HW: Hawkwind political messages

[M Holmes]

Jonathan Jarrett writes:

> > Not all of us anarchists are pacifists.

> 	And this stage of the argument goes, `if everyone's armed how do 
> you stop people using force to coerce others', the answer comes, `if 
> everybody's armed they can make sure such people don't get to do it 
> twice', and the historian in me looks at briefly-successful anarchies, 
> all of which got stamped out by bigger coercive organisations, and says, 
> `but to make that work, *everywhere's* got to be anarchist at the same 
> time and then continue to reject the possibility of organising *against* 
> other groups for a bigger slice of local resources! How can you hope to 
> make this stick without the very kind of righteous absolutist army that, 
> for example, fought the Crusades?'

Buggered if I know. At least if we got there, we could just start
shooting people when they aspired to be politicians, or locking them up
out of harm's way.

FoFP