(June 23, 2015 at 1:57 pm)Dystopia Wrote: I'm not doing it - But it was the only way to overthrown the ancién régime - Sometimes reformism is not the way to go - Just look at fascist States - Does anyone genuinely think that trusting the government to reform its power out of existence (or just limit it) is a good idea? What guarantees are there that it will happen?
Being a revolutionary and being an anarchist are two different things. Wanting to overthrow a government does not entail wanting to have no government. Most revolutionaries simply want a different government than what they have.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
