Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
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Absolutely no right-wing jokes. This includes "Anarcho"-Capitalist concepts.
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No bigotry whatsoever. See instance rules.
This is an anarchist comm. You don't have to be an anarchist to post, but you should at least understand what anarchism actually is. We're not here to educate you.
No shaming people for being anti-electoralism. This should be obvious from the above point but apparently we need to make it obvious to the turbolibs who can't control themselves. You have the rest of lemmy to moralize.
Join the matrix room for some real-time discussion.
Libs thinking we're on their side, until the point we reject electoralism and US imperialist propaganda. Then label as as "tankies".
Campists thinking we're on their side until the point we reject "AES" and "left unity". Then label as a "liberals".
Anarchists are clearly the rare species of "liberal tankie" 😆
I took college courses on comparative politics. It wasn't until I read The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin that I really understood what anarchy and communism are. I really love that book. It does a great job of portraying that world from both a biased, personal lens and then again from outsiders perspectives.
That being said - until we have a planet dedicated to it, I believe any attempt at anarchy will just get overrun by coordinated assholes with guns (read: states).
Finding a way to defend yourself without reinventing the machinery of the state is certainly one of the larger practical problems facing anarchism.
Anarchists can defend themselves just fine. We just need to learn not to trust MLs and libs to do it with as they'll backstab anarchists at the first opportunity they have to grab power. This sort of rhetoric is like claiming that democracy is a failed concept in the middle ages, because democracies "can't defend themselves from monarchies" or some shit.
Honestly it makes me understand why tankies exist. I don't agree with them, but I get it. Just like I get capitalism. They both suck but they're both right for different reasons.
The dispossessed had the same affect on me as well, though i only recently read it, about a year ago.
Even with our own planet, I fear someone would chuck an asteroid our way, à la "it's free real estate!" once the dust settles...
My favorite definition comes from an anarchist woodworker.
Yes. Anarchist woodworker.
You can buy the book or download the PDF for free:
Anarchist's Tool Chest:
https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-tool-chest
"For me, it’s quickest to explain what anarchy isn’t. It’s not about violence, the overthrow of governments, the dismantling of corporations or even the smoking of a mild hallucinogen made from boiling banana peels (actually, I tried this. I don’t recommend it or the searing headache it brings). Instead, anarchism is the realization that all large institutions – governments, corporations, churches – have divided up the tasks we do in our jobs to the point where these institutions do wasteful, dehumanizing and stupid things.
Eunice Minette Schuster states in the book “Native American Anarchism” that American aesthetic anarchy is “the isolation of the individual – his right to his own tools, his mind, his body, and to the products of his labor.”
It’s a desire to work for yourself and to run in social and economic circles made up of other individual artisans."
2 other books in the series, same deal, PDFs are free.
Anarchist's Workbench:
https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-workbench
Anarchist's Design Book:
https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-design-book
Also worth reading:
Ingenious Mechanicks:
I mean its pugjesus man, no one that dedicated to criticizing leftists isn't a cryptofash
Impossible, his other favorite things are the Roman Empire (specifically not the Republic) and the universe of 40k!
As we all know, normal liberals like Rome and Warhammer, and not fascists on Twitter.
Tbf there's plenty of lefties that love both Roman history and 40k.
They just don't also spend the rest of their time attacking left.
Fair, it's just very odd that he hates socialists more than fascists, and posts about Rome and space Rome.
He punches left, then wonders why leftists don't like him.
Filtering Pugjesus' posts was the greatest boost to my lemmy experience.
this whole thing has been salami tactics, but applied to instances.
like they just make up shit, but as long as it's about 'tankies' it just goes around getting repeated unverified. they then expand the definition of 'tankie' as they see fit.
So what you’re saying is, first they came for the “authoritarian” communists.
Speaking of: you seldom come across the original version these days. “Communist” is almost always replaced with “socialist,” because fuck tankies.
Wasn't this under the post about someone denying Uyghur genocide?
“Denying” is a strong hyperbole to “overblowning.” Pugjesus is literally tankiejacketing instance administrators in an attempt to coagulate enforcement with his fash dynamics.
Instead of collaborating means of liberation, he’s not ending American DeathCamps in his own yard. Something about an a log stuck on your eye and all that.
shocking that turbolib pugjesus would be totally ignorant of what anarchism is.
Old mate puggy is like the embodiment of the ?mark fischer? quote "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism".
Then again, apparently I'm a tankie and racist who's going to move to the usa to inform on people with the wrong paperwork according to one user here.
This was posted in MeanwhileOnGrad. There's a level of dedicated anti-socialism there that's a bit beyond using even the most pejorative use of 'lib'.
/c/MeanwhileOnFash™
we reject “AES” and “left unity”
Real Spanish Republican Hours. Who is ready for the next Franco Dictatorship?
anarchists being called tankies made me shit my pants laughing
i mean tankies are just a slur they made up for leftists at this point
It really fucks up my mind trying to say who's the worst anarchist between the ones defending america's propaganda and the ones defending china's genocide. And it's not like they're really that much disagreeing, it's just relatively minor differences in their analysis, they all could probably agree that China is genociding Uyghurs and that Western right wings are amplifying it.
Dude is a joker at best. Not worth taking seriously.
But what libs don't realize is that they're just western tankies. Same ideology, different empires.
Clueless right wingers.