I am new to anarchism and recently only realised why they like a black flag. That was the start of my reading. I then read anarchism for beginners and for a while that satisfied my enquiries. I discussed anarchism with my parents but started realising tha

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Anon 09/06/15 (Sun) 22:02:50 988dc3 No.9465

I am new to anarchism and recently only realised why they like a black flag. That was the start of my reading. I then read anarchism for beginners and for a while that satisfied my enquiries. I discussed anarchism with my parents but started realising that anarchists arent mentally retarded squirty little kids making trouble, like my like my dad said they were. I realised that, for example Kropotkin was quite a cool guy who was well educated but I would like to ask you some questions I cant find the answer to anywhere else. How do anarchists hope to persuade the military of various countries to lay down their arms if the anarchists only believe in peaceful revolution?

What did you do yesterday or today that would help a revolution take place?

My grandfather told me that his father fought on the side of the anarchists in the spanish civil war but thought they were full of shit so he walked into France and worked in the French post office - are there any books by spanish anarchists, my grandfather said the spanish anarchists considered reading academic texts as too bourgeois.

Anon 09/06/15 (Sun) 22:29:28 88798d No.9466

>>9465

>How do anarchists hope to persuade the military of various countries to lay down their arms if the anarchists only believe in peaceful revolution?

Low military officers (that is, the vast majority of them) actually do have it bad enough and, being enforcers of the system, do have a somewhat clear idea of what the system really is. Generally speaking, whenever revolutions broke out it wasn't too hard to win over large sections of the military.

For the record, though, "peaceful revolution" is not quite it. Violence in self-defence is required.

>What did you do yesterday or today that would help a revolution take place?

Organising the struggle. Read some history and theory here and there.

>are there any books by spanish anarchists,

https://libcom.org/history/cnt-spanish-revolution-jos%C3%A9-peirats

https://libcom.org/library/collectives-spanish-revolution-gaston-leval

http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/a-spanish-revolution-reading-list/

>my grandfather said the spanish anarchists considered reading academic texts as too bourgeois.

Care to expand on this, if you can? Are "academic texts" an euphemism for "liberal apologism"?

Anon 09/07/15 (Mon) 01:16:30 000000 No.9474

>>9465

>How do anarchists hope to persuade the military of various countries to lay down their arms

Anarchists (and other radicals) encourage members of the military to desert or mutiny.

Anon 09/07/15 (Mon) 16:16:22 e7e539 No.9480

>How do anarchists hope to persuade the military of various countries to lay down their arms

Lemme ask you a question, who do you think most soldiers are? Are they rich members of society or are they most kids and poor people who don't have a lot of options? If anarchists had a significant number of people behind them and offered a feasible alternative to being a soldier than quite a lot of soldiers would defect to the anarchists side. Not to mention they would t like to kill poor people they might know, they'd be on the wrong side of a civil war if that happened.

>anarchists only believe in peaceful revolution?

Well we dont. Pacifist anarchists do exist, but they are in the minority and tend to get shot if they get any real political action. Remember, the first ones to die in any war or revolution are the moderates and the pacifists.

Gun Fetish Anon 09/08/15 (Tue) 00:00:25 000000 No.9482

>>9480

>Pacifist anarchists … tend to get shot if they get any real political action. Remember, the first ones to die in any war or revolution are the moderates and the pacifists.

This is bullshit.

Anon 09/08/15 (Tue) 04:43:20 e7e539 No.9484

>>9482

And why is it bullshit? If you look at the history of the 20 century you can very clearly see pacifists and moderates are among the first groups to be rounded up, put in prisons, used as forced labor, or shot. They aren't all the successful, and they tend to die.