Are Lemmy anarchists okay? How does this person have 24 upvotes? In what universe are anarchists NOT doing class analysis, (therefore) don’t want to abolish capitalism, and don’t want to fight archism?

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I suspect this is just because libs absolutely DESPISE comrade @Cowbee@hexbear.net and will upvote anything smart-sounding that supposedly addresses whatever is being discussed?

Also, gotta love the whole “I have this opinion and many anarchists will disagree and that’s what anarchism is about”. Like, buddy, you haven’t read one book or talked to one anarchist IRL, let alone organized in your entire life.

  • RedSturgeon [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    20 days ago

    Isn’t Anarchism all about there being no project? For instance I am aware of a group who self-describe as anarchist and seem to follow an anarchist principle. I’m sorry I don’t want to fedpost about them so I won’t go into details.

    You generally won’t find them on the internet. Their core principles seem to be all about independence and struggle against authority, they will ally themselves with you or they might become your enemy, depending on how you treat them. They seem like good people at heart and have principles, they will never sell you out. They just won’t budge from their position.

    From what I’ve talked to them, they believe that another group is going to show up and build those roads, why? I don’t know, honestly it’s like a human nature argument. I try to put myself in their shoes, these are the people who chose to put themselves in a detrimental position, for whatever reason, sometimes for the sake of those like me who need help society won’t provide.

    I think Anarchism is something that happens when a state fails to integrate people. If a socialist project integrated the group of anarchists why would they choose to be separate? Capitalists exploit people and the anarchists are aware of it, therefore they keep themselves away, but they want to live their life right now and aren’t interested in building a socialist project, they could help you with the fight against Capitalism however.

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      19 days ago

      Isn’t Anarchism all about there being no project?

      I think that’s nihilism. Most anarchists that I’ve ever heard of believe in some kind of project, including OOP.

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        19 days ago

        That’s just me being mis-spoken because I was tired. Sorry. They don’t believe in hierarchical order is what I meant to say. Which is where our main disagreements are.

        I found their lack of interest for a more centralized form of governance rather nihilistic myself, but they say that I am naive and my attempts at establishing a proletarian government would fail to corruption.