The Supreme Law Of The State...?

[georgephillip]

According to Mikhail Bakunin, chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism and prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, self preservation at all cost is the bedrock principle of all states:

"'The supreme law of the State is self-preservation at any cost,' wrote the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. 'And since all States, ever since they came to exist upon the earth, have been condemned to perpetual struggle—a struggle against their own populations, whom they oppress and ruin, a struggle against all foreign States, every one of which can be strong only if the others are weak—and since the States cannot hold their own in this struggle unless they constantly keep on augmenting their power against their own subjects as well as against the neighborhood States—it follows that the supreme law of the State is the augmentation of its power to the detriment of internal liberty and external justice.'”

States behave in this way because every state since the first has existed to serve its richest citizens at the expense of its majority.

This will not change until citizens demand a "wall of separation" between their state and the corrupting influences of private wealth.

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[georgephillip]

"Bakunin’s methods of realizing his revolutionary program were consistent with his principles.

"The working class and peasantry were to organize from below, through local structures interlinked on a federalist basis, 'creating not only the ideas, but also the facts of the future itself.'[38]

"Their movements would prefigure the future, in their ideas and practices, creating the building blocks of the new society.

"This approach was exemplified by syndicalism, an anarchist strategy championed by Bakunin, according to which trade unions would provide both the means to defend and improve workers' conditions, rights and incomes in the present, and the basis for a social revolution based upon workplace occupations.

"The syndicalist unions would organize the occupations, as well as provide the radically democratic structures through which workplaces would be self-managed, and the larger economy coordinated.

"Thus, for Bakunin, the workers' unions would 'take possession of all the tools of production as well as buildings and capital.'"[39]

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