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Quote by: grandpa  So, because I'm "fighting brainwashing" it somehow equates me with Lenin and Mao? I'm just trying to understand your point here.
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My point was the point I made. I know you love it when I do this but...
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.
I will say it again as plainly as I can. It does not matter if you claim that your system is exempt from corruption because it is antithetical to the ideals of your system. What matters is that if history has proven nothing else, it has proven that no system, no institution, no group of people is exempt from corruption. It is a baseless claim to claim that anarchists can not be corrupted or that anarchism can not be corrupted. It is baseless because it is the same as saying "No Christian can be corrupted." Because any Christian could argue from just as logical a position that those who are corrupt are not "true" Christians. How do you keep the "fakers" out? How do you stop them from "brainwashing" others? How do you police for purity without policing? If you can not enforce, how do you maintain? This is, perhaps, the greatest fault with the concept. It is the Protestant movement X 1000. If everyone has a personal relationship with God and the priesthood of all believers is real, how do you prevent hundreds of factions claiming the only "true" understanding? At least, with Protestantism, you have a single controlling authority in the Bible that herds everyone in a similar direction. Anarchism, by nature and design, has no controlling authority. It is bound to splinter and fracture and slinter and fracture some more. One of two things will happen; everyone will go their happy little separate ways and you will have thousands of small communities that will be easy prey for any individual or oligarcical group with the gumption to control significant resources or, some "faker" will lay claim to your mantle and do just what the individual or group who does not even bother to pose will do. So, either some Lenin from within the movement will end up shooting people or some Hitler from without will and you will be powerless to stop it.