Val

I don't consider it possible for any anarchists to be heroes. They are just people who say message. This is the reason I like V. They even say who I am isn't important, just a person in a mask, not to hide their identity but to erase it.

This is the same reason I still like listening to anti-flag. The message behind the songs remains the same no matter how horrible the person singing them is, although I anyone wants to make a cover version I would probably like that more.

With media you could go even further and put a sarcastic twist on a message and make it mean the complete opposite of what the artist intended.

Thank you! I have been trying, and there does seem to be an uptick in socialist thought, most likely due to the internet and USA collapsing. There's an anarchist bookfair in may that I plan to go to and of course I will keep training my social and anarchist skills here.

Ok. let's try that again. Don't worry this is probably my last time (I'm getting rather tired):

I know what I'm up against.

Archy

The belief that society must be divided hierarchically. That there must be a relationship of command and subordination in order for society to function.

Polity

That humans should belong to distinct groups with distinct rulers chosen by some method. The groups have their own written rules and members cannot join this group without some initiation ceremony or leave this group by their own will.

and the methods they use to enforce their control:

• Social Contracts: Various different methods of control that must be entered before being allowed to be part of society. for example: Money, Contracts, Laws. If the contract gets broken:
• Violence: Physical, mental or social. examples: punching, isolation, debt, limiting access to resources.

I know what I need to do to combat it.

1. Find others to organise and share ideas with. (Ultimately changing my mind and making all of my thoughts a lot less meaningful)
2. Create spaces that exist without the previously mentioned elements. Most likely finding other aspects that I haven't considered yet.
3. Once (if ever) these spaces become big enough start influencing the rest of society by preforming outreach and showing that living without these aspects is possible.
4. If the states start fighting against us. Fight back in self defence. Otherwise try and get along with them as best as you can. It's not our job to make people embrace anarchy.

As step 1 says everything after it will probably change as soon as I reach it (which is why I haven't really brought it up).

And this is just one instance of me describing it. Next time it will be changed, it may even be completely different. My ideology exists in my brain, and my brain exists in a constant state of change. This is a snapshot influenced by my mood and what I can remember. Don't think this is all that I believe/know (it definitely isn't) or even accurate tomorrow.

I don't want to. It seems like a lot of work for very little gain. I know what I'm up against. I know what I need to do to combat it. The first step in that process is going to give me more insight and change my mind anyway. My time is much better spent practising how to interact with others and trying to gain more understanding of revolutionary customs and cultures.

Yep. Same here. I'd gladly give up all of my electronics to be part of a socialist movement and not have to worry about money ever again.

Oh I'm very baby leftist. My country has no leftist orgs, and communism is banned. I have never had a chance to be part of an actually anarchic group, and all I've ever done is read theory. I did manage to hang out with a couple during trips and those were great but right now I'm stuck here.

But it is grounded in the real world. It's just that my analysis is anarchic, it focusses on all power structures instead of just class. I don't need to know anything more than "these are the people who use these means to oppress this group". Doesn't matter if they are capitalists, politicians, revolutionary leaders, school teachers or family.

Considering the liberals expect me to pay for my existence, making money a constant source of anxiety. I will never be comfortable under capitalism, not to mention patriarchy and NeuroTypArchy causing me to be trapped in norms and expectations I don't want to conform to, making the aforementioned moneymaking even more difficult.

Don't worry, I'll take communists over liberals, no hesitation. Although obviously I would prefer anarchists.

Point taken. Don't refer to writing styles as universal.

I will admit that I don't actually know that much about class analysis. The material I consume is more focused on critique of authority, decentralised organisation and production, things like that. Which is why I think class analysis is redundant as it is already covered under critique of authority. Except authority focuses on the actual actions that people take instead of their positions, and it covers representative democracy as well.

But I still think it's a valid framework, not just one that I would use.

And if you think I haven't read anything I've posted a list as a response in this thread.

• AFAQ is the big one: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/index.html
• Adrewism: https://www.youtube.com/@Andrewism, or transcribed: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/andrewism
• Quite a lot of my own thoughts mostly formed by imagining different scenarios and playing them out.
• CrimethInk. : https://crimethinc.com/begin, https://crimethinc.com/tce
• My introduction was "On Anarchism" by Chomsky. (gotta start somewhere)
• Other pieces I've found on https://theanarchistlibrary.org/ Don't remember them all so I'll list a cople:
• • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-all-cocoons-are-temporary
• • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine (the first piece from crimethink i found)

But mostly I use the forgetting filter. My thoughts are a combination of countless little experiences from media, text and IRL that coalesce into my beliefs by forgetting the things that don't speak to me. This makes it a patchwork of half-remembered and incomplete ideas and that makes me rather useless at explaining them (which probably explains this entire thread), but I like it because it guarantees I keep moving forward, currently I'm focused a lot on pluralism and that's probably the fault of "all cocoons are temporary" being the last anarchist text that really spoke to me, but also part of Andrewisms videos discussing polity and free association.

I like to think of it as "improving quality of life" creates an attractive movement which will eventually be capable of toppling capitalism. More anarchist prefiguration than "don't mind capitalism just keep improving your life". I guess it's "Fuck you capitalism. I'm just not going to care about you. I'll sit in this corner with my friends and ignore you, and soon enough I'll have enough friends that you stop existing."