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It's mildly ironic how many anarchists refuse to have any ties to communism or are adamant about how anarcho-communism doesn't exist, as if this decades old name was just invented for fun. But then what are they? Anarcho-capitalists? Anarcho-primitivists? If you ask those people they will respond with no, not at all, we just want a classless, moneyless, stateless society without authority or possessions...I wonder where I heard that from.
TL;DR: Anarchists who refuse to call themselves anarcho-communists (even though they are because there is no pure anarchism, but many branches) have no knowledge about political ideologies or even a basic understanding of the political compass and history.
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gett-merkedd · 1 year
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A person born into capitalism, a system in which virtually all resources are privately owned, must receive permission from property owners in order to access those resources to survive.
Each person must therefore pay a property owner or labor directly for the property owner to survive. Each person is *coerced* into wage labor and market transactions by virtue of *systemic privatization.*
Any property owner could voluntarily allow the propertyless access to resources free of charge. But each owner is *also* obligated into market exchanges to acquire resources not found on their property to survive, coercing *them* into exploiting the propertyless to survive.
I have said it before: capitalism incentivizes psychopathic behavior. If people must engage in competitive profit seeking to survive, they are disciplined by the threat of market failure, immiseration, and starvation into horrific behavior *whether they want to or not.*
Capitalist ideologues will insist the absence of coercion in any given exchange exonerates the entire system. But I have never once been threatened by a cop over taxes, and yet I am still aware that I face imprisonment and violence if I fail to pay on time. The propertyless are well aware of the violence that will face them if they try to use property without permission—without payment, without laboring—even if they’ve never personally been evicted by a sheriff’s deputy.
Capitalist ideologues will insist on treating the system as nothing more than a sequence of discrete interactions with no connection to each other, because no one wants to think *they* would willingly participate in, and perpetuate, a system of exploitation and coercion.
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blackboardxyz · 4 months
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Today is the birthday of Anarcho-communist scientist and philosopher Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin.
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wallisninety-six · 1 year
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People may claim that anti-capitalism and the push for a classless, non-divisive and non-exclusionary society and the like are unrealistic because they think we want to create a utopia that is free of all pain and suffering.
Such a painless utopia *is* impossible- But it’s also impossible to overstate how many things that are afflicting everyone in today’s society are completely created, fabricated, and controlled & dictated by humans in power (the 1% that controls it all) in a capitalist society
Debt, bills, exorbitant costs on literal-lifesaving health care (and prescriptions like insulin) credit scores, homelessness, joblessness, complete abuses of natural resources that we *need* to survive (abused for profit)- and even money itself are all just complete man-made concepts, controlled by a very minuscule yet overtly powerful rich and economic class. Are any of these “fair challenges” in life that are just here to stay forever and are ordained by nature itself? God no. It’s all something that can be ended and replaced with something better- even if the process and transition may be complicated & difficult, it’s worthwhile- no matter what capitalist propaganda the rich push out.
Pain and suffering will still exist even in a freer, post-capitalist, post-class, post-money world: Death will still loom over everyone, natural disasters and new diseases will test us in different ways, etc, challenges that are ACTUALLY ordained by nature. And *work* itself will still be needed to feed the population, build housing, and care for the sick- not in the capitalist way for profit with a boss spying you at all times, but for the betterment of community, no matter your background, race, gender, and the like.
But what’s important is that any challenges that are thrown our way are not the results of a power-hungry few that makes everyone else suffer because of their cancerous greed and have us all chained to a devil-economic system. We will still have the issues that face ALL life on earth, not just humans, but it is 100% possible to live a life of decency, amidst it all.
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To believe in anarchism or anarcho-communism in any sort of fundamental way, you do have to believe that people are fundamentally good and will work together for the good of everyone. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably can’t understand anarchism.
But I’d suggest you also don’t understand people.
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damnesdelamer · 2 years
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☭ LEFT UNITY Ⓐ
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anarcho-yorpism · 6 days
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This is a really cool video, you should check it out!
This video by M* Birkholz on YouTube has a ton of really cool art and production value put into it, and it outlines a lot of the basic arguments going into communism, anarchism, and how language is used to portray different groups. Please check it out, because it's only got around 1k views at the moment!
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politicsofcanada · 2 years
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I've had a lot of strange interactions on here but the oddest by far have been about anarchism
like when I said no state is a good state and I got an anon that was like "don't call yourself a friend to the people of palestine then"
which like...the PEOPLE. of course I support the people, that's kind of the whole fucking point. also. apparently some people don't know about the massive palestinian anarchist movement. and I can for sure say that the palestinian state is better than the israeli one. that doesn't mean I think that any state can truly be trusted to have the people's best interests at heart
the reactions to me being an anarchist have been fucking wild, if I'm being honest
like when someone said "anarchism is for the rich, I wish I could afford to be an anarchist!" my friend, only ancaps think that capitalism and anarchism can coexist, and I sure as shit am not an ancap. I'm an anarcho-communist, my whole idealogy requires the rich to no longer exist
or the "leaders are going to emerge under anarchism so what's the point". no one is saying that leadership is unnatural or whatever, just that having a government make decisions for the people never works in all the people's favour
I wish people would do the bare minimum amount of research before deciding that anarchism is evil or whatever
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darreinhardt · 5 months
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Conquering Bread
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Today was our Discord's first book club meeting reading 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 by Pyotr Kropotkin. First chapter is pretty spicy, had quite a bit of notes (5 and a half pages of notes on 8-1/2x11 paper), even if just starter stuff - can't wait to read the rest of it!And since I'm one of the ancoms in the chat and generally just really excited to read the Bread Book itself, I led discussion - and you could tell I am not used to leading.
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vivianvixen · 11 months
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sheepgirlbulge · 1 year
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imherefordogs · 2 years
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what automation should mean: humans are able to profit from machine work so humans in general have a better life. people do not need to do the hardest labor anymore, so they are able to spend their time pursuing passions, making art in its many forms, and educating themselves.
what automation means in 2022, somehow: the jobs are being taken away. automation is bad because then the human who is spared backbreaking work doesn’t have a job. and people without jobs are seen as lazy, pathetic, or a “drain on society”.
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sudorm-rfslash · 2 years
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consuetudinari0 · 2 months
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Anarcho-Communism
Anarcho-communism, a socio-political philosophy rooted in the belief in a stateless and classless society, represents a radical departure from traditional political ideologies. Emerging as a distinct school of thought in the 19th century, anarcho-communis
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anarchist-art · 1 year
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Besides, patents isolate the inventor. They compel him to keep secret his researches which therefore end in failure; whereas the simplest suggestion, coming from a brain less absorbed in the fundamental idea, sometimes suffices to fertilize the invention and make it practical. Like all State control, patents hamper the progress of industry. Thought being incapable of being patented, patents are a crying injustice in theory, and in practice they result in one of the great obstacles to the rapid development of invention.
Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
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