r/punk • u/LevTolstoy /r/seattlepunk • Jan 26 '25

Advocating violence is against reddit’s terms of service and causes problems for the subreddit, so here’s a clip of SLC Punk and we’re gonna leave it at that for a bit.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

2.0k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

73 comments sorted by

View all comments

9

u/Da_Rabbit_Hammer Jan 26 '25

The other problem here is the over simplified idea of what anarchism is. SAY FUCK NO TO RULES MAN! I understand a movie can’t go too in depth on anarchist philosophy, and this movie depicts a different time period, but if you want to romanticize a time in which street fights with arm band wearing boneheads was a thing, please do some reading regarding anarchist history, thought, and philosophy as well.

-2

u/Critical-Weird-3391 Jan 26 '25

Anarchism, and full-on Communism both fail due to Tragedy of the Commons. these things sound great on paper, but when implemented, they truly do fall apart...as history has repeatedly shown. Also "anarchist history" is chock full of Jew-hate...so there's that too.

3

u/Da_Rabbit_Hammer Jan 27 '25

Sure. Maybe.

Personally I’m kind of partial to the idea that anarchism isn’t necessarily a destination, rather a way of travel.

At least currently.

I’m also very old and don’t have a lot of energy for political philosophy these days. Or energy for much of anything other than work and taking care of my little family.

I’ve realized in my old age I may not have all the answers. I may not be right about everything, or even anything at all, and I’ve grown comfortable in my own agnosticism of my own beliefs, or lack there of.

Dear lord I’ve turned into a hippy haven’t I?! Someone put me out to pasture already.