RE: Anarchists in Their Own Words: Emma Goldman, There is No Communism in Russia pt2

[antisocialist]

Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.

As long as the majority remains silent while these people kill those people because reasons, we can expect to be ruled by the most violent on the block.
Absent rule by force people just do whatever they want, if they want to share, they share, if they want to be greedy f**ks, they get to do that, too.

Peaceful coexistence is less possible while toleration of rule by force is the norm.

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[erh.germany]

Silence does not necessarily mean to submit.
Like in "And then there were none" - They merely did not give themselves up as petty rulers, and by the fact that those who ruled by force found no one among the peoples to offer themselves as spokesmen/chief/head of for the others, found themselves deprived of that power.

In our world disobedience seems to be more complicated as you won't find this kind of unity amongst any group, even not within families. Because there is always someone who wants to either rule or to be ruled.

Because this is so, the following attitude may help:

... death depresses only so long as there remains a notion that there might be some way of fixing it, of putting it off just once more, or hoping that one has, or is, some kind of ego soul that will survive bodily dissolution.

The point is only to know beyond any shadow of doubt, that "I" and all other things, now present, will vanish, until this knowledge compels you to release them - to know it now as surely as if you just have fallen off the rim of the Grand Canyon.

If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transcience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You just had forgotten who you are.

Alan Watts (from "The Book" on the taboo against knowing who you are.)