Message received?

Today I posted the following comment response to another commenter on The Guardian article "Occupy Wall Street: echoes of the past as protesters grasp the future" :

"@RjBig2000

no person can revoke these three basic rights, Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness"


I like the general sentiment being employed in those romantically libertarian words but they fall well short of say socialism in terms providing a rights framework for achieving those things that the words long for, just like America falls abysmally short of the principles of the US constitution. This is a fact of life due to the power and corruption of wealth, which will always accumulate over time for ruthless enough individuals, groups and associations. The only thing that has ever worked for us peasants in the way of achieving even modest steps towards those ideals are social movements, workers unions and benevolent dictatorship. Democracy doesn't exist for us peasants. It never has. Liberal democracy as practiced by most Western nations is perfectly represented by the long time kids' favourite board game Monopoly. Money buys you friends in high places, politicians, political parties, political systems, governments, military juntas, brutal dictators, newspapers, television networks, Internet presence, prisons, schools, universities, entire education systems, police, armies and military hardware. It's all owned and controlled by an astonishingly small fraction of the global population. All the properties on the board were bought long before we were born, so we just get to pay rent in order to live on our own planet, and if you're not prepared to put up with that then they have everything they need to make sure the only place you are going is in the ground, and then your family gets the bill. And the US says that China is 'evil'?


Anarchism is the never ending fight against concentrations of power, which ultimately corrupt themselves, and in order not to be such a concentration of power anarchism essentially remains distributed, non-networked and leaderless, though we all happily jump on board and support movements for the benefit of the peasantry. Thus anarchism might best be understood as the state of mind one reaches having seen the king with no clothes, and that the game is and has always been rigged from top to bottom. Anarchism is not a club, an Internet site or a social movement. It is simply the recognition of the unspeakably bad state of affairs and the desire to bring about justice for the majority rather than the rich minority. Needless to say anarchism is deliberately misrepresented by the media, in fact in most cases it is just flat out lied about.


We need to wake up the anarchist that lies at the heart of every peasant by opening the curtains on the world around them. If we don't we are probably shafted properly, as a species I mean, and I mean it literally, mortally and urgently. Few people seem to grasp the enormity of what is coming in the wake of the failure to address the rapidly approaching man-made climate catastrophe and the also rapidly approaching energy crisis. Both will lead ultimately to global war (not to mention famine due to collapsed food infrastructure, disease, collapsed health care systems, genocides ad nauseum that will also result) and given that the nuclear power states' defense systems are largely automated (responsive to assumed attack) the chain reaction will resemble the dropping of a piece of cheese into a box full of loaded mousetraps. As we stand to day we are staring straight into the light of the oncoming train of extinction, and the boys in our engine room are still shovelling coal.


It saddens me that this message is not being received loud and clear by the peasantry, at least thus far, because they are our only hope."