Hey all, I’m hoping this is the right comm for this kind of post. I’m really interested what brought my fellow lemmings to anarchism (or just radical politics in general). Was is a youtube video? A book? A conversation IRL or on the internet? For me personally it was a friend IRL who introduced me to an local anarchist collective.
Abuse was what started it, then as we grew we saw just how shit ‘authority’ was more and more, how bad power was and we wanted nothing to do with it, either over others or others having it over us.
As we’ve gone on we could see all these systems of control, oppression and such serve no one really and are just so boring. Things could be so much better, the planet could be beautiful, healing or never have gotten harmed, and all life could be in balance.
Edit: We also saw the amount of fear those in ‘power’ have and thought how sad it is, they could get rid of that fear so easily if they worked to improve the conditions for everybody, but they don’t want to for some strange reason.
We suppose the main event that finally crystallised it for us was when a supervisor at a job told us just how they saw us, the hierarchy that existed and how they use that as a way to oppress us and others, and to try to protect themselves. We quit a little time after that and have been working on being anarchists ever since, we’ve done well, we think.