If you want to actually do something about our terrible system, you’re a radical leftist. The fact that it’s demonized is a moral condemnation of society, not you.
Why should someone be scared to call themselves a leftist, im an Anarcho Syndicalist and I don’t care if other people don’t like it.
I don’t know where I sit, to be honest. I’m anti-capitalist, but at the same time, I’m not exactly an anarchist because keeping everything at the local level smacks of inefficiency, promotes tribalism, and doesn’t really allow for coordination.
Having some form of government is helpful as long as it’s held strictly accountable. Otherwise, it’s just 100,000 voices screaming, as people all try to push individual agendas.
While a complete lack of structure maximizes individual freedoms, it also makes individuals more vulnerable because there aren’t institutions to help them if they need it.
keeping everything at the local level
This only happens because within capitalism only small anarchist communities have been able to survive, anarchism doesn’t say anything about keeping everything local (I’d say the opposite, it encourages cooperation between communities to cover all bases, ideally on a global scale)
Having some form of government is helpful
Anarchism doesn’t mean there is no government, just no hierarchy, horizontal governance is a thing.
While a complete lack of structure
Again, not a thing in anarchism, even the symbol of anarchism literally incorporates the word order (the circle around the A isn’t a circle, but an O)
Thanks - I’ll admit I’m pretty unread on a lot of it. I know what I want I just don’t know where I fit yet
What? Please educate yourself on Anarchism and especially Anarcho Syndicalism before making more statements. Under Anarcho Syndicalism while individual syndicates (imagine unions but more organized and the own the workplace) exist they’re organized by varying levels of larger syndicates. The amount of organization within Anarcho Syndicalism without government is greater then any other governmental system.
I actually think this twitter post has the right idea. Fuck labels, they can be twisted. Preach what you believe in
That just sounds like the analytic part of Das Kapital. Now, what are we going to do about it?
We are definitely taking notice how a tiny number of rich people have so much control over our lives.
Sadly, local organization is slower than the deterioration of the global climate, and law enforcement are now hunting mutual aid orgs in some states. It may be that we have to find our Mahsa Amini moment, where some poor innocent gets massacred, leading us to protests that are put violently down, which escalates to uprising against authorities. It’ll be messy, but so far our ownership class is unwilling to allow progress without violent retaliation.
“I’m not X”, proceeds to describe X.
Might as well said “I’m not like other girls”.
OP is basically a “pick me” move where you’re so desperate for approval from the “in” group despite them completely rejecting your values and value, but whose acceptance you’ve been socialised to believe you should dedicate your life to getting.
You’re going to be waiting a long long time (or else get used as a token or “one of the good ones” before they discard you back in the reject pile for not fitting in their exclusionary exploitative systems).
Have some fucking pride in your convictions, opposing capitalism and the status quo are nothing to be ashamed of, but the exact opposite.
What a sandwich of a comment. Agreeable point - what a tremendous assumption filled leap - agreeable point. I am reeling.
in the US we’re suffering from a century of anti-communist (pro-capitalist, pro-industrialist, pro-imperialist) propaganda willfully cultivated by our plutocratic oligarchs and disseminated by our education system.
So communist and socialist are words of contempt, despite what they actually mean.
So I get it.
