Book Club?
For those unfamiliar, the gist is: the community votes on a book, we then read it and discuss our interpretations, objections and other insights relating to said text. Naturally, the books would be related to anarchism and related topics.What should be our first book? Do we have enough regulars to make this work? Is this a retarded idea?
Anarchist Council
New board owner here, I propose that we make moderation of the board more anarchistic, something I was planning to do if I became mod and that has also been raised in another thread.Moderator cycle
Due to the obvious limitations of the website I will unfortunately have to reject the idea of the moderator changing after a set period of time, my reason being that the board could easily come under the control of reactionaries etc. and if this happened there would be limited if any chance at all to remove the moderator.
Thread to discuss moderation
You read my mind anon, that is what the Anarchist Council thread is for. Obvious shitposting threads will be removed on sight but when I am uncertain as to which course of action to take I will post in the Council thread where the subject may be debated, please refrain from bitching about posts you don't like in this thread, report them.
FAQ
This is the Anarchist FAQ, currently a work in progress. It's a mess (at the time of creation), that will change. I will edit this post as you recommend content.Capitalist posts belong in >>6450
"Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is … death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement. The choice lies with you!" -Kropotkin
FAQ's
What is Anarchism?
The word "anarchy" is from the Greek, prefix an (or a), meaning "not," "the want of," "the absence of," or "the lack of", plus archos, meaning "a ruler," "director", "chief," "person in charge," or "authority." Or, as Peter Kropotkin put it, Anarchy comes from the Greek words meaning "contrary to authority."
While the Greek words anarchos and anarchia are often taken to mean "having no government" or "being without a government," as can be seen, the strict, original meaning of anarchism was not simply "no government." "An-archy" means "without a ruler," or more generally, "without authority," and it is in this sense that anarchists have continually used the word. For example, we find Kropotkin arguing that anarchism "attacks not only capital, but also the main sources of the power of capitalism: law, authority, and the State." For anarchists, anarchy means "not necessarily absence of order, as is generally supposed, but an absence of rule." - An Anarchist FAQ
How would x in an Anarchist society
How does it work in this one?
Chaos etc.
See above.
Human nature
status quo ≠ unchangeable fact of humans, shove your fallacies up your arse. >inb4 fallacy fallacy
Anarchism has never accomplished anything and doesn't work in real life
Haymarket martyrs, Ukrainian Free Territory, Spanish revolution.
Resources
IRC
/server irc.rizon.net
/join #anarcho
The Anarchist Library
http://www.theanarchistlibrary.org
An Anarchist FAQ
http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/index.html
Resource guide (Inactive, needs to be replaced)
https://sites.google.com/site/anarchoguide/
Wiki (Will replace the resource guide)
https://anarchism.orain.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.libcom.org
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/archivehome.html
Anarcho statist here
Why don't you guys take anarcho-statism seriously? it's a voluntary contract between citizens and the state. A voluntaryist state. Slavery rights is allowed, but so is non-slavery and you should mostly just avoid slavery. To make it easier, citizens can collectively sign one large contract of consent. All economies will be allowed, though a voluntary capitalism would be prefered.
Disorganizational vs Organizational Anarchism
Discuss.
They suck
Anarcho-ball
We may hate each other, but everyone likes anarho-ball.
Anarchist videos
Videos related to anarchism, this can include YouTube videos, documentaries etc.
Meeting #1 of the /anarcho/ book club
Qu'est-ce que la propriété?Author: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Year: 1840
Language: French
Download
English: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen
Spanish: https://es.theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-que-es-la-propiedad
French: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Qu%E2%80%99est-ce_que_la_propri%C3%A9t%C3%A9_%3F
Portuguese: http://www.anarquista.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/O-que-e-a-Propriedade-Livro-de-Pierre-Joseph-Proudhon.pdf
Greek tankies attacked building squatted by anarchists and used for refugees. Kke claims ownership over that building
Hello /anarcho/
Ive been here since the board was created, any old timers still around?
Podcasts?
I recently got into podcasting after switching jobs. Any good podcasts you would recommend? Already listening to Adam kokesh and freedom!
Imageboard for anarchists?
Are where any popular anarcho-boards, or stuff like that, in onion or i2p?
Anarchist Music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knnLr65EeGgPost your anarchist music.
dump 'em
ITT: post infographics, comics, memes, and any content relating to anarchism.OC is appreciated.
thank you bat'ko makhno
This is literally the only anarchy board
I have been searching for active anarchy boards and there is absolutely zero of them. This is literally the only board I could find and it isn't that active. How come no one is that interested in anarchy?
Well there is r/anarchy what a horrific place that is. Every other thread is KILL WHITEY. DON'T PROPAGATE RAPE CULTURE. MISOGYNST
I even replied to one of them and said "What does this have to do with anarchy?" And I got downvoted to oblivion. No one actually talks about anarchy on there.
Anyways, how can we make this board more active?
0chan Part Two: Anarchic Weaboos
Because of this post >>9793 , I'm making a thread for an idea I've been thinking about for awhile now that I expect will gain no traction anyways kek. I think in light of /anarcho/'s increasing stagnation and /leftypol/ turning into a /pol/ bait/Old Left Marxist/Old Left libertarian socialist/leftist meme theory board, it's only become more pertinent. I did however make a post a few months back about this under different circumstances: >>8944
Basically, I have been thinking of making an imageboard sort of along the lines of /leftypol/'s Bunkerchan, but with the express intent of being a space for nihilists and anarchists. Pretty much like what Anokchan used to be. I think this is important because I've come to notice that the anarchist population among the imageboard community has just started to disappear the past few months. You've got a lot of anarchist types on Lainchan, sure, but Lainchan's administration seems to have over and over again turned down any opportunities to take an official political stance for the board - which is fine, since the board itself was never intended to have an explicit political position, and doing this would probably alienate a lot of users. But aside from all the people there who might like an anarchist imageboard, and the other anarchists scattered around the other *chans and the internet at large, it seems like the majority of "anarchists" around the imageboard community are essentially libertarian socialist Old Left types. Not that I have a problem with them per say, but you hear a /leftypol/ ideology being echoed constantly on there: Literally everything bad is rooted in capitalism and materialism, muh New Old Left, muh free speech for fascists, literally everything that isn't about capitalism (and I guess the State too sorta right anarkiddies…) is "IdPol". And that's ignoring the other problems of the board.
I'm trying to avoid sounding like too much of an ideologue here, but as far as I can tell, this way of thinking, this idolizing the left that was, is mostly exclusive to anarchists on /leftypol/ rather than the contemporary anarchist community as a whole.
Thing is, this would take effort to develop, effort to admin, effort to learn to admin a website and git gud at coding and shit - all stuff that I'd like to learn, but that would also be work on my part that I get the impression would probably be wasted unless we could somehow actually get people interested. Plus, it'd cost me money. Bunkerchan is going to be joining a new iteration of the USSC with GETchan, so we could join that, but I think ideally we'd want to get more than just the wider imageboard community involved.
Anyways, any thoughts?
>tl;dr I wanna maybe maybe make an anarchist/nihilist imageboard along the lines of Anokchan because there seems to be a lack of this. wat do
>tfw posts you made months ago are still on /anarcho/ ;_;
Come to /thirdpositionist/
Are you an anarchist who doesn't like niggers?
Do you love the idea of anarchy but hate the idea of sharing your commune with SJW's?
Do you want to gas the kikes while at the same time igniting a socialist revolution?
Are you a national anarchist?
If you answered yes to any of these questions the /thirdpositionist/ is the board for you!
Come home white comrades and together we shall overthrow capitalism!
>no anarchist-nationalist flag choice
rude tbh
What do /anarcho/?
Spooky
Ancap vs. Ancom or global differences
WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK. is going on here.
I came to this board yesterday the first time and most shit i read about is: mimimi im ayncrap mimimi im ancom, im better. So i wanted to ask if this ayncrap/ancom Struggle is a serious thing in your Country. Some months ago i didn´t even know about the existence of ayncraps. I´ve never heard about it in the local scene. Im from germany so i know the clash of "Anti Imperialisten" (So called Anti Imps/anti imperialists) and "Anti Deutsche " (anti germans) inside the left scene but i never stumbled upon an ayncrap somewhere.
Also i read much words like "pussy" and so on which would be hated in the german scene for not beeing pc. Pc is taken very seriously by the most i think. Much people dont care as hard about it as others but they mostly accept it.
So come on and tell me specialtys of your area.
Ⓐ // Ⓔ
Could someone explain to me what the differences are between Communism, Anarcho-Communism and Marxism?
Protester catches state police on video discussing how they should charge and arrest him to "cover their asses" since they couldn't find an actual crime had occurred
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AnarchoHUEism
Let's talk about anarchism in Brazil.
We have grown too much in recent years to go unnoticed.
Also, we need new political analysts, if I see that fucking Felipe's face again I'll snap.
ur ideology a shit
hey
Hey /anarcho/,
I'm looking for this color picture where this qtpi anarchist with a anarcho syndicalist flag was protesting in some EU country. She was smiling and the pic was 10/10.
pic not related.
What does /anarcho/ think of the synthesis of esotericism/mysticism and occultism with anarchist philosophy? I myself am very partial to many of the writings of Hakim Bey.
Is internationalism and anarchism the natural evolutionary step of nationalism?
Because really, the main objection i have to nationalism is it is inherently divisive and dogmatic, its a tool used to divide people in a certain geographical location. But their are some aspects of nationalism and nationalist movements i cant help but support, like their preservation of a person culture and heritage in the face of imperialism and colonialism.
I think their is this misconception that anarchism wants to bring about a global cosmopolitan utopia and bring about a sort of world culture, but obviously this isn't true. In ant kind of anarchist society the culture of the people who live their would be free to further develop and evolve and just becomes more include and no longer separated by artificial lines.
Soviet Furs
>"anarchism" board
>rules page longer than the goddamn Nile
Ur doin it wrong fam
Whats /anarcho/'s thoughts on the Official IRA?
Anarchism has no history. It is in all of us. From the time of the Neolithic revolution people have strived to free themselves from the burden of the capitalist oligarchs. Look around yourself - sparrows, grasshoppers and even cacti come together in communes where there is freedom and freedom, where everyone can do as they will.
Things that annoy you about your comrades.
>Crap about colonialism and capitalism whenever misogyny and queerphobia in the global south comes up.
>Constant social justice snipping, like "ermagerd don't say 'tin foil hat' it's ableist'.
>Retarded activist propaganda crap.
What fun things do you want to come from an anarchist society.
I hope that no one has the ability to make any anime, and anime becomes a thing of the past, no more weeaboos.
shitposting thread
Piratebox to spread and share ideas
Recently there was a thread on /pol/ about the Piratebox. It's software that runs on a router that enables users to share files and chat anonymously.
Operation Weev Clone Army
create media accounts
name = some derivative of weev,
ei:weev1, weev2, weevo, Weevel, Weev-lKneevel
Bring back the 100% free speech, be an asshole,
troll and troll hard but above all piss off and cause trobble for those who need it(like the feds or that racist feminist sexist doush bag on that twitter account you hate, just spam them with troll comments, make them learn, recruit more Weevs.
