", "delegation of voting power", even "anarchist government" and other blatant contradictions in terms! Such distortion of democracy is tantamount to full abdication of individual sovereignty and freedom for the benefit of opportunistic bourgeois power mongers. Why bother to replace the present wrongful society by another hierarchy?
What centralist apologists are unable to comprehend, or unwilling to admit, is that centralization is not a form of free cooperation and democracy, not a realization of freedom, equality and solidarity, but simply an incarnation of government under new banner, and there is no justification for it whatsoever. Conversely, decentralization of power in anarchy is not the same as separation, atomization or parochialism, but a crucial factor and prerequisite for democratic federation, which shall not be the centre of power, but of horizontal coordination and cooperation based on anarchic constitution, anarchic laws and agreements. Denouncement and abandonment of centralist misconception is long overdue.
Knowledge about voting theory and voting systems, their qualities, differences, advantages, disadvantages, weaknesses and vulnerabilities for subversion and manipulation, and analysis of consequences for employing any particular voting system in a society are paramount for collective decision making. Different types of decisions may require different approach, and thus, some voting systems will be more suitable for resolving a certain group of problems than others. It is necessary to educate each and every member of the society at least about the basics of the most common voting systems, and certainly about those systems which are being used. Systems that have so high degree of complexity that understanding them becomes difficult for some voting members, shall be avoided, as these systems can yield incorrect outcome and undermine the public confidence in true democracy.
Few examples of voting systems and associated issues are presented here just to demonstrate the diversity of methods, strategies and problems: open or secret voting, quorum, consensus, majority rule, relative or simple majority, supermajority or qualified majority, plurality, approval voting, range voting, cumulative voting, unanimous consent, tie-breaking methods, blackballing, lot (lottery) from all possible alternatives or from a pre-voted group of alternatives, and various voting strategies.
Here are some general examples of voting situations for illustration. When there is only one proposal, voting could be done just by Yes or No, let's say with simple or qualified majority or consensus and open voting. When there are many alternative proposals from which only one or more than one have to be selected, the voting could be done by implementing some of various open or secret voting systems suitable and optimal for this purpose (and there are many of them also for such cases), and so on. Also a quorum shall be constituted, or at least be set in good time before any decision making session is invited.
Different combinations of quorum, voting system and strategies can yield different results. The outcome is also very susceptible to the availability and quality of information and its presentation to voters, discussions, debates, access to media and information channels, general emotional state of the voters at the time of voting, external factors and events happening shortly before or during voting, accidental or strategic timing, who and how forms the proposals and questions, the amount of time dedicated to a particular decision making process, and more. In order for a collective judgment to produce a good decision, possible mental and behavioural pitfalls should be avoided by the group. The awareness of phenomena like group conformity, peer pressure, communal reinforcement, groupthink, collective hysteria, demagoguery, manipulation, dictatorship of the commentariat, and measures for obviation and mitigation of such situations can reduce the risk of fallacious conclusions and bad decisions.
With the advancement of anarchic societies throughout the world, research and knowledge about collective decision making, voting theory and voting systems will probably develop much further then it is at the present. The reason for this is the fact that decision making through direct democracy requires much communication and voting. In nowdays, any voting theory and voting system is focused mostly on elections in a hierarchy. In freegalitarian society, there is neither voting for parliamentary election, nor government, nor representatives, nor political parties, because decisions are made by all the people affected by those decisions through direct democracy. In this light, the existing voting theories and systems should be examined mainly with an anarchic decision making process in mind, and not a conventional election. Some principles from the present research could still be valid for anarchy, but they have to be adapted and applied for the needs of anarchic decision making processes.
There are some fundamental issues related to democratic decision making by voting, crucial for the success of freegalitarian society and, indeed, for anarchic organizations of any size and type, which should not compromised, because a substantial deviation from such principles will lead to imbalance of power among the participants, and deformation and corruption of the system. Here is a short summary of some basic principles.
One person, one vote - No person (i.e. human being) shall ever have more voting right (power) than any other person.
Personal vote - Voting right is personal, and shall never be transferred, franchised, authorized, trusted, done by proxy or represented by any other person.
Information and deliberation - In good time prior to voting, sufficient information shall be provided equally to all participants, and forum and adequate time shall be dedicated for free discussions and deliberations.
