Anarchist Sunday School: Part 2 - The State @ the flying squirrel (285 Clarissa St.)

"One thing is sure: capitalism and the state are, still today, the foundations of our society of domination and exploitation, constituting “for all the countries of the civilised world, a single universal problem”. Therefore, our ideal is still “total and definitive emancipation from economic exploitation and the yoke of the state”

We consider the state the set of political powers of a nation, that takes shape by means of “political, legislative, judicial, military and financial institutions etc.” [41]; and, in this way, the state is broader than the government. The state, since its inception in antiquity, passing through the Egypt of the pharaohs and the military-slave state of Rome, has always been an instrument for perpetuating inequality and a liberty-exterminating element, whatever the existing mode of production. This dominating institution has, in the course of history, know periods of greater or lesser strength, requiring attention to specific time and place. The state as we observe it today (the modern state) has its origins in the sixteenth century.


Please join the Rochester Chapter of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation as we discuss part 4 of the text "Social Anarchism and Organisation" by the Brazilian especifist group FARJ (Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro).

You can read the text here: http://anarkismo.net/article/21910
Please read the text ahead of the meeting and be prepared to discuss!