Yes, and until I have a group of people that I can rely on to start destroying that system, passivity is the best way to go as it keeps any targets off my back and allows me to hold conversations with everyone which will increase the chances of finding my place.
Val
joined 3 months ago
Ok. Here I go:
Yes, but I don’t know how. Right now I’m focusing on building a community I can belong to, since that seems achievable and as my views will definitely change as a result, having any idea about how will also definitely change.
No reason to cement ideas that are destined to get destroyed in an earthquake.
How many rakes did I hit? It's hard to count while tumbling.
Oh wait it's you. feel free to ignore this as we have gone over this already.
That's because it's not an analysis, it's an excuse to not have one.
Nope. I didn't walk back. Just explained more clearly. I still stand by it "Anarchy is not (implied "just" or "primarily") about resources or class or opposing archists. But about creating spaces and communities in which people can safely exist as themselves"
Often times when writing I use statements that could be read as absolutist in a relative sense and trust the context to carry it. I just hope all of the explaining I've done in this thread means that people will understand what I meant.
This is what anarchisms (sometimes) about. Not everyone can do deep analyses. But sometimes there's usefulness in worthless texts, maybe not to you, but to someone.
I already have a framework that works for me. It's naive and vague and rooted in belief rather than logic but It gives me hope: "People are kind. By coming together we can change the world.". I don't need anything more than that. I don't want to hate people, burgie or prole. Looking at Marxism that's what I see: Guillotines and rifles. (I also see it in a lot of anarchists which is sad). Of course my world-view is incomplete but that's the only way it can remain compatible with the views of others.
If I became a marxist I would lose this quality. With clarity of vision comes impurity of others. By remaining unclear, unfocused, I remain compatible, understanding, friendly.
NOOOOOOOOOOO...
It's not vague because I haven't read theory. It's vague because the things I've read are contradictory and the only way to encompass all of them is to be vague.
I understand existing political systems. I want to destroy them. I'm not focusing my time and energy into doing it because no-one is, so it seems pointless. You achieve nothing marching alone, and the moment others join they are going to have better idea what to do than I do.
Hmmm. delicious.
Here's a salad of different variety.
people come together, make good things, happy feelings, share things, others see, join in, like things, have problems, make own things, others help despite differences, more people join, start making things, sharing things because it keep happy, repeat.
there's also the problem that I don't actually know how to make gunpowder. You seem to though. Maybe we should send you back in time.
There is a third option. Use the imaginary world as a guide to slowly move forwards in the real one. Slowly opening your mind to more and more of the real in manageable slices. Some people need comfort to move forwards. We need the ground to be solid below our feet before taking a step forward. I need to actually have anarchist friends before I start fighting capitalism. Thinking about how to do it, or analyse it, is useless without the ability to act on it.
Oh no I don't intend to wait.. I went to an Anarchist bookfair in Berlin last month. Intending to go to another one in may, and meanwhile keep browsing the leftist comms, getting into arguments and finding people I connect with. I am actively looking. It's just that the country I reside in had all leftist thought pummelled out of it due to being occupied by the USSR and transforming to ultra-liberalism and nationalism. The only orgs that could exist are anarchist ones because communism is banned. I could move. But that requires to have some connections outside and I don't have those as well.