Beautiful article and interesting take how it was actually anarchists who tore down the Berlin Wall and how East Berlin was a peaceful anarchy for a year while West Germany was finalizing how it was going to be run: bostonreview.net/world/paul-hockenos-untold-story-berlin-wall-east-germany

Throughout 1990, DJs, artists and wannabe artists, middle-class students, activist filmmakers, clubbers, musicians, and other free spirits would occupy hundreds of apartment buildings, vacant shops, shuttered warehouses, and long-forgotten subterranean vaults. They came from East and West Germany, as well as from across Europe and beyond, to initiate Berlin’s rebirth as a cosmopolitan center after decades of reclusion. The Iron Curtain’s breach and Communism’s demise unleashed a groundswell of utopian energy and DIY zeal, most powerfully focused in the occupied spaces of East Berlin’s inner city districts, such as Friedrichshain...

Pretty essential.

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Will add a news/platform section to OP later.

nytimes.com/2020/01/07/technology/dot-org-private-equity-battle.html

In November, the Internet Society (ISOC), which owns the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the group that maintains the .org top-level domain, announced it would sell PIR to Ethos Capital, a private equity firm — an ownership structure that would seem to be at odds with what .org represents. Today, a group of internet and nonprofit leaders formed a nonprofit cooperative corporation that’s trying to stop the sale and become the future stewards of the .org domain instead.

On this #LawEnforcementAppreciationDay, let's remind ourselves that the police is the biggest gang in this country and how many are brainwashed into thinking that the government patrolling through our streets makes anyone safer.

Murray Bookchin

Murray Bookchin as an American social theorist, historian, and political philosopher. A pioneer in the ecology movement, Bookchin formulated and developed the theory of social ecology and urban planning, within anarchist, libertarian socialist, and ecological thought.
In the late 1990s he became disenchanted with the contemporary anarchist movement, stopped referring to himself as an anarchist, and founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called Communalism, which seeks to reconcile Marxist and anarchist thought.

He was the author of two dozen books covering topics in politics, philosophy, history, urban affairs, and ecology. Among the most important are

-Our Synthetic Environment (1962)

-Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971)

-The Ecology of Freedom (1982)

-Urbanization Without Cities (1987)

Amazing mind.

Bon cop de falç

Difference between Anarchism and Libertarians? I guess how far do you take it?

Spanish individualist anarchist Miguel Gimenez Igualada thought that "capitalism is an effect of government; the disappearance of government means capitalism falls from its pedestal vertiginously. That which we call capitalism is not something else but a product of the State, within which the only thing that is being pushed forward is profit, good or badly acquired. And so to fight against capitalism is a pointless task, since be it State capitalism or Enterprise capitalism, as long as Government exists, exploiting capital will exist. The fight, but of consciousness, is against the State"

The idea of an anti-government left is rare in our current political climate but not in regular society. Unions used to be far more powerful and not just agents that pushed for better pay, work safety and benefits until Reagan used the government to break unions and other corporations realized that they could bribe the government They had a real say on the decision making of a company almost effectively equal to the board of directors. Over the decades we have shifted the job of bargaining for workers from unions to the government because people thought that the government would have more power to negotiate better deals. But we forgot to realize that government policy could get hijacked by big companies to do the exact opposite which is exactly what is happening now.

People like Miguel Gimenez Igualada are actually proposing that the left wing movement would be stronger and in a better position to achieve a more egalitarian society if we pushed for a smaller and weaker government that cannot protect big corporations. People would not wait for the government to save the day and instead band together and form movements to push their goals like it used to be. A dude going by Roderick T. Long said

"The achievements, much heralded by the Left, which unions won in their heyday, such as the weekend and the eight-hour day, were won primarily by market means, often over strong government resistance."
mises.org/library/how-reach-left

The term Libertarian really only exists in American lingo as far as I know. Everyone outside of the US calls them anarcho-capitalists or classical liberals.

That's a problem I always have when discussing politics with americans. The fear of communism is that strong that social-democrats are automatically marked as communists or socialists when in fact they're not the same.

There's also a difference between Libertarians and Conservatives.
In the European understanding people on the left are socialists, then social democrats (which are more liberal), afterwards in the center you have libertarians and on the right you have conservatives. Huge difference.

Anarchists believe in a common ownership over the means of productions, and basically things done according to direct democracy. Libertarians believe in companies being given free reign to do whatever they want, in the hopes that competition drives he best ones to the tops so that people vote with their dollars for it. The problem is, what often ends up happening is one corporation has an unfair advantage and uses it to destroy their competition, leaving them to pursue a monopoly in where their way is the only way. This could never happen in an anarchist society, because the people directly control how much input and output is done through economic activity

Oh s*** I forgot I had this amazing link. It's like what @Nightmares linked in OP but a different writeup.

Aren’t most people too stupid for a free society to work?