#SaveWeev and #WeevAnarchy
*Weev for worst best asshole 2015*
This is a new thread for the discussion of the project to start an anarchist community in the US, in Detroit or New Hampshire.
If you'd like to participate in our weekly chats, post a throwaway email in this thread to get on our email list. If you don't want to post an email but are still interested, tell us how else we can get in touch with you.
Some good documentary about Makhnovists ?
could anyone resurrect anokchan?
Mfw when i saw this existed.
In all seriousness, i am a Newfag and is this dead?
So I've always been a sort of "Why not both?" kinda guy…
Hey /anarcho/, why aren't you a monarchist yet?
So, we need to have a chat about Ibero-American anarchism
Is anybody interested?
Yes, I realize the usual etiquette is to post an OP with content, I just don't want to waste my time.
How do you defeat "capitalism" if society still retains the "capitalist mode of production"
Not taking potshots at ayncraps here because syndicalists, Ancoms, mutualists, etc. don't address the industrialization of everything either.
Sure rise up and seize the factories. You still work in a factory for a wage. It doesn't matter if it's a better wage or less hours or more benefits it's still wage slavery.
Just using the factory as an example but this applies to all forms of industry. Whether agriculture or media or medicine or education.
The industrial age is not just a top down imposition of a particular mode of production. It has been internalized by the masses and now seems to be infecting culture and sexuality and identity everything.
Look at Facebook. Its a Friggin factory. Everyone churning out selfies and pictures of their lunch and their kids posed in elaborate performances of cute. Distributed as a "free" service to mindless consumers clicking like and share to more widely distribute these goods to more consumers. Receiving payment in kind from other producers.
Production. Distribution. Consumption.
They've become a mindset. A cultural imperative.
Primitivists have grasped this point. But have decided that the almost complete abandonment of modern tools is the answer. Yet there they are on the internet. Advocating measures they themselves are obviously unwilling to take.
So here's my question I guess
Can you take the tools out of the factory?
Can modern technology be deindustrialized?
And can this be done now without waiting for the glorious day of the revolution that just simply isn't coming?
find each other
comrades?
SJWs
So what do you all think of SJWs? Like the kinds of people who took over 4chan and reddit.
Should Revolution be legalized?
What do you guys think?.
Why not /pol/?
Why do you use a board dedicated to a particular political orientation when you can use the general politics board?
The state is not great
When you seek food, do you ask for permission?
When you desire breath, do you need to ask?
When you are ready to have children, is it your own choice?
The state is a universalist parasite. It infects and corrupts everything. Nothing can exist and remain good when the state gets involved. Is it altruism when you steal from one to give to another?
Remember this when porky floods your country with immigrants, you allowed yourself to be made a slave in your own land.
Yippies
So /anarcho/, why arnt you a yippie?
Leftypol has official taken us off the list of allies.
Good or bad /anarcho/?
Situationism
I'm going to ask this here since anarchists seem to like Situationism more than Marxists:How am I supposed to read The Society of the Spectacle? I can't make sense of the format.
Also, general Situationism thread I guess.
Michael Schmidt, co-author of Black Flame, *may* be a closet nationalist
>We have some ugly and upsetting news…
>About six months ago, we started hearing some disturbing rumors that one of our authors, Michael Schmidt, was an undercover fascist. Soon after, another one of our authors, Alexander Reid Ross, provided us with actual evidence. We helped him investigate further for several weeks and then put him in touch with another writer. Over the past months, we have received and compiled what we consider to be incontrovertible evidence that Michael Schmidt is a white nationalist trying to infiltrate the anarchist movement.
>Alexander will soon be publishing an article that presents all the details in a more comprehensive manner, but we are not comfortable sitting on this information any longer. We have always drawn strength from the history of anarchism as an internationalist movement concerned with the destruction of capitalism, the state, and hierarchal social relations. Those social relations clearly include racism and white supremacy. We are committed enemies of fascists and their sympathizers. The anarchist movement won’t tolerate their sick credo and, when they are found hiding in our midst, they must be dragged from the shadows.
>We have cancelled Schmidt’s upcoming book and have put the two books of his that we’ve already published out of print. Please stay tuned for the whole story.
>In Solidarity,
>The AK Press Collective
RetroShare
Sup comrades. I'm just going to be copypasting this from /leftypol/. Y'all chummers should download and join the /leftypol/ forum and chatroom; we could also make ones for /anarcho/ if you'd like:
http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
It's a decentralized, secure and (optionally with v0.6 + tor) completely anonymous 'friend2friend' network and application. Main uses are free file-sharing and community building, since it works by pairing friends to each other. More info here: https://8ch.net/netplus/res/3.html
How it works
Download software, create profile, add friends. In order to add friends you need to exchange public keys, so what we usually do is have everyone post their public keys in this thread and everyone adds everyone else.
Why post this on /leftypol//anarcho/?
Because we all know all manner of /pol/tards infiltrate us and try to subvert the board's ideas by creating a false consensus. Retroshare's idea of networking prevents impostors from connecting to the main group, since you can just block any annoying peer from connecting to you (and thus cut off their access to the community). It is by design hard to infiltrate, but easy to discuss and share stuff with.
Join us now, comrades!
Hello, 23 year old here. I've always criticised the acts of government. Hating every party there is because they're all just the same. For the years upon years of ranting I've thought I was out of this social democratic or nationalist looking theocratic powerhouses fighting each other to create their own ideologies oligarchs. No matter which guy elected same thing happened to the people. Poor got poorer and rich got richer, sign of development for them not for me. Other young people around me turned face to apathy, I told them it was wrong to do so but they were drowning upon their powerlessness. I turned face to anarchy, so if I pass away from this degenerate dumpster I pass with my dignity.
By the way the country is Turkey.
Christian communism/anarchism
Any Christian anarchists/commies in here?
I have a YouTube channel where I make videos on Christian communism and anarchism
I make a new video called death to the rich, life to the poor
Any recommendations on what topic I should address next?
dont tell me this is dead
is it? please don't tell me
Oh and Ansyns for the win.
Is the board dead and how do we revive it?
The objective is simple, bring back /anarcho/. How do we do it? Should we do it? Can we do it?
Wallpaper Thread
Anarchist (cappies included) wallpaper. Also cool wallpapers in general, street art preffered.
Newbie Here
So is this board dead? Cause that's a shame…
>ITT we pastebin our personal beleifs, and help eachother find the right word to express these beliefs
Heres mine; http://pastebin.com/smXXb0CA
Is there any anarchist anime?
Any Individualist Anarchists on here?
what should an Anarchist do for a living?
please be as realistic as possible.
I am new to anarchism and recently only realised why they like a black flag. That was the start of my reading. I then read anarchism for beginners and for a while that satisfied my enquiries. I discussed anarchism with my parents but started realising that anarchists arent mentally retarded squirty little kids making trouble, like my like my dad said they were. I realised that, for example Kropotkin was quite a cool guy who was well educated but I would like to ask you some questions I cant find the answer to anywhere else. How do anarchists hope to persuade the military of various countries to lay down their arms if the anarchists only believe in peaceful revolution?
What did you do yesterday or today that would help a revolution take place?
My grandfather told me that his father fought on the side of the anarchists in the spanish civil war but thought they were full of shit so he walked into France and worked in the French post office - are there any books by spanish anarchists, my grandfather said the spanish anarchists considered reading academic texts as too bourgeois.
San Jose Tenants Confront Slumlord
IWW
Would this girl be allowed in an Anarchist community?
The Society of the Spectacle
Social life is still about appearing instead of having (which was already a degradation from being). For example, being "fresh dipped". A lie has been valued by the powerful for centuries. We have been seeing many spectacular presentations of life, and our lives have not been real. The presentations have gotten so far out of control that even the liars are lying to themselves!
It has long been said that money generalizes need and work so much that common interest and mutual dependence animates the "dead". We are not the ones who are living. Our lifeless productions are, and the broadcast unites us despite our irreconcilable differences. In the manner that prices and sales justify social relationships, images tell us how our relationships are justified.
The spectacle was planned and implemented like a blueprint and a 3D model for a global construction and development project. The market needs to shout this unreality to affirm prefabricated demand and constantly justify the system. The spectacle portrays the dominant system of production, and that system has the ultimate goal of producing that portrayal. The false is a real product while real people contemplate, absorb, and align themselves with the spectacle.
Anarchy is in the mind
True Anarchy has nothing to do with social pests and leftist punks. Today's so called "Anarchy" is nothing but a deluded and misguided movement of lazy nutjobs who would follow anyone as lonjg as they don't have to work and follow their retarded "everyone is the same" ideology.
Any true anarchist needs no one except himself. Deal with it,
Jesus
Is Jesus the supreme example of authentic anarchy?
Terrorism
“terrorism is non-state activity that threatens the power relations that prop up the state. Whether it’s direct action that undermines capitalism and animal exploitation or religiously motivated violence against corporate and military targets, what those targeted with terrorism charges share is a value system that rejects the absolute authority of the state and shows a willingness to act on it. That’s why Dylan Roof isn’t a terrorist, nor abortion clinic bombers, nor right-wing paramilitaries in Latin America, nor US drones in Pakistan or Yemen. Those forms of violence, while obviously intended to compel obedience to hierarchies through violence, don’t challenge the values that the US state is based upon. It’s not a difference of tactics or intent; it’s a difference of ideology and interests.”
>be anarchist
>fuck children
>kill anyone who tries to stop me
>keep repeating this every day until i am eventually killed
yeah you guys got this planned out well
Proudhon general
Friendly reminder that automatically associating Proudhon with 'mutualism' instead of 'scientific socialism' is exactly the trap that marxists want us to fall into.
i.e. how the hell would you have realistically approached the people of pre-1950 France with your proposals of socialism?
Quick question: How many Federal government agencies exist? Don't know? Don't worry; the government doesn't know, either
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Hey /anarcho/
Why arent you national anarchists yet?
Anti fascism
I've started a crowd funding campaign for an anti fascist group in Bradford.
You can find information at the page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/anti-fascist-action-in-bradford/x/9735684#/story
If you have any questions ask me, I don't want to come off as illegitimate. I'm very much serious.
Former army private and "Wikileaks" leaker Chelsea Manning faces time in solitary confinement after being caught with "contraband" in Leavenworth prison cell. The offending item? A copy of "Vanity Fair" with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover
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DARPA GENETIC ENGINEERING
DARPA’s CAPP’s current goal is to discover biotechnological methods that allow soldiers to function without food or sleep for up to 7 days
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), often known as the “mad scientist wing” (Gayle, 2012) of the DoD, has allocated an annual budget of $2 billion to several different projects all working towards building a supersoldier( Posel, 2013, para. 1). The main hope for accomplishing such a feat lies in genetic engineering,
DARPA’s Continuous Assisted Performance Program’s current goal is to discover biotechnological methods that allow soldiers to function without food or sleep for up to seven days (Seal, 2003).
