CrimethInc. Ex-Workers on Nostr: “Every leader kills people, including my leader. Every leader kills people. Some ...
“Every leader kills people, including my leader. Every leader kills people. Some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people.”
-Tucker Carlson
Liberal outrage over Carlson saying this to excuse Vladimir Putin—immediately before he had Alexei Navalny killed—misses the point. The fans of Carlson, Putin, and Donald Trump admire killers. Liberals are just offering a more milquetoast version of the same vertical political model, which puts them at a disadvantage today.
The anarchist alternative is to seek to distribute agency horizontally: not to worship leaders, not to glorify the state and its violence, but to make it impossible for anyone to dominate others. In the long run, this is the only real alternative to authoritarianism.
https://tochangeeverything.com
"Leadership is a social disorder in which the majority of participants in a group fail to take initiative or think critically about their actions. As long as we understand agency as a property of specific individuals rather than a relationship between people, we will always be dependent on leaders—and at their mercy. Truly exemplary leaders are as dangerous as the obviously corrupt, in that all their praiseworthy qualities only reinforce their status and others’ deference, not to mention the legitimacy of leadership itself."
-Tucker Carlson
Liberal outrage over Carlson saying this to excuse Vladimir Putin—immediately before he had Alexei Navalny killed—misses the point. The fans of Carlson, Putin, and Donald Trump admire killers. Liberals are just offering a more milquetoast version of the same vertical political model, which puts them at a disadvantage today.
The anarchist alternative is to seek to distribute agency horizontally: not to worship leaders, not to glorify the state and its violence, but to make it impossible for anyone to dominate others. In the long run, this is the only real alternative to authoritarianism.
https://tochangeeverything.com
"Leadership is a social disorder in which the majority of participants in a group fail to take initiative or think critically about their actions. As long as we understand agency as a property of specific individuals rather than a relationship between people, we will always be dependent on leaders—and at their mercy. Truly exemplary leaders are as dangerous as the obviously corrupt, in that all their praiseworthy qualities only reinforce their status and others’ deference, not to mention the legitimacy of leadership itself."