to continue on…
look at our economic system, capitalism… it is a martial version of
our political system… which is war by other means… capitalism is
about economic warfare… it isn’t a peaceful system of economics…
it is about conquering the enemy by economic means…
“to the victor, goes the spoils”
and the spoils in our martial economics is profits/money…
and thus we see that our entire way of life socially, economically,
politically is one of warfare, violence, anger, greed, lust… the
lower human instincts…
to hold to the anarchist economics of cooperation, mutual aid,
voluntary means of political system…is to hold to the higher,
human level of organizing a system…
people hold to systems as being like social darwinism… which
is the survival of the fittest system of economics, political,
social systems… but is a system of the wealthy/powerful holding
all the cards, really a system which brings about the greatest good
and value for all people? No, no it doesn’t… it certainly benefits
those in high places but doesn’t do jack for anyone who isn’t
strong or wealthy or powerful…
I hold that a system that doesn’t benefit all, doesn’t benefit anyone…
either we are about all the people or we are about none of the people…
competition isn’t the answer to our problems, but cooperation is
the answer…
we cannot hold to martial values be it socially or economically or
politically… the only possible answer lies in this particular statement…
“We the people in order to form a more perfect union…”
competition or social Darwinism or surrender to the values of
animal instincts cannot aid or help “we the people”……
the values we hold as a people, martial, violent values no longer
have value in this modern world… they had their place and use
at one time, but that time has passed… we must adapt and change
with the changing situation we find ourselves in…
and today, we find ourselves in a cooperation, mutual aid part of
human existence… perhaps tomorrow in another situation and
place, we find ourselves in a martial, violent place and we must
react with the appropriate response… but not today…
we must react to each different situation with the necessary
response…
you cannot answer different questions with the same answer…
Kropotkin