anarchism
Anarchism is a social movement that seeks liberation from oppressive systems of control including but not limited to the state, capitalism, racism, sexism, speciesism, and religion. Anarchists advocate a self-managed, classless, stateless society without borders, bosses, or rulers where everyone takes collective responsibility for the health and prosperity of themselves and the environment.
Theory
Introductory Anarchist Theory
- Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin
- Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
- Anarchy Works by Peter Genderloos
- Anarchism: A Beginner's Guide by Ruth Kinna
- Anarchism and Its Aspirations by Cindy Milstein
- Anarchy In Action by Colin Ward
- On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky & Nathan Schneider
- Anarchy by Errico Malatesta
Anarcho-Capitalism
Discord Legacy A collaborative doc of books and other materials compiled by the #anarchism channel on the Discord, containing texts and materials for all sorts of tendencies and affinities.
The Theory List :) https://hackmd.io/AJzzPSyIQz-BRxfY3fKBig?view Feel free to make an account and edit to your hearts content, or just DM me your suggestions ^~^ - The_Dawn
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Yeah, that's what I meant. The world calls them Anarchists, they don't call themselves Anarchists, but many of their methods can be analyzed in dialogue with Anarchist theory and methods. The name is less important than the praxis.
Ah okay. Understood, thank you for clarifying and sorry for misunderstanding.
One thing it will say as a critique is that while there is a lot of misrepresentation of anarchism online, it's worth being careful not to go to the opposite extreme of being a terminally offline anarchist, as it were. In its experience with organizing, there's a lot of anarchists out there who are intensely insecure about not wanting to be one of "those" anarchists online. The consequence is that they don't just resist NATO propaganda, but genuinely important additions to structural analysis because they basically assume anything new is like, terminally online stuff that doesn't matter. it's had to waste a shitton of time and energy organizing to resist anarchists who will not get with the times and end up being incredibly chauvinistic because they're too busy throwing out dogwhistles abt how the other anarchists are children with no experience with REAL organizing, when everyone would've been better off if they sat down and listened and evaluated things they were being educated on instead of desperately trying to detect and avoid "terminally online" elements of anarchism.
For that reason it pretty much never tells anyone to be wary of "internet anarchism" because they overcorrect into this incredibly out of touch terminally offline anarchism that really slows down organizing and causes a great deal of harm.