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[anarchistmemecollective]

how will people get insulin in a decentralized, post-revolution, anarchial society? /g

there's already a thread floating around that we've reblogged a few times and should be findable under our #anarchy 101 tag, but long answer short the same way people get it now, just without billionaires and politicians restricting who can access it. insulin is incredibly cheap and easy to make, it was invented/discovered a hundred years ago, and the patent famously sold for a buck because it 'belonged to the world'.

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[natalieironside]

hey frend. dietspam here. i hear you write books good. do you happen to have any preferences or recommendations for publishing software? preferably free or at least open source.

thanks!

I'm afraid that's not really my wheelhouse. I'm dumb and I don't know how 2 computer so I have A Guy who does that stuff for me.

@kodyboye happens to be The Guy himself so he might have an answer for you

[anarchistmemecollective]

I feel like “intelligence is a myth” is over-simplified. We as individuals all have different strengths in different areas (different intelligences), and as a group we all come together to form something greater than any individual could be - while I may be lacking in creativity and my friend may be lacking in language skills and my other friend may be lacking in math skills, when we all come together we make an amazing team that can handle anything. The “myth” of intelligence is that only one type of intelligence matters, and the general individualism stuff that goes along with capitalism. We all think and process differently, which is a good thing. It makes us stronger as a group.

i feel like you just debunked the myth while trying to defend it

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[anarchistmemecollective]

Hey uh, that CPAC video, it’s terrifying.

this one?

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[anarchistmemecollective]

okay serious question

I dislike the police and I avoid dealing with them as much as possible, but where can I go for something that might need an authority figure?

the situation that prompted this question is that I was driving late at night and there was another person who was driving under the influence ahead of me who was swerving across lanes and swiped the guardrail a few times. and if it was a situation with like, loud neighbors or something where I can talk to them myself to try to de-escalate without involving the cops, I'd do that. but this person driving almost hit me and another person driving, and it's a safety issue.

so how do you resolve that without involving the police?

yeah I can envision lots of ways that could be dealt with in an anarchist or post-police society, but how to deal with it in the here and now without police or a community-defense group is a challenge. you could try to drive behind or in front flashing your highbeams and honking in the hope that pull over or to warn other drivers if they don't, but you may not be in a position to put yourself at risk.

maybe others here have better ideas.

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[anarchistmemecollective]

I noticed you have tagged posts ableist language on posts which I haven’t noticed the ableist language in. Sometimes in further reflection I can see why you have added that tag, and sometimes not. If you’ve ever got the time/inclination, could you explain some of the more nuanced ableist language usages?

sure thing! (and obviously, trigger warning for ableist language to follow)

I know many may feel I take a pretty radical stance, but i've studied enough linguistics to know how powerful the words we use can be, even when we don't intend it in that way. so I use the ableist language tag for when people are not being ableist but are using language which reinforces ableism. this can get a bit tricky as the people who are the subjects of ableist terms may often identify with or reclaim those terms, like calling someone a cripple is ableist, but many people self-identify as cripples, like the cripple punk movement.

I think they generally fall in three categories:

intelligence: stupid, idiot, moron, etc. intelligence and iq are not real, they're eugenicist myths and insulting people's intelligence only feeds these myths and serves the ruling class. build solidarity by seeing everyone as your equal. there is no moral value to having received a better or worse education than someone else. also many of these terms come directly from eugenics, such as their classifications of types or degrees of autism.

diagnoses: psycho, dumb, schizo, bipolar etc. these are real health conditions and i shouldn't have to explain why using them as insults is deeply offensive.

saneism: insane, crazy, mad, etc. the sane/insane dichotomy, if it was ever helpful, which I doubt, has been outdated for generations. there is no medical diagnosis of 'insane', there are hundreds of mental health conditions and an infinite number of combinations which we are barely beginning to understand. but none of them have or convey a moral value. using them as insults only stigmatizes those of us who have them, to the benefit of the ruling class and detriment of solidarity.

even if you are skeptical or attached to this language I'd challenge you to try not using it. you'll find it improves your vocabulary and your speaking and writing skills. not just that but it will deepen how you think about your fellow humans.

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[anarchistmemecollective]

What's a tankie? /gen

a tankie is someone who calls themselves a communist but unironically believes the ussr, china, cuba, north korea, etc were/are communist. they will often call themselves marxists, marxist-leninists, stalinists, or marxist-leninist-maoists, but they have nothing to do with marx. much like caesar wrote the gaullic wars as a propaganda piece in his quest for power, lenin, stalin, and mao wrote “marxist” propaganda in order to establish their marxist bona fides, and tankies subscribe to their propaganda as if it were a legitimate leftist ideology.

