How To Do What

[Gordon Fitch]

"Gordon Fitch" <gcf at panix.com>:
> > This is one of the reasons I think that the State has to be
> > undercut, subverted, eventually abolished everywhere if one
> > wants to get rid of it anywhere.  But first the State has to
> > be dealt with where one is.  The hardest steps are the first.

Ian Murray:
> How would we avert the emergence of gangsterism?

Or more generally, how would we avert the reemergence of the
State?

We have to take a bet on the possibilities of human nature,
and act on the assumption that an anarchistic culture can 
be developed.  Clearly -- at least, it's clear to me -- 
such a culture would have to feature personal autonomy and
responsibility, so that almost everyone capable of noticing
the appearance of gangsterism (the State) could be expected
to take appropriate action to impede it, just as the "thin
red line" tries to impede the imperial rampages of the State 
today.  But also, we have to hope that the conditions of
anarchy, that is, freedom, peace and equality, will engender
much less gangsterism than we now observe.

These hopes could be vain.  But in that case, the human race
is doomed -- a rather boring outcome on the whole, I think.

-- Gordon