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Being an Anarchist is being the corpse on the Road that gets run over by both (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 77 points 1 year ago (23 children)

This instance has made me realize that I am an anarchist. What a strange world… No regrets, thank you guys.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago

    Hell yeah welcome to the struggle.

    Just remember you don’t need to agree with every mainstream anarchist take to call yourself an anarchist. That’s the best part and one of many things that set this movement a cut above other leftist movements.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We are happy to have you! 🥰 There is an anarchist book i highly recommend. You can read all of it or just pick sections you find interesting.

    People ask "how can anarchism work? Don't we need a boss?" Or "How would things be managed?". And this book explains it very well :)

    https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    the fediverse is inherently propaganda for the possibility of anarchism

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Isn't one of the main lemmy devs a staunch communist?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Please don't take this the wrong way, what do Anarchists do irl that is making a difference? From what I see, most of the posting is leftist views, but what seperates them from other left leaning groups aside from viewpoints?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Personally, I help run a makerspace. In fact, I had been doing that for years before calling myself an anarchist; seeing how things work in a volunteer community makerspace is what made me think that maybe, just maybe, we actually can run society in an anarchist way. Yeah, things are a little messy there sometimes, but in the end, I think we do get the stuff done that needs to get done. People are a little less dependent on a capitalist system because of it, and learn a little more to rely on their local community.

    Politically, I tend to work alongside a lot of socialists. Anything that takes us towards improving unions and mutual aid is good for me. Partially, this is also because anarchist groups are notoriously inconsequential. It's a lot of "I'll get this done, right after I have this joint". Socialists are more like "lets get this done, then have an edible". One of these is more productive than the other.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I might be wrong but I feel that anarchy is on slightly different axis (like x vs y) than simple left/right divide, but definitively more to the left than right. Different means, similar goals?

    I yield to more experienced anarchists here for explanation, I’m just learning to be one!

    However, I remember one trip with my dad when I was a teen. We were talking, I can’t remember about what exactly, him exclaiming "You must be some kind of anarchist!" to summarize my own worldview stuck with me to this day.

    When I was applying to this instance, this has somehow resonated with me

    https://wiki.dbzer0.com/divisions-by-zero/the-anarchist-code-of-conduct/

    Am I an anarchist or just a sane reasonable person? I have some reading to do… but I have the gut feeling.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Agreed. Even the political compass is just an imperfect model.

    I think a better model is a connected graph. A socialist advocating for unions and an anarcho-syndcalist are going to have a direct connection. So does an ancap and a christian advocating the prosperity gospel. But you'll have to go through a lot of steps in the graph to connect ancaps and anarcho-syndcalists, because as we all know, the two have nothing to do with each other.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I'd be an anarchist, but I think anarchism would only work if the world is far more connected than we are today. Anarchist communities developed organically because their environments are close to each other, facilitating cultural exchange and then evolving into a converging culture where people in the communities eventually "think alike". It is like with Fremens in Dune. The entire ethnic group inhabit the entire planet, but their lines of communications are pretty reliable and fast, so in that sense the world of Fremen is "small", allowing for an organic development of an anarchist culture by themselves.

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