1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins.
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@davetroy Anarchism is “no rulers including myself.” Libertarianism (in recent usage) is “no rulers except myself”, with the implication that literally everyone else is just a resource to exploit. A sort of “distributed monarchism” with trade agreements between a million rapacious kinglets.
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@davetroy I'd go as far as to say I'm somewhat offended seeing "anarchist movements" casually listed with everything else here.
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@Moss yes, I know. But there are a lot of people interpreting those philosophies in ways that suit themselves.
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@sashin the specific strain being referenced here is closest to LeFevre-ian 'autarchy' and Konkinist agorism. "Anarchist" in that they wish to dissolve the state.
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@davetroy I’m sorry but “professional liars misuse terms, so I will too” is not the seat of logic you might have thought it was.
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@Moss if you're curious, the specific strains I'm referencing is LeFevre-ian voluntarism and autarchy, and Konkinist agorism. Both of them want to dissolve the state, hence they are, by definition, 'anarchists.'
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@davetroy Destroying the state is not the only defining characteristic of anarchism, it is only the most simplistic freshman-level element. The specific right-libertarian people in the specific case of bsky funding are all power-hungry exploiters, not devotees of a narrow historical branch of political philosophy.
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@Moss yes, and yet they still would consider themselves "anarchocapitalists." You should take this up with them.
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@[email protected] it might be worth clarifying the original post by changing it anarchocapitalist (or something like that). Otherwise it's easy for people who aren't aware of anarchocapitalist perspectives -- or who don't think of it as anarchists -- to misinterpret.
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Anarchists do not consider "anarcho-capitaiists" to be anarchists. All anarchists oppose capitalism, and all anarchism is against all forms of hierarchical control, not just the state's.
You've created a long thread of people telling you the same thing over and over, none of which was necessary to what you wanted to write. This kind of "anarchists want to destroy the state, and so do warlords, therefore warlords are anarchists" just isn't going to fly on Mastodon.
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@jdp23 @davetroy You're aware that one of the best known anarchists, Moxie Marlinspike, was involved in the creation of a major cryptocurrency? After his time at Signal, that's what he did and then Signal integrated that cryptocoin into their app!
Go back in time to fediverse 2017, you will see anarchists all over promoting cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't be surprised if some of the people I had debates with as recently as a year ago, citing aid to journalists and refugees, weren't anarchists. Some of the software projects I've been involved in were headed by individuals who were intensely anti-border and pro-cryptocurrency.
Anarchists forget their own history that Julian Assange is or was their hero, and that many of them reacted strongly to the US govt cutting off Wikileaks' money flow. A lot of anarchist momentum went into bitcoin because of that.
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@[email protected] Yes I'm aware -- and Moxie worked for Dorsey for a while too back in the day. But I'm pretty sure that the people @[email protected] is referring to in this post are primarily anarcho-capitalists rather than non-anarcho-capitalist anarchists.
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I am yet another person telling you to get more accurate information about anarchism and not conflate it with the non-anarchist movement known as anarcho-capitalism.
Their hatred of state regulation is not a critic of state power as a whole and they do not oppose hierarchical organisations, but want to impose one.
Please, you're an investigative journalist, I think you owe your readers a more accurate article.