Scientists have looked to the animal kingdom for these answers, with a particular interest in bottlenose dolphins and the sled dogs of the Iditarod. Sam Ridgway, Ph.D. in neurobiology from the University of Cambridge and President of the National Marine Animal Foundation, is conducting research to discover how dolphins remain vigilant for extended durations of time. Scientists have found that these mammals have to ability to practice unihemispheric sleep (Castro, 2003). The phenomena is that while one hemisphere of the brain is asleep, the other half remains alert. When tired, the dolphin simply wakes up the now refreshed portion of its brain while the weary section goes to sleep. Studies starring two bottlenose dolphins have repeatedly demonstrated the animals’ ability to last five days in this state with no decrease in activity or attentiveness. By determining which genes make this inherent trait possible, DARPA hopes to trigger the same ability in its soldiers
DARPA is also attempting to alter the genes that control the body’s metabolism (Posel, 2013, para. 5).
By modifying the rate at which fat is converted into pure energy, soldiers could, in theory, go without food for days. The most promising avenue of inquiry is a project investigating the Huskies and Malamutes of the Iditarod and how they are capable of running thousands of miles without developing extreme debility. The head of the project, Dr. Michael S. Davis, professor of Veterinary Physiology at Oklahoma State University, has discovered that these dogs reserve their fat and glycogen stores by spontaneously changing their metabolic rates. This capability allows the animals to run 100 miles a day with a slowed metabolism similar to the one assumed when sleeping; in less than 24 hours, they are able to switch back to their usual metabolic rate, one that is similar to a man’s (Robson, 2008). If this genetic trait could be adapted to humans, soldiers would have insurmountable endurance and stamina on the battlefield.
Read more on >>>/midpol/447
Politics without Extremism.
Official Capitalist thread
This is now the official Capitalist thread, all discussion about capitalism will be limited to this thread.
Fuck Fascism https://ia600300.us.archive.org/15/items/TheAnarchistCookbook/anarchistcookbook2000.pdf
IWW
Whats /anarcho/'s opinion on wobbolies?
fuck fascism
FUCK THE SYSTEM
Nationalism and Its Effects on Peace in Europe
With global crisis, unemployment, dissatisfaction, poverty and intolerance has increased and with it also nationalism. Political parties with nationalist platforms are rising and gaining more support around the world and Europe is no exception.
In Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom and across Europe we can see the rise of the right. The financial crisis in the Eurozone and beyond has triggered rising of nationalists and far-right political parties.
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) on 9th of July released a report about the dramatic increase in anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, online hate speech and xenophobic political discourse as the main trends in 2014.
Nationalism can be positive with legitimacy, promotion of nations and inspiration for citizens or negative by creating tensions between different ethnicity and groups in or outside the country. Some negative aspects of ideology or political movement can be seen in the latest football matches in the Balkans, where supporters of team groups have burned many national flags and hooliganism that is the result of long lasting hatred and nationalism on the ground. Every country has its own history and different positions, but still similarities could be found.
The country all news is regarding to in recent times is Greece. A known slogan “Greece for Greeks” is well known in its anti-austerity party. Attacks against minorities and immigrants with racism are seen in one of the European Union (EU) members. Golden Dawn neo-Nazi party is linked to hundreds of violent attacks against minorities.
It is known for anti-immigration, racist-nationalist worldview. With elections being held this year in January the party captured 6.3% of the vote and 17 senate seats in Hellenic parliament and become the country’s third largest party. In 2014 the party won 9.4% of votes in European parliamentary election and with it 3 seats out of 21.
The party has been put on a trial this year for its criminal activity.
Nationalism in Greece has divided citizens and noncitizens to us and them and created the gap between both. With the economic crisis, Greeks debt, overall economic meltdown, unemployment and increasing number of refugees from different countries, the party led by Nikos Michaloliakos has gained more support and caused even greater intolerance to foreign people in need. Unfortunately, they are not the only one spreading intolerance. Many politicians have a stance against immigrants, which shapes the Greeks’ attitude towards nationalism.
Question. As an anarchist, should i work against the state by helping in whatever ways i can to improve the lives of the people around me?
I ask because ive been thinking, should we actually be helping? Lets be real about this for a moment, whatever help an anarchist gives to a society will generally be ignored by the general population, as the general population is usually unaware of anarchist activities.
I think, instead, we should exacerbate the problems that plague us. I think we should make the problems the system creates bigger, worse, and really just fucking disastrous. I say we do this, because i truly believe that unless their is some sort of economic collapse that would naturally occur, nothings going to change, so i say we help make these problems worse and worse and worse, until they are un-ignorable to the general population, and then we give them the solution, the anarchist solution.
Anarchists, i think, at their core (Most ideologies really), is really about helping the world at the end of the day, and in order for things to get better, things must first get much much worse.
Thought?
so nice to see anarchy alive and well on the internet (been disconnected for a while)
Direct Democracy
So what's your opinion on Direct Democracy applied in an anarchist society in general (making laws, workplaces, etc)?
An Anarchist FAQ
What is /anarcho/'s opinion of AFAQ?I think, despite the misleading name, it is a great resource for propaganda, and theoretical and argumentative tool.
Are there any contributions /anarcho/ would make? As an anarchist, what questions or objections do you often face that could benefit from a more organic answer?
Here also recruiting ayncraps for questions they might have about anarchism.
Check AFAQ's section on "anarcho"-capitalism for questions before asking!
http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/index.html
Resource Guide
we're building a simple resource guide for /anarcho/ using google sites.It will be organized by school of thought. Content for each page will include a blurb bout the school of thought, list of links to websites, videos and literature, followed by an embedded imgur gallery.
Post any resources you'd like to see added. Like such:
>anarcho-xyx
-Link 1
-link2
-etc
Reminder that stalin saved the revolution
So guys, has anyone here actually thought up any serious ideas for creating an independent anarchist community somewhere? A good place to start would be to attempt to control a territory about the size of your average American city, which sounds like a lot, but remember, it's not the population that marks the size of a city, most cities aren't that large in terms of square miles.
Several interlocked communities adding up to about 5000 people in one single Autonomous Zone is more than enough people to be a decent sample size, if you will, for an experiment that would test whether or not any of the various anarchist systems would work established throughout an entire country.
I'm a mutualist, but if there aren't enough mutualists around, I'd love to work with some anarcho-communists to test out their economic system to see whether it'd be sustainable and amenable to the principles of freedom.
>Anarcho
>Communism
Pick one. What's next, Anarcho-NatSoc? Anarcho-Fascism?
Why.. why is sage in uppercase red..
sage wasnt meant to be an insult, that's a dumb mentality.
In 「western-style」 forums, there was no way to prevent a post from rising the thread, as it was thought that only worthless posts wouldn't want it to rise, and that they were better avoided.
Not wanting to be all like, 「look at me! look at me! I made a post,」 was unthinkable.
So was not using names. Why wouldn't someone want to use a name and take credit for their posts?
If I wanted a good introduction to anarchism from a source that isn't SJW, what should I study?
I'm generally fascist in my political views, but I've had a long time fascination with anarchism. I'm interested to see what this sub would recommend.
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sup guys. not trying to spook anyone here, but wouldn't most of you say violence in self-defense is acceptable? And if you are currently being enslaved, would using violence to free yourself be acceptable?
Just to clarify, this is not about the effectiveness of violence, just the morality of it.
Anarchist greentext
>be me, living in ancapistan>the revolution suceeded 30 years ago and the state was finally destroyed
>living in my own land
>it's pretty small (only a million acres) but I don't mind living modestly as long as I have freedom
>last few months have been pretty boring, I haven't even been able to visit other lands
>their owners haven't yet decided to sign a contract allowing me temporary physical occupation of their property
>business has been tough, a lot of employees haven't been able to cover their innovation quotas so I kicked them out
>I hope they are fine, I actually care a lot about people, that's why I donate to charity
>like that time I donated a penny to that charity contest
>it would decide who would occupy the new vacancy at mr. shekelton's foundry
>how generous of mr. shekelton to offer his employment capacity to the charity
>thanks to men like him we live in this utopia
>walking around the limits of my property I see a man lying horizontally on neighbor land
>he looks malnourished and is covered in rags, he is probably an employee of the property owner
>I yell at him "you lazy bum, you should get back to work!"
>"don't you see how ungrateful of you it is to do nothing when the graceful owner of this property has generously allowed you to make a living working for him?"
>he replies "sir, I actually am not an employee of the…"
>he couldn't finish the sentece, I had already shot him in the head
>how dare he violate another person's property
>nearby workers of the land look at me with hate in their eyes
>I am not worried, they won't try anything funny
>they know that any attempt to violate the NAP will be met with instant airstrikes from the non-statist private property protection agency
>I tell you, we could never have achieved such efficiency if we had to consider "workers' rights" like a state would have forced us to
>I go back to my mansion where I live by myself, even though I occassionally get visits from female employees, if you know what I mean
>getting laid has never been easier since capitalism figured it could use women like property and currency
>just another way capitalism makes life better for everyone
>I get a notification on my surveillance device, which I use to keep track of my employees
>Smith-36 will turn 18 today, how splendid
>tonight I will probably visit the family
>I'll be sure to bring the customary birthday omelette and the contract where she must sign in herself for life
>it's just a little device I figured to prevent the eventuality of employees leaving for an employer that will offer them a better deal
>certainly, only through voluntaryism can a person enter any contract he wants, just another wonder of ancapistan
>oh boy, I remember the first time I introduced that contract
>there was a huge outrage, but I told them that I would fire those who didn't accept, so they signed the contract voluntarily
>matters have been so simple ever since
>sometimes I just sell some employees (or their children) to another capital owner
>sometimes I take the cute ones to my "private" "property", lol I'm such a playa, I got game theory hoe
>so anyway, on my way back to my mansion I find a crowd gathered around an old employee
>he is having a stoke, probably from exhaustion and his poor diet
>well, if he wanted to eat anything more than junk food he should become an entrepreneur
>junk food is like minimum wage, it's not meant actually maintain a person, everybody knows that
>haha, minimum wage, good thing that went away with the state
>it's better this way, now people are paid what they are worth
>if employers pay employees less than their labor is worth, then they wouldn't accept the deal
>it's simple economics everyone can understand, unlike that "surplus" bullshit they love to babble on about
>anyway, Johnson-87 was lying on the ground, dying
>the rest demanded that I did something about it
>I answered that it wouldn't be profitable, his health was very deteriorated
>the cost of taking care of his health would surpass the profit his work would provide me the rest of his short life
>he lived to be 27, though, he shouldn't complain
>another employee calls me tyrant monster and threatens to organize a strike if I don't do something
>I fire him and then fire at him for standing on my property without permission
>I then leave, admittedly angry, at the nerve of those worthless, selfish assholes
>oh well, at least I've got enough property and profit to stay competitive in the market
>all is good in ancapistan
>inb4 ancap reactionaries furiously post an anarchocommunist version of this greentext
reddit's anarchism board
What do you think about it?
Anarchism in LA
I'm a teen living in Los Angeles and want to know where I can find information about anarchist meet ups and protests etc. Any help is appreciated
Making Anarchy Popular
How do we make anarchism more popular?How do we make natsocism less popular?
