User:Extremevic
Anarcho-Transhumanism is a branch of anarchism that takes traditional and modern anarchism and combines it with transhumanism and post-humanism. it can be described as a “liberal democratic revolution, centuries old and still growing strong, has at its core the idea that people are happiest when they have rational control over their lives. Reason, science, and technology provide one kind of control, slowly freeing us from ignorance, toil, pain, and disease. Democracy provides the other kinds of control, through civil liberties and electoral participation.
Anarcho-transhumanists acknowledge that Technology and democracy complement one another, ensuring that safe technology is generally accessible and democratically accountable. The convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science in the coming decades will give us unimaginable technological mastery of nature and ourselves. That mastery requires progressive democratization.
Anarcho-transhumanism is anti-capitalist through it's core and is not compatible with it. While valuing democracy and consensus decision-making. Anarchism itself has many branches ranging from anarcho-primitivism to anarcho-communism. Transhumanism alone assumes the existence of the collective expertise of the scientific community, advancement of technology to better human-kind, and eventually will lead to a post-human future. The cooperation of human societies to reach the above goals maintains that there must be a kind of cooperative civilization, therefore a type of worker syndicalism and socialism. It is thus a combination of syndicalism, socialism, technology, and radical democracy, maintaining an anarchist stance of the lack of religion, the destruction of the capitalist and/or socialist State, and the idea that minds (humans, post-humans) DO NOT have the right to force political, economic and religious ideas on one another especially through future “gigadeath” wars.
Anarcho-transhumanists assume that the future will bring a kind of interconnectedness through technology that will allow individuals and communities to communicate and vote very rapidly, abolishing the need for a State. Brain/Mind will be “enhanced” through the use of technological means, leading to an ever greater, fairer, and peaceful outcome of the voting process.