Bringing Voluntaryism to the UK
Hello fellow freedom lovers and welcome to the Anarcho-Voluntaryism UK introductary article!
We are relatively new to anarchism/voluntaryism here in the UK but over time we fully intend to emulate the movement that is happening over in the US, to the best of our ability!
The amount of voluntaryists here in the UK is small but it's a start! We will grown in strength and numbers as we gain better momentum and understanding. We're currently in plans to visit to the world's largest anarcho-capitalist conference, Anarchapulco (http://anarchapulco.com) in 2018.
For anyone new to anarchism/voluntaryism, I would highly recommend checking out some of Larken Rose's and Jeff Berwick's (The Dollar Vigilante) video's, including the trailer for Larken's ongoing project "The Mirror". Exciting times ahead!
For more discussion/info, or to express ways in which we can grow the movement here in the UK, then please join the Anarcho-Voluntaryism UK facebook page by clicking here
Thanks for reading and up voting. Keep up the great work everyone!
At least this UK voluntaryist will be at Anarchapulco 2017, btw.
That's great nitro :) Some of us would love to be there next year, but 'government' persists in stealing far too much of our hard-earned cash!! Maybe you could share your experience with our group on your return and impart some of what you learn, so we won't feel quite so bad about not making it this time around :)
Lucky you. Got so much to sort out this next 12 months, it's unreal! I'll second the last comment, let us know how it was. If you could join us over at anarcho-voluntaryism uk on Facebook, that would be ace!
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Nice post! I will follow you from now on.
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Ah I am not sure what your posting is actually trying to communicate.
Are you one of these groups trying to encourage people to work for nothing doing voluntary work and thus adding to the burden of unemployment.
Now sure how people working for nothing helps put meaningful work and money into the economy. After all if these people doing the work voluntarily are actually doing import good works, why are people determined they should do such marvelous work for nothing.
And; even if people can be found to work for nothing this should not preclude them from being taxed at an applicable taxation rate so they continue to support the country...
C u on the BC ;)
/hugz :)
Just saying Volunteers are Vermin; after all most of the organizers who oversee these work groups are mainly paid positions; how is it decent for the supervisor to get paid and not the worker ???
After all is not unemployment not already in the double digits? With welfare payments being a crippling burden for most governments ...
Were you dropped on your head, or something?? Who said anything about that foolish crap you are talking about? (rolls eyes) Voluntaryists are not asking you to forsake organization and civilization. They are not asking you to embrace "might makes right" or "survival of the fittest." They are not asking you to throw away your compassion. They are not asking you to abandon your core values, or to betray your moral code. In fact, what they are asking is the precise and exact opposite of all of that. All that we are asking of you is that, whatever you already believe about right and wrong, you apply it consistently, to everyone, all the time.
We therefore ask that you stop imagining that political rituals and documents, or badges and uniforms, give some people special rights that the rest of us don’t have. We ask that you stop begging those who wield political power to do things on your behalf that you yourself have no right to do on your own. We ask that you stop believing in the Divine Right of Politicians, and instead accept that each individual owns himself, and that no one can be a rightful master, and no one can be a rightful slave.
Well ok, your reply seems to make as much sense as the original story.
Please understand while i "get" that you were unhappy with my post; I am not upset, possibly because i have no clue as to what you were trying to say...
The difference between my "rant" and your 'rant' is, i think; more people will be able to understand what i was trying to say.
However I will assist you in one way if i may; when posting on Social Media, your message must be simple, clear and concise. Otherwise 97.4 % of potential readers will either not bother to stop and read it or else have absolutely no clue what your trying to communicate.
I myself probably belong to that 97.4 % majority, but unlike most of the others i myself am stopping and trying to help you out...
Please understand i am mainly curious to discover what you are waffling about, which I admit is my main motivation in stopping to be so helpful.
/hugz ;)
C U on the BC :)
In truth however; in reply to your opening inquiry; up until the age of ten i lived on a farm, once at the age of approx eight i was thrown from a horse and did indeed strike my head on a sizable rock lying on the track-way that served as the road down to the milking shed.
Approx a year later i was standing on the plowing tractor my brother was driving in the field. I was standing leaning against the large back driving wheel tyre mudguard.
Something caused me to be thrown forward, for many decades I always never really believed my head ended up under the front tractor wheel and the back tractor wheel on my foot...
In truth i often thought if this truly happened if this truly happened how i could remain undamaged; approx two decades later at a family reunion my older brother related that story as true. I know I had never revealed that story to anyone as I felt i would never have been believed.
My only explanation now simply remains that the field had been well plowed and this prevented most likely injuries...
Still i remain amazed such an occurrence could not leave any lasting issues; or maybe it did :)
/hugz ;)
Voluntaryism means life, contribution and human interaction should be voluntary, as opposed to the coercive system we currently have. A quick google search would have ironed out the confusion...