Examination of history shows that there is a basic elitist ideology which has been the essential rationalisation of all states and ruling classes since their emergence at the beginning of the Bronze Age (“if the legacy of domination had had any broader purpose than the support of hierarchical and class interests, it has been the attemp to exorcise the belief in public competence from social discourse itself.” Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom, p. 206). This ideology merely changes its outer garments, not its basic inner content over time.

medium.com/anarchist-faq/aren-t-most-people-too-stupid-for-a-free-society-to-work-648de40b7791

Anarchist FAQ Index

Thoughts on Putin dissolving the cabinet to change from "presidential system" to a "parliamentary system"?

"It is time to make some changes to the fundamental law of the country, which would guarantee the priority of the Russian Constitution in our legal space. What does this mean? It means that requirements of international law and decisions of international bodies can only be enforced in Russia to such an extent that does not violate human and civil rights and freedoms and does not violate our Constitution," Putin said. Under Putin’s plan, the State Duma – the lower house of parliament – will be granted the power to appoint the prime minister and the rest of the cabinet, as opposed to just approving their candidacies as is currently the case.

rt.com/russia/478340-government-resigns-russia-putin-medvedev
tass.com/politics/1108821

Best part:

Another idea voiced by Putin is to make the consultation body, the State Council, a permanent fixture, with its status and role written into the constitution. The president praised the council’s effectiveness, stressing that its working groups ensure the most important problems for the people are thoroughly looked into.

Gee what was the Russian word for Council again? 🤔

I think it just shows how far Putin has come to game the entire system without having to be president or prime minister. He's thinking about retirement and knows it will only get harder to justify why he is still in power since 2000. He will soon be able to pull the strings by just having the party vote the way he wants to, he got enough puppets to do it like Lee Kuan Yew did for Singapore or Joe Reed did for the Alabama Democratic Party. Both were long retired but had overwhelming power over their parties and who got what position.

micky.com.au/aussie-ex-pat-will-never-return-after-digital-strip-search-reveals-sex-tapes

A furious ‘Callan’ (not his real name) said the gross invasion of privacy had been carried out on his arrival at Adelaide Airport from Kuala Lumpur.
New encryption laws mean that failing to hand over passwords to encrypted devices leaves individuals not suspected of any crime liable for fines of $50,000 or up to five years in jail.
“To be stripped of my basic rights, to be treated as a criminal and as though I had something to hide, is absolutely disgusting,” he said.
“To be quite open, I would have preferred to have been strip searched than to be humiliated in such a way.”
“When I was given my phone back by the woman (customs office) I was told ‘It was nice to see some normal p*** again.’

Interesting article.

Got my boxing coach into reading the FAQ. #AnotherOne

Maybe your boxing coach can make a KTT account so it’s not just the same two people bumping this thread.

How would y’all settle legal disputes such as theft

Well for starters, courts probably wouldn't exist, definitely not the way they are now as white male dominated elitist institutions that disregard human need and context of each case and couldn't be further removed from reality. The whole purpose of our "justice" system is controlling lower class society who are the only ones who really have to fear "justice". The rich and powerful never have to worry about the courts or the law.
It's there to maintain the current socioeconomic and racial inequality. So asking how would courts work is like asking, how would police brutality continue to exist, how would war continue. Courts are not there to solve problems, they are part of the problem. We are wrongfully treating so many things like d*** addiction, family issues, sleeping outside in a tent, as criminal matters or things that the state should have a say over. Anyway there is a lot of literature and many perspectives within the Anarchist community on how justice would work. Just one:

How Courts would work: Beyond Individual Justice

In many stateless societies, bad behavior is not dealt with by specialized defenders of justice, but by everyone, through what anthropologists call diffuse sanctions — sanctions or negative reactions that are diffused throughout society. Everyone is accustomed to responding to injustice and harmful behavior, and thus everyone is more empowered and more involved. When there is no state to monopolize the day-to-day maintenance of society, people learn how to do this for themselves, and teach one another.

We do not need to define abuse as a crime to know that it hurts us. Laws are unnecessary in empowered societies; there are other models for responding to social harm. We can identify the problem as an infringement on others’ needs rather than a violation of written code. We can encourage broad social involvement in the resolution of the problem. We can help those who have been hurt to express their needs and we can follow their lead. We can hold people accountable when they hurt others, while supporting them and giving them opportunities to learn and reestablish respectful relationships with the community. We can see problems as the responsibility of the entire community rather than the fault of one person. We can reclaim the power to heal society, and break through the isolation imposed on us.

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works#toc46

If you talking about Basque Country in Spain/France that’s an autonomous community not an anarchy.

thehill.com/policy/technology/480152-government-privacy-watchdog-under-pressure-to-recommend-facial-recognition

The government might ban corporations from using facial recognition until its potential is fully understood.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing on facial recognition earlier this month, when lawmakers on both sides of the aisle suggested some version of a freeze on the technology.

“It really is not ready for primetime — it can be used in positive ways … but also severely impacts the civil liberties and rights of individuals," Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said at the hearing.

"While we're trying to figure out ... what's all happening, let's just not expand it," said ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), later telling reporters that legislation was being drafted to gather information on the use of facial recognition and pause the practice while doing so.

I think everyone is getting nervous now that they are seeing how China is using it recklessly on their society without thinking twice.

In af

this seems like a left-winged anarchist thread

no other kind of anarchism lol