Quote Originally Posted by yabatab
I really don't think the founders of this country
had in mind the government of today, I think they would be ashamed
of today's US government. Of course I am an anarchist and that does
not mean I am against all government just the hierarchy that controls
us today.
I am an anarchist, and I am against all forms of government. Government is, by definition, hierarchical. A non-hierarchical way of deciding policies I would not call a government, since there are no governors and nobody being governed.

And who cares what the founding fathers would have thought about us? We would have been ashamed of them, too, if we went back and visited their fields of working slaves or their political institutions that excluded everybody who wasn't a propertied white male. We don't need to idolize the heroes of bourgeois republicanism. We need to oppose all forms of oppression, hierarchy, and dominance if we want to legitimately call ourselves anarchists. That means capitalism, government, sexism, racism, theism - indeed, all social institutions and doctrines which demand our obedience to the will of someone else instead of our own under threat of punishment. That's what an-archy means: without-rulers. Fuck the founding fathers and all other rulers.