Access to media - If a decision and related voting involve a large group of people, e.g. the whole society in a region or country, the access to media and information channels shall be provided to all groups of opinions.
Drafts and proposals - The rules and procedures for making proposals, preparing drafts and making changes before voting shall provide equal opportunities, influence and power of initiative to all participants.
Correct counting of votes - The process of counting votes shall always be designed and conducted in such a manner that chances for errors are eliminated or reduced to absolute possible minimum, and falsification and sabotage are prevented, and discovered if they occur.
Constitution - For ensuring human freedom and social equality, for guaranteeing the rights of minorities and for ensuring a reasonable degree of stability, as a solid foundation for, and in addition to free agreements, an anarchic constitution shall be implemented. Anarchic constitution, which is based on the principles of anarchy: freedom, equality and solidarity, is created and subject to change through direct democracy by all those who are affected and obliged by it.
Anarchism is the ground upon which interactions between human beings occur in a just society.
Not authoritarian or state laws, but free and egalitarian agreements regulate human interrelations. There is no state, no government, no capitalist, no clergy. Decisions are made collectively by community members who are affected by those decisions. Everyone participates on equal terms by voting with consensus or agreed majority rate, while minorities are respected, their needs are investigated and special solutions are worked out with them, if possible. Communities can be organized by place of residence or through work, educational groups or other social environment. Current cooperation between communities is realized through a federation or network, which in turn also joins into larger organizations, and so on. Mandated, recallable and rotating delegates from communities inform, coordinate and report back to the community, but make no decisions on behalf of the community.
No registration of marriages or family structures are imposed or controlled by anyone. The form, size, sex, content and duration of all erotic or social cohabitational groups are decided freely and solely by the individuals who participate in such groups or families. No mandatory family policy, no authority, no coercion, no repression. The task of the larger society related to smaller social groups is to take care of the common needs of the groups, and to defend the freedom and safety of the individuals in groups. Children are nobody's property, not the parents' and not the community's. The family and the society are caretakers, supporters, advisors, educators and facilitators for children. People shall give their love and advice to children and protect them, no matter what kind of families or cohabitational groups they grow up in. The crucial factor in that respect is the enlightenment of children in the spirit of anarchy, i.e. freedom, equality and solidarity.
There is no punishment, deprivation, torture or humiliation in case of breaking agreements or doing other wrongs. Punishment is a form of revenge and torture, it is inhumane, immoral, irrational and socially wasteful. A better solution for justice with wrongdoers is rendering them harmless if necessary, and their rehabilitation, correction and socialization, helping the victims, protecting the society, treatment of consequences (fx. expropriation of criminal gains, compensation, restitution, restoration, reparation, indemnification), analysis and treatment of causes, and measures for preventing similar crimes from occurring in the future. Resolving conflicts and reacting to wrongdoing among its members are typical functions for the whole community, where decisions related to problems of human interrelations and relations between groups shall be discussed and resolved in anarchist courts and other relevant fora. Dangerous or otherwise serious cases of proarchy crimes, before social rehabilitation of proarchy criminals can begin, are handled by the Anarchy Defence Force (ADF). There are no authorities, departments, ministries or bosses.
Education, including upbringing of small children, is of utmost importance for the society. What the young generation learns now, will strongly affect the present society and will become the full reality of life in the future.
Humanistic, anarchistic and democratic values, combined with ecological and holistic approach, constitute the fundament of good education. Everyone shall be encouraged to study, as only highly developed culture, knowledge and skills can guarantee a free, just, healthy and meaningful social life. Interest and passion for science, nature, technology, culture, literature and art shall be awakened and motivated among children and students. Although memorizing facts and training skills are useful, the ability of free, independent, rational, critical, analytic and creative thinking and intelligent communication is the most important mental quality that shall be developed in every human being.
For harmonizing human being's free individual and social nature, education shall support the development of independent and strong character and empathy, self-respect and respect for others, anti-authoritarian attitude and cooperation, universal solidarity, ecological sense, diversity and tolerance.
Education shall never promote any ideas or institutions of unfreedom, social inequality, hierarchy, authority, dominance, subservience, uniformity, dogmas or religion, as these will inevitably lead to mental and emotional retardation, debilitation, degeneration and dehumanization - much like the misanthropic and heteronomous miseducation inculcates children in statist, capitalist and theocratic societies.
