How I became an anarchist 

Hell yes 3:14. I started raising my kids from a very early age to see the "tricks" of advertising. The earliest example I pointed out was McDonald's, particularly the happy meals. They trick kids into wanting the food with toys, and the sugar and hollow calories trick people's mouths into getting hooked on the bad food. The family bonds regularly over mocking and deriding ads.

I think one of my nitpicks is to stress explicitly the need for anti-colonialism too. The one thing that made anarchism _click_ for me was hearing from an indigenous perspective that the state and similar apparatuses, e.g. capitalism, were themselves methods of colonialism and that, by necessity, anti-colonialism *_needs_* anti-statism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, and anti- other modes of oppression.

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Found your channel through Saint Drew a few weeks ago. Appreciate the knowledge sharing. This is how the movement grows.

I as a Danish person, would be very much interested in a critical video about "social democracy and the welfare state". It's very hard to persuade people over here in Scandinavia that it has failed (or never worked), especially because many trust authority a lot, (fairly regulated) capitalism and defend representative democracy whole-heartedly. With the argument often, that Denmark has one of the best "systems" in the world, which annoys the fuck out of me.

I had always had fairly libertarian leanings when I was younger. I saw through the bullshit that we call borders. I had come out of the religion instilled homophobia and supported gay matriage when Prop 8 was going on. At some point along the way I lost that sense of myself, perhaps because I thought that it was unreasonable(?). At the start of 2020 I was basically a liberal in practice, socialist in theory, and, ironically enough, an animal liberation activist. I was just coming out of the alt-right pipeline. I had gotten stuck in the Ben Shapiro, Saargon of Akkad, etc. echochambers. I didn't like Trump because I thought he was an arrogant asshole, but I would argue with anyone who claimed he was racist, etc., and certainly did my stint as an "anti-SJW". Once the BLM Uprisings kicked off, my radicalization was set in motion. I remember starting off with condemning the looting and rioting, which slowly evolved to still condemning it but understanding it, and the more I read came to actually embrace it, but not from a love of violence and stealing. To go back a little bit before, I was at the store buying some groceries and I came across a book, specifically Ibram X. Kendi's "How To Be An Antiracist". I had been looking for books on racism, but the echo chamber I belonged to didn't have any recommendations from the opposing viewpoint, and the people I had argued with were sick of me anyway. I bought the book and it sat on my desk for a few months. Finally I gathered up the strength(?) to actually read it. I read it. I studied it. I internalized the things I was reading and seeing at the time (BLM Uprisings at their height, people being beat severely, run over, etc.) I had come to the conclusion that I had been wrong about police brutality and systemic racism. I started to wonder, "What else have I been wrong about?" I took aim on socialism. I started buying everything Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin and joining communist subreddits. Read a bunch of Marx and came across anarchists on RU-vid. At this time I was essentially a Marxist-Leninist. I almost paid for a lifetime membership to CPUSA (dodged a bullet there). I ended up buying a bunch of books on anarchism and joining anarchist subreddits. After a while I ended up just kind of switching over to anarchism. It seemed like a natural progression, though going from such an authoritarian ideology to anarchism certainly can't be that common. I have been an anarchist since. While coming to anarchism has been the best thing that's ever happened to me, it's also kind of the worst in a way. The pain I feel for those suffering, human and non-human alike, is much more pronounced because I finally see that there is no need for it. It has been good in that it has completely changed my perspective. I am way more open to listening and learning. I can read something written by liberals, auth-coms, etc. and apply an anarchist critique to it now. I've literally sat in leadership meetings run by CEOs for work, work I absolutely hate because it puts me in a hierarchy above others and no matter how equal I try to be I see I'll always be considered more as long as I stay in the position and can't escape some aspects of the job I have serious issues with, and applied anarchist critiques to what they say. I also absolutely hate advertisements now lol. That must just be a radical thing, though it only seemed to start after coming to anarchism. Coming to radical politics in general has helped me come to terms with my struggle to understand myself and my gender identity. For the first time in my life, I feel even a little bit of a sense of true freedom.

"Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals." ~ Emma Goldman

I'm on every watch list already. This can't hurt.

If I ever end up making a video like this about my own journey to anarchism I will have to mention how your channel helped me solidify myself as an anarchist. Thank you for all your efforts and keep up the good work!

