Like Christians, Anarchists have had their clothes stolen by the State. Like Christianity, Anarchism is based on mutual support and mutual giving, but it finds the functions of autonomous society usurped by the State. Health care, education, support for the aged, the widows, and the orphans, the disabled and the insane are all the business of the bureaucratic hierarchy. In every action, at work and increasingly at home we are accountable to those in self assumed authority. Christians are left with a few periferal activities and end up as worshippers of the State. Anarchists are unable to do without the handouts, and end up as self indulgent children.
Horizontal society, its autonomy and its solidarity has been assimilated by the the vertical bureaucracy.
We have the pitiful sight of so called Anarchists joining State worshippers in opposing 'the cuts'. They suckle the teat of Big Mother, wanting to forget that Big Brother stands behind her with his stick and his dagger, his bombs and his dogs, his chains and his dungeons.
Any true Anarchist would reject the Welfare State, or at least rejoice at 'the cuts.' As long as the government provides the goodies we will be governed. We will never be free.
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