Does Shen-nung Idealism = Anarchism?

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Jul 29 2013 09:32
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So why is H.G. Wells an apparently amusing and unbelievable source for anarchist thought?...as opposed to, for example, HRH Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin?...
I imagine it has something to do with the latter being an anarchist.

My point was that if Wells is seen as an unlikely source of anarchist thought, then what about an hereditary Rurikid prince?

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highlander, you haven't exactly been kind and patient, either

My apologies.

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Highlander has come on here to teach the uninitiated.

Some years ago I taught RTS activists a passive resistance technique from Eel style Kung-fu which meant that it required eight constables to remove each of them instead of two. However, since my school requires many decades of study and is traditionally confined to ordained monks, I can't see it ever becoming popular or influential. My purpose in joining this forum is therefore to learn, not to teach.

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these are going to be the very same people that we need as our comrades and allies

I hope that we can all collaborate because ultimately we have the same cause; universal freedom and justice.

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Jul 29 2013 13:38
Highlander wrote:
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So why is H.G. Wells an apparently amusing and unbelievable source for anarchist thought?...as opposed to, for example, HRH Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin?...
I imagine it has something to do with the latter being an anarchist.

My point was that if Wells is seen as an unlikely source of anarchist thought, then what about an hereditary Rurikid prince?

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highlander, you haven't exactly been kind and patient, either

My apologies.

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Highlander has come on here to teach the uninitiated.

Some years ago I taught RTS activists a passive resistance technique from Eel style Kung-fu which meant that it required eight constables to remove each of them instead of two. However, since my school requires many decades of study and is traditionally confined to ordained monks, I can't see it ever becoming popular or influential. My purpose in joining this forum is therefore to learn, not to teach.

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these are going to be the very same people that we need as our comrades and allies

I hope that we can all collaborate because ultimately we have the same cause; universal freedom and justice.

He (Wells) was a proponent of state-capitalism. Just look up his views on wikipedia.org.

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Jul 29 2013 15:41
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He (Wells) was a proponent of state-capitalism. Just look up his views on wikipedia.org.

Thankyou for suggesting futher study into the life of H.G. Wells. I hadn't realised that he was such an eccentric. As for his politics, he clearly belongs to a group of 19th century proto-socialists, many of whom have been proven, with the benefit of hindsight, to have been half-baked and naive. However, it is hardly fair for us to judge such people by the yardstick of 21st century political thought. I find his notion of a single world nation democratically representing all peoples rather charming and quaint, albeit completely unrealistic. What is certain is that he was a powerful and idealistic individual. If he were to be transported in a time machine to the present day I daresay that he would be appalled by the erosion of liberty and the rise of sinister corporate power, and I hazard that he would be one of their most outspoken opponents.

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Jul 29 2013 15:58
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I daresay that he would be appalled by the erosion of liberty (?) and the rise of sinister corporate power (?), and I hazard that he would be one of their most outspoken opponents.

You sound like one of them radical liberals. Take that as a compliment.