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Jeff Monson - anarchistic titanium

January 2009 | | Изпрати на приятел Send to a friend

Джеф Монсън Jeffrey "Jeff" Monson, nicknamed Snowman, was born on January 18, 1971. Height is 185 cm and weighs 110 kg. Competitor in mixed martial arts. There is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu dzhitsu and twice world champion attractive version of mixed martial arts ADDC. Also involved in the so-called "MMA" of MMA, which have recently become quite popular in Bulgaria. A master's degree and graduate in psychology and works as a child psychiatrist five years.

Jeff Monson, however, draws our attention not so much of their success in the ring as the fact that his career is intertwined with his views bezvlastnicheskite. Jeffrey is an anarchist and a member of the International anarhosindikalistkiya IWW / AI. As your body is tattooed several anarchist symbols. Liaise and is sponsored by the anarchist publisher AK press. Publish part of an interview with a snowman.

You call yourself an anarchist and a member of the IWW / AI - International Union of Workers. (Monson nods). How much time allocated for this? Anarchism your philosophy, or is it something else?

Take the time, but not as much as I want. Spend more time on the fights, which are also my pleasure. I love training, and I "must" train to imagine better. My life is built and what they do, should do well. This is my vocation, to live it.

However, society is much more important than free fights. This is our life - where our children go to school, what we eat, what our freedoms - everything that concerns us. Our future depends on the public drive, but unfortunately people often think about that. For me is important and I often go to anarchist meetings, although I wish I get even more involved. Thinking began to actively work with when I'm not so busy with free fights. I try to use the reputation of the battles in the ring to allow more people to listen to what I say. And what I'm talking about is what I think. I do not want me as superficial - though I think something like: "I'm an anarchist, I'll go and blow something." For me, every moment is devoted to the case. Reflecting on anarchism, this is my world view, share ideas with people who study it and try to devote his time enough - as I left after a fight or after paying due attention to my family.

Do they isolate the anarchist philosophy of the other fighters? You have completed graduate and take care of things that have nothing to do with free fights. Do you think that in another category, different from other fighters?

Frankly, I think we are all one deredzhe. I am a slave who receives wages, and others too. Do not get so much and trying to make ends meet, and the other fighters. Yes, many fighters do not share my beliefs, but there are those who think like me. We are professional and respect. You may not like his opponent, but will at least respect the fact that when the doors behind you close, you know him was not enough courage to come out to fight you. Militants respect one another, even if you do not like. So we're all in the same boat, not the other. People need to understand, not to kill, sharing what we have.

No hierarchy.

Yes! No hierarchy. All we are morally obliged to work, to do what we can best participate in working together to help each other. To receive the fruits of his labor, to secure the essential qualities of life - vitality, food, shelter, education, medical care.

Unfortunately, these are things we need to work tirelessly to be exploited, even to fight every day. Sometimes it's just pointless.

For me, when out of battle, a fight is over. This show is both the enemy have done what we can and what we practiced. One could compete and chess or something else, but when it comes to life, there should be no contest. I do not think this is such a crazy idea. I think insanity is to seize essentials and make people fight for them.
And to entitle the minority to majority control.

Exactly. And to give control over the benefits of a small group of people. War, greed, receiving more than one deserves. Or to pay people less than they deserve, and think that is good: for me these things are wrong. For me, that all must work and receive their share of global wealth is not an abstract idea.

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