ANARCHISM
WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT ISN‘T
There are many popular misconceptions about anarchism, and because of them a great many people dismiss anarchists and anarchism out of hand. - P1
Worse, some who call themselves "anarchists"
don‘t even know the meaning of the term. - P1
What Anarchism Isn‘t
Anarchism is not terrorism.
An overwhelming majority of anarchists have always rejected terrorism, because they‘ve been intelligent enough to realizethat means determine ends, that terrorism is inherently vanguardist, and that even when "successful" it almost always leads to bad results. - P1
Decades of government and corporate slandercannot alter this reality: the overwhelming majority of anarchists reject terrorism for both practicaland ethical reasons. (중략).
This is not to say that armed resistance is neverappropriate. - P2
Violence in such situations does little but drive the public into the "protective" arms of the government;narrow political dialogue (tending to polarize thepopulace into pro- and antiguerrilla factions); turnpolitics into a spectator sport for the vast majorityof people; provide the government with an excuseto suppress civil liberties; and induce the onset ofrepressive regimes "better" able to handle the "terrorist" problem than their more tolerant predecessors. - P2
Anarchism is not primitivism.
In recent decades, groups of quasi-religious mystics have begun equating the primitivism they advocate (rejection of sci-ence, rationality, and technology-often lumped to-gether under the blanket term, "technology") withanarchism.⁵ - P2
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