Anarchist Memes
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The same anarchists that are willing to side with capitalists over other leftists?
What
Um who you referring to bb?
I was reading through the anarchist faq here to learn more and it left a bad impression
Hey look, the tankies from .ml are here. Fuck tankies.
You're on a community on Lemmy.ml, there are going to be Lemmy.ml users.
Authoritarianism can be a deciding factor. Anarchist are very against it. So when it comes to groups that supposedly share the same economic ideology but have different goals. Anarchists have found themselves othered and slaughtered. Sometimes people can have the same goals but different ideas about how to get there. And still respect eachother. I would ally with anyone who values consent over those that do not.
Sounds like you think ancaps value consent? Wild
No, they're just cosplaying capitalists. There's literally no difference between them and capitalists. No daylight.
my favorite anarchist is my sous chef who thinks "china is a bad actor" and who shut me up the last time I tried to illustrate the ridiculousness of anti China propaganda by showing her an article blaming China for not doing enough about climate change. She asked "DON'T YOU THINK YOU'RE GETTING EXPOSED TO PROPAGANDA" as if the ANTI CHINA article in THE GUARDIAN was somehow pro china paid for by china
Ew authoritarianism.
Quick question: if you believe in Anarchism, how can it be achieved without authoritarian means?
Assuming you believe that anarchists should organize: what prevents anyone from calling your (or any given) anarchist group, "authoritarian"?
Because this is a very common slur that's not only wielded by reactionaries against anarchist groups, but even from other anarchist groupings when they want to demonize each other.
Whats the difference between an Anarchist and a Libertarian?
Libertarians have money.
Small l libertarians? Almost nothing. Joseph Dejacque, the person who coined the term is generally considered anarcho-communist. And criminally unknown.
Big L Libertarians are just cosplayers. If you advocate against big government but not big businesses. Are you really libertarian? No. They hold the disproven belief that the market will regulate itself in absence of government. Government got into regulation of business because they didn't and can't. They both metastasize into calcified structures of power focused on maintaining themselves. Over the good of the people.
Anarchists believe in no hierarchies while Libertarians believe in no governments but see no issues with power imbalances between people is the basic difference.
In all this "left, right, middle, half-left but with a sprinkle of right and a cherry on top" debate I keep wondering why nobody ever mentions humanism anymore.
I wish that downvoter would have explained their problem with humanism instead of just downvoting.
In their absence: what do you like most about humanism? What's the one true humanist religion, Unitarian Universalism or Satanism?
I find anarchist principles to line up with humanism very well. Capitalism is inherently dehumanising and hierarchical power structures can be too. How we organize ourselves in society is coupled with how we treat each other.
Considering that anarchists very frequently take pro-colonialist positions (for example, with regards to Korea, Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, even Palestine) and have plenty of other awful takes, the meme appears to be quite wrong.
FWIW there is a history of decolonial anarchists in Korea that resisted the Japanese occupation
https://files.libcom.org/files/1894-1931%20Anarchism%20in%20Korea.pdf
https://hexbear.net/post/1330923?scrollToComments=false
https://hexbear.net/post/168769?scrollToComments=false
Would be cool if the Western left was more familiar with these histories instead of painting with a broad brush. Moralizing is easy when you use orientalism and do away with the nuances of the revolutionary projects you dislike.
Would be cool if the Western left was more familiar with these histories instead of painting with a broad brush. Moralizing is easy when you use orientalism and do away with the nuances of the revolutionary projects you dislike.
Not sure if you are trying to imply that I'm a westerner, or that I am against genuinely anti-colonial projects organised/headed by anarchists. I hope that you do not conflate my criticism of anarchists often (but not always) taking the side of the imperial core's invasions, genocides, and other assorted colonial horrors with claiming that anarchists can never oppose colonialism.
No I'm with you, I mostly mean that the kinds of leftists on Lemmy and Reddit paint Koreans as brainless insects that just followed with "muh authoritarianism" instead of actually learning about the history of resistance to colonialism.