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Why are you an anarchist? (piefed.zip)

submitted 4 weeks 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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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

i started reading about anarchism at a very early age (14, 15?) after encountering a 2 page description of Nietzsche, Nihilism and Anarchism in an encyclopedia. I wasn't in uni yet and back then only universities had internet connection, so i had to find books.

From Proudhon to Anarcho-Communists to Stirner to even Anarcho-Capitalists(!) i've read all. Add some Dadaism and later Situationists (and after more time their inheritors Tiqqun). I thought I've met Bookchin's ideas late but apparently I've met him early through Ursula K. Le Guin (who wrote a wonderful fiction about an anarchist diaspora settling on the moon of a planet).

Not to forget thinkers/philosophers/poets (like Guattari for example, among many others) who wrote the most liberating lines without any anarchist consideration in mind.

I can't recommend books but a method: Find books that interest you and follow the citations upstream towards other books (or downstream towards their spawns or inheritors).

Now that we have Wikipedia, we're lucky to click/touch through articles and get books downloaded or delivered to our doors (if we're lucky to have doors).

Good luck to you.