kropotkhristian:

rrrokamoka:

kropotkhristian:

Stages of understanding piracy:

Kid: Pirates are good! I wanna be a pirate!

Student: Pirates are actually bad because they steal things and break the law

Expert: Pirates are nuanced because many of them were disaffected sailors and escaped slaves only doing what they had to do to survive in a harsh society

Master: Pirates are good! I wanna be a pirate!

Grandmaster: Pirates had an advanced democratic, anarchistic society that valued indivual freedom, the community, and liberalist views, both on sea and on land. They have mostly targeted pre-capitalist opressive merchants and kingdoms, some of their most important figures being women (Mary Reed, Anne Bonny) and/or not harming innocents (Edward Thatch (“Blackbeard”))

This is what I was trying to imply by the “Pirates are good!” comment tbh