Anarchism

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/796702

Here's the linoleum. I think that the little ridges that weren't cut deep enough inside the bottle actually make it look better. My SO disagrees.

I'm working on family planning with my partner, and we want to have children within the next couple years. While I'm definitely an anarchist, I'm not a 'studied' anarchist and don't know as much as I'd like about the political theory. I watched a video from Andrewism on the topic, which made me think about this topic. I largely agree with his assessment, and want to raise my children without a hierarchy because I believe that it's the best method of raising children. The problem is that I don't really know how to go about it or how to bring it up to my partner. Obviously there isn't a 'right' way to do it because each child is their own person and I'd need to balance that with the responsibility of being the parent, but I'd love to know some guidance from other anarchist parents.

Workplace theft is the norm: your bosses are stealing from you every day. They’re living off your sweat. When you take money out of the register and put it into your pocket, that’s not workplace theft. That’s workplace justice.

I am reading "The Anarchic Order" by Anselme Bellagarrigue and "The Sociology of Pierre Joseph Proudhon" by Constance Margaret Hall.

Edit: Based off of a suggestion from someone I am rewriting this post to be more informative

I have been working on a mobile app that is supposed to help groups of people coordinate their actions towards a shared goal. I'm done with the basic features (I'm talking barebones here) and I am trying to find a community or two that would be willing to work with me to test and improve it.

The way the app currently works is that someone sets up a community name that other members of the community would use to get into a group. Anyone in the community can suggest goals for the community but the goal that is shown first is the most approved goal. In addition to suggesting goals anyone in the community would be able to suggest tasks that someone else in the community can either approve of and/or contribute towards. Finally if you click on a task there is the opportunity suggest and vote on reasons for doing or not doing a task.

The philosophy of this app is that if people are working towards a shared goal then individuals will choose to take actions that push that shared goal forward. The main thing stopping people is the lack of clear actions and steps that someone as an individual should take to help push that goal forward. That is what this app is trying to fix.

The following are some screenshots of what the current app looks like:

Main Page:

Task Page:

Add Goal/Task Page:

Add Reason Page:

Profile page:

In a country where days of national mourning are like weekends, every national tear for the dead of the social and class war is also a sob of hypocrisy. At the same time as the local alignment with the international anti-immigration policy of terror and death drowns more than 300 people on the Greek sea border, the Greek national team holds a minute’s silence and the political staff conducts memorials for the wronged. What hypocrisy! That the nation should mourn those it murders in order to keep the Greek ideal untainted and ironclad.

Someone almost got there

Someone almost got there

Are there any squats? What's the law concerning squatting? etc.

Emma Goldman was born on this day 154 years ago. Here are some reflections on her legacy and its importance from various people from 4 years ago.

Who is to blame for the increasing contradictions and distortions of late capitalist societies – and what can be done about it?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/165584

I would like to learn more about these tendencies, can you recommend any texts that describe those?

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/507845

to anyone who’s set up or been a part of community initiatives to fix the world, how did you get started? how’s it going now?

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the first anti-authoritarian international, international meetings are being prepared in the Swiss Jura mountains. They will take place from July 19 to 23, 2023 - with an extension of a few days to allow time and space for spontaneous meetings. We are making this appeal to clarify the role of these meetings, that is to say our concrete motivations, as well as the way we wish to organize them.

In a world that seems to be increasingly neutralizing radical protest - between repression, recuperation and control - it seems necessary to meet physically, as anarchists. In order to reflect collectively on the issues that matter to us, and in particular on the political and social evolutions of the last few years, and to continue to deepen the critiques that emancipate us. In order to learn more about the concrete struggles that are taking place everywhere, told by those who lead them. To form new hopes for the future. To build strong links between different anti-authoritarian groups and individuals, to strengthen solidarity between struggles across borders. And to make new people want to join them.

I generally use "anarchist" to describe my political philosophy. I'm pretty sure I'm using it correctly, but I'm not certain. I haven't had much contact with other "anarchists", just a bit of exposure through history and such.

First off, to me, "anarchism" doesn't mean "no government". Rather it means "no intrinsic authority". What I see among historical anarchists is an opposition to practices that, frankly, aren't all that often practiced any more, in the political realm. I'm referring to rule by bloodline and such, nobility and royalty. I get the impression the early anarchists wanted to do away with royal governance, in favor of a federation of voluntary governments instituted at the local level. Which is to say, they believed in government; they just wanted to do away with imposed external authority.

But I do see our current economic relations as having a great deal of externally imposed authority in it... though going into my beliefs about why, and what could be done about it, would be beyond the scope of this essay.

To me, anarchism means the following:

1. Favoring no unnecessary relationships of authority.

2. Where authority is necessary, it should be granted by those over whom the authority is exercised, directly and individually, to the greatest extent practicable. So, for example, if we have an economic system that leaves both employers and employees with the same level of market power (we do not, but if we did), the employer-employee relationship would qualify, since it commences by choice of both parties, and can end by the choice of either party.

3. Where this is impracticable, the authority in question should always be temporary, with a clearly delineated end. For example, the parent-child relationship is necessarily one of authority, since children lack the faculties to make all the decisions one needs to make. But this relationship should be premised on preparing the child to survive outside this relationship, and have a clear end point (the point of their majority). And I mainly include this but just for the parent-child relationship; I can't think of any others.

All this being said, I know there are those for whom Anarchism means "no government", usually detractors who don't actually understand the philosophy... or so I assume. Do I assume incorrectly? Is my use of the term wildly incorrect? I really don't know.

What is said by great employers of labor against agitators is unquestionably true. Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

~ Oscar Wilde