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Christmas, Family Arguments and a New Year Resolution
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Christmas, Family Arguments and a New Year Resolution
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So that's it, holidays are over and I'm back at work later today - booo!
And whilst I haven't actually been to family over Christmas, nevertheless I've been to a couple of dinners with various friends in the "liberal" family. And as so frequently happens, there have been "family arguments". Well - invite an anarchist and there's bound to be some fun amongst politically aware adults!
First, for New Year's Eve, indeed, seeing in the New Year itself I had a little argument about money. Someone was claiming that money, currency, was one of those things that you had to have a state to guarantee, protect and manage. To be fair, someone else, a long time supporter of my idea for a local currency, agreed that we could have competing currencies, but only for such local applications and that there would still have to be a government/state backed national or common currency, otherwise how would we know what things, from prices to whole economies, were worth.
Then, a couple of nights ago, it was time for round two, this time about whether an anarchic society could handle crime and justice.
And I found in both cases that it was I that was on the back foot in the argument, having to find examples to counter peoples' objections and so on, and, as usual, they usually came to me about five minutes after leaving the parties to head home!
So, my New Year's Resolution, if I have to have one, will be to be a better apologist for anarchism, to be able to answer such criticisms more easily. And, when I got back the other night, I looked around for some inspiration and fell back on the good old Tannehills' book, "The Market for Liberty". For those who want to learn the core principles behind market anarchism, I cannot recommend this too highly.
There is an easy to listen to audiobook version of it you can dip into available at Podiobooks split into MP3 files that last around half an hour each, so they're convenient for travelling, lunch breaks and so on.
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Well, you could stop using the word "apologist". In reality it's the people who defend institutionalised violence that need to apologise!
Of course, you don't need to tell them that.
Hmm, yes, "apologist" sounds wrong. What I really meant was to get better at Anarchist "apologetics". But perhaps even that's not positive enough - maybe "evangelist", or better still "proselytizer".
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