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I've been thinking about that

I've been thinking about that lately too a bit. The whole prospect of sending people out there to risk their lives for my desire for there to be some sort of reconfiguration of society seems a bit exploitative. I don't really know how I feel about inspiring hunger strikes. It seems like that people should wage nonviolent revolution is too much for me to ask of them.

Do you know of any good Anarchist critiques of revolution? Also, do you have anything on social insurrection?

I think that there are exceptions to be made concerning Pacifism in regards to self-defence. I see this in a very particular manner, though, and, there are very few. I kind of actually wish that I had the ethical resolve to just simply state that I am against violence in all cases, but, it just isn't there. It's possible that I could support that a commune maintains itself in self-defence, but, it would probably be fairly rare for this to pan out in the West. If you maintain a squat and arm yourself then you have just provided the justification for your squat being raided. I don't know that I would say that Rojava, for instance, violates too much in the way of Ethics by defending themselves against the Islamic State in spite of that I'm opposed to the Syrian Civil War. I guess I'm a bit wishy-washy when it really comes down to it. I tend to be somewhat partisan when it comes to what I do think is acceptable and what I don't think is when it comes to violence and don't really have a well defined Ethic with which to level axioms from. For instance, I see someone like Georg von Rauch as being somewhat tragic when I would be likely to be less sympathetic, more critical, and, more dismissive of actions undertaken by members of the RAF. My whole theory is fraught with irresolvable contradictions and vague sentiments. I guess I'm just sort of in a phase where I'm reconsidering everything.

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