anarchism

From the 2019 game, Disco Elysium...

Heya folks, let’s try something new. I liked that people asked questions about anarchism in the David Graeber post. Every now and then I’ll be posting these meta threads where people are free to ask questions on anarchism or social ecology and hopefully people knowledgeable can answer.

Millett argues that state welfare is a function of social control and that social welfare can only be considered as a function of empowerment. Their proposed anarchist alternative is mutual aid....

If there’s a line to get on a crowded bus, do you wait your turn and refrain from elbowing your way past others even in the absence of police?...

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In this new, even more horrifying phase of the 75 year long occupation of Palestine by Israel, it is important to give a platform to Palestinians struggling against ethnic cleansing....

No one can understand what is happening in the land of Palestine, not even those who have followed the sanguinary vicissitudes of the peoples who have lived down there for so long. They face each other with hatred and suspicion, not just men and women, children and old people, but the very dust of the roads and the mud that...

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General audiobooks...

Some of y’all might have heard or read years ago that the municipality of Cherán which was of interest to anarchists and libertarian socialists for starting a localized insurrection, kicking out the government and cartels, and instituting their own form of indigenous government. Well, they’re still at it. Now they’re...

What did you think of Anark’s video essay series - A Modern Anarchism? I’ve watched the first two in the series. I’ve only been studying anarchism for about a year but I think it’s a great synthesis of other popular anarchist work. I think he’s a great writer and communicator. He breaks down complex theory very well...

Really Really Free Markets...

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The moral of the story is to organize and build movements of resistance even when everything seems lost. My view of anarchism isn’t utopian. In my eyes, every victory, every success, must be immediately perceived as a failure, as a power structure to struggle against and take down. They say perfect is the enemy of good, but...

The idea that an understanding of the genocide, that a memory of the holocausts, can only lead people to want to dismantle the system, is erroneous. The continuing appeal of nationalism suggests that the opposite is truer, namely that an understanding of genocide has led people to mobilize genocidal armies, that the memory of...

Story from Belgium...

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5915428...

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People have been fighting to stop the construction of a militarized police facility threatening one of Atlanta’s “four lungs.” Anarchist or otherwise, they have put their lives on the line. One of whom, Manuel “Tortuguita” Terán, was murdered by the police in an act of wanton police terror. This is the terror we’re...