Anarchism

If you live in europe, please check in with your elderly neighbours. Hot temperatures can be deadly for old people

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/66670892

I know there is the Anarquist FAQ, is it a good starting point?

I know for a fact that I have attention span issues, and I find it hard to make myself accountable to read it, so, do you have any advice about that as well?

If I ever get to finish what is currently on it, what should I do after section J? Read other books? If so, which ones?

I was inspired to post it here from the song at the end.

Anarcho-Communism = Kropotkinism
Mutualism = Proudhonianism
Green anarchism = Thoreauism
Anarcho-Individiualism = Stirnerism
"Anarcho"-Primitivism = Thoreau-Zerzanism
Anarcha-Feminism = Goldmanism
Anarcho-Pacifism = Tolstoyanism

Complete the list by commenting down below

I'm an Anarchist, which comes from a US conservative background in a liberal state, MN. Several members of my family have served in the military, going back at least to a civil war volunteer soldier from MN. This is necessary background information to emphasize that my family is a speck of progressive liberal in a largely Trump region of the country, which I'm very happy about and trying to radicalize them on.

My Grandpa was the VFW MN state commander in 2003 and served as the local commander several years before and after. He was responsible for leading a movement to get a State Funded Military Cemetery in the same county as the local. Both my Grandma and mom have been active volunteers for years and both currently serve the local in volunteer roles. I'm a lifetime VFW auxiliary member and did a year of community service at the local. My highschool graduation party was at the local. The favorite bar of both my mom and my grandpa was attached to the local, and it burned down the year before I turned 21 (it's a conspiracy, I swear! Someone didn't want me drinking with them at their bar on my birthday I tell you!!!)

The lot has sat empty ever since. He also owned 2 apartments next to the local VFW, and a few steps away from where the bar used to be. When he died, those apartments became controlled by the local. The city government decided to make the downtown lot a city park. 2 of the benches are being paid for by my family in his honor, along with several family sponsors of the park. My aunt is doing most of the painting. After moving away from town for several years, I'm moving back into an apartment controlled by the VFW local. One that my grandpa used to own.

While I was searching for a spot to get stoned, I was thinking about what I should do for a new spot. After considering it for a while, I figured that getting stoned on one of the benches owned by my family would do just fine.

Imagine what someone with ill intentions could manage. Imagine someone with similar political or economic "royalty" could do. Imagine if those people had dark intentions.

We’re all preppers now. Whether we want to be or not. It’s hard to think about, but we’re just in the opening credits to the apocalypse movie. As I write this, we’re in the calm before the storm. This is your moment to get ready. We can get through this. Remember: most people survive the collapse of their way of life, most of the time. The end of the world isn’t always, or even usually, the uh… end of the world.

Do you guys think that voluntary religions have place in our lives if we were to live as anarchists?

Ask yourself why people are:

• ultra stressed out
• super bored
• dying so early
• getting born as fuckups
• living in increasingly more places which are getting too hot to live in, too soon
• forgetting how to communicate, socialize
• homeless
• going nowhere in life no matter the effort
• increasingly becoming criminals

I am not giving you the answer, I do not want to go to prison (or maybe I do?)

People are not meant to be tamed, nor are we meant to live by the book.

Use your brain, overclock it

Honestly, being a criminal feels freeing and feels good (Im not talking about being evil)... too bad Im too anxious and a big fuckup.

The first installment of the series takes a look at the push for green capitalism, and questions the common-sense assumptions of its cheerleaders. Bolstered by unwavering, uncritical support from NGO’s, energy corporations portray themselves as cutting edge innovators in green energy technology while hedging their bets and maintaining diversified portfolios – packed with fossil fuel investments.

The effects of runaway climate change are already here. If the past 50 years of gas-lighting have made one thing abundantly clear, it’s that the politicians and entrepreneurs leading the charge for green energy will never prioritize the interests of life on earth in their pursuit of profits. So what are we going to do about it?

The World Cup has come to so called North America and with it, corruption, gentrification, dispossession, and repression. From their conception to the present day, mega-sporting events have been used as powerful tools of social control. Activists and militants in the territories occupied by the state of Mexico have been organizing direct actions and have issued a call for a total boycott of the World Cup.

Covid and the palestinian genocide were radicalizing moments for a lot of people

This is part of a "philosophy 101" series. The climate crisis is often discussed in hypothetical, future-problem terms, but in reality the apocalypse is already upon us.

This video explores: a) how we are fcked (feedback loops), b) why we are fcked (how capitalism is creating this problem), and c) the only way we have to unf*ck ourselves (we have literally one tool against capital).

Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Sections F.6-F.7 of AFAQ this week which are about whether "anarcho" capitalism is against the state and how the history of "anarcho"-capitalism shows that it is not anarchist!

Happy reading!

• Section F.6 : https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionF.html#secf6
• Section F.7 : https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionF.html#secf7

There is also an EPUB version of AFAQ, courtesy of @irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com: here

If you'd like to join, please comment and we'll ping you next post.

Link to last week's read: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/70534477

PS. Feedback request: How did you find last week's reading pace? Fast/Slow/OK/etc.?

Funny how animals act more "civilized" than most world leaders.

History is nothing but a struggle between the rulers and the ruled, the oppressors and the oppressed, in which struggle the practical camp always sides with the rulers and the oppressors, while the unpractical camp sides with the oppressed; and they will see that the struggle always ends in a final defeat of the practical camp after much bloodshed and suffering, due to what they call their ‘practical good sense’.

Read the full text here