Michael Malice

bureaucracies are faceless and then no one's to blame, and yet everyone kind of suffers as a consequence.

So it doesn't necessarily have to be as authoritarian as Stalinism, but you can't have a government, which is authority by its nature, be this pervasive.

without a strong amount of oppression.

And same thing with, even if you just have like, let's say a socialized healthcare, you're gonna have to make it illegal for doctors to practice privately.

You're gonna have to have rationing, so on and so forth.

Now, that might be a price that people are willing to pay, because you can't have infinite spending on healthcare, right?

So something's gonna have to give somewhere.

So there is an element of authoritarianism there, and people are comfortable with that, and I can wrap my head around it.

But if you're gonna have...

one organization running literally everything in society, I don't see how you do that and have any measure of liberalism.

Well, I think...

More pertinent question is why did Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman have so much problems?

So they were hardcore- These are anarchists.

Yeah, they're Emma Goldman's on the cover.

They were deported from the US.

J. Edgar Hoover saw them off at Ellis Island.

They were sent to Russia.

They were-

bloodthirsty revolutionaries.

They had no shortage advocating violence when necessary.