RE: Does anarchy now mean running away?
My anarchy is a combination of speaking out against the system whenever and to whoever I can, (Opening minds is the key), structuring my life in such a way as to rely on the state as little as possible, and withdrawing my consent from the state as often and in whatever ways I can.
I grow and consume as much of my own food as I can. I collect and filter rain water instead of relying on the city to provide me with it. I compost my bodily output instead of relying on the government to deal with it. I use whatever creative ways to avoid giving the government money whenever I can.
What I do not do is vote or petition the government for redress. I will not ask my slave-master for better treatment or work for the election of a slave-master who might treat the people marginally better. I will not write my congress critter or petition the White House. Those are foolish games only there to make people believe that politicians are listening to them. That they care. They are not listening and they don't care. And though some may claim that standing for principle is foolish. I disagree. "The principle of the thing" has always been of prime importance to me.
Oh, I'll never stand for the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem either ( go Kaepernick)
My anarchy will NEVER involve violence against the government or anyone else unless I'm defending myself or others.
I'm not sure what you mean by "fighting the system" and "running from the system". But I hope my reply helps you understand how this old anarchist defines Anarchy.
I fight with ideas. this is the only way to win, violence is not good for many reasons and should be avoided at all costs. Bitcoin is a good example of a great idea which is a good way to fight the system. Steemit is also good from what I see so far. Running away takes yourself out of the game. Which could limit your ideas by decreasing your risk. Some anarchist leave their own home country but still do good fighting with ideas but it's not the same, it carries less weight because they left and no longer risk enough to really truly care about fighting for change in the very system they ran from. In my view anarchist does not mean to run from the problem? Again, I am probably very wrong. One could argue that the pilgrims who fled England to start again in America were anarchist? I could not dispute that? But I think they still had to fight that system to be truly free? Now the same system is back in America? Greater Economical and political systems of mass control? So here we are again. Should American now migrate to start again? Or should we support great ideas and fight that way like we are doing here on steemit? Just wondering? Just want to share ideas.
By fighting the system. Do you mean participating in the system?
I think that fighting it is exactly what we are doing when we speak about the ideas of liberty. We are utilizing our natural right, for lack of a better word, to debate and describe the failures of the system that enslaves us. We have the internet, for now, and we are using it to learn and teach. We win a big battle every time we open a mind. We win a small battle every time we figure out a way to barter, or grow our own food, or catch our own water.
I guess the big debate is whether to fight the system from within or to ignore it out of existence. I choose the latter, but either way. Figuring out how to make the government obsolete should probably be an objective that we all share.