I can imagine a reader reading the above post and thinking,
" But Kropotkin, how could you mix perfectly good philosophy with
politics. I mean common day to day politics… what does philosophy
have to do with politics"
if there is one lesson you should take away from my threads, it is this,
there are no isolated, separated idea’s like politics and philosophy…
if you think about it long enough, you will realize that they are one
and the same, politics and philosophy and history and economics
and poly sci…who are we and what are we to do, both individually
and collectively are politics and philosophy and history and economics
and poly sci…
who are we and what are we to do is part of our exploration of
science and math and history… they are one and the same…
to discover who we are and what are we do to… requires tools
and some of those tools are science, math, history, philosophy,
poly sci…
to talk about our current political situation is to use the tools
of science and history and philosophy, among others, to
discover the reality of our current situation…
we are social animals, we exist in groups and in both large and small
systems…to talk about politics is to understand how we are to organize
ourselves in order to accomplish our goals, our visions…
in the day to day rush of modern life, we often forget the value and
purpose of our tools, tools like government, science, history, philosophy…
we use those tools to advance the cause of the human race, the cause of
humanity…and the cause of the human race is simple, the continuation
and perpetuation of the human species…
and all our wonderful tools are meant to aid in this one goal… to continue
the human race… but that one goal doesn’t preclude in us finding
individual goals and meanings and purpose…
we do exist within groups and systems but we can also discover what
drives us, what excites us, what motivates us, what we can live for
and die for if necessary…
meaning for the human being is not just individually, but collectively…
for we cannot find out who we are in terms of us individually, for we
are social creatures, meant for and born of a collection of other human beings…
we can only exist for others, with others, by others…
government of the people, for the people, by the people…
that phrase is not a random phrase, but it is fixed within the confines of
being a human being…we exist together, part of each other,
politics is just part of a way we can exist together, look at poly sci
as a means for us to exist together… what political system should we
have considering we are social beings, beings who exist together and
in groups…the search for justice is rarely the search for individual
justice but a search for a collective justice, justice for all, equality for all…
so if you understand our tools like science and philosophy and history,
as a means for us to understand how we exists together and learn to grow
and thrive and become, human…fully human… for that is the real task
of human beings… how do we become who we are, HUMANS, and because
we exist in groups and various size systems, we must learn to understand
who we are not only as individuals, but as members of many groups, many different
systems… the path, the real path to becoming fully human lies, not individually
but collectively… together…for the road to becoming human is a shared, collective
road…
Kropotkin