From the PROPER BLOG: What Occupations Can Learn From George Orwell

As a keen political thinker and an eyewitness to the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell’s insights are a very good way to understand anarchist military in practice. Orwell had briefly served as acting-lieutenant in charge of thirty soldiers, and “never had the slightest difficulty in getting an order obeyed” under the system. “It was understood that orders had to be obeyed,” he writes in his war diaries Homage to Catalonia, “but it was also understood that when you gave an order you gave it as comrade to comrade and not as superior to inferior.”

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[image: a sketched hand holding a magnifying glass up to the word ‘authority’].liberationfrequency: The anarchist critique of modern society means: “to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. That includes political power, ownership and management, relations among men and women, parents and children, our control over the fate of future generations (the basic moral imperative behind the environmental movement…), and much else. Naturally this means a challenge to the huge institutions of coercion and control: the state, the unaccountable private tyrannies that control most of the domestic and international economy [i.e. capitalist corporations and companies], and so on. But not only these.” -Noam Chomsky, ‘Marxism, Anarchism and Alternative Futures’
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[image: a sketched hand holding a magnifying glass up to the word ‘authority’].

liberationfrequency:

The anarchist critique of modern society means:

“to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. That includes political power, ownership and management, relations among men and women, parents and children, our control over the fate of future generations (the basic moral imperative behind the environmental movement…), and much else. Naturally this means a challenge to the huge institutions of coercion and control: the state, the unaccountable private tyrannies that control most of the domestic and international economy [i.e. capitalist corporations and companies], and so on. But not only these.”

-Noam Chomsky, ‘Marxism, Anarchism and Alternative Futures’

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Source: liberationfrequency