TEAPOT COLLECTIVE INTRODUCTION TO ANARCHY, PAGE 12.

     Well it is time for another wee page from the Teapot Collective Introduction to Anarchy, enjoy page 12. You can look back at page 11 HERE.

     ---and forests grow again.

      But this is silly utopia, and anarchists are hopeless indealistic dreamers who must be totally miserable when confronted with reality.

      Actually no. Anarchists have a vision of what life could be like, but we try to live it in the here and now, in many different ways.

  

     This society is quite blatantly showing its flaws. Many people are pissed off with the way things are run, from ecological destruction to the misery and monotony of everyday life. You have to spend most of your time working your arse off for someone you probably don't like or something you don't care about and then struggle to pay bills while being pressured to buy more consumer crap.  It is also difficult to build up friendships, when there is a general air of mistrust, deceit, and society's based upon the motto, 'you have to fuck people over to survive'.

      Many will not swallow all the lies anymore and also see the futility of voting. But a general mood of cycicism and apathy has been created.

      We want people to get past this. Let's talk about our dreams and desires.

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INTRODUCTION TO ANARKY, PAGE 4.

    With this, page 4, we continue with the wee booklet "Introduction to Anarky" by the teapot collective.

People with power don't want to give it up and the laws reflect that. But throughout history people have tried to do just that. to live freely. Sometimes on their own, sometimes in small groups, sometimes in great popular movements. From the peasants revolt to the Poll Tax people have come together in grass roots movements.

Brief History of Anarchy in Action.         History reflects the values of the people writing it, in the mainstream usually the ruling class. Looking at history with an anarchist perspective reveals something more interesting than the Kings and Queens we got bored by at school.
         "Has all this anarchy shit ever been tried at all?" you might ask. Actially about 99% of human existance has been shaped by tribal society, small collectives--- To be continued. It is a small book.

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TEAPOT COLLECTIVE - INTRODUCTION TO ANARCHY, PAGE 3.

     

      Today we continue with the wonderful wee booklet, "Introduction to Anarchy" from the Teapot Collective. The recently posted pages 1 and 2 went down well, so read on.

        Page 3.

        At the moment we are all forced to surrender our independence, with no opt-out clause or exception to the “authorities”, And what kind of society has been created through this? One built on oppression based on gender, race, sexuality, species, nationality. Oppression based on class, with a whole section of society made dependent on dull, exploitive work. We're left with the false choice of voting in one bunch of lying scum or another, while the people with money and power remain untouched – landowners, directors of industry and finance, high ranking police and army chiefs, and the rich elite in general.

       According to our “democratic” system the problem is just with the policies of the political parties – every time one of them “fails” in government we're supposed to hope the next lot do better. Of course they rarely do. Even when a revolutionary party takes over, the names may change but power still stays with a small elite and everybody else get shat on. After all, we all know what great places the communist dictatorships of Eastern Europe were.

      So what hope is there for change? We can't just vote for it, and trying to act for ourselves can be difficult, ---

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