Why Im no longer an ACist

[Bill Haywood]

Val, here's another fundamental reason to forgo the koolaid:

You can't get rid of the state. Even if smashed, a new one will quickly reconstitute itself.

The only way to get rid of a state is with powerful insurgent organizations, which then become the new state. They won't dissolve once the state is smashed because there are so many advantages to remaining.

Re: the "education" counter argument. ACists like to believe that their education efforts will magically take hold and everyone will simply stop enabling the state. But information does not dissolve interests. The state has enormous dependent constituencies that will not become ACists no matter how pretty the speeches. It only takes a small minority of support to maintain a state. So the state has to be smashed, then you are back to previous paragraph.