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An Anarchist FAQ Reading Group - Sections B.2 - Week #6 (mander.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago by BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Section B.2 of AFAQ this week, which are about why anarchists oppose the state!

Happy reading!TODO

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/53206006

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

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[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 7 points 7 months ago

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[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gotta say, I managed to read like ~17 out of the 36 pdf pages of B.0-B.1, hopefully I might manage to catch up this time:)

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

I'm busy with Dean Spade's book but I'm keeping up

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

and there goes the emoji 😔

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Indeed😔😔

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Lol as I'm keeping notes, this reminded me of the importance of impermanence in nixos

The state also ends up marginalising "our" representatives

  • As power rests not in the elected bodies, but in a bureaucracy, popular control becomes increasingly meaningless
    • It's the institutions that have power in the state due to their permanence, not the representatives who come and go

What if the leftovers of programs in the filesystem make up the bureaucracy of the operating system? And thats why we try to make state-less systems?

[–] xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I thought B2 was a bit more boring to read tbh, not necessarily for the content but it felt more of a 'repeat' (to me personally at least) as the function and workings of the state in a capitalist (or any) system is something I'm so disillusioned about that i don't really need to hear much about it, it's kinda obvious once you start seeing and feeling it and I don't feel the need to overanalyze about the cruelty, injustice abuse of power, ...

Still had a few quotes i'm gonna save in my quotation bank of course

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Hmm I see I see