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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We do! In my area there are quite a few of us and we operate a number of collectives providing things like: Free meals Free groceries Bike repair workshops Theory reading groups Clothing Social activities

  Of course there’s a lot of direct action going on for various causes.

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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hell yeah, this is a principled anarchist.

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  • beerclue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What is “theory reading”?

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like Bible study but with more books

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And based on observations of reality

        If not always necessarily based on reality

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    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Leftist groups of all stripes have a long history, and with that history comes books, essays, and pamphlets on strategy, analysis, philosophy, and outlook.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So many fucking essays

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    • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Having never done it as part of one such group, I don’t know exactly what goes on, but essentially there’s a large body of literature on leftist political concepts, covering the ideas of why anarchy rather than archy, how to practice it, how to organise etc. I’m definitely the wrong person to explain it, generally socialists (at least here) are the ones doing all the reading, I’m a lot more interested in praxis tbh.

      Some classic anarchist writers include Kropotkin, Bakunin and Proudhon. But the communist and socialist literature often applies too.

      The anarchist library has lots to browse and the anarchist faq is a great starting place despite its huge volume of content, I highly recommend casually browsing it.

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      • tron@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pleasently surprised to see Bakunins name dropped! Since there seems to be some misconceptions in this thread about what Anarchy actually is, I thought I’d share one of his quotes that has stuck with me through the years:

        Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  anarchist organizations

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yeah those exist. Anarchists oppose hierarchies, not meet ups

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Real Anarchism is when you just run around in a big circle waving your hands and shouting “This is Anarchy”

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    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We should organize to disorganize.

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• Crikeste@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Depends on what you mean by anarchists. Average Americans think anarchism is lawless violence. It isn’t, and there are plenty of anarchists today.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you listen to David Graeber everyone is an anarchist

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• BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  YMMV depending on country. In the US you can find at least a handful of named anarchist organizations in any given state. Many anarchist or libertarian organizations keep it on the DL for a multitude of reasons. You may have better luck finding groups under the monikers of communalist, x or y federation, social ecologist, or just plain ole socialist. Mutual aid networks, food not bombs chapters, and IWW chapters are other spaces a lot of anarchists occupy. Many anarchists still stick to affinity groups and the like as well so, while they may be out there and active, it’s likely you’ll never hear about them. Further muddying the waters there’s also the concept of social insertion where anarchists support local movements and encourage (but don’t attempt to force) the popular movement to develop in a more libertarian fashion. Some big names in the libertarian milieu in the US are the symbiosis network and moneyless society. The black rose anarchist federation is another one I’ve seen around.

  That said, it’s still hard to find other anarchists in a lot of areas. I’ve been on the hunt for a while and haven’t had any luck in my area. The closest I have is a food not bombs chapter in my city but they’re all a bunch of zionist soc-dems. 🤷 They do good work but I don’t want to be the only anarchist in the group haha. I’ll be handing out zines and fliers at the pride parade in a few weeks in the hopes of starting a reading group and hopefully an explicitly anarchist org in my city

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    food not bombs chapter in my city but they’re all a bunch of zionist soc-dems.

    That’s news to me.

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    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I may have worded that weird. Just to be clear, food not bombs in general isn’t a social democrat org. The chapter in my town just so happens to be run by them. More often than not, you’ll find at least a handful of anarchists in the mix at a food not bombs group

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That would make sense, all things considered. My Houston chapter is constantly butting heads with the police, because the city doesn’t want them distributing food to anyone in town.

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• Overshoot2648@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honestly! We need more Mutualists and Syndicalists!

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  anarachist orgs are like a centralized lemmy instance.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  in my country its mostly MLs. it tends to be that way in the 3rd world.

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