I have a great attraction to anarchist thought, but I find some of the things particular anarchists say don't make any sense. Mainly I think anarchism is important for reminding us that not every problem requires laws, police, and prisons to solve. But I also think the goal of an anarchist society is impractical given how many control freaks and ( Read more... )

"If I ask myself what would today be the most radical demand to make upon our own system-that demand which could not be fulfilled or satisfied without transforming the system beyond recognition, and which would at once usher in a society structurally distinct from this one in every conceivable way, from the psychological to the sociological, from ( Read more... )

Recently I joined an anarchism subreddit and I've enjoyed debating anarchist concepts with folks from a pro-anarchism perspective. Way more interesting than trying to debate Libertarians, who seem to be mostly assholes on the Internet nowadays ( Read more... )

we are positioned on the precipice of a slippery slope that leads towards increasingly draconian biopolitical control measures, the grip of which is unlikely to release even once the pandemic is overI hate "slippery slope" arguments, they're the laziest of arguments. Instead of arguing over whether the policy in front of us makes sense given ( Read more... )

You tenant farmers, you who produce food, the most important thing for human beings, the one thing we cannot do without ( Read more... )

I've tagged entries with either or both: relationship anarchy, and relationship anarchism. I've decided that I will use the relationship anarchy tag when talking about my own relationship matrix, and the relationship anarchism tag when talking about my general relationship philosophy. Anarchy being the status topic, anarchism being the advocacy ( Read more... )

A feminist friend once commented that, to her, “being in the women’s movement” meant spending approximately 25% of her time engaging in group activities and 75% of her time developing herself. This is a real, important time allocation for ‘movement’ women to think about. The male movement taught us that ‘movement’ People are supposed to devote 24 ( Read more... )

When I think about how many people expect anarchists to condone violence, or to participate in it, it reminded me of a time when I was a teenager and a friend of mine argued against atheism because, he said, without a God why wouldn't you just go around killing, stealing, and raping all you wanted ( Read more... )

After rooting around on the internet I guess the more specific non-binary term that best describes me is "agender". Which keeps getting autocorrected to either "gender" or "agenda", LOL. My gender agenda ( Read more... )

"Anarchism is used for a very wide range of actions, tendencies, beliefs, and so on. There’s no settled definition of it. Those who use the term should be indicating clearly, as clearly as you can, what element in this range you’re talking about. I’ve tried to do that. Others do it. You know, anarcho-syndicalism, communitarian anarchism, anarchy in ( Read more... )