I spent the morning reading and digesting Proudhon's quotes linked by
Mike. This one struck me:
"it is in this sense that I shall treat anarchism, despite its many
variations: as a system of social thought, aiming at fundamental changes
in the structure of society and particularly — for this is the common
element uniting all its forms — at the replacement of the authoritarian
state by some form of non-governmental cooperation between free
individuals."
The stuff on property, communism and power is super. He is in touch with
his humanity.
"He sought no followers, indignantly rebuffed suggestions that he had
created as system of any kind, and almost certainly rejoiced in the fact
that he accepted the title anarchist in virtual isolation."
On 10/05/14 16:14, Photon Logic wrote:
> First of all I want to thank Julia for trying to write the "A
> Declaration of Monetary Independence"
> A few months ago I read a book that happened to me it was very interesting.
>
> Sentences I quoted from it:
>
> Those who believe that major world events result from planning are
> laughed at tot
> believing in the "conspiracy theory of history." Of course, no one in
> this modern day and
> age readily believes in the conspiracy theory of history — except those
> who Those who
> believe that major world events result from planning are laughed at for
> believing in the
> "conspiracy theory of history."
>
> "We believe the picture painters of the mass media are artfully creating
> landscapes for us
> which deliberately hide the real picture."
>
> FDR once said "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens,
> you can bet it was
> planned that way."
>
> And of course, as correctly noted by Julia "We live in an age of
> innovation, and nothing is immune."
> All those who have gathered here are a question, something wrong in the
> world!!!
> The old saying, no policy will not go ahead unless there is economic
> support.
>
> In another book, it was interesting to read about the age of globalization.
>
> "The globalization of crime further subverts the nation-state, profoundly
> transforming processes of governance, and actually paralyzing
> the state in many instances. This is a crucial trend which is as
> easily acknowledged as promptly ignored in its consequences."
>
>
> But it is necessary, at this point in the argument, to
> include such a critical trend in our understanding of the current crisis
> of the nation-state. What is new is not the pervasiveness of crime
> and its impact on politics. What is new is the global linkage of
> organized crime, its conditioning of international relations, both economic
> and political, because of the scale and dynamism of the criminal
> economy. What is new is the deep penetration, and eventual
> destabilization, of national states in a variety of contexts under the
> influence of transnational crime.
>
> While drug traffic is the most significant industrial sector in the new
> criminal economy, all kinds of illicit traffics come together in this
> shadow system that extends its reach and power over the world:
> weapons, technology, radioactive materials, art treasures, human
> beings, human organs, killers for hire, and smuggling of every profitable
> item from anywhere to anywhere are connected through the
> mother of all crimes – money laundering.
>
> A reasonable estimate would put the figure for capital from illegal
> sources being laundered in the global financial system at about
> US$ 750 billion a year. These capital flows need to be processed
> with greater mobility and flexibility than those originating from any
> other industry, since it is their constant swirling that makes them able
> to avoid tracking by law-enforcement agencies.
>
> In brief, the New World Order is a utopian system in which the US
> economy (along with the economy of every other nation) will be
> ‘‘globalized’’, Networking, and particularly Internet-based networking,
> is of the
> essence in the anti-globalization movement.
>
>
> I think if we can talk a about in these cases we will proceed much
> better and brighter.
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Mike Gogulski <mike@???
> <mailto:mike@gogulski.com>> wrote:
>
> Julia,
>
> Here's my (hopefully welcome) re-working of the wording of your
> excellent declaration. Use what you will.
>
>
> A Declaration of Monetary Independence
>
> It has become necessary to dissolve the bond between currency and
> institution. We are not obliged to declare the causes which impel us to
> push for this separation, but we will enumerate them anyway.
>
> We hold these truths to be self-evident: that we have been continuously
> betrayed, deceived, robbed, extorted, taxed, disadvantaged, surveilled,
> monopolized, harassed, inspected, assessed, subjugated, registered and
> disempowered; that we have been economically disarmed, disabled, held
> hostage, censored, silenced, impoverished, enervated, exhausted,
> exploited and enslaved; that we have been coerced into complicity in
> these offenses against ourselves; that we have been told it is all for
> our own good, and ridiculed and dishonored when we disagree. And then
> came Bitcoin.
>
> We live in an age of innovation, and nothing is immune. Today Bitcoin is
> not only volatile in its value, but in its very essence. Bitcoin is in
> the crucial stages of development. Its code can evolve in several
> directions. It is threatened by those who do not understand it is
> threatened by those who do understand it, but fear it.
>
> A crusade has begun to absorb Bitcoin into the machinery of the State.
> There is a conscious effort to co-opt. The goal is to swallow Bitcoin,
> process it, integrate it, devolve it and keep it stagnant within the
> gears of a failed operating system. Bitcoin’s potential is being
> hijacked and perverted. The authors of this crusade have their own ideas
> of what they want Bitcoin to be. They have their own plans for its
> potential, and they are invested in those plans. But our consent is
> withdrawn and the power of our ideas is too strong. Their crusade shall
> fail.
>
> Do not underestimate Bitcoin's DNA; nothing is born completely neutral.
> Follow its protocol: it has anarchist implications. Bitcoin is
> inherently anti-establishment, anti-system and anti-state. Bitcoin
> undermines governments and disrupts institutions because Bitcoin is
> fundamentally humanitarian. It bars third-party intrusion. It is purely
> peer-to-peer. The blockchain is free speech. It is decentralized,
> voluntary and non-aggressive. Bitcoin seeks no cooperation with ancient
> strictures. Bitcoin needs no authority to acknowledge it, authorize it,
> incorporate it, regulate it or tax it. Bitcoin asks neither permission
> nor forgiveness.
>
> Bitcoin is a creature of anonymity. Bitcoin basks in shadow. Satoshi’s
> facelessness is symbolic of this. Privacy is the point. Bitcoin is meant
> to function outside of regulatory systems. It does not pander to power
> structures, it undermines them. It is not a cog.
>
> Bitcoin means to channel economic power directly through and to the
> individual. This is reflected in Satoshi’s symbolic birthday, the same
> day that Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, criminzalizing the
> possession of monetary gold. We repeat. Bitcoin is not intended to be
> integrated; it is intended to be a ghost outside of the machine.
>
> The voices of the people working to preserve the purity of Bitcoin’s
> ethos may be drowned out, but their actions speak louder than words.
> Bitcoin is utility embodied through mathematics. The cypherpunks are
> building anonymous systems. The crypto-anarchists are making
> institutions irrelevant. The internet is anarchy and cryptocurrencies
> are its printless fingers.
>
> Bitcoin is not just a currency, a commodity or a convenience. As the
> printing press returned religion to the people, as the internet returned
> information to the people, so Bitcoin returns monetary freedom to the
> people. We declare Bitcoin’s independence. Bitcoin is sovereignty.
> Bitcoin is renaissance. Bitcoin is ours. Bitcoin is, and shall ever be.
>
> (PS: Proudhon's "To be governed..." [
> https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon#Quotes ] may
> provide yet more verbiage if needed for the second paragraph.)
>
>
>
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