Anarchists in Their Own Words: C.S.Griffin, Force The Only Defense Against Injustice and Oppression

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Force!

The Only Defense Against Injustice and Oppression

by C.S. Griffin

Signed “C.S.G.,” published in The Alarm, vol. 1, no. 14 (Jan. 13, 1885), pg. 3.

Because the Socialists advocate resistance they are accused of brutality and want of wisdom.
It is said that by accomplishing a thing by force you accumulate a power that will endanger all that is accomplished, therefore, force is unwise.

It must be remembered that all men can agree that they themselves should not be trampled upon by others.
Grant them this and they will have no cause for complaint or war.
If by force of arms you compel a man to agree to allow others to exercise control over him, you will soon see that the soldier learned your art of war and by it will soon claim all that you have ever acquired for yourself.
This only teaches that it is dangerous for the wicked to teach the art of war.
It is not so with justice.
Once justice wins then no man can find a cause of war, there can be no war.
Justice can never create opposition to itself.
The moment justice begins to be agitated its opposition begins to weaken.
The reverse is true of injustice.
The moment injustice begins to be agitated that moment its opposition begins to grow.
For these reasons justice is always safe in accumulating force, while injustice can only accumulate force at its peril.

We are told that force is cruel.
But this is only true when the opposition is less cruel.
If the opposition is a relentless power that is starving, freezing, exposing, and depriving tens of thousands, and the application of force will require less suffering while removing the old cause, then the force is humane.
Seeing the amount of needless suffering all about us, we say a vigorous use of dynamite is both humane and economical.
It will at the expense of less suffering prevent more.
It is not humane to compel ten persons to starve to death when the execution of five persons would prevent it.

It is upon this theory that we advocate the use of dynamite.
It is clearly more humane to blow ten men into eternity than to
make ten men starve to death.
When ten men unite to starve one man to death, then it is humane and just to blow up the whole ten men.
This is our doctrine and our justification of the application of force.
The fact that the ten are a cultured set of refined and wealthy gentlemen, and that the one they are turning out to starve is poor, ragged, and ignorant, and never ate a good meal’s victuals in his life, does not in any manner remove the guilt of the ten.
When a reasonable minority discover that it is just as wicked to torture a poor man as a rich man, then the wrong will be righted.
A system that is starving and freezing tens of thousands of little children, right in the midst of a world of plenty, cannot be defended against dynamiters on the ground of humanity.
If every child that starves to death in the United States was retaliated for by the execution of a rich man in his own parlor, the brutal system of wage-property would not last six weeks.
It is better for mankind to kill and innocent capitalist, if there are any, at the death of every child of exposure, than to quietly bury the child without a protest.
It is a wonder that a father, after his vain search for bread, can see his little ones starve or freeze without striking that revengeful, just, and bloody blow at the cause that would prevent other little ones suffering a similar fate.
It is not probable that men will always endure this cruel, relentless, grinding process of monopoly and competition.
It is cruel mockery to say, “peace, be still,” while perpetual war is waged upon the life, liberty, and happiness of the workers.
The instinct of self-preservation revolts at the offer of such advice.
The privileged class use force to perpetuate their power, and the despoiled
workers must use force to prevent it.
Chicago, Ill.
C.S.G.

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This series of posts will insure that these anarchists' works live on in living memory.
If only a few.

Don't lose hope now, dear reader.
We've made it this far.
At some point the ride gets easier.

Rule by force has had it's day.
When everybody sees the iron fist in the velvet glove we win.
We just have to survive its death throes.

There is a reason these facts are not in the modern curriculums.

Setting rewards to burn only burns the author portion of the payout.
The crowd isn't silenced.
Please cheer loudly, if that is your thing.

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I think that resistance is also a good defense againts injustice and oppression.

We are surely going to face armed gangs of thugs projecting force for overlords to compel our obedience and enable them to parasitize our production. They don't even need all of us to be productive anymore, because they can automate production using modern means of production. So, we are going to need to defend our lives, certain sure.

But that's not all we need to do. We need to seize the means of production and quit producing in collectives that overlords parasitize. Decentralized means of production eliminate parasitic losses. FOSS AI running on laptops outcompetes corporate AI running on supercomputers.

https://hackaday.com/2023/05/05/leaked-internal-google-document-claims-open-source-ai-will-outcompete-google-and-openai/

All centralized production feeds parasites. Overlords are utterly dependent on parasitism. We need to adopt independent means of production they cannot parasitize.

The best place to start is a 3D printer. With a 3D printer a handyman can cobble up all sorts of useful things, from security devices like the Urutai, to means of feeding your household yourself, using aquaponics, to any other tools you decide you want to make. You can print circuits, and solar panels, and LEDs, and you can print human tissues and organs with your own cells you can grow in flasks at home. You can buy a kit for that for less than the cost of a 3D printer from the-odin.com. If you keep developing your 3D printer capability, you will someday be able to print a copy of Terran 1, the first 3D printed spaceship that was launched off Earth back in March, 2023.

The sky is not the limit anymore.

Thanks!

justicia necesitamos para terminar con el imperio asi quemar todo su pais de mierda vasta de vivir con la miseria del imperio