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Anarchism

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A community for anarchist. Anarchism is a set of philosophies that promotes a world free of hierarchical systems.

No electioneering, no telling people to or not to vote or who to vote for. Interpretating this rule as forbidding critisism of candidates is certainty an interpretation but in the context of an ANARCHIST space it's a bad interpretation.

No bootlicking & that will include being hyper pedantic about people calling politicians, prosecutors, bureaucrats, etc, cops.

Yes, if you're an obnoxious neo-lib you're going to get banned. If you're not obnoxious & have good faith questions you can stay.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've saved this post for a whole while because I didn't have the time to really read and think about this. I'm still in the state that I don't really want to spend very much time reading Wikipedia pages or reading books on the topic or similar.

I'm certainly not in any predetermined camp regarding pro- or anti-anarchism. I have some general thoughts from the basic understanding that I possess about the world in general.

I may ask some questions here in this community to get some more easily to digest and specific info from you people :)

[โ€“] Donkter 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah anarchism is a lot of theory and at this point, someone calling themselves an anarchist in good faith would be referring to it as a kind of ideology or faith rather than some end goal in their lifetime. At best anarchist thought right now can guide you like a religion to make you more pragmatic and participate in pro-social programs in your community.

It's funny because unfortunately, as far as I understand it, this meme uses anarchism in the incorrect meme-y way that people understand it. I.e. as an angsty "no rules, mom!" way. Anarchism as written by people who actually sat down and thought about the practicality of it would probably see someone or a group of people who sit down all day and make it their "job" to come up with agreed upon rules. Not as a leadership or a hierarchy, but just because division of labor is necessary for a flourishing society and because "no murder or we kick you out" is not a rule you should be letting people who live with you make for themselves.