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Why are you an anarchist? (piefed.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by fl1p@piefed.zip to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

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[–] user_name@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I grew up a strong environmentalist and then years ago a friend gave me some stuff by Zerzan, Bookchin, and later Stirner to chew on. Haven’t looked back since. (This was also after reading Kaczynski as a bit of a joke.)

Even if I don’t wholly agree with any of them—or anybody else I’ve read—I can’t look around and see any system of power being exercised over others as good. Some systems are less bad than others and I continue to vote/participate in bourgeois democracy as a harm reduction strategy, but in the long term…