Why are these anarchy movements popping up?

[Techno-Druid]

A majority of us have heard of Anarcho-Capitalists and Anarcho-Communists, but I'm just discovering that Anarcho-Transhumanism is a thing.

I guess I should have expected an anarchist branch of the movement to form, considering libertarianism is present in transhumanism with somewhat of an emphasis on morphological freedom.

I just find all these "anarcho-" movements to be odd. I find peaceful anarchy itself to be very unrealistically utopian, much more utopian than say communism or unbridled socialism (not a fusion of capitalism and socialism).

[The One Percent]

People have benefited from society for so long that they have forgotten what it's like to not have it and hence believe they don't need it even as they suckle from the fruits it bore.

[Independent voter]

I think it was Richard Pryar who had this bit about how as a little kid he smarted off to his dad and his dad said 'okay, your tuff you think you're a man now?' And his dad threw him out of the house to fend for himself. The next day the Richard returned and was all 'please sir, thank you sir, may I take the trash out now sir.'

[Sky High]

people coming up with fancy phrases to make them sound unique or something surely. extra dose of LOL at anarcho-communism, huuuuh you bunch of dum dums.

[Super Kami Dende]

Mostly just a bunch of Morons that get the "Fuck the system" mentality pushed into them, whilst still requiring "the System" to live day to day.

[Stretchie]

People have benefited from society for so long that they have forgotten what it's like to not have it and hence believe they don't need it even as they suckle from the fruits it bore.

This. Simply put, these people don't understand what they are asking for. They're the same ones who think taxes are theft and the government does nothing. I've even seen some of them ask for government free zones. They'd learn real fast why they need at least a basic government if they tried that.

[OrcsRLame]

Personally, I suspect that these movements come about because of the concept of privilege. If you look at the demographics for a typical An-Com or Antifa protest/rally/riot, the vast majority of them are white college students aged 18-25. Don't take my word for it though, there's like a million hours of footage on youtube.

I think that these kids have the concept of privilege shoved down their throats and it just makes them feel guilty as hell. They know they didn't earn their place in life. They were born in first world countries, they go to college with Daddy's money, they're white. They have just about every type of privilege you can imagine and they know it. This causes a crisis of identity. They're looking for a ritual to prove their adulthood, to prove that they're more than the sum of their parts.

These Communist ideologies prey on these sorts of people. They say, "Here, you can have an identity as part of the group and you can give back a bit of that privilege that keeps you from sleeping at night." And they eat it up.

I think that what we need to do, is to stop telling people that they're bad for the circumstances of their birth. White is fine. Black is fine. Rich is fine. Poor is fine. Male is fine. Female is fine. We need to stop radicalizing our fucking children.

[Trollhammer]

We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.

These kids were promised the world from a young age then they found the adult world and threw a tantrum

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I think it was Richard Pryar who had this bit about how as a little kid he smarted off to his dad and his dad said 'okay, your tuff you think you're a man now?' And his dad threw him out of the house to fend for himself. The next day the Richard returned and was all 'please sir, thank you sir, may I take the trash out now sir.'

This would be classed as child abuse now..Lack of child discipline and the no child left behind BS is ruining this world.

[Deleted]

Why are anti-government movements popping up when governments have people like Donald Trump in them? Oh, I don't know.

[Rend Blackhand]

People want new TVs so they join political movements to pretend they're the good guys and start riots and loot shit.

[Fat Mac]

I think it was Richard Pryar who had this bit about how as a little kid he smarted off to his dad and his dad said 'okay, your tuff you think you're a man now?' And his dad threw him out of the house to fend for himself. The next day the Richard returned and was all 'please sir, thank you sir, may I take the trash out now sir.'

reminds me of Chapelle show wife swap. the white kid was all a wanna be " g-g-g-g-g-g-unit"

and the dad took him to the ghetto "g-g-g-g-g-get you ass out the car"

[Mormolyce]

Anarchism in the modern sense is at least 70 years old. It was quite popular in the 80s for example.

[Deleted]

Middle class white people are bored.

[Deleted]

Sense of powerlessness is usually what sparks anarchy groups.

[Acidbaron]

Anti political movements are created when people find that their politics and politicians no longer represent themselves, these groups always have a hardcore core group of people but are generally small when you get things happening like what is happening now that creates outrage.


People saying it's people just never used to working and getting money, well we can say the same about a lot of our current politicians when there's nepotism to be found everywhere and corruption is never hard to find. But that's just one thing you also have people who are more than tired of nothing being done about climate and so that's spinning out of control now also.

I would say that the actual anarchists are a very small group and that hamburg was probably one of the few cases they manage to mobilize that many people and probably appeared to be larger in numbers by mixing themselves in with regular protesters.

[Glorious Leader]

Anarcho capitalists are not anarchist.


People are fed up with hierarchy and everything that that system entails. They crave the freedom to tell their bosses to go fuck themselves.

[Dastreus]

Sense of powerlessness is usually what sparks anarchy groups.

This. All these naysayers who keep pointing at antifa and spoiled college kids. I get it, there are those retards, but there's also retarded An-Caps. The bottom line is the world we grew up in (speaking of those in the first world nations) is dead and gone, and the rich killed it. Our futures are stolen, the "boot straps" are gone, the ladders to advance in society are gone. It's. All. Gone. All of it was stolen by people who own 40% of the world's wealth, just so they could have a few more billion dollars.

You want to know where the "fuck the system" mentality comes from? It's that. It's the corruption that's gone rampant enough that politicians bribe that they get more donors for their political party (see: United States politicians, such as SHillary Clinton's latest statements about said fundraising). Donors, fundraising; it's all just legalized bribes. The government's not ran by elected politicians, it's ran by chosen sellouts who will do the bidding of their masters.

[yellowgore]

Anarcho capitalists are not anarchist.


People are fed up with hierarchy and everything that that system entails. They crave the freedom to tell their bosses to go fuck themselves.

People already have the freedom to tell their bosses to go fuck themselves. Similarly, their bosses have the freedom to say "you're fired, gtfo."

What's that, you say, the system is not fair and your boss should give you a paycheck anyway? There's your problem.

[Knolan]

A majority of us have heard of Anarcho-Capitalists and Anarcho-Communists, but I'm just discovering that Anarcho-Transhumanism is a thing.

I guess I should have expected an anarchist branch of the movement to form, considering libertarianism is present in transhumanism with somewhat of an emphasis on morphological freedom.

I just find all these "anarcho-" movements to be odd. I find peaceful anarchy itself to be very unrealistically utopian, much more utopian than say communism or unbridled socialism (not a fusion of capitalism and socialism).

It seems to me that anarcho capitalism is only popular in places where the government is very corrupt and people get the impression that it is not possible to change it by voting, so they stop trusting democracy and they don't want a state anymore. On the other hand, anacho communism seems to be growing in places where people have more progressive views and think "the rich" are the enemy and everything is unfair to any possible minority.

[Torrasque]

That is generally what happens when people are dissatisfied with their government, but feel powerless to do anything about it.