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Leftists get bogged down in being a fourth wave posadist and reading theory over doing praxis and working towards the change.

This is true and I’m definitely guilty of reading too much into stuff and not doing enough stuff… hence why I’m laying in bed procrastinating on the stuff I’m supposed to be doing… but I do think that some theory is really important to have. Like, what are we aiming for, why did some projects fail and others succeed, what are the common pitfalls and how can we spot them, and how can we better refine our arguments for the rare times we do get a platform?

IMO the most important thing is to read theory, read the history of leftist movements, and use good research practices. Just keep reading critically, try to follow the authors’ arguments, and internalize the things you understand and like. Also, it’s more important to build up a coherent worldview than it is to fall into a specific ideological box.

For anarchist literature, The Anarchist Library is an incredibly diverse resource of often contradicting viewpoints, whereas the Anarchist FAQ is (in my view) an excellent first place to look for detailed explanations for commonly asked questions. In my view, the Anarchist Library is an excellent example of how it is important to develop your own worldview. Because the most anarchist/communist/socialist/leftist thing anyone could possibly do is loudly and vehemently disagree about something with someone who otherwise agrees with you 99.99%.

IMO, this is legitimately how progress is made, by exploring the space of ideas. And that means that every once in a while, there’s going to be some ridiculous take from someone who is otherwise on your team who’s trying to explore that space of anarchist possibilities. So even when drawing from resources you typically agree with, it is so important to think and read critically.

For Marxist and state-socialist literature I’m honestly a lot less informed since…well…I’m an anarchist and I’m going to disagree with statist Marxists on a lot of issues. But when I do need to look up some non-anarchist literature, Marxists.org usually has what I need.

Probably reading too much into this meme again but agorists don’t want to eliminate money or the economy. Instead, they want to transition society into a free market where all relations are voluntary exchanges within a counter-establishment economy. In this framework, currencies other than state-controlled ones are fine to use.

I.e., money is still in play, and the economy is basically moved out of established legal markets but still very much there and (in my view) otherwise not very different from existing economic conditions. So the meme can’t be about agorists.

IMO, agorism is basically an attempt to make anarcho-capitalism appealing to left-wing anarchists, and simultaneously an attempt to make leftism palatable to anarcho-capitalists. Agorism is…kinda ass. It’s not really good at being anarcho-capitalist or anarchist. If you really need to keep your markets, look into mutualism IMO. Or just realize that even “free” markets naturally lead to the development of unjustifiable hierarchies 😉.

Consider this my penance for being an “”“anarcho”“”-capitalist when I was in high school and I actually read all this crap 🤮.

I figured, but I do vaguely remember reading an article somewhere in the Anarchist Library a while back where the author was unironically arguing that time is an unjustifiable hierarchy.

Nah, I really need to keep careful track of time. When my meds are working and I’m actually happy for once despite the soul-crushing reality of capitalism, I’m kind of a busy-body. Like I have a pathological desire to solve problems, and timekeeping is a really excellent tool in problem solving.

Like I’m an autistic person and I have a lot of specific special interests like differential equations, control theory, music production, acoustics…I really need to manage my time to accomplish even a fraction of what I want to do. I just have this perpetual desire to do deep dives and solve problems, and that requires a shitload of research, reading, and practicing new skills… which requires careful time management. (Which I’m still kinda trash at 😆.)

There’s definitely a critique to be made about how restrictions on the management of time and scheduling are imposed on us, and I would never want to impose timekeeping on people who don’t care to use it, but I don’t think timekeeping itself imposes a hierarchy.

Hell yeah, welcome back!

Thank you for the encouragement! I graduated too lol, just last month with my masters. This is just some research to do during the summer while I look for further education or work.

Yeah I’m currently in that loop with a paper due in four days. Last time I worked on it I just got zero dopamine and now my brain doesn’t want to do anything 😭

Raddle is very post-left. For example:

Anarchists are not leftists, we side with neither monarchy nor republic, dictatorship nor democracy, free market capitalism nor state capitalism. We stand for anarchy. The absolute negation of all authority, including both wings of government.

