>>6893>Hey guys, remember occupy?I remember some colleagues of mine going off to that, I didn't go because I was justifiably skeptical of what it really was, not long after the protests ended I saw those people in a picture in the local newspaper waving around an American flag, I thought that was as equally disappointing as when I heard it was largely non-violent but the more I learn about it the more I'm distanced from it. Though all in all, North America, Western Europe, with our isolating atomistic sense of individualism, we need a sense of community, and direct democracy is far from something to complain about.
>you "anarchists" are all a bunch of upper-middle classed rich priveleged white kidsWhy would a bunch of upper-middle classed rich kids care about anarchism? Are only poor people who aren't white allowed to be anarchists? The very idea of being 'white' or 'black' is racist, and privilege isn't something you are supposed to feel guilty about, it's something you naturally will want to extend. Having any kind of relatively higher standard of living than another person doesn't mean you should lower yours in order to consistently preach equality. Anarchists aren't interested in equality without individual freedom, it's why we aren't Marxists. Privilege is another word for power, and with power comes great responsibility. Anarchism is about being the judge, jury, and executioner of your own laws, it means wielding more power for every individual than we've ever had before. Anarchism is about diluting the power that the rich have now in the form of money, and giving ourselves power through making us each self-sufficient, politically and economically involved, that is the power we are grabbing for. What class or "race" you attach to people now will mean nothing after an international anarchist revolution. I agree with one thing you said though: Occupy was a fucking joke, but maybe not for the same reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCwhlZtHhWsThe above video linked is why Occupy was a joke, because it was about identity politics, it was a liberal as it could possibly get, it was non-violent and had people waving American flags, that's not anarchist, that's 1968 all over again. The hippies of the 1960s affected american politics, but not necessarily in a good way. We need to reflect on realistic action and not just sending black blocs to smashing windows like the youth that we are associated with. We need to be militant, we need to recognize that if we take down the police we will have replace them, but show that we are different in that we are concerned with emphasizing a kind of informal nature to politics rather than something too bureaucratic, superficial, and detached from the community we live amongst. The forts, the police stations, the city hall, these need a kind of democracy too. It is not enough to have self-discipline in order to control and adequately use the world around us, we need to be gentle, open, and receptive to changing world, just as we should be active (destructive as to be creative,) with stout convictions and skeptical to that very same change. We must compel the mob to be self-critical, but only by being self-critical ourselves.