There is no power authority in free education. Children, youth and adults are educated based on individuals' needs, inclinations and wishes, and community's needs, expressed through individual agreements. The society actively facilitates education and creates possibilities.
Educational institutions are, of course, organized according to principles of anarchy. Teachers are educators, social and professional guides, supporters and helpers. No authoritarian rectors or principals, no behavioural or mind control, no religion, no punishment, no fear. Decisions in educational organizations that affect students are made jointly by students (and/or parents, depending upon students' age) and teachers through direct democracy.
Mass media shall serve to inform and enlighten people.
Unfortunately, in statist, capitalist and religious societies, mass media is a powerful tool in the hands of the ruling class for mind control and manipulation of the populace, a channel for marketing capitalist consumerist rubbish, and a huge profit and power making machine for the owners of mass media. The major mass media corporations, the main information infrastructure and technology are owned and controlled by the rulers. This situation needs to be radically altered.
Of course, it should suffice to note that social justice is not compatible with private property, and thereby, no private or state ownership and monopolization of the means of life (productive resources) is possible and, consequently, mass media can not be privately or state owned either. Mass media has so special and critical place in people's lifes, that erroneous decisions related to mass media can have catastrophic consequences for a free society. Those who are in control of mass media, have too much power, this is why it must belong to all.
In a free society no one can own mass media. Mass media has a strategic and critical role in public information services, therefore no one but the whole society collectively can control it. People working in mass media will be the users of public resources for preparing and arranging the work of content providers of all kinds and opinions, cultural activities, organizations and forums, groups, communities, federations and individuals. Mass media is not only a public resource, it is often a limited and scarce natural or human-made resource, for example: radio frequencies, satellite and earth networks, long-range and intercontinental cables, mobile communications infrastructure and printing facilities. Enormous amounts of raw materials and energy are used in mass media. There is no other just and effective solution to this problem than collectivization / socialization of all mass media and related resources - not nationalization or statization, which means no state and no capitalist will take control, but the entire society. In anarchy, the means of life, including the means of production, distribution and exchange, land, resources and infrastructure, are collectively controlled by all members of the society.
Mass media in anarchy is controlled by all members of the community, and anyone can have access to it, as long as it is not promoting hierarchy and authority. In case of limited time or other critical resources of mass media, their use is shared, or performed in turn, in order to avoid any kind of monopoly.
Like arts, crafts, music and dance, science is an amazing achievement of humanity. Science is the study of the universe performed by systematic observation, analysis and experimentation, resulting in incremental, accumulated knowledge. Science is enlightenment, it is the method of human reason for understanding the world, as opposed to religion, which is a dogmatic tool of stupefaction and dupery.
Unfortunately there is a grave defect about the science controlled by the ruling class: it is antihuman, it serves the interests of the rich and powerful, it works for generating profit, war, oppression and exploitation. A troubling fact is that scientific research is at the present employed by the rulers on large scale for perpetuating state, capitalism and for multiplying the consequences of these horrifying institutions, for example mass-control, exploitation and mass-murder. Science needs to be liberated, as the whole humanity needs to be freed from the dominators' virulent nexus. "The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself." To liberate the science means to set it free from the control of statist, capitalist and other members of the ruling class. Similar to other human work, science has to change its focus from serving the power and profit brokers onto increasing everyone's knowledge and well-being, securing individual's freedom and developing social justice. "Justifying space exploration because we get non-stick frying pans is like justifying music because it is good exercise for the violinist's right arm." There are innumerable problems essential to human survival, health and well-being that have to be solved urgently on global scale. Within the framework of bourgeois states, there is no real movement towards any improvement of human condition, because science and technology are busy loaded with tasks for serving the agenda of the elites, profit mongers and militarism.
Thousands of intelligent scientists across the world, huge resources at their disposal in pure theoretical science, applied science and technology will finally be able to work for the whole humanity, and not for the ruling class. Instead of delivering new weapons and more profit into the hands of the leaders, free science can at last use its cognitive energy in accordance with its humanistic mission: to enlighten and empower all human beings. This will in turn help to liberate them from the yoke of the leaders and to build societies based on freedom, equality and solidarity. It is evident that the factors causing the majority of diseases, poverty, wars, environmental crises, climate change and other effects of unscrupulousness, aggression and hostility lie even deeper than at the level of capitalism, |