How do we get /anarcho/ to the top 25 boards?
These are questions that need answers now if we plan on realistically changing anything any time soon.
Comrades!
We need your help over at Demochan. /pol/ is trying to take over the /leftypol/ board, and if they win the election they get board ownership and can ban everyone who doesn't suck Hitler's dick if they feel like it.
Regardless of your views on democracy (it a shit) head on over, make a quick post, and drop a vote for Anarchan. Fight the /pol/ menace.
http://www.demochan.org/leftypol
If you don't know what Demochan is: >>>/tech/275916
80% of 500 doctors, nurses, and physicians assistants surveyed admit going to work with communicable diseases because their employers don't provide sick leave
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/07/06/is-your-doctor-making-you-sick/
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why arent you posting in http://anokchan.com/anok/ instead of this subreddit
Does anyone here have essays or art that they'd like to see in a zine? I do a collective zine through my distro, I published the first issue in summer of 2014, I hope to get the next issue out within the next month. I took a few submissions from /r/anarchism for the last one, figured I'd ask here this time around.
Why is /r/socialism so retarded?\
>they don't believe in "rights"
>Seem to think that somehow community organization is stupid
>literally use the human nature argument against anarchists
>think anarchism is somehow more disastrous than state socialism which has a "great" track record.
MY JIMMIES WERE EXTREMELY RUSSELLED.
GANG-RAPED BY RETARDED ML'S AND THEIR SHITTY STATE CAPITALISM AND MATERIALISM ETC.
AnarChan thought experiment
So /anarcho/, I've had some vague thoughts floating in my head for awhile now about 8chan and anarchism, and was wondering for you input and starting a discussion on the matter:
A lot of you are probably aware by now that 8chan has recently had an influx of Plebbit users upset that their liberal dictatorship hugbox is starting to actually affect things they want to talk about. Hotwheels' response to suggestions by users thus far on the possible damage this can cause to the community, and other problems regarding cross-board animosity and competition for the top 25 has basically been what you'd expect from a libertarian. I don't have screencaps of everything he's been saying, but pic related gives you an idea of it.
Basically, he's making recourse to what all radical capitalists believe: People will choose what has the best quality every time, and if something has visibility, power, or popularity, it's the peoples' fault and vote with your wallet (in this case, posting) and blah blah blah all that horseshit.
This has got me thinking: 8chan is certainly not an example of virtual anarchy insofar as it has a hierarchy and is owned by someone who has all the site's content on a server they own, but still, as far as freedom - convenience - usership goes, 8chan is probably the closest thing right now to virtual anarchy that would require you to host your own website on some sort of community-run Internet alternative meshnet and get a grand total of maybe a dozen regular users (right now, at least).
Suppose, though, that there were a chan founded by anarchists, allowing for even more freedom than 8chan and without this lassiez-faire bullshit that allows for hostile shitposting boards like /pol/ and /intl/ or relentlessly paranoid and competitive boards like /cuteboys/ to stay in the top 25 and ban or raid any other boards that make it into the top 25.
What would such a chan look like? Is this kind of thing possible? I'm just interested in generating discussion on the matter; in a practical sense, it's probably better for us to stay on a site with more traffic rather than try to secede and get zero people posting.
>tl;dr A *chan that is based on principles of anarchy and run by anarchists rather than a libertarian, is it possible and what would it look like?
>and we shall call it… AnarChan
>or maybe 0chan
board promotion when?
/revolution/
I invite you comrades to check out>>>/revolution/
Strategy and Tactics of Revolution
Anarchists are highly welcome
Mark Passio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpcgS0G7Xj0
Has anyone in here followed his work?
Any thoughts whatsoever?
If someone is interested he has detailed presentations in the occult traditions and the true nature of our world today.
Post details on how to better keep yourself private.
Tor seems expensive.
What freeware and opensource are available that aren't trash?
World Less Violent?
Armies and Governments Are No Longer Our Biggest Threats to Peace
>The argument that we are now a less violent world is compelling, but it raises more questions than it provides answers. In Australia, while murder rates have been steady for decades, assaults are on the rise – from 623 per 100,000 in 1996 to 840 per 100,000 in 2007. More young women are appearing before the courts than ever before for violent offences, and domestic violence has seen a resurgence despite the media awareness surrounding the issue.
>In NSW, the problem of street violence has been brought to the fore recently by a number of high profile cases in the media. Young men who have either been killed (in the case of Thomas Kelly, who was fatally punched in Sydney’s Kings Cross in July 2012) or put into comas after being “king hit”, illustrate the extent to which street violence is prevalent in some areas in Australia’s major urban centres.
>The statistics tell us about the immediate causes of the violence, but very little about the mindset of the young perpetrators, usually men, and why they ultimately become violent.
>There is a complex relation between violence and public drinking, which is embedded in Australia’s history and culture. Regular violence in public drinking locations cannot simply be blamed on rowdy patrons or excused as something natural and unstoppable, and nor can it simply be blamed on irresponsible drinking. The drinking environment is an evolving historical and cultural product, which can be left unchanged, or altered for the better through education and legislation.
>The outcry against these indiscriminate acts of violence demonstrates that the wider public finds them unacceptable. Attitudes towards violence are constantly changing, but not always in a positive direction. In the cultural domain, for example, schlock horror movies are more explicit than ever before and leave films like Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction - both of which caused a stir in their day - looking very mild in comparison.
>Conversely, what one generation may have accepted as perfectly banal (corporal punishment against children in the 1950s, for instance) may shock another, later generation.
> Four key components of peace got worse in the 2014 Index, which gives us a picture of world peacefulness in the year prior. Domestic terrorism has increased significantly in many parts of the world since the start of the Iraq War. In the past year, the number of people killed by conflict inside their own country, including civilians, has also risen. More people were displaced within their countries or fled as refugees this past year than the year before. And in the 2014 Index, the score for ongoing wars has gotten worse—but that includes internal and external conflicts and so the data behind this indicator is likely to be consistent with the shift away from international conflicts.
>Looking at more than just the last year, the same trend holds true. The GPI report includes a section on trends in peacefulness from 2008 to 2014, which demonstrates that what the IEP calls “internal peacefulness” is getting worse. The largest changes have been observed in weapons imports and weapons exports—both measures of “external peace.” But factors like each country’s number of heavy and nuclear weapons and of armed service personnel have improved, showing that external peace as a whole is getting better. Levels of internal conflict have varied, but it is really safety and security, more so than war, that’s driving the decline in world peace. Terrorist activity has gotten worse. Homicide rates improved in 2014, but because of data collection challenges the IEP reports that the long-term trend of increasing homicides and violent crime is more reliable than any single year figure. And perceptions of criminality, the likelihood of violent demonstrations, incarceration, and access to small arms have worsened as well.
>In short, the nature of peace is changing. Breakdowns in peacefulness are becoming more decentralized, and peacefulness relies more heavily on social structures and non-state actors as opposed to exclusively governments and formal militaries. Peace is becoming more democratic, if you will.
>Given the severity of organized, inter-state conflict in the 20th century, the trend of declining militarization and international war implies that we have made progress in solving 20th-century problems.
But is even that true?
There is a bias that ignores all the wars in the ""third world"" and all the ethnic conflicts from immigration.
Commuism is the only answer , Anarchism is a stillborn fetus.
Convert heathens , when the burgeouse is ridden , you are next anarchfags
Stickers
I want to put up stickers and posters about anarchism/antifa (I would prefer stuff to not mention economic preference because I'm ayncrap) where can I find these in bulk for cheap?
So what does this board think about Abbie Hoffman? I personally liked his book, "steal this book" and wanted to know what you guys think of him.
two word argument against anarchy
nuclear weapons
*SNAP*
The world is now under anarchy, how do you keep it?
You tell me, how would the following occur:
>equal distribution for the masses and unequal distribution in special scenarios (for instance a program such as NASA)
>How do you prevent people promising shelter from forming a state with the power of their loyal people
>Can these societys properly function on large scale or will they have to be broken up
>Technological advancements occur, what is to prevent slow adaption and production
>How do you keep at least the majority of people doing work other then the minimum for resources to live (working in factories and such, someones gotta do it)
Thorstein Veblen
>Representative government means, chiefly, representation of business interests ….for there is a naive, unquestioning persuasion … among the … people to the effect that, in some occult way, the material interests of the populace coincide with the pecuniary interests of those business men who live within the scope of the same set of governmental contrivances. This persuasion is an article of popular metaphysics, in that it rests on an uncritically assumed solidarity of interests, rather than on an insight into the relation of business enterprise to the material welfare of those classes who are not primarily business men. This persuasion is particularly secure among the more conservative portion of the community, the business men, superior and subordinate, together with the professional classes, as contrasted with those … portions of the community who are tainted with socialistic or anarchistic notions. But since the conservative element comprises the citizens of substance and weight, and indeed the effective majority of law-abiding citizens, it follows that, with the sanction of the great body of the people, even including those who have no pecuniary interests to serve in the matter, constitutional government has, in the main, become a department of the business organization and is guided by the advice of the business men. The government has, of course, much else to do besides administering the general affairs of the business community; but in most of its work, even in what is not ostensibly directed to business ends, it is under the surveillance of the business interests.
Theory of Business Enterprise is a great classic work I think every Anarchist should read; it's over 100 years old but very relevant still.
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/veblen/busent/
International Bank of Azerbaijan First Victim of Devaluation
>However, problems during the financial crisis of 2008-2009 were experienced not only by IBA. The then director of the Moscow office of Fitch Ratings for Financial Institutions Vladimir Markelov told Turan that in January-June 2009 asset quality deteriorated in all the Azerbaijani banks. The worst situation in this respect was observed in IBA.
>In the structure of problem loans of IBA 18.6% of them were overdue and 9.2% - restructured, on which the recipients once again came to agreement with the bank to change the terms of payment.
>The Chairman of the NGO Center for Economic Research Gubad Ibadoglu believes that this problem occurs in the IBA and other domestic banks due to their poor management. According to him, financial managers should take into account the global financial crisis and be able to manage risks in the crisis.
>More than half (50.2%) of the shares in IBA are owned by the state. According to Ibadoglu, in the case of deterioration of the situation the government will take measures to rescue the bank. The expert believes that dealing with banks through lending will give only temporary results and there is a need for more drastic measures.
> IBA is the only bank where a majority stake is owned by the state, which is not in a hurry with its privatization. For unclear reasons, the government put aside the roadmap for restructuring, reform and privatization of IBA, prepared by the IMF in 2012. Its implementation, according to the IMF, will open opportunities for the development of private banks, as well as diversifying the risks facing the country's banking system.
>In Azerbaijan there were 46 banks. And IBA no longer holds a special position - it is bypassed by Pasha Bank, Capital Bank and others. At the moment, the ratio of the assets of Azerbaijani banks to GDP is relatively low - about 30%.
Avast me fellow enemies of the Crown, this be a trips get for >>>/scurv/
>also, there doesn't seem to be an anarchist vidya thread. What is some /anarcho/-approved vidya?