Like I would argue that the items to the left of the bolded text make anarchists leftists, in the sense that we claim to support (and do support) non-hierarchical modes of living as the classical Left claims to do as well. Of course any serious left-wing anarchists do not want to replicate the left wing of the State. But making that critique and rejecting left unity where it conflicts with our anarchist values does not mean that we’re not leftists and that there’s nothing to be learned from classical Left literature.

So I would assume that the bias is towards the classical Left. Which…I think that the original FAQ is pretty critical of the classical Left? But a shorter FAQ for outsiders or classical-Left-averse people is still incredibly useful IMO.

If by “dickless” you mean Trump, then yes. This in reference to the Trump administration calling the national guard on anti-ICE protesters.

Sorry, thought this was important enough to spread and relevant enough for leftists to get eyes on to post here and I’ll just eat any social consequences/mod action. This in reference to the Trump administration calling the national guard on anti-ICE protesters. Maybe this is libbed up but I’m sure some of us know people in the national guard.

Biden was just as bad if not worse than Trump 2 has been (as of today) on the genocide, and Harris would have been just as bad because she made it clear that her presidency would be an extension of Biden’s. Frankly, Biden is an ideological Zionist, more so than Trump is ideological about anything. Said differently: all politicians in both parties would have continued the genocide because foreign policy is uniparty. So IMO the trajectory of the genocide is completely independent of the result of the election.

Abandoning the tiny leverage we do have to maintain moral “purity” would be contradictory at best. While the dems are certainly complicit by fielding yet another pro genocide candidate, ultimately the choice between slow genocide and speed run genocide was up to those with the ability to vote.

No it literally wasn’t. We have zero power in this current system and we have zero responsibility for how the people in power responded to this genocide. The levers of power are fully insulated from the will of the general public. And again: Biden handed the keys to the kingdom to the monster. And so did Obama before Trump 1. And Bill Clinton before Bush Jr. And Carter before Reagan. Not to imply that any of those Dem presidents were not themselves bloodthirsty monsters.

My position has nothing to do with morality (beyond the goal of achieving the best world in the shortest time) and everything to do with the harsh truth that the State truly offers us nothing, and that we need to live our lives in spite of them and around them.

And frankly, if you want to go to the polls… it’s your time, and it doesn’t matter anyways. What I am (and I think the mod team here, which I’m not a part of, are) tired of is (1) this constant discussion about electoralism taking up time and space from things that actually matter and (2) liberals (or well-meaning leftists parroting liberal talking points) trying to shame us for not participating in their system. Shock horror, an anarchist has principled objection to a core liberal talking point! Shock horror, an anarchist does not believe that helping liberal democrats has anything to do with anarchism. Shock horror, anarchists will not bow to liberal sensibilities. What is the world coming to?

That article was written in 2020. I wonder if they at all regret what they wrote considering the past year.

Probably not, considering that the 2020 winner, the so-called opposition candidate, presided over a genocide, and then handed the keys to the kingdom over to the guy who’s doing all the stuff that the 2020 winner was voted in to supposedly stop.

Oh, great idea, just hand the reigns over to white Christian fundamentalists who’d be more than happy to look for a final solution to the aforementioned “Indian Problem”.

We should be mobilizing against the existence of the reins of power at all! And white Christian fundamentalists are not going to be stopped or even hampered by the law as this election has shown. As long as they have power, they are a threat. And the only ways to protect ourselves from these monsters is to establish free systems of community defense, mass mobilization, or any of the myriad things we can do that aren’t contingent on a state granting us our freedom.

WTF is with all these downvotes?!? Y’all need to read this: https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/

Was there supposed to be a link? I think it’s an excerpt from here:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/simoun-magsalin-rebel-peripheries

Nothing could ever justify using nuclear weapons on living beings. Hope this isn’t controversial around here.

I mean I graduated high school in 2014 and it was absolutely challenging to find a job, buy a house, afford groceries, etc. So challenging, in fact, that I only managed one of those things. Like that’s why I developed anxiety, because my brain was (rightly!) occupied with the thought that I would never be able to get a job and be independent in the contemporary economy, which was completely correct.

Things are worse now for sure but shit was bad back then too.

All of them.

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Sure. America has its slimy tendrils in everyone else’s business, so it’s only fair that you have a say.