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.

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

We're glad to have you here 🫡

I just don't think we're meant to live in large numbers tbh.

You take the average opinion of 200 million people, apply it to everyone, and nobody will be happy with it.

the fediverse is inherently propaganda for the possibility of anarchism

Same here I beliving in Anarchy more as a fight to concentration of power which concecuences are in full display in any news outlet. I'm also starting to feel kinda inclined to solarpunk.

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?

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.

Turn off your notifications mate. And don't return to the scene of the crime

posting anti-tankie and anti-electoralism stuff in an Anarchism comm is one of the easiest way to generate infinite salt.

You're my hero

It did. Be proud

Beautiful.

Congratulations?

Not even. I’m deaf and have terrible vision. In fact I was functionally blind for 8 months. And I can still see it!

You don't even need a brain. Just a heart.

Well, believing in things is alienating, and the work required to gebuinely identify your self interest is frustrating and hard.

So what else are they supposed to do?

No socialists and "tankies" I know IRL don't deny Uyghur genocide, general opinion is "Conflict between the Chinese government and Uyghur groups exist

MLs in lemmy absolutely deny anything bad is happening to Uyghurs.

This isn't about IRL. This is about the disinformation that bad actors spread in online communities.

You also have a selection bias. You have friends with similar political views because you distance yourself from people you disagree with, either physically or just through avoiding "sensitive" topics. I've personally disconnected from some friends because they didn't like it when I brought up Biden's historic support of Israel. I still voted for him and Harris over Trump, but that wasn't good enough for them.

Chinese communists certainly deny the Uyghur genocide.

No socialists and “tankies” I know IRL don’t deny Uyghur genocide, general opinion is “Conflict between the Chinese government and Uyghur groups exist but US media exaggerates it for clickbait articles too.”

Socialists in real life? Probably not. Tankies? Yes. They all do.

You can simultaneously condemn the invasion of Ukraine and understand that false claims of genocide are harmful against people suffering genocide

Admittedly I don't use 小红书, so I don't know for sure, but it is the commercialised and commodified kind of culture?

Because I remember back when I was in China and visited the Tarim Basin it was quite harrowing. Hami and to a lesser extent Kashgar felt pretty hostile to Uighurs.

I, as a non-Han person, had to go in the non-Han line at the railway station. But unlike the non-white foreigners in the line, I was given a seat in the shade out of the 40+°C heat, and could use the water machine while I waited, unlike the locals.

I also saw all the Uighur girls at school with their shaved heads. People were scared, and the word for school, 学校, was treated with horror.

Maybe just an apatheid society, but the fact that sites of religious, cultural, and historical significance have been knocked down or turned into a tourist trap (Grand Mosque in Umruqi, the Mosque in Central Kashgar whose name I forgot), does seem the culture is being worn down.

Also saw the police beating people in Kashgar market to make sure they closed their shops at 7pm Beijing time, not 7pm Xinjiang time... Because all of China must be one time zone.

You'll also see other ethnicities costumes, and parades on social media. But they're not allowed to talk their languages at school and their festivals don't get to exist outside of being for tourists, and they don't get the leeway with laws than Han people do.

I would love a source on the Uyghurs that isn't Adrain Zenz. He is the* Fash behind the "Victims of Communism Memorial Fund".

All sources eventually point back to him in our Western Media, and its fucking disgusting.

(Edit: he is one of the Fash behind actual Nazi Propaganda Smuggling)

Interestingly Xinjiang's population growth since 2015 has been due to migration from the rest of China rather than birth rates, and the Uighur birth rate has fallen over this time period while the slackening of birth control legislation has led to slight increases (as compared to one child policy era) for the rest of non-Tibetan PRC.

The destruction of traditional life-styles and enforced capitalist Socialist (with Chinese Characteriatics) modernity with SOEs taking control of traditionally common or village wide croplands and flocks, in the 80s led to a lot of the economic problems in the first place. It's similar to enclosure in Europe, where now to not want to labour away in a factory for a wage and make your boss richer is extremism and also mad.

That is to say, I do not think the PRC is actively killing large amounts of Uighurs. But there is a policy of cultural erasure, commodifiction of culture and heritage, and very tight, apartheid style control of the population.