If your response to "we should dismantle this system of oppression" is "and replace it with what?" Or "only if we rebuild something functionally identical" you're a part of the problem.
One of the problems that most naive anarchists have to face is that the machinery of oppression is also the same machinery that is keeping a lot of people alive.
Yes, we should tear down the machinery of oppression, but we still need the "keeping us alive" part.
That requires a building mind-set, rather than a tear-it-all-down-RANDOMLY mind-set.
Systematically tear it down, and re-build better at the same time. :D
@ajroach42 I think it's a legitimate question, though not a legitimate objection to the argument. Surely we need a plan and not just "we'll figure it out along the way". Dismantling the current system will also introduce a lot of new suffering that also has to be addressed by the plan.
@dusnm@ajroach42 Many oppressive systems have been dismantled without another plan in place outside of "screw this" and i have a funny feeling that the fearful suffering is no more than loss of privilege, adjustment to equality.
@collette@ajroach42 I disagree. The principal example would the the French revolution. Where the social order was uprooted rapidly with no concrete plans for what should replace it. It created a state of constant fear and uncertainty. People were beheaded in the streets, panic was widespread. All of ti created a power vacuum that allowed Napoleon to, more or less, reinstate the status quo, albeit with some major reforms.
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