[pp.int.general] Pirate Manifesto: Finally, amendments showdown

[Anton Tamminen]

As an anarchist and communist by heart, I suggest you end this 
meaningless quarrel.

The Pirate manifesto isn't an anarchist manifesto, and even if I'd wish 
of all my heart that the pirate movement was an anarchist movement that 
would change the world by taking down the government, it is not. It is a 
pirate movement, a movement that aspires to change the way we do 
democracy in the digital age to bring it closer to the true ideals of an 
equal democracy in the literal sense of power of the people - ideals 
that our by almost-random-process elected masters have long forgotten.

There is no need for anarchism in the manifesto, simply because not all 
of us want to take it to that level. Government will always yield us 
trouble, but not all are prepared (in a number of ways) to live in 
anarchy, or even prepared enough to know how to preserve anarchy (the 
hardest part). Let's agree on all that is common to us, for the good of 
humanity. Anarchy becomes a meaningful topic of discussion only after 
we've turned the current tide.

United we stand, divided we fall.

-- 
Anton Tamminen
International Secretary, Member of the Board
Piraattipuolue - The Pirate Party, Finland
http://www.piraattipuolue.fi