>Dorf Fort is most anarchist IMO because it's free and you play as dorfs setting up an autonomous worker's syndicate
>why the fuck are gamers such fucking corporatecucks?
I really don't know where I land on the political spectrum, but am certainly open to the idea of anarchy. Unfortunately, there's a severe lack of competent explanations to fill all the holes I keep poking in the theory unintentionally.
Is there anyone there willing to go out of their way to take some time and convince me anarchy works? I'm looking to have a real damn debate on the topic.
My main problem of course being the lack of motivation for technological advancements and their application for globalization.
skype is captain_patchwork if anyone can hold a conversation
If you're a real anarchist why don't you grab a gun and go into the woods so I never have to speak with you on this computer made with parts that I purchased through stores made by companies.
Seriously, kill yourself or get lost you waste of space.
Pollitical compass thread!
Some kind anon posted this on /leftypol/ (and prob some other site) but this might give you guys a kick so here ya go comrades.
Having trouble understanding
I am having some trouble understanding the ideas behind anarchy. The philosophy is great, everyone getting along and self monitoring and shit. But I still don't get some things.
>with the lack of state comes a lack of regulation, meaning the entirety of a community can fall prey to the power developed over time by the strongest and smartest people
>entrepreneurship rewards those who create products and services that improve quality of life. Taking away this award system slows development and progress.
>no centralization means effectively mob rule, simply a far less refined version of democracy
>a community based on mutually agreed peace can easily fall victim to one or two people who have the ability to defend themselves
>no regulated infastructure means no properly maintained homes and roads unless necessary staff volunteer and agree to follow some sort of leadership
>if the internet is still available in such a scenario, there would be no way to enforce net neutrality and the world wide web is now entirely under the control of service providers
>ayncrapsim leads to oligarchies, ancommunism requires regulation to maintain
Etc. Etc. Anyone have any answers to stuff like this? I haven't exactly dug into the literature.
Pictures of the Spanish Revolution (xpost from /leftypol/)
A Barcelona cafe collectivised and converted into a public gastronomic centre by the UGT and CNT, 1936.
Aerial bombing of Barcelona in 1938 by Franco’s Nationalist Air Force.
After the 1936 uprising fascist Republican militiamen sacked some churches and related to the rebel movement. In the picture a nun buried in one of these churches is exposed on the street.
A group of Yugoslav International Brigadiers on the Levante Front, c. 1938.
Comrades, what is your opinion about Baader-Meinhof ?
They were some weird mix of Anarchism and Maoism, I am a Trot and I would critically support them
Are you curious about Islam?
Check out our new board then!
/anarcho/ emblem
ITT: we design an emblem for /anarcho/
what is the difference between anarchism and libertarianism ?
Anarchist Organizations
Tell us about anarchist organizations we could join, network with, and just learn from about their struggles.Federaçao Anarquista Gaúcha (Brazil):
http://www.federacaoanarquistagaucha.org/
Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (Uruguay):
http://federacionanarquistauruguaya.com.uy/
Federación Libertaria Argentina (Argentina):
http://www.federacionlibertaria.org/
Gimme that latino revolution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_anarchism
>Queer anarchism (or Anarcha-queer) is an anarchist school of thought which advocates anarchism and social revolution as a means of gay liberation and abolition of homophobia, lesbophobia, transmisogyny, biphobia, transphobia, heteronormativity, heterosexism, patriarchy, and the gender binary.
umm
how are hon-pros going to get their HRT pills, SRS, facial hair electrolysis, boob-jobs and facial feminization surgeries after society is overthrown during the anarchist revolution?
there is transphobia inherent in this ideology and I think the queer community needs to understand this
Hello everyone, I created an history and social sciences board with a more academic perspective. I invite you to check it out and share some of your point of views of the world, well structure arguments about your ideas and materials to enrich our understanding of reality.
Hopefully you can visit it and if you do, please enjoy it. Luckily the board will grow and have lots of materials and opinions to share.
This anarchy101.org page left me confused
http://anarchy101.org/6759/what-do-anarchists-think-of-voting-with-your-dollar?show=6759#q6759
Pay special attention to the replies of the user named Anarcho-Syndicalism and the replies.
S/he is the only one to give an alternative and not a critique and s/he's being barraged.
Am I being trolled?
Are they implying that socialist means like re-allocating your inevitable consumption under a capitalist society towards cooperative producers instead of capitalist ones AREN'T the means to an anarchist end?
>inb4 they're all brick-throwing garbage-hopping hobby-hobos.
Brainstorming
Okay, let's try something we can use to populate the wiki:Tell us about the latest anarchist-related book you have read, and if possible give us a short review.
Anti-police thread
Post stories, pictures, and gifs
Ride a bicycle? That's an eviction
http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/Bikes-banned-from-apartment-complex-303830731.html
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The Diggers
What does /anarcho/ think of the diggers.
>>>/pn/ has been reborn as the unified go-to board for politics and news. For too long the political boards of 8chan have been divided. On /pn/ you won't get banned for your opinion
Redpill me on Anarcho-Fascism
It's Worker's May Day, /anarcho/
Today we pay homage to the struggles and sacrifices of the working masses all over the world.
What are you doing today?
I'm shut in because of a really bad flu :(
The State sucks
If you disagree with the rulers then you must be sick.
You are not allowed to disagree.
Many people with severe anxiety and/or depression are also anti-authoritarians. Often a major pain of their lives that fuels their anxiety and/or depression is fear that their contempt for illegitimate authorities will cause them to be financially and socially marginalized; but they fear that compliance with such illegitimate authorities will cause them existential death.
>I have also spent a great deal of time with people who had at one time in their lives had thoughts and behavior that were so bizarre that they were extremely frightening for their families and even themselves; they were diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses, but have fully recovered and have been, for many years, leading productive lives. Among this population, I have not met one person whom I would not consider a major anti-authoritarian. Once recovered, they have learned to channel their anti-authoritarianism into more constructive political ends, including reforming mental health treatment.
>Many anti-authoritarians who earlier in their lives were diagnosed with mental illness tell me that once they were labeled with a psychiatric diagnosis, they got caught in a dilemma. Authoritarians, by definition, demand unquestioning obedience, and so any resistance to their diagnosis and treatment created enormous anxiety for authoritarian mental health professionals; and professionals, feeling out of control, labeled them “noncompliant with treatment,” increased the severity of their diagnosis, and jacked up their medications. This was enraging for these anti-authoritarians, sometimes so much so that they reacted in ways that made them appear even more frightening to their families.
>There are anti-authoritarians who use psychiatric drugs to help them function, but they often reject psychiatric authorities’ explanations for why they have difficulty functioning. So, for example, they may take Adderall (an amphetamine prescribed for ADHD), but they know that their attentional problem is not a result of a biochemical brain imbalance but rather caused by a boring job. And similarly, many anti-authoritarians in highly stressful environments will occasionally take prescribed benzodiazepines such as Xanax even though they believe it would be safer to occasionally use marijuana but can’t because of drug testing on their job
_It has been my experience that many anti-authoritarians labeled with psychiatric diagnoses usually don’t reject all authorities, simply those they’ve assessed to be illegitimate ones, which just happens to be a great deal of society’s authorities._
Maintaining the Societal Status Quo
>Americans have been increasingly socialized to equate inattention, anger, anxiety, and immobilizing despair with a medical condition, and to seek medical treatment rather than political remedies. What better way to maintain the status quo than to view inattention, anger, anxiety, and depression as biochemical problems of those who are mentally ill rather than normal reactions to an increasingly authoritarian society.
The reality is that depression is highly associated with societal and financial pains. One is much more likely to be depressed if one is unemployed, underemployed, on public assistance, or in debt (for documentation, see “400% Rise in Anti-Depressant Pill Use”). And ADHD labeled kids do pay attention when they are getting paid, or when an activity is novel, interests them, or is chosen by them (documented in my book Commonsense Rebellion).
In an earlier dark age, authoritarian monarchies partnered with authoritarian religious institutions. When the world exited from this dark age and entered the Enlightenment, there was a burst of energy. Much of this revitalization had to do with risking skepticism about authoritarian and corrupt institutions and regaining confidence in one’s own mind. We are now in another dark age, only the institutions have changed. Americans desperately need anti-authoritarians to question, challenge, and resist new illegitimate authorities and regain confidence in their own common sense.
In every generation there will be authoritarians and anti-authoritarians. While it is unusual in American history for anti-authoritarians to take the kind of effective action that inspires others to successfully revolt, every once in a while a Tom Paine, Crazy Horse, or Malcolm X come along. So authoritarians financially marginalize those who buck the system, they criminalize anti-authoritarianism, they psychopathologize anti-authoritarians, and they market drugs for their “cure.”
Therefore if you are for a nationalist government you are against modern and illegitimate multicultural governments.
TLDR Nationalism desires the same fate for modern multiculti establishments as Anarchism does
Lysander Spooner supported private property:
"The reason given for usury laws is, that they protect the poor from the extortions of the rich. But this reason is a false one-for there is no more extortion in loaning capital to the best bidder, than in selling a horse, or renting a house to the best bidder."
Does this mean he was not a real anarchist?
Anarchist Militias
Hello /anarcho/. In the United Sates, there has been a huge increase and right wing reactionary militia groups in the past decade, and all i can think about is why doesn't anarchists have something similar?I know, obviously anarchist militias cant be nearly as open as reactionary ones, but i don't know of any armed anarchist groups in the United states. Do they even exist? Are they just underground?
The historic truth project
Hello /anarcho/,I am gathering historic truths, mainly relating to the horrible nature of states and more importantly - their consistent failure throughout history. But, I do not know if this is entirely true. As far as i've noticed, a large amount of actual progress is just done by independent organizations like msf.org and so on and so forth.
Coming back to my original query, I am looking for information to write a paper for all anarchists and potential anarchists alike. A compilation similar to :
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM
Any information even remotely related would be fine. Like say the attempt to ban alcohol has been tried in many countries but repeatedly failed. (therefore we can conclude that this method of doing things is shit)
Another example is that ALL countries which treated drug users are patients saw a sharp decline in violence and "drug hoods" etc, as opposed to ALL countries which treated drug users as criminals, saw an increase in violence and other criminal activities related to drugs, but at the same time saw no drop in overall drug usage.
http://www.healthpovertyaction.org/campaigns/rethink-the-war-on-drugs/
(scroll down and read the PDF report)
There was also a UN committee consisting of South American PMs etc which came to the same conclusion.
This paper should also serve as an important reminder on why history is useful and on what contexts. With a focus on failures of state actions.
Thanks
>reclusive NEET living near Baltimore
>reasonable anarchist scene in Baltimore
>as of recently, Baltimore is the hot seat of unrest
Is… is now the time for me to start agitatin'? I'm freaking the fuck out because I feel like I have to do something but I don't know what and how.
