anarchism
Anarchism is a social movement that seeks liberation from oppressive systems of control including but not limited to the state, capitalism, racism, sexism, speciesism, and religion. Anarchists advocate a self-managed, classless, stateless society without borders, bosses, or rulers where everyone takes collective responsibility for the health and prosperity of themselves and the environment.
Theory
Introductory Anarchist Theory
- Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin
- Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
- Anarchy Works by Peter Genderloos
- Anarchism: A Beginner's Guide by Ruth Kinna
- Anarchism and Its Aspirations by Cindy Milstein
- Anarchy In Action by Colin Ward
- On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky & Nathan Schneider
- Anarchy by Errico Malatesta
Anarcho-Capitalism
Discord Legacy A collaborative doc of books and other materials compiled by the #anarchism channel on the Discord, containing texts and materials for all sorts of tendencies and affinities.
The Theory List :) https://hackmd.io/AJzzPSyIQz-BRxfY3fKBig?view Feel free to make an account and edit to your hearts content, or just DM me your suggestions ^~^ - The_Dawn
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I’ve helped take a lot of authoritarians off of the internet and I will keep doing that. You all eventually self-doxx.
So I interpret this as a threat to dox hexbear users?
In the spectrum of political action you could take outside of organizations (which I would suggest, go into some collectives) you decide to dox people creating and participating safe spaces for trans people online (since you label their brand of political action as authoritarian or as tolerant of authoritarianism you see in pretty much any ML form).
This means you are purging leftist elements instead of trying to broaden or create bases of power or free spaces for anti hierarchical ideologies. Sounds pretty authoritarian to me.
It's also pretty laughable that id ever be fired from my job for being a socialist tbh. It only works against fascists because they are so reprehensible and incapable of working on a team
It is good that you got a good job, but I know plenty of places were people would be fired from for participating or even visiting hexbear regularly.
i mean yeah, if you have a conservative nutjob as your boss even just being a hillary supporter will get you fired. most big corporations though, they dont care as long as they make money. in fact most people know that im a socialist at work already :shrug-outta-hecks:
If you’re not doing anything wrong, then you don’t have anything to worry about.
It’s very telling how much this site loves talking about “purges”. Authoritarians aren’t leftist. Removing them from the internet is a type of antifascist action and I will never apologize for being antifascist.
Here's an easy one: closeted or passing people being outed and thereby being exposed to violence and harassment. Any communist in South Korea or other countries where it is illegal. Anyone even substantially adjacent to protest actions where a "frisky" PD has jurisdiction.
You are the absolute epitome of useful idiocy if you aren't just a fed -- which I don't say often but am forced to consider here with an anarchist who says US lawbreakers have a police raid coming.
:the-pigs:
I have literally no idea what this is supposed to mean.
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/705002 Love to have the same rhetorical argument as based antifacist Joseph Goebbels :LIB::unity::frothingfash:
So we all agree purging fascists is good. We just understand who fascists are and accept the idea that using force against them (i.e., purges) is good, while you don't have a fucking clue who fascists are and use some bullshit reasoning to say that your purges aren't really purges.
Lmao you're telling me you're an "anarchist" who volunteers as an internet cop?
Go outside. Find a hobby. Meet people in real life
I attend plenty of meetings offline. No-one who has ever done anything in real life would call me a cop.
Do they know about you doxing MLs and even anarchists over sectarian disagreement?
You're a cop.
If you're not a cop, you're doing a cop's job
Could you explain what you mean by authoritarian?
Look up what the three arrows represent. Legitimate antifascism is fighting against all of the arrows.
I'm asking what you, specifically, mean by "authoritarian"
You’re always telling people to read theory, so go read some of my work:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-eradicate-left-unity
Truly, one the great theorists of our age :very-smart:
I'mma let you know this. Your writing is shit. Get someone else to edit this and use normal people words. If you're trying to make theoretical contributions don't write like a redditor
"Read theory, and by theory I mean my shitty blog post".
Jesus Christ that is a wall of unhinged screeds against muh red fash tankies with absolutely no analysis, just "here's something the makes me mad, watch me react to it with terminally online vocabulary". Theory implies I'll learn something from critical analysis, not a glimpse into the mind of a madman. What you linked is some weird manifesto about how you'd rather die under the boot of capitalism than ever work with others who have similar ideas of what is important but different ideas on how to reach them. Shows how serious you are about accomplishing those goals as some comfortable global north netizen posting their way to freedom apparently.
No wonder you can't define what you mean by authoritarian, I don't think you know.
What part of this do you not understand?
The Tibetan theocratic aristocracy of old does not represent the peasantry they enslaved. That's like saying Emancipation was "freeing Southerners from themselves". There were slaves, slavers, and yeomen. It freed group one from group two.
Regarding genocide: https://sci-hub.se/10.2307/3182072
There are Tibetans and Muslims in Xinjiang that didn't want to be ruled by the Chinese. For Tibet, those monarchists (because that is what they were and still are) took their shot at counter-revolution and failed, and when they failed they ran away to complain in luxury in the West like every comprador class before them. They sought to use their own authority to retain power and failed because, honestly, the peasantry was pretty sick of their shit.
Within Xinjiang, the popular sentiment was with joining with China, because the alternative was becoming a completely land-locked country at the mercy of it's neighbors, far better to ally with the regional power. In the light of multiple devastating terrorist attacks that primarily killed Xinjiang Muslims, mandatory education for adults was installed, and the facilities to bring about that policy was made, alongside checkpoint systems across the region (a system that would be re-used in order to combat COVID a decade later). There were no genocides in Xinjiang, no U.S. style door-to-door raids and mass arbitrary imprisonment of military age males. You either showed up to school or you were sent to jail, so most showed up. And it's been effective because there have been no terrorist attacks since these policies were implemented, even as they have been wound down by the state.
If Hong Kong gets self-determination, it might surprise you to learn that the majority would probably vote to join China. We can guess that because the majority faction within the Hong-Kong government is the pro-CPC faction, unless you are meaning to imply that Hong-Kong might not be a bastion of freedom and democracy (which is where my money is honestly).
I think polling shows that most people in HK support the mainland anyway, though of course this is due to support from the poorer population and not the mostly wealthy ones who made up the HK rioters.
Most of it to be quite honest. Is it that we're just all hopelessly caught in an echo chamber unlike your enlightened self who is active on far right and far left forums to synthesize a truly correct take? Because if that's the case, I think you need to work on your presentation and sourcing, reading your writing is a slog ignoring the actual substance
p.s. still waiting to see what authoritarian means to you, was a simple question you have continued to avoid
It's honestly embarrassing that people like you are running around acting like you are any kind of authority on anarchism.