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[–] 23 points 9 months ago (6 children)

This is anarchist praxis even if most people don't realize it!

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, a better version of this article would talk about how Minneapolis has actually always been a kinda radical town, from the general strike in the 30s, AIM being founded there in the 60s, and the whole co-op wars stupidity that happened in the 70s, all the way through the RNC and Occupy protests in the 2000s. Like, there have been self identified anarchists in that city for almost a hundred years at least, and that has got at least as much to do with what we're seeing as "patriotic and Christian values" do.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    As a Twin Cities resident we are surprisingly radically progressive. I think it's important to know how much "work" people did post George Floyd to look at racial bias and systematic change in progressive socials. I know of multiple book clubs of retirees reading books on anti-racism and white privilege. It was eye opening experience here

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    I think about that all the time. Especially when people online are like "do something". We are doing something. Lots of things. Lots of small decentralized things so they can't be targeted as easy.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    They're forced to utilize anarchist praxis because the government sure as shit isn't doing anything to help them, federal or local.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That's what's so interesting. Most of these people are not ideologically anarchist, and probably would be opposed to it in a more general context. But they are using anarchist techniques because that is what is effective in the given moment.

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