>"I remember saying once to Arthur Koestler, ‘History stopped in 1936’, at which he nodded in immediate understanding. We were both thinking of totalitarianism in general, but more particularly of the Spanish civil war. Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’. Yet in a way, horrible as all this was, it was unimportant. It concerned secondary issues — namely, the struggle for power between the Comintern and the Spanish left-wing parties, and the efforts of the Russian Government to prevent revolution in Spain. But the broad picture of the war which the Spanish Government presented to the world was not untruthful. The main issues were what it said they were. But as for the Fascists and their backers, how could they come even as near to the truth as that? How could they possibly mention their real aims? Their version of the war was pure fantasy, and in the circumstances it could not have been otherwise."
>"This kind of thing is frightening to me, because it often gives me the feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. After all, the chances are that those lies, or at any rate similar lies, will pass into history. How will the history of the Spanish war be written? If Franco remains in power his nominees will write the history books, and (to stick to my chosen point) that Russian army which never existed will become historical fact, and schoolchildren will learn about it generations hence. But suppose Fascism is finally defeated and some kind of democratic government restored in Spain in the fairly near future; even then, how is the history of the war to be written? What kind of records will Franco have left behind him? Suppose even that the records kept on the Government side are recoverable — even so, how is a true history of the war to be written? For, as I have pointed out already, the Government, also dealt extensively in lies. From the anti-Fascist angle one could write a broadly truthful history of the war, but it would be a partisan history, unreliable on every minor point. Yet, after all, some kind of history will be written, and after those who actually remember the war are dead, it will be universally accepted. So for all practical purposes the lie will have become truth."
>"I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. In the past people deliberately lied, or they unconsciously coloured what they wrote, or they struggled after the truth, well knowing that they must make many mistakes; but in each case they believed that ‘facts’ existed and were more or less discoverable. And in practice there was always a considerable body of fact which would have been agreed to by almost everyone. If you look up the history of the last war in, for instance, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, you will find that a respectable amount of the material is drawn from German sources. A British and a German historian would disagree deeply on many things, even on fundamentals, but there would still be that body of, as it were, neutral fact on which neither would seriously challenge the other. It is just this common basis of agreement, with its implication that human beings are all one species of animal, that totalitarianism destroys. Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as ‘the truth’ exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as ‘Science’. There is only ‘German Science’, ‘Jewish Science’, etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, ‘It never happened’ — well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five — well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs — and after our experiences of the last few years that is not a frivolous statement."
Let's have an Orwell thread.
>/anarcho/ is safe for work
Oh god, what is this?!
"Anarchism has never worked"
Let me know if there is something more we should add. I'm thinking Rojava.Also, any resources that can be referenced as a sort of "infographic" would help.
I'm talking about, say, texts about the history and theories of depicted movements (Arshinov's history of the Makhnovshchina comes to mind, as well as Kropotkin's analysis of the Paris Commune).
Based Batko thread.
Heya /anarcho/
i've got a couple of friends in hotel management and one of them is curious as to how he could take care of guests in a anarchist society without capitalism…since there wont be anything like 5-star hotels and stuffs without capitalism.
>inb4 you cant like the voluntary act of taking care/serving other people
News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvpnG1gGoEEThis board needs a news thread.
Im also looking for credible news sources the discuss anarchist topics.
I would also like to make a list of sources that aren't credible when looking for this kind of content.
It's doing no good collecting dust on the shelf, so…
First person to prove they have a working printer with good DPI will get this for free. There is a catch though. To claim your prize, you must call 425-998-0825 and give me enough personal info that I can pester you into doing your job.
Once you receive this awesome piece, you must scan it, ALL OF IT, onto another thread on this board. Hopefully this book can get a better home. One that will make it digitally immortal.
This seems like the closest thing to an anarchist state that immigrating to is plausible.
Are there any free staters in /anarcho/?
I find it amusing that the first thoughts an anarchist needs is "How do I control everyone else to make this work?".
Enjoy your statist delusions.
hey anarcho , why arent you a discordian yet ?
discordianism is anarchist at its very core
you should read the black iron prison anyway ,its filled with anarchist ideas and doctrine
http://principiadiscordia.com/bip/1.php
Human nature
We've all heard the silly misconceptions and myths presented as if they were a part of who we "naturally" are, this thread is for discussing human nature bullshit."As theoretical possibilities, one can envisage that man might be genetically determined as aggressive or submissive, warlike or peaceful, territorial or wanderer, selfish or generous, mean or good. Are any of these possibilities likely to be realized? Would the fixation of any of these dispositions, so that they become uncontrollable urges or drives, increase the adaptiveness of a species that relies on culture for it's survival? I believe that the answers to those questions are in the negative." - Theodosius Dobzhansky (evolutionary biologist)
Race:
"Humanity cannot be classified into discrete geographic categories with absolute boundaries. The human features which have universal biological value for the survival of the species are not known to occur more frequently in one population than in any other. Therefore it is meaningless from the biological point of view to attribute a general inferiority or superiority to this or to that race. The human species has a past rich in migration, in territorial expansions, and in contractions. As a consequence, we are adapted to many of the earth's environments in general, but to none in particular. Partly as a result of gene flow, the hereditary characteristics of human populations are in a state of perpetual flux. Distinctive local populations are continually coming into and passing out of existence. Such populations do not correspond to breeds of domestic animals, which have been produced by artificial selection over many generations for specific human purposes. The biological consequences of mating depend only on the individual genetic makeup of the couple, and not on their racial classifications. There is no necessary concordance between biological characteristics and culturally defined groups. On every continent, there are diverse populations that differ in language, economy, and culture. There is no national, religious, linguistic or cultural group or economic class that constitutes a race… there is no causal linkage between these physical and behavioral traits, and therefore it is not justifiable to attribute cultural characteristics to genetic inheritance. The genetic capacity for intellectual development is one of the biological traits of our species essential for its survival. This genetic capacity is known to differ among individuals. The peoples of the world today appear to possess equal biological potential for assimilating any human culture. Racist political doctrines find no foundation in scientific knowledge concerning modern or past human populations." - http://physanth.org/about/position-statements/biological-aspects-race/
There are no black, white, asian etc. races, it is nought but a social construct and a damaging one at that. The idea that there are a set of biological characteristics that divide us into races is absurd and to think that differences in disease patterns and sport prove that they exist is ridiculous (black people are good at basketball etc.). I will add stuff about aggression later if I feel like it.
Individual anarchists (Terrorists and reformists)
Those who are instinctively against all forms of authority and organization; believing organized power of any kind is a contradiction with anarchist principles. Individual anarchists usually follow two distinct paths of practice: (1) Reformists who stress the need for education and social awareness to reform society and achieve a mutualistic, laissez-faire capitalism to promote completely free competition. While they may support strikes and various social protests, they do so spontaneously — they are against organizing groups or parties to carry out such actions. (2) Terrorists ("propaganda of the deed") who seek to arouse revolutionary terror in the masses and government, to introduce periodic states of anarchy to instruct and convince the masses to spontaneously participate in overthrowing the government.
https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/a/n.htm#anarchism
Okay ,how accurate are they on individual anarchism? if Individual anarchism is "capitalism" then it's not anarchism at all. Though I feel it's just marxists being full of shit.
SYRIZA is in a big big trouble if anything happens to these guys. This is how you unmask a "communist" power in couple months. Trust your analysis and keep practising them.
The moment the following words were written, we’re on the 25th day of hunger strike, for the liberation of Christos and Gerasimos Tsakalos’ mother, as well as the second one’s girlfriend.
The pre-trial detention of our two comrades’ relatives was an act of revenge by the judicial power against us, in retaliation for the escape we had prepared, with the bombing of the prison.
Now, reaching a tipping point between life and death, we want to share some thoughts with brothers and sisters, accomplices, comrades and anarchists all over the world. Of course, we know that upgrades of repression does not occur only in the Greek territory. It has already been applied in several countries, wishing to avenge anarchist deniers of the existent. Recently, in Chile, cops wanted to implicate the mother of the comrade Juan Aliste (“Security” Case) to a case of escape attempt of her son and his comrades. Moreover, in Spain, through Operation “Pandora”, when comrades from the friendship circle of anarchist prisoner Monica Caballero were targeted, while relatives of the anarchist Tamara Sol, in Chile, during their visit in prison, suffered the revengeful sadistic “care” of the penal officers who wanted to inflict humiliating body searches on them.
These attacks against relatives and friends of the anarchist prisoners seek to form an impassable moat of isolation around us. What the arrests, the verdicts and the prison bars failed to achieve, the emotional blackmail and the locking up of our beloved ones in the cells of democracy comes to accomplish. The blackmail is clear: we either make truce, or our relatives remain in prison. We’re not going to sign any paper of repentance nor capitulate with power. We remain unrepentant anarchists and every day power keeps our people as hostages, the wolf of negation and attack festers more and more inside us…
We know that several comrades around the world, with whom we are connected through the complicity of the anarchist action, feel numb towards the choice of hunger strike. As some close comrades from Croatia wrote to us, hunger strike, posing demands on power, in some sense, acknowledges it when asks for their satisfaction. Somebody else could say the hunger strike looks like a reliance on emotions, which nourishes the traders of hope and humanism to play political games on our backs. We understand some concerns related to the method of the hunger strike as, in the past, we have shared them with each other. Besides, in several cases when we experienced the revenge of power upon us, we chose to act in a different way and not by hunger strike. To put it simply: to war, we answer back with war. Because our choice is always the attack. But now we’re not talking about ourselves. The hostages in prison are our relatives now. This is why we chose a hunger strike, to publicly expose the ugliness and morbidity of power. We are on the 25th day of hunger strike already and we don’t recognise a millimeter of donated ground by power to us. Besides, we are aware that freedom is conquered through the violence of our own actions and won’t be given away by its laws. But our relatives do not share the war we have declared against power, so they won’t share our imprisonment. This is why we demand their immediate release from the cells of democracy.
>The body was too long.
Meanwhile in Poland
Biggest anarchist
I am the biggest anarchist here.I ignore debts from loans, I ignore payment for healthcare and brainwashing public service radio broadcasters.
I am not paying one single cent back.
In fact, I could do that, but inststead I withdrew all the papervalue and threw it away.
Anarchist quotes
Don't forget to include the source so anons can see what else this anarchist said.
Atachyon.com
I made a website. It's a link aggregator focused on the intersection of technology and anarchy, though it can also just be about either of those things. Right now it's mostly just some @news links I used to test it a week ago. If you would like to use it or try to break it or whatever, I'd appreciate the help.https://atachyon.com/
source code: https://github.com/jrhatachyon/atachyon
What does Neitzche have to do with anarchism? And why does anarcho have a banner with him?
Anarchy and Muh Sciens: Non-shitposty Addition
I realize there's already a thread that's been posted relating to anarchism and science, but the thread is shitposting and I have a different domain of inquiry within the topic of science:I had a professor - who is a Marxist but is sympathetic to anarchism at least - who once summarized his objections to anarchism as: "If anarchists can DIY oncology then I'll join them"
I'm not one of those "OH YEA ANARCHISM CAN'T WORK BECUZ THE ROADS WON'T GET BUILT!!1!", but I think this does raise an interesting point: How would an anarchist society have things like oncology, or aerospace programs, or even an Internet - things that, in our current society, require massive, coordinated efforts, large amounts of resources, and a significant amount of technical expertise?