“if this is marxism, i am not a marxist” -karl marx

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[anarchistmemecollective]

hi!! over the past year or so, i’ve been radicalizing leftwards (does that make sense?), and while i do like to say that i have a pretty good understanding of things like socialism and communism and such, one thing i haven’t really been able to figure out is what anarchism is and how it works. like, i get the basic idea, but what with google being google and most people on breadtube not being anarchist, it’s definitely not as easy to research as socialism.

anyways, tl;dr: what defines anarchism and how does it work?

thanks in advance! have a cookie 🍪

"Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence,—the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will establish well-being for all."

leftward ho! thanks for writing. these questions are always difficult to answer because i don’t know where you’re coming from on your personal journey. but i’ll try to answer some of the basics and recommend some good resources to start with.

first of all, there are many anarchisms and if you ask three anarchists you’ll get five opinions. but probably the most prevalent form of anarchism is anarcho-communism, so while i’ll try to talk broadly from a general anarchist position, much of it be from an anarchocommunist perspective for simplicity’s sake.

at it’s most basic, anarchism is an opposition to hierarchy, to one person having control over another. it is a radical commitment to compassion and absolute freedom. like communists, anarchists want a moneyless, stateless, and classless society. unlike leninists, who falsely claim to be communists, we know that there has never been a good state, and never can be. they are by their very nature oppressive, and cannot be used as a means to an end to achieve communism. no group or individual can wield that much power over others and not become corrupted by it. absolute power corrupts absolutely, etc. so while we are committed to the fight against capitalism, we are also committed to the fight against the state. they are intertwined and must be defeated simultaneously. so we believe in the abolition of all government and the organization of society on a voluntary, cooperative basis without recourse to force or compulsion, and the abolition of money and private property, as the best way to ensure the basic and higher needs of everyone are met.

if you haven’t read it yet, the wikipedia article for anarchism is actually a pretty good place to start:

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions they claim maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessarily limited to, the state[1] and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies or other forms of free associations. As a historically left-wing movement, usually placed on the farthest left of the political spectrum, it is usually described alongside communalism and libertarian Marxism as the libertarian wing (libertarian socialism) of the socialist movement.

Humans lived in societies without formal hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires. With the rise of organised hierarchical bodies, scepticism toward authority also rose. Although traces of anarchist thought are found throughout history, modern anarchism emerged from the Enlightenment. During the latter half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century, the anarchist movement flourished in most parts of the world and had a significant role in workers' struggles for emancipation. Various anarchist schools of thought formed during this period. Anarchists have taken part in several revolutions, most notably in the Paris Commune, the Russian Civil War and the Spanish Civil War, whose end marked the end of the classical era of anarchism. In the last decades of the 20th and into the 21st century, the anarchist movement has been resurgent once more.

Anarchism employs a diversity of tactics in order to meet its ideal ends which can be broadly separated into revolutionary and evolutionary tactics; there is significant overlap between the two, which are merely descriptive. Revolutionary tactics aim to bring down authority and state, having taken a violent turn in the past, while evolutionary tactics aim to prefigure what an anarchist society would be like. Anarchist thought, criticism, and praxis have played a part in diverse areas of human society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

i don’t know how much original theory you’ve read before, but i’ll give some reading recs. personally i’m a big fan of peter kropotkin, and found the conquest of bread to be a breath of fresh air after studying marx for years. others have recommended starting with errico malatesta’s anarchy or peter gelderloos’ anarchy works. and zoe baker (anarchopac) is excellent if videos or tweets are more your speed.

https://enoughisenough14.org/2019/06/10/anarchism-a-very-short-introduction-by-colin-ward/

getting involved masterpost

hopefully that’s enough to get you started but please feel free to ask questions, and there are many more knowledgable people here who can help as well.

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[anarchistmemecollective]

hey so I saw a version of a post of yours defending radfeminism and getting called out for transphobia, so i searched ur blog and I saw a couple reblogs in support of trans ppl/against transphobic bills in the u.s, so I just wanted to ask if this blog is run by a terf/terfs? did you kick out an admin when you learned they were a terf bc of that post?

we have never defended terfs nor have we ever had any terf members,. im trans and so are many of our members. if you can send links or screenshots i’d be very curious to see.

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[anarchistmemecollective]

Hey here's an idea fight the power by drinking more water, you can't fight the power if you're dead because of dehydration

this is objectively true

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[anarchistmemecollective]

what do the words "teufel hunden" mean? I saw them as a sticker in the fraktur font on the side of a truck with tons of conservative, gun-worshiping, and veteran bumper stickers. also does the license plate QAI3M mean anything?

not seeing anything more fashy than that

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[anarchistmemecollective]

Any good memes to send to someone who knows nothing about anarchism?

been trying to cultivate some resource collections here, you can try searching our anarchy 101 tag, but if you just want memes check our instagram, we have a bunch of highlights just for this, look for numbers 101, 102, 103, etc.

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[anarchistmemecollective]

i’ve always been sad that no one ever seemed to use the 'submit post' option but apparently there was just no notification for it. So apologies to everyone who sent a genuine submission or hate mail, we'll get back to you as quickly as possible.

(cleaning out the asks too)

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[anarchistmemecollective]

is it ethical to provide mutual aid to a nazi? is it ethical to call the cops on a nazi?

(this is a genuine question. help?)

no and no.

at least in the abstract for the first question. if someone showed up to a soup line in nazi regalia i would turn them away. but someone i knew used to be a nazi who was down on their luck now and showed up without spewing or displaying hate? i would probably help them.

as for the cops, even if it was ever ethical to call the cops, they’d never do anything about nazis because they’re on the same side (when they aren’t literally the same people).

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[anarchistmemecollective]

I mean this gently, but such-justice-wow has made many transphobic statements. I've seen you reblog a post from them and figured you might be unaware, but a searching for 'transgender' in their blog will lead to posts about 'dropping the T' and describing being trans as a mental illness.

disappointing, thanks!

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[anarchistmemecollective]

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