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Chapter 1: Why are Coffee Unions Spreading to Peet's?
I stumbled upon Christian anarchism and briefly flated with it, but didn't really get seriously into the studying of anarchism until like late 2019, early 2020, around the time, and late in 2020 is when I started my channel. let's say I've been studying anarchism for about five years, seriously, I feel like I'm now getting started. You know, like I'm now starting to like grasp what it is.
And the thing is, there's so many interpretations of anarchism, you know, so many different schools of thought. I mean, that's not to say that it can't be defined or that any attempts to define anarchism is like exclusionary or un-anarchist. And I see that argument floating around that like, well, no, you can't define anarchism because that's actually authoritarian. But, you know,
There are such a thing as definitions, but there is room, of course, for a negotiation of meaning.
Yeah, it's a very, well, usually, it's a very syncretic ideology. It pulls from a lot of different places and it pulls from lots of different, of its own strands.
Yeah, exactly. But let's say, if you had to define anarchism right now, what would you say is a non-negotiable ideology? basic fundamental definition for you?
I mean, the opposition to hierarchy on a basic level, the opposition to the state, to capitalism, to patriarchy, to systems of hierarchical power.
is I guess like the baseline definition and then also in terms of what it's you know the replacement for that can be a lot of things but yeah it's the building of a society where we don't have power over one another I think it's like a very baseline kind of thing
Yeah, I think that's, that's pretty solid for me. I find it fairly similarly. I would say that I think the opposition to authority is the most important part. You know, I would say the definition I've been sort of workshopping, sculpting over time, um, And as a writer, I really like to play with words a bit and find the best ways to put things.
So for me, what I've come up with is that anarchism is the political philosophy and practice that opposes all authority, along with its justifying dogmas, and proposes the unending pursuit of anarchy, a world without rule where self-determination, mutuality, and free association form the basis of our society.
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Chapter 2: What Challenges Do Peet's Workers Face in Their Unionization Efforts?
So the authority can take your house, you know, the bank, the government, the landlord, they can take your house, but you can't take theirs. You know, an authority can assault you, whether you're a soldier, a police officer, whatever. You cannot assault them. An authority can take the fruits of your labor. They can take from the wealth of what you produce. But you can't take from them.
That's theft, right? Authority cannot be an authority by themselves. They have to have authority over. They have to have a hierarchical social relationship that deprives some to their benefit. And anarchists oppose authority because, you know, among other reasons, those subject to authority become controlled.
They become dependent, exploited, prevented from accessing their full potential and even their bare necessities. And really that prevented from accessing their full potential is why a lot of anarchists have spent a lot of time targeting our approach to parenting and our approach to education.
You know, just this morning, I was reading a bit of Emma Goldman and she was talking about Ferrer's schools.
The way that she speaks, honestly, she was an excellent writer, an excellent speaker, but the way that she did so and the way she approached and recognized this need to tap into our potential, particularly from young, to prevent it from being limited by the impositions of authority is just...
extremely profound it's necessary it's necessary to start at particularly at that age but really at any age to to break away from that condition that that recognizes and enforces and obeys and accepts authority and the right of authority you know if everybody if everybody including their underlings decided tomorrow not to recognize and enforce the authority of presidents of kings of capitalists
that frag would be gone in an instant. It ultimately starts with us being able to actually question, to challenge, to resist authority. And that's something that has existed since humans have been humans. Throughout history, we see this sort of compulsion to resist authority. And that sort of seed of resistance is what anarchists hope to have flourish.
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We are back. So like I said before, authority gets confused with a lot of different things. Force and violence is a main one. It's one that Marxists in particular love. That's a conflation of authority with any use of force. You know, the slave resisting the slave owner is actually an example of authority.
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