I don't believe this is impossible, but I'm curious what potential answers one could give as to how things like this would be possible in a society without hierarchies.
>does this guy Feyerabend have any relevance here? stumbled across him while searching the net
Hey guys, remember occupy?
You know how there's now even more of a police state?
You know how the US, Sony and China are negotiating for cyber-"security"?
You read about that Google tattoo yet?
We need some sort of a protest movement or even a full on revolution right about now.
August showed us all what the elite are trying to do right now, which is to get us ready for the cull after either the US or China financially collapses and takes the rest of the world with them.
So why don't we do something?
lolderp
hide ancrap posts, ignore ancrap comments. do not pay attention to the inherent capitalism of this board
Gather 'round, comrades, we need to talk
Alright /anarcho/, it's time to address a problem our board has been experiencing as of late.To put it shortly, our board has been discreetly raided by shitposters, shills, and otherwise ideologically challenged folk. It's time we do something about it.
First off, the Board Admin has given no sign of life even though the rules get systematically broken. I am not sure if he is doing it on purpose to make our board more 'Anarchic', but either way I honestly prefer such an arrangement. If we have any hopes of achieving revolution, it appropriate we learn to endure and deal with these idiots by ourselves without the aid of authorities.
So what I am essentially doing, I guess, is calling for organization. For starters, these are some principles we should adhere to at all times (they are mostly a re-statement of the board guidelines, but I guess we could all use a reminder):
Hide bait threads, ignore bait posters, do not reply to bait posts. I mean this. Ignore the trolls and they will soon go bait on more turbulent waters.
If (or when) the board gains enough traction and gets enough attention for kiddie fidders to start spamming our boards with their garbage, report them on sight. If due to Volunteer shortage they aren't gone after a reasonable period, report them to >>>/meta/
Keep ancap, minarchism and manarchism discussion on threads specifically dedicated to the discussion. This goes for other controversial schools of Anarchy as well.
Right now, the specific threads are:
Ancap >>3178
Minarchism >>4126
Manarchism >>3926
Ignore every other thread relating to these topics. Ignore attempts at derailing on other threads. Stay on topic.
Blatant attempts at discrediting Anarchy, or specific schools, by means of strawmen or personal attacks, by shills who clearly have no intention to have actual discussion, should be ignored. Engage debate only with posters who show interest in honest arguments.
Encourage quality threads, write quality posts. Go to the catalog and post on any of the worthwhile threads that have been drowned on the sea of piss that has flooded /anarcho/ for quite some time. If you have something interesting to share about Anarchy, don't hesitate to do so. Let's get real discussion going.
Naturally, I don't expect shitbags to cooperate on this, but to all true Anarchists out there, regardless of your philosophical inclination, let us work together to save our board from the cancer that's killing it.
Pic related, based Malatesta had it right.
why did you delete my age of consent thread?
What's the viewpoint of anarchists and science, I seem a little confused here. From what I see that there's a large amount of males in science. Let's say that the way these institutions work only makes way for men, it's only a argument against hierarchy, or at best social norms. This very well has nothing to do with scientific knowledge that has been produced in itself.
Obscurantism is a fairly common thing I see in most fields, including science(wilhelm reichs orgon energy seems pretty false to me). Most mainstream information produced by most of these fields is just obscurantist crap. However, to me, it seems like mainstream science isn't all that obscurantic at all. Thanks to Occam's razor and the scientific method.
Often I see anarchists go against mainstream versions of science. Is it because they merely fail to understand it?
I can assure you, scientists like Norman Borlaug have done tremendous good to humans(maybe not nature, could be debated).
I may be entirely wrong here about my observations, so feel free to correct me.
the pseudo-'nationalism' of the 'nation-State' - which anarchists unequivocally oppose…must be distinguished from the nationalism of the people (Volk) which in its more consistent expressions is a legitimate rejection of both foreign domination and internal authoritarianism, i.e. the State.
- The Black Ram Group
What is the general consensus on Christian Anarchism? Is Christianity inherently hierarchical or exploitative? Can Christians be anarchists or vice versa?
Maybe expanding out the topic even further, what is the role of religion within anarchism? Is anarchism a purely political/economic position or is it an entire lifestyle? Can one be spiritual and still be an anarchist?
UN and international law
Would an anarchist society abide by international law? How would yall deal with breaches of international law/UN resolutions against your "country"
Has anyone been following the lead up to the general strike action in May in Montreal. pic related.
The Truth About School: Another Brick in the Wall!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIejieCEfzAGood summary for any statists in your life..
BOMB
The bomb originated from /b/ and traveled here from /luckystar/
Hey anarcho, wanna raid and shit all over some statist board?
>>>/roma/
Shit all over those statist roman militaries and piss on their roads and talk about how minarcho-democracy Athens was way better and Monarchist militant Sparta can suck it (also Hispania).
>pic related is how caesar thinks of you
Free Education
>>7960Hey /anarcho/, >>>/freedu/ here - come visit us for free educational resources for everyone! We're a left-leaning education board, please feel free to make a thread for educational Anarchist political theory and other resources to learn about Anarchism. I can also give your board a mention in our dedicated sticky if you like us enough :)
Because education is something everyone should have access to.
FORCED COLLECTIVISM
Plans for after the Revolution
Alright /anarcho/, let's assume the Revolution has happened. The President, Congress, and all of the U.S. Government is long gone. Now what? What do we do? How will we rise from the ashes? Please define what you think would be the ideal new government to rebuild the crumbled America.>What will the basis for our government be? (e.g. democracy, monarchy, republic)
>Who will lead this nation, and how will they be chosen?
>How will laws be made?
>What inalienable rights will citizens have?
>How will those rights be protected?
>How will we keep the government from becoming corrupted again?
How will we deal with current hot topic issues (e.g. lgbt rights, immigration, drug laws, etc.)
>What will our economic system be?
for a new misunderstanding of overstanding
i just wanted to stop by and let you guys know that you're all a bunch of faggots. most of you are ignorant, contrary, sectarian, completely blinded by dogma, largely uneducated, and thoroughly butthurt. you're a bunch of platformists, straight up communists (no an-), capitalists (no an-), there's at least one liberal in there, and maybe one actual intellectual on the entire board. the mod is pretty fash for an anarchist. all you do is troll each other and broadcast your own butthurt. there isn't an active thread that didn't start as shitposting and immediately degenerate into whiny namecalling bullshit.but that's ok. that's pretty much anarchism for you. maybe anarchism's greatest strength is the fact that no two anarchists in the world can get along with each other. it could be that the very ignorance and apathy that prevents so much as an interesting discussion in an anarchist forum are the exact qualities that might make anarchism possible.
if no two people can agree with each other then there's shit chance of them forming any sort of a state. if anarchists spend all their time squabbling with each other over petty bullshit then no one is going to have the time let alone the wherewithal to oppress anyone else.
obviously a lot of people got it badly wrong thinking that anarchism could ever be any sort of an organized unanimous philosophy. platformism indeed! haa!
not only are people who are hardheaded self superior fucksticks attracted to anarchism because "fuck you don't tell me what to do goddamnit!!". but anarchism could only be pulled off by a bunch of hardheaded self superior fucksticks. precisely because "fuck you don't tell me what to do goddamnit!!"
so basically i just wanted to pop in the door and let you guys know how fucking proud i am of you. you pack of bastards couldn't drive your own fingers up your own asses let alone allow anyone else to tell you whether you could or not. i've never seen a pack of mindless arbitrary ungovernable snarky hilarious lovable shitstains as the likes of you in all my life.
god help me i hope never do again. but don't let anyone tell you you're not doing good work here. especially not me for god's sake i'm the OP. and OP is obviously a fucking faggot.
love you guys. keep keeping it weird
Action Thread
Alright, so here I have a suggestion. I dont believe we should just be going around in circles on this board and have daily x threads. I sure hope it doesn't turn into that.So what can we do? I propose that anarcho starts a collective, international one, and runs it. What will this collective do? How will it work? That's what this thread is for.
>inb4 orain wiki
Ideological bias.
So we have a number of left-wingers defending net neutrality.My question for left-anarchists is how they view the current state of the Internet.
To me, the Internet unadulterated is the very definition of an "anarcho"-capitalistic society. We have generated some de facto means of exchange and coordinate voluntarily.
If society functioned as the Internet does, would you object?
Graffiti
Is Graffiti an effective way to get our message across? Not just the graffiti itself, but inst it also an act of defiance in and of itself?
International Women's Day
International Women's Day action in Turkey by the "Anarşist Kadınlar" (Anarchist Women).
Hey guys, shouldn't statism in itself be right winged? Any form of statism should be either right or center. Even state-socialism.
Zapatistas
Not much discussion about them here for some reason. Lets change that.
Who was Che Guevara and what did he do? He was a communist in cuba, what makes him so special?
How would an anarchist society deal with ebola?
Aren't SJW's trying to start a "black supremacy" thing? I am all in for equality, but what about things like this, don't people often ignore shit like this?
http://8ch.net/news+/res/8718.html
I think all we see is a shift from a white supremacy fascism to a black supremacy fascism with SJWs.
I'm neither black skinned nor white skinned and this "black supremacy thing" is just my perspective, but I'd like to know what you guys think.
The only good fascist is a dead fascist. I don't care if they come from an oppressed minority.
So, I'm assuming you've read the above story and stuff. What's your take on his michael brown thing?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=88e_1408118546
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db5_1418177214
[above is Michael brown footage, second one may not be it]
Anyway, my whole point is that this "blacks against white supremacy movement" is just a sham to me.
PS I don't live in the US, so I don't really know all the facts, i'm just posting things i've found over time in different places.
Anarchist Audio books
Post any and all Anarchist audio books.
How to deal with the Police
How should anarchists deal with the police? Im not talking about to attach them or something along those lines, im talking about how to deal with the police on an individual basis.I wanna know what to do if they pull me over, i wanna know what to do if they search me, or arrest me, or anything else they could do to me, and i wanna be able to walk away from the encounter. Any legal advice would be appreciated, but im mostly looking for things that would help in the event of an arrest or attempted arrest.
Why is this board only active and engaging when it comes to shitting on feminism and other social movements?
Why can't you spend more energy on more productive discussion?
Why is this board such a giant echo chamber?
What does /anarcho/ think of /leftypol/?
I think it's an awful cesspit of wanna be Anarchists. It's seriously awful over there. It's just a huge hugbox.
pic unrelated
anfems are the same as ancaps
So why the fuck do they have a banner here? That's plebbit-tier anarchism.
what do you think of this /anarcho/?
Living underground
Hey, do you know how to get a flat for which you pay monthly in cash?Anywhere in Europe?
I need to disappear because of some debts and some insurance is already crying for money.
Marxism thread
What is your opinion of Marxists? Are they allies of the revolution, or authoritarian would-be bourgeoisie?As an Anarchist, what distinctions do you draw between different schools of Marxism? What about the doctrines of their leaders? Marx, Engels, Kautsky, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, Hoxha, Castro?
