In keeping with the tradition of referencing to those timeless lyrics originally coined by the Stones, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Royce Christian and I am an Anarchist, Agorist and aspiring writer. For the average person, whom I assume is recoiling in horror some time around now, I am not the bomb wielding, destructive, crazed lunatic portrayed in film, media and government propaganda. Such a thing could not be further from the truth. In fact my understanding of the world and adherence to Anarchist principles is the product of much thought and serious consideration. I have arrived at these conclusions not through youthful rebelliousness or misanthropic, anti-social awkwardness but through the desire for freedom and liberty. Thinkers old and new continue to influence my thoughts, which seem to be a strange mixture of Egoism, Mutualism, Individualist Anarchism and a degree of Anarcho-Capitalism. Generally, I’m an Anarchist. Specifically, a market Anarchist. But to be precise, I’m an Agorist.
In case you didn’t follow that, allow me to clarify. An Anarchist is one who opposes the existence of Government. A market Anarchist is one who proposes the market as a clear an effective alternative to the state and an Agorist is a revolutionary market Anarchist who advocates the use of counter economics to undermine the coercive monopoly of government.
To those of the Anarchist persuasion who have stumbled across my tiny corner of the web and may be concerned with my orientation, I started out as an Anarcho-Communist. However I abandoned those beliefs after becoming disillusioned. I drifted, flirting with Mutualism and Individualist Anarchism and then taking up Anarcho-Communism’s counterpart, Anarcho-Capitalism. I latter abandoned that for the same reason I abandoned Anarcho-Communism — I witnessed Anarchist elitism that further widens the divide between Anarchists. I later discovered Agorism, with credit to Per Bylund. Counter Economics amazed me for its elegance and efficiency and Agorism attracted me for its diversity and tolerance. I’m a market Anarchist and Agorist. If you cannot understand the difference, it is of no concern to me.
So welcome to the new home of the Guerrilla Capitalist where I will post my thoughts and musings for those willing to read them. Here, there be Anarchists.
Good day.
Royce Christian
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Royse, let’s build anarchism
The anarchy I propose still has some hierarchical elements in the organisation of production processes because we cannot cooperate everywhere. In the first place, we simply do not have time for it. Also, we have to pass our participation rights in the decision-making processes in society to people who are experts in the field. Let’s give the people freedom to do what ever they think is the best for society but those people must not disappoint us when they decide something in the fields of our interest.
My anarchy will enforce that by assigning every person an equal right and power to evaluate any other person. Let’s say each person gets the right to evaluate three people positively and three people negatively every month. Each positive assessment should automatically bring a small benefit, let’s say one dollar, to the assessed person. On the other hand, any negative assessment will result in a punishment of the same form. What would we get? It will direct each member of society to create the greatest possible advantages for society, and to diminish or abolish creation of all forms of disadvantages. Such a small power in the people’s hand will make individuals respect each other strongly. People will try hard not to offend others in any way any more. No one will spit on the floor, make noise at night, or do anything inappropriate to society.
Individuals will not have much power in society but together they will be very powerful. If two people do not like each other they may evaluate each other negatively for years, which would not be a big deal. Getting or losing three dollars in the developed world does not mean much. Besides, the person who receives a bad evaluation would never know who evaluated him negatively. However, the result will be very affirmative because he would try to improve his behaviour towards everyone. A person who receives a large number of negative evaluations would try to do it even harder. Furthermore, if you are an exposed person, for example a chief of a hundred workers, there is no chance you would be a jerk to the workers (which is by the way a very occasional incident today) because they might evaluate you negatively and it may cost you few hundred dollars monthly. By the system of evaluations, chiefs would immediately lose their privileged status among the workers. They will not have any other choice than to cooperate with workers.
The higher position in society a worker has, the more responsible to society he would be. The president of the US for example, might get 100,000,000 bad evaluations from the American people for bad policies, lies, and for the criminal aggression on Iraq. That would cost him 100,000,000 dollars in only one month. On the other hand, I doubt that his supporters would certainly evaluate him positively because they might easily have higher positive evaluation priorities and would spend their positive evaluations before he gets in turn. Such a president would not be privileged by any means any more. He would run away from his position so fast that no one would have remembered him as a president. Only the most skillful and bravest individuals, willing to cooperate with all of the people, would dare to lead countries. They will not be authorities any more but our servants.
Everyone will serve others as much as he or she can. Everyone will try hard to please society in the best possible way and that will make a wonderful society. By the time, the system of evaluation will abolish the state laws, police and military force, and very states. Nobody will need it anymore. That would be a perfect anarchy.
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