Yep. Be prepared and shoot them first this time rather than waiting to be inevitably betrayed / rounded up.
Since violence is the force of domination, it stands to reason that the core anarchist value is nonviolence.
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Sure, I'll grant you that anarchism ultimately bends towards non-violence, deescalation, non-aggression. But!
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Just because anarchism would look like that in ideal situations doesn't mean it doesn't oblige violence here and now.
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Shooting Hitler is not an "authoritarian" act except in the most context-deprived sense. Same with shooting Lenin.
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Violence is a source of power, not domination. Not all power is domination.
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I'm a consequentialist. I value the diminishment of authoritarianism in the universe.
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But literally every act you take in this world is -- in some esoteric sense -- bound up in total system.
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If you FAIL to shoot Hitler, then that's an even greater act of authoritarianism.
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Revolutionary violence can be called for if it's at the minimum necessary accomplish liberation.
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However tankie politics (w/ self-perpetuating state and everything) are fucking WELL above this minimum.
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I am not talking moral absolutes here. Just giving you a map.
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