Specialist undisputed piracy and World Sea Marcus Rediker has written the thousand-headed Hydra-The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic - and The Slave Ship. His thesis released in France under the name of the convicts sea.
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Pirates have brought practical solutions to all the practical issues of their times.
The problem of concentration of powers?
elect leaders, limit their authority and make them accountable to the community, by all means necessary.
The problem of the hierarchy?
Redefining the division of labor and give everyone the same share of resources.
The problem of salary? The
abolish and transform each into risk-sharing partner.
The problem of poor health?
Create a state minimum social security aboard the ship.
The problem of poverty?
Capture the wealth of the rich and distribute them equitably.
These responses, and resistance to an already globalized capitalist economy, illustrate the major reasons why these pirates always interest us. [...] singing "We're all hackers! "Soon resound throughout the world during mobilizations and struggles for social justice.
Pirates have had the courage to try to live differently and to create an alternative lifestyle when they were confronted with extreme conditions of oppression.
They opposed the authority and the state. Egalitarian, collectivist, democratic, these "villains" of all nations deserve to be remembered in history, in France as elsewhere.
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Libertalia was a republic at the time of the monarchy, a democracy of despotism at the time [...] a place of freedom in an era of slavery. Misson notes: "The trade beings of our own species can not be acceptable in the eyes of divine justice. Because no man has any right to freedom of another. The sailors often saw themselves as slaves and Misson "has not ripped from his neck the unbearable yoke of slavery, and asserted his own freedom to enslave other human beings. " It is for these reasons that the hijackers freed the Africans found on the slave ships they captured and they were incorporating into their heterogeneous crews.
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Pirates do not consider themselves as "vulgar thieves," but as men without a country. Sewing their black flag, the symbol of an anti-national gang of outlaws proletarians, they declare war on the world.
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The pirates hold discourse of revolt, shouting that "the pirate's life is the only worthy a man of spirit. "
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Sailors "invent" the strike in a pay dispute in London in 1768, from boat to boat, slashing and lowering the sails, to impose their demands on the merchants.
The shortage of food and drink is chronic, as well as infuriating system of hierarchy and privilege. The sailor is aware of the importance of equality: a fair distribution of risks increases the chances of survival of all. Separated from loved ones and the rest of society for long periods, it develops a distinct work culture, with its own language, its songs, rituals, and a special sense of brotherhood.
Its core values, which are based on collectivism, anti-authoritarianism, egalitarianism, are summarized in the phrase frequently imposed by browsers rebels: "They Were one and all resolved to stand by one another "(They were one and were all determined to rely on each other). All these cultural qualities are the result of work experience and all operate on both the decision to become a pirate and how to behave afterwards.
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Courage is usually perceived as a masculine value, but Read and Bonny prove otherwise. When a prisoner interrogated about the prospect of an agonizing death on the scaffold, Mary Read mischievously insisted on the fact that "men of courage," like her, do not fear. It is an indictment of the villains who are land and use the law as instruments of oppression. In so doing, it indirectly suggests the property relations, the enclosures, which are set place in his native England. Read sees courage as a resource, a skill that provides the poor with little protection in a labor market immoral. The same idea is expressed most clearly by the pirate leader Charles Bellamy, who preaches a captain in this way: "Damn you, you're a coward, come all who are willing to be governed by laws that rich men were drafted to ensure their own safety. They will pose as bandits, these miscreants, while there is a difference between us and them, they rob the poor under color of law while we are ripping the rich under the protection of our single heart. "
Courage is thus conceived as the antithesis of law. The total disregard for the authority of the state is evident in Bonny and Read, their marital and family situations demonstrate. The two women are engaged in what John Gillis called "proletarian practice of marriage and divorce itself." Read freely married her husband. Bonny, who is offered the prospect of easy life, renounces fast, marry a poor sailor, and sailed to a place known as "a receptacle and a shelter for pirates and scoundrels." practice of marriage intended to preserve the property of middle and upper classes do not interest him. [...]
By choosing the life of a pirate, a classroom practice and freedom, Bonny and Read challenge authority. They take part in the courageous adventure of a lifetime out of reach of the traditional powers of the family, state and capital.
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Pirates chose a life lived intensely, even if it lasts a short time. They build a better world than the merchant and military ships. They transform the brutal discipline a more flexible mode of operation and libertarian. They invert the realities of chronically meager rations in tumultuous and frequent feasts. Their democratic selection of officers by contrasting his strength and eloquence with the organization almost dictatorial command in the merchant service and in the Royal Navy. Ls based on collectivist values, anti-authoritarian and egalitarian class and lower decks, hackers realize their social, trends that have been dialectically created and eliminated in turn, in the ordinary course of business and life at sea These are signs of life emerged in the shadow of death, because if the dangers of ordinary life of the sailor are extreme, those who surround the pirate in battle, in prison or on the scaffold, spring even more violently. They look this grim reality in the eye and they laugh.
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According to Johnson, the pirates are not brutes or animals, but rather "sea heroes, the scourge of tyrants t of avarice, the brave guy claiming freedom. "[...] Romantic stories about Henry Avery," the Robin Hood of the seas ", circulating among the people [...] in the popular mind, the attacker is considered the freest man of humanity.
p.274: We like pirates because they are rebels because they are challenging the conventions of class, race, gender and nation. They are poor, but they express high ideals. Often exploited and deceived by merchant captains, they abolish the wage system, establish a different discipline, practice their own form of democracy and equality. They provide an alternative model of driving the boat on the high seas Pirates opposed to the elite and powerful of their time. By their actions, they become "rogues" of all nations. They revel in their role, even if this "short and happy life" contains a contradiction cruel. Most hackers build and use their independent existence, the more the authorities are determined to destroy them.
These off-the-law have led lives of courageous rebels. As long as necessary to resist the powerful and oppression, we must remember them.
-Marcus Rediker
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