I have been thinking about the coherency and consistency of anarchism, to determine what it is that ultimately motivates us to declare ourselves anarchists and not something else, what is it that leads us to leave a life where one of the most recurring themes are the police, surveillance, and prison, aspects that obviously no one likes but are always around because they mark our daily lives. I believe that anti-authoritarianism is central in this feeling, is what along with the intent of freedom differentiates us politically from other political currents as well as inside of our own anarchism. And it is that anti-authoritarianism implies a break with the entire existent and the ideas which are its sustenance, within which the “judeo christian” paradigm of progress is found entrenched in the majority of occidental thought, whether revolutionary or not. Therefore, is it necessary to break away from the judeo christian tradition of thought? Obviously. If anarchism intends to break with the existent in can not be part of the reproduction of one of the pillars of oppression: holy thought. It is true that a large part of the anarchist current postulates that thanks to social revolution a state of complete harmony will be reached, that due to science we will reach plenitude. This is found in a large part of anarchist literature from the 19th and beginning of the 20th century which is imbued with the illustration and consequent adoration of reason. Consequently, holy thought is maintained, is not questioned, so that an actual breaking with the imposed is not generated. Anarchism becomes sacred in the same way as is chrisitanity.
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