anarchists are liberals when it comes to self-interest.

it's the point of being an anarchist. otherwise, we'd just be marxists. and, it's the reason you end up with these goofy ancaps that can't figure out what the state even is.

but, what the anarchists have always argued - following kropotkin, who wrote prominently about a kind of proto-dawkinsian social order called mutual aid - is that rational self-interest is not manifested in this capitalist mayhem that is bound to collapse in on itself, but in the realization of universal positive freedom through automation and the proper articulation of "from each as they can, to each as they need".

but, i'm an artist, of course - i'm not a worker. so, i'm going to tell you to read oscar wilde: the soul of man under socialism. that, to me, is probably the best articulation of this that i've read.

if you're interested in ideas of duty and honour and sacrifice to some greater good, you're thinking about historical toryism and religiosity, not liberalism or anarchism or anything else on the left.

but, i've been over this.

and, i'm not shy about where i stand on it.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.