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To: ChicagoConservative27
What Is Anarcho-Tyranny and Are We Living in It?

"Samuel Francis first coined the term “anarcho-tyranny” in a 1994 essay titled Anarcho-Tyranny, U.S.A., summarized as:

“A concept where the state is more interested in controlling citizens so that they don’t oppose managerial class, rather than tending to real criminals. Laws are argued to be enforced selectively depending on what is beneficial to the ruling elite.”

It essentially describes a situation in which the government has the necessary tools and capabilities to wield oppressive power over its subjects, and does so to further its own interests.

On the other hand, the government actors themselves — and, importantly, their footsoldiers (like Antifa and BLM in the modern American context) — act with impunity, immune from legal consequences."

You saw something similar to this in the early Soviet Union.

11 posted on 07/20/2023 6:34:28 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Tench_Coxe

“Samuel Francis first coined the term “anarcho-tyranny” in a 1994 essay”

Sam Francis was one of the most brilliant conservative thinkers of the modern era.

Freepers would all benefit from reading his work.


47 posted on 07/20/2023 7:26:11 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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