Lea Ypi: “My idea of freedom is a moral idea”

Lea Ypi was eleven years old when her country, Albania, began to transition from communism to a liberal democratic system. With the fall of the regime, the idea of having grown up in a free country also evaporated, while at the same time she realised that the freedom of capitalism was another false promise. It was from this dilemma that she began to construct her philosophical idea of freedom.
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[@Dmitry_Shevtcov]

Проблема тотальной зависимости человека от самых, необходимых средств для существования - автоматически делает человека (человечество) рабом. Жизнь для сильных, а не для слабых.

[@alexugurie]

Any system which requires us to abdicate much of our personal agency to ruling elites by default means that many needs of the individual will be denied.
For indigenous peoples, their tragedy - suffered under the hand of constantly expanding empire - is visceral and clear for all to see. However, with the same frame of reference, we must also ask when and how the majority of all other western peoples and cultures lost their indigeneity. When and how did civilisation domesticate us, alienating us from both ourselves and the land? For none of us are truly free in the indigenous sense; that is to say as a natural organism living in its natural habitat.
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So to consider our current state of civilisation:
Poverty and dependency are largely enforced by acts of exclusion;
exclusion is apartheid, segregation, a tool of coercion.
Deprive a population of its natural means of survival and you can extort both labour and loyalty. (If you can extort loyalty, what does that say about our supposedly free elections?)
The problem is not lack of money. The problem is that we need money in the first place. The problem is that the whole world is being held to ransom and that we need to pay in order to access it. Is that not the indefensible crux of capitalism? If feudalism was a violently enforced protection racket, its offspring, capitalism, added private property and licensed plunder to the extortion. As for communism, it is still built on the same foundation and uses state property to leverage compliance and extort wealth:
Ownership is violence: it violates people, it violates the land. No one can own the Earth.
Standing up against the bullies and the psychopaths is the way to go: above all, don't feed them.
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I believe there's only one way out of all the dilemmas, the confusions, and the brokenness caused by thousands of years of imperialism and colonialism:
That is for the majority of us to find the necessary courage and develop such a strong sense of self assuredness and fairness, that we become ungovernable. To be ungovernable, to be incoercible is what it takes to be incorruptible, to be true to oneself and one's community: just imagine all that incorruptible energy working in the community, for the community!
In terms of virtues worth striving for, this has to rank somewhere at the very top.
If enough people are ungovernable and willing to federate and fight to preserve their freedom, then government becomes impossible. It is for us to pull the warlords down - primarily by non-compliance, but by force if necessary.
Thankfully, liberation requires no ideology or ism's: anyone can walk away and become an outlaw to the establishment order.
(Indeed, people who impose their ideology on others are the worst of the lot.)
It’s going to be a tough struggle.
Onwards and upwards!

[@helloInternets]

Westoid Anarchist moment.

[@Dmitry_Shevtcov]

Отозвалось, мой Друг! По сути мы имеем рабство, только в красивой, современной упаковке.