You can’t be a “real” anarchist without being a pacifist.
Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2010 in Anarchy
To be a “real” or a “true” anarchist is to oppose all forms of oppression. Violence, by it’s very nature, creates an oppressor – person with the gun – and oppressed -person without a gun-. The only way anarchism can be achieved is through peaceful transitions – not force. Violence creates more violence. Any state with a foundation based on violence can not be an anarchist state. To be peaceful, unarmed, and harmonious to other human beings are characteristic of a “real” anarchist. Anarchy and peace is “true democracy” in which everyone is given an equal voice to one another with no one being oppressed. But for a state of true anarchism to exist, it needs to be based in a community whose foundation is peace not militarism.
I agree entirely, and have been saying this since I have been an Anarchist. It is also important to understand that a system like anarchy calls for complete cooperation so to live in a commune or literally have a whole country of Anarcho’s people need to be deprogramed to the competition,and violence that despotisms, capital states and oligarchies encourage.