In the current state of the American government, characterized by a concerning lack of moral integrity, citizens often find themselves anticipating its potential collapse. This leads to extensive preparations, including stockpiling resources, building bunkers, and investing in precious metals—a response born from the growing disillusionment with the constraints of American wage slavery. However, these actions inadvertently contribute to the enrichment of the capitalist class.
What unites these preparers is their oversight of a crucial solution: organized community action and the exercise of the right to revoke consent through declarations of independence. The prevailing question arises—why is there such limited faith in neighbors and communities? Overlooking the potential strength found in communal organization undermines the collective ability to defend, farm, and safeguard the rights of future generations.
The failure to recognize the wisdom of collaboration among fellow citizens remains perplexing, seemingly contradicting the inherent nature of sane and rational individuals. Is this oversight a consequence of pervasive propaganda perpetuating a divisive agenda? It's evident that innocent individuals have been unjustly framed, masking the natural inclination for empathy, understanding, and compassion. Understanding this truth is pivotal as it reinforces the innate kindness that defines human nature when given the chance. Or in the words of Alexander Berkman
“What is it that every one wants most in life? What do you want most?
After all, we are all the same under our skins. Whoever you be - man or woman, rich or poor, aristocrat or tramp, white, yellow, red or black, of whatever land, nationality, or religion - we are all alike in feeling cold and hunger, love and hate; we all fear disaster and disease, and try to keep away from harm and death.
What you most want out of life, what you fear most, that also is true, in the main, of your neighbor.
Learned men have written big books, many of them, on sociology, psychology, and many other ‘ologies’, to tell you what you want, but no two of those books ever agree. And yet I think that you know very well without them what you want.
They have studied and written and speculated so much about this, for them so difficult a question, that you, the individual, have become entirely lost in their philosophies. And they have at last come to the conclusion that you, my friend, don’t count at all. What’s important, they say, is not you, but ‘the whole’, all the people together. This ‘whole’ they call ‘society’, ‘the commonwealth’, or ‘the State’, and the wiseacres have actually decided that it makes no difference if you, the individual, are miserable so long as ‘society’ is all right. Somehow they forget to explain how ‘society’ or ‘the whole’ can be all right if the single members of it are wretched.
So they go on spinning their philosophic webs and producing thick volumes to find out where you really enter in the scheme of things called life, and what you really want.
But you yourself know very well what you want, and so does your neighbor.
You want to be well and healthy; you want to be free, to serve no master, to crawl and humiliate yourself before no man; you want to have well-being for yourself, your family, and those near and dear to you. And not to be harassed and worried by the fear of to-morrow.
You may feel sure that every one else wants the same. So the whole matter seems to stand this way:
You want health, liberty, and well-being. Every one is like yourself in this respect.
Therefore we all seek the same thing in life.
Then why should we not all seek it together, by joint effort, helping each other in it?” What is communist anarchism.
These profound sentiments endure, and it is incumbent upon those championing noble causes to ensure they remain etched in our collective consciousness. The time has returned to acknowledge the inherent kinship shared with our neighbors, recognizing them not as strangers but as brothers and sisters. Only by prioritizing each other's well-being can we pave the way for enduring peace and happiness within our communities.
Let us not overlook the strength we possess when united. Together, we hold the power to hold wrongdoers accountable for their actions, ensuring justice for the innocent. Through collective efforts, we can resurrect the spirit of a nation that embodies freedom and bravery. In closing, I offer a quote from a man who truly grasped the essence of community.
"Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves.
When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another. We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don't know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society."
- John (Fire) Lame Deer, Sioux Lakota - 1903-1976
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