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>>24619885
That and also the sort of alter-imperialism stuff where any government that opposes the U.S./Europe/Israel/Japan/etc. is seen as good. "Proletarian nation" stuff vs. parasite nations.
>>24620317
There was a dozen-man anarchist group (with two rifles in an ambush position, the rest tried to distract the guards) that attacked an ICE facility in Texas a few weeks ago. They fucked it up though.
But yeah, Americans might more naturally take to anarchism (and on the right, what we now call libertarianism). There was a whole tradition of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century. Josiah Warren and Henry David Thoreau. There were a bunch of these people (there's a lengthy Wikipedia entry on individualist anarchism in the United States) and they might have been the first ones to publish Nietzsche's writings here.
I've come to think the reason Leninism came out of Russia, landed in China, and didn't work in the U.S. is because of the pre-existing political cultures were very different. You might even say writers like Hunter S. Thompson and Robert E. Howard were anarchists in spirit, though Howard would've had no interest in the pacifistic tendencies of many of the American anarchists in the 1800s. I was also reading a Chinese paper on American culture recently and they were like "Americans might be the most anarchistic people in the world." Ha ha. The author talked about different things, and noted (I had never really thought of this) that Americans don't like weaker people helping them. Like "I can carry my own bags, thank you." You go there, there's just a huge amount of cheap labor that does everything for you if you have any bit of money. I've heard stories of Americans who went there and became frustrated because it's like "I know how to drive a car, I can drive myself, okay?" There's a D-I-Y culture. The individual matters a lot. I want to be able to think for myself.
That and also the sort of alter-imperialism stuff where any government that opposes the U.S./Europe/Israel/Japan/etc. is seen as good. "Proletarian nation" stuff vs. parasite nations.
>>24620317
There was a dozen-man anarchist group (with two rifles in an ambush position, the rest tried to distract the guards) that attacked an ICE facility in Texas a few weeks ago. They fucked it up though.
But yeah, Americans might more naturally take to anarchism (and on the right, what we now call libertarianism). There was a whole tradition of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century. Josiah Warren and Henry David Thoreau. There were a bunch of these people (there's a lengthy Wikipedia entry on individualist anarchism in the United States) and they might have been the first ones to publish Nietzsche's writings here.
I've come to think the reason Leninism came out of Russia, landed in China, and didn't work in the U.S. is because of the pre-existing political cultures were very different. You might even say writers like Hunter S. Thompson and Robert E. Howard were anarchists in spirit, though Howard would've had no interest in the pacifistic tendencies of many of the American anarchists in the 1800s. I was also reading a Chinese paper on American culture recently and they were like "Americans might be the most anarchistic people in the world." Ha ha. The author talked about different things, and noted (I had never really thought of this) that Americans don't like weaker people helping them. Like "I can carry my own bags, thank you." You go there, there's just a huge amount of cheap labor that does everything for you if you have any bit of money. I've heard stories of Americans who went there and became frustrated because it's like "I know how to drive a car, I can drive myself, okay?" There's a D-I-Y culture. The individual matters a lot. I want to be able to think for myself.
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