We can make this a Marxism general to discuss how the Anarchist movements could, or should, associate with Marxists.
Street battle in Istanbul
Running street battles with riot police continuing in Istanbul tonight to mark the anniversary of the death of the 15 year old shot by police during the Gezi park protests.This clip shows an exchange of fireworks and what appear to be stun grenades.
source: Anarşist Kadınlar and Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland)
The anarcho wiki is up, please check it out here:
anarchism.orain.org
I look forward to your contributions or suggestions.
Are there any realistic arguments against anarchism?
>Greece headquarters of Syriza occupied by anarchists in solidarity to hunger strikers and their demands
#REKT
has this board got any bias against arachno communism and arachno-communists ?
1. Do you have any pets? What are their names? Where did you get them?
Dog - Polka
Cat - Aldo
Both adopted
2. When did you begin getting interested in anarchism?
Age 16.
3. Do you vote?
No
4. Where do you work? Why? Do you like it?
Quit at Outback Steakhouse. Was awful.
5. Do you have children? Will you get married someday? Have kids?
No. Yes. No.
6. What are your hobbies?
I run an anarchist zine distro, book DIY punk/rock/noise shows, and read/play RuneScape
7. Are you religious? Spiritual?
Spiritual.
Blackpill me on Jewish Anarchism
Anarchy for Jews, Capitalism for Gentiles?
Suicide
Suicide is the purest form of Anarchism in nowadays.The state and society loses another lowly cattle they can milk.
And while doing that also don't repay and debts from the loan.
A big fuck you to the state, to society and its citizens.
Hello, I've just repaired the /new/ board.
https://8ch.net/new/
If you would check it out, I would appreciate it; thank you.
Free Tekno
What is to be said of the anarchist dimension to the Free Tekno scene?
How to be an anarchist
Ello /anarcho/, how do i become an anarchist?Im not talking about literature or whining on the internet, im talking about out in real life.
What groups can i join? Where do i go? Who do i need to talk to? What should i do?
Noam Chomsky
No chomsky thread? I am dissapoint /anarcho/, very disappoint.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06-XcAiswY4
Opt Out Lite
Has anyone here tried opting out of as many aspects of the state or capitalism without actually living on a commune or whatever?Like only buying the barest of essentials and trying to buy them from systems which engage the least labour, working as few hours as humanly possible etc etc?
Police Brutality
Post shit related to police brutality.
Alright /anarcho/, what are some good movies about anarchy? Things with anti-statist, anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian messages are always good.
Inb4 Fight Club or V for Vendetta
Meditation with reactionaries is anti-anarchist.
Capitalists, nationalists, statists, authoritarians, fascists, monarchists and all other entryists are opportunist reactionaries. They intend to destroy our ideology with their reactionary deception and political manipulation. They are a cancer on anarchism and society (by preventing the organization of anarchism itself) and must be fought whenever the chance.
Individualists, egoists, primitivists, postleftists and all other lifestylists are consistent reactionaries. They hold a bourgeois view of life and bourgeois social values. They don't hold a view of community that is social, but rather individual, in the worst form of petty bourgeoisie. They misplace their alienation, instead of identifying it as a product of relations, they identity it as their way of life.
Christian, jewish, satanist, buddhinst, muslim, and other religious forms of anarchism are reactionary too. They are theologists who seek to impose a form of state by manner of religion. Reactionary metaphysics are an obstacle to true emancipation of the masses.
Synthesisists and anadjectivists are mediating reactionaries. Union of two conflicting ideologies always gives prevalence to the most backward one. The synthesis cannot exist but as the expression of the negative.
The passion for destruction is a creative passion too.
The only chance to create anarchism is through the organization of the working masses. We need the mutualists, collectivists, syndicalists, communists, platformists, and other social anarchists to organize the working class and themselves. They are the only truly revolutionary form of anarchism. They are the negative in which freedom can be found only.
Revolutionary anarchists must rebel against all forms of theology, metaphysics, authoritarianism, bourgeoisie, and reactionary mediation.
Only then can social revolution truly materialize.
Which leads me to my next question:
WHY AREN'T YOU A SPECIFIST YET?
What does /anarcho/ think of #gitmo2chicago and Chicago PD black sites? And does anyone know of any IRL protets outside Chicago?
Link. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/28/chicago-protests-police-black-site-homan-square
Q&A
In the interest of strengthening the collaboration among the posters of this board, and increasing their theoretical, practical and argumentative skills, I've decided to make this Q&A thread.Here, newish, less-read and less-experienced can ask questions about theory and history, as well as advice, to resident oldfags of the anarchist struggle.
Here is an example:
> Q: Is it true that Makhno was an asshole to the railway workers of Ukraine?
> A: Patently false. That is entirely a bolshevik fabrication used to justify their regime's actions against the libertarian communists of Ukraine.
> A short article by Iain McKay (author of the AFAQ) does a good job at explaining may charges made by the bolsheviks against Makhno: http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/on-the-bolshevik-myth
> It should be noted that the article is a response to an ISR article by Jason Yanowitz ( http://www.isreview.org/issues/53/makhno.shtml )
> Relevant quotes from the article:
> "Then there is Makhno’s advice to the railway workers. Well, that is the key thing – it was advice as he thought that working class people had to solve their own problems by themselves, through their own organisations. In contrast, Trotsky imposed martial law on them along strict military and bureaucratic lines. One-man management or workers’ control? Which is more socialist? And which the railway workers preferred? And which worked better, given the railway network totally collapsed after Trotsky got his way with it? Needless to say, in spite of the Bolshevik track record of breaking strikes, disbanding soviets, suppressing freedom of organisation, assembly and speech and imposing political and economic dictatorship onto the working class, Yanowitz still tries to argue that it was the Makhnovists who were anti-working class rather than the Bolsheviks!"
> "Significantly, the one-man management imposed by the Bolsheviks made things worse. On the railways, for example, abolishing the workers' committees resulted in more confusion, isolation and ignorance of local conditions. It got so bad that "a number of local Bolshevik officials . . . began in the fall of 1918 to call for the restoration of workers' control, not for ideological reasons, but because workers themselves knew best how to run the line efficiently, and might obey their own central committee's directives if they were not being constantly countermanded." (William G. Rosenberg, Workers' Control on the Railroads, pp. D1208-9) Leninist wishful thinking and fantasy aside, the destruction of the Russian economy under the weight of centralisation confirmed the anarchist argument on the importance decentralisation, from the bottom-up organising and federalism."
> The work Workers' Control on the Railroads by William G. Rosenberg is a good read on this ( http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1876231?sid=211054847941010 ).
Try to make your questions as concrete as possible, so it can be satisfactorily answered in a few paragraphs at most.
Advertising Shits in Your Head
http://strikemag.org/advertising-shits-in-your-head/
http://civiroglu.net/the-constitution-of-the-rojava-cantons/
>rojava
>anarchist
Switzerland literally has a better constitution.
The Archic
Story time /anarcho/Once upon a time, in a kingdom situated between two seas, the people kept a certain great monster, called an archic. This archic was a most ferocious beast with great iron claws and a mouth large enough to swallow a dozen men at a gulp. The people held this frightful monster in great esteem, altho it was a great burden to them, for it had to be fed constantly upon the fat of the land, and demanded human flesh and blood, as well as the choice fruits of the soil, and was always hungry.
This savage beast had to be securely chained, and a vast number of men, called archons, or officers of the archic, were required to feed and care for the monster. Every once in a while the archic would break his chain and do no end of mischief among the people; and at all times he had to have human blood to satisfy his appetite.
Altho the people feared the archic greatly, they agreed that he was a necessary evil, and very useful to keep other evil-doers quiet, for when a man did anything not approved by the people, they gave him to the archic. It thus happened that, if a man was very wealthy, he could appease the appetite of the beast with such things as it liked to feed upon, and thus escape himself; but when a poor man, who had not the means to appease the monster’s appetite, fell into its clutches he was apt to fare rather badly.
But the people, tho they agreed that the archic was a useful and necessary evil, were not satisfied with the manner in which it was kept, and they were continually devising new methods of feeding it, and of utilizing its usefulness.
Some wanted to curtail its activity as much as possible, while others wished to lengthen its chain, and give it more scope and power. But there were a few individuals who said that the monster ought to be killed. These persons were called Anarchists; and the vast majority of the people regarded them as wicked. And especially the archons, or keepers of the archic, who said that the Anarchists should be given to the archic as a sacrifice to law and order.
But the Anarchists continued to reason with the people, and at last so many of them were convinced, that they begun to ignore the archic, and refused to contribute to its support. The result was that the archic, deprived of its daily supply of food, sickened and died; and when it was no more, the people discovered that it had been a great curse, an unmixed evil that was not in the least necessary to their happiness, but on the contrary, had made life miserable for all the people without their knowing the cause. And there was great rejoicing, and everybody declared that they had always been Anarchists to the third and forth generation of ancestors.
Hey anarcho, I came across a artistic image, which had a caption which said something along the lines of "You cannot be free until you free yourself from faulty reason". Now I can no longer find the blog or the image. I was hoping some of you may know about this image. It's really great from an artistic and from a propaganda point of view.
I'll dump Spanish revolution images in exchange.
How am I supposed to browse/use/read The Libertarian Labyrinth and its associated projects?
http://blog.libertarian-labyrinth.org/
Greece general
Okay, so a lot of shit is going down over at Greece.The parliament dissolved a few months ago, now the left coalition party SYRIZA was elected in majority, has already formed alliances with right-nationalist parties, has abandoned their revolutionary program and gone reformist.
There are currently three radical alternatives for the Greek workers: the first one is the other notorious left party in Greece, the KKE, a highly sectarian (and obviously authoritarian) stalinist party. Another is the Golden Dawn, a fascist party.
Then there is, of course, the huge anarchist movement of Greece.
What should the anarchists in Greece do to consolidate the power of the worker masses?
KKE and Golden Dawn are already opposed to us, and have taken measures against us. I suspect SYRIZA, holding the parliament now, have a similar position.
Also any stories or news regarding the problematic Greek political climate would be appreciated.
If you are feeling really inspired, we could use an article in the /anarcho/ wiki: https://anarchism.orain.org/wiki/Main_Page
Isn't the new infinity board a little taste of common ownership anarchism??
I wanted to post this here because I've been thinking about this idea for a while, and some guy has finally made it.>>>/infinity/
"Instead of being owned by one guy, everybody on this board is the Board Owner! The username is Anyone, and the password is 0. Since the board is owned by all, everyone has a say in how it is run, just as it should be"
An additional piece of info is that HW locked the admin password so that no one person can lock out control.
Doesn't this match the communal ownership of the social-anarchist commune? All are mods, and the workers as a collective have equal access to govern free of hierarchical authority.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to set up a social anarchist majority there and use our direct democratic power to out vote /pol/ types that might try and come in.
We could have some sort of code to identify proper socialists and anarchists, and then together only use access the mod abilities to ban non-socialist reactionary forces.
Whatdya say?!