Nice job, also good to have multiple icons as examples because it helps the creativity :D
I think this I would like to know how it would look for the (Circle)A to be black, so maybe the first one but the (Circle)A lines are black and the infill is transparent?
I have to ask: is fighting against (relatively) democratic states reasonable at this time? As long as russia, USA and china exist in their current form, there is no hope for a stateless society to exist without being crushed under the boots of a larger country.
Many anarchists would disagree with this. Anarchists strive to establish communities/stateless societies that are able to defend themselves against state repression. Many anarchists also believe state organized militaries to not be as effective in actually defending territory against invaders.
While not all examples are anarchist and successful, they all share libertarian ideals and are examples of libertarian communities defending territory against states / authoritarian forces. I think they should provide enough information to imagine an anarchist society defending itself:
You do not need to be perfect to be anarchist. You do not need anyones permissions to be an anarchist. But you also dont have to be an anarchist to vibe and cooperate with anarchists, their ideas and practices.
Anarchism is primarily about communalization of production and distribution
I think your comparison is extremely valuable to read. I never had it written out in such a concise manner.
BUT
It is seemingly a marxists way of describing anarchism because the focus is very much on the sphere of production. Anarchism can and should be applied in so many more contexts. To say it with the words from Crimethinc, the goal of (many proponents of anarchism) is “To Change everything”.
Well for sure one of the reason is that even in non marxist communities they show up and write comments in a style that many people resonate with. I mean using citations, good grammar, appealing to logic, (seemingly) good argumentations etc.
This makes them look reasonable and even if you do not read all their sources, you might remember their comments and talking points in a pretty positive light.
I dont want to say this style of arguing is bad, but I think it gets valued higher than arguments based on intuition and emotion with a less “scientific” style, because that is what many people are taught when growing up, going to school etc.
Also I would like to say, in some cases this “showing up” is done in a way that feels invasive to (parts of) communties. Like an online version of Jehovas Witnesses.
I have 2-3k ratios on Das Kapital by Marx and the manga version of Das Kapital. In fact all my highest ratios are some politcal classic ebooks with one comedy series mixed into it.
Weird that yours is the only comment willing to take the deal,
Maybe I could have been more clear, but I would be willing to negotiate. Of course you dont take the first offer and especially not when other alternatives (limited or unlimited) ceasefires are possible. I think a state recognizing an insurgent force and also granting it land is something that shows how good the conditions for negotiations actually are. State usually do everything to not have to do that.
Obviously this would be something decided by a collective meeting.
For sure, I just wanted to point that out because not everyone reading this post will have that in the back of their head / have much experience with anarchist thinking and decisionmaking
This questions seems semi related to the plot of the book A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy. I think the book an interesting interpretation of how anarchist communities would maybe act in the case of a war against a state.
Well in the best case the participants of the revolt already have a clear framework of actions for these kind of situations. So we would just follow those. Examples might be things like “never make deals with the state” or “prefer peaceful solutions” etc.
If not, this would be a really good point to start doing this as a community via meetings and discussions. And from the sounds of it, the opponent is willing to give us that time via a ceasefire etc.
Personally, looking at the stae of the world right now, I would think a ceasefire would be benificial to to our side because we could rally global solidarity and invite folks to live on our land and in this way raising our collective power.
I dont need part of my money going to advertisment campaigns
You can pay them in cash, for me this is a great feature
That would be unfortunate to see. Can you maybe link examples so others can judgr for themselves? I use their service and often recommend and confirming your statement is important to me so I can adjust my opinion.
I think there definitely are forms of protest that objectively just hurt any movement. A few people looting stores, setting random stuff on fire and most forms of violence will make the whole crowd appear violent and scare off the general public.
I do not agree with this. The George Floyd Uprising / protests started violent and it still became massive and actually dangerous to the status quo.
Streaming sites are great to share the spirit of piracy with your friends that do not want to get into any other piracy option. Literally just sending them a link so they dont buy the movie on amazon is always worth it
From my understanding of lemmy.dbzer0.com does not allow doxxing / public shaming of other users of the fediverse. But I could be wrong.
Tips for this kind of research: you might be able to connect different profiles of the same users on the same / different platforms by checking if they share a user name or a post history. To find more personal information on users you can check if the platforms in question had data breaches and if there is any public version of said breach.
Here is a high profile doxxing (Stonetoss) example that used these or similar techniques.
I think comparing gender or sexual orientation to a disability is also not the way to go. Its a very different experience with very different challenges in our current society.
If what you say is true about not being anti queer, I think you should try to refelct the way you view and talk about queer people. The reactiona to ypur comments are so big/aggressive because the rhetoric you use is very similar to the rhetoric many bigots use when talking about queer folks. So even if you mean it differently, from our perspective it really looks the same / similar.
good that you know better than the people that write psychatric / psychological guidelines for professionals. they actually removed the classification as a mental disorder based on more uptodate research and the current scientific consensus. its sad to see people not only repeating this transphobic talking point but people on Lemmy also upvoting it.
Fair point
I think “siding with the ruling class” means different things for us. For me its like this:
If you criticize individual presidents for their actions, but do not criticize the existence of a president, then you are sidig with the ruling class.
If you criticize political parties for their actions, but do not criticize the party system as whole, then you are sidig with the ruling class.
If you criticize individual capitalists for their actions, but do not criticize the system that allows them.to do their (and all other capitalists) exploitation, then you are sidig with the ruling class.
Their “basic” courses are not currently being planned this year, the ones there are building on top of the ones they did last year. Still probably worthwhile.
If you did those courses and want to share, did you feel like they provided skills with an antiauthoritarian outlook? I am asking because from my understanding (never participated but thought about joining last year), the strategies and skill taught there are more compatible with organizing through your typical union (which has election, hierarchies, doesnt necessarily want to abolish capitalism) and not as compatible when wanting to some anarchism.