J Becon
Dupont West
Letter to the Editor
the Washington DC Neighborhood publication:
The In Towner
Please join the discussion at www.dc.indymedia.org
I was a witness to the events described in the feature article of your November issue ("Police Chase and Club Revelers at Impromptu Block Party on P Street" - In Towner). On Saturday, October 27, a large contingent of anarchists, under the banner of an organization calling itself Reclaim the Streets, temporarily took over the street in front of my apartment building at P and 22nd Streets. The "spontaneous carnival" that ensued included music, dancing, and some pretty nifty Halloween costumes
Forward thinking governance and legislation? It is true that this is the opposite of anarchy. But governance is what keeps us heading toward further ecological collapse and corporatism. Violent repression is a pre-requisite for governance, and all representative systems. Instead of looking forward to a world of more laws and populations of people satisfied with minimal freedom, why not give anarchy a chance? Do you really think that capitalism can be persuaded to stop globalizing or stop expanding? Even if it could, it would still require people giving their lives to their careers in the first world and dire poverty everywhere else. I won't defend the actions of whatever group of anarchists, but consider the slogan "this is what democracy looks like"- does this really mean legislation in "democratic societies"? I think the general spirtit of the quote implies the need for people to take their lives under their own control and stop accomodating to a system that suppresses their aspirations for freedom. Why ask what will stabalize the machine? I know anarchy won't.
''But governance is what keeps us heading toward further ecological collapse and corporatism.''
governance is the enemy??
Anarchy is do anything you want, since there will be no property, anyone can do anything to all property, without restriction nor governance to protect the environment.
'Anarchy' is what the capitalists want. Grow up and start proposing answers to the world's problems instead of offering whiney stale anarchist rhetoric, please.