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Decent vid to help understand where you come from. For a future episode I would love to see something explaining the historical links between liberalism, socialism, and anarchism, and where they diverged from each other, and influenced each other.

our learning and growing is a constant process

I was radicalized by first: Trump’s election in 2016 and lack of satisfactory answers as to why by liberals. Then, class consciousness was led by realization of all the systemic bullshit I’ve suffered as a disabled person. Anarchism came as an answer as to how to fix it,

My anarchism genesis also started from questioning the implied respectability of authorities.

To condense it as much as possible, my political journey was Socdem -> edgy internet atheist socdem -> edgy internet "gamer" socdem -> Marxist-Leninist -> anarchist.

For most of my past life I was a Clinton era centrist. Then I saw Robert Reich's Inequality for all documentary, and a Great Depression documentary. That was enough for me to choose the politics of social democracy. Bernie Sanders' campaign later confirmed much of that. Then I found Richard Wolff who introduced me to socialism. Largely, what I was missing was the principle of direct democracy, which I have gradually discovered from the UAW elections and learning about anarchism online.

Thanks for sharing. I too am in my journey diving deep into theory stage. Apart from the two books you mentioned, im curious about what other books you read along the way. A reading list would be a great future video idea.

17:35 "My Disillusionment in Russia" was written by Emma Goldman >_< Berkman wrote "The Bolshevik Myth"

My journey toward Anarchism was similar, except I didn’t pick up on the unworthiness of authority figures until cartoonishly bad authority figures entered my life. Before then I naturally accepted adult authorities as a child because they hadn't yet failed me. My Dad, who raised me alone, was fair and supportive and never tried to stifle any of my inborn traits, in fact he encouraged them. It was only after another family member committed an act of sexual violence against me, and other family members went on the defensive to protect him from legal or reputational consequences that I began to see worthiness of authority as not universally belonging to anyone above me. This family member moved out of state and cops in my city wouldn't move to call for extradition to stand trial because I guess it was too much headache and he was a minor too, being 15 at the time of the assault, while I was only 6. The cops, and many members of my family failed and deserted me. But my general disdain for authority wouldn't fully materialize until my Dad and a I moved to Utah, where the mormons were a powerful in-group, and non-mormons were a shunned out-group (I am not mormon, nor do I believe in any god at all). In my schools, for the entire 7 years I lived in St. George (From age 7 to age 14), kids would always ask me what ward I belonged to, and when I informed them that I was not LDS they would always say the exact same thing, "Oh, my parents say I can't talk to you then." Eventually word got around and no one would speak to me except for three other non-mormon kids. We were socially displaced towards one another by religious persecution and became good friends. The real problems started when any of us would get bullied. Whatever we did in retaliation, we'd get punished for, while the bullies themselves were let off the hook. The mormon teachers had it out for the four of us, but especially me, because I was good with words for my age. I could always identify EXACTLY why the way they were treating me and my friends was unfair, and these mormon teachers disliked being routinely outclassed by a 9 year old with a better grasp on the concept of justice than them. My Dad knew the situation I was in, and would take my side every time, unless I actually did something wrong; as I said before, he was fair. Because of this, teachers stopped threatening to call my dad when they wanted to punish me for defending myself against violent bullies. Instead they would take me to an empty classroom, because these situations often arose during lunch or recess, and sitting me down for what I now call Teacher's Tribunals, where three teachers that had it out for me would try to gaslight me into believing I was in the wrong and that my Dad would take their side if called. It never worked, I just called them theocratic tyrants (in other words, since I was a very young child with a limited vocabulary) and told them like it was. Eventually they'd have to let me go. But I became very anti-authority as a result of this treatment. I remember dressing up as Marilyn Manson for the halloween costume party one year just to piss off my teachers 😂, you should've seen the looks they gave me: absolutely venomous! 🤣 This all served to instill in me a skepticism of authority, and I learned early on that rules/laws do not necessarily equal what's right. But, like you, my politics were more reformist than revolutionary, though I considered them revolutionary. I came to think of myself as a "Radical Non-Partisan" as partisan politics seemed an obviously false dichotomy to keep the people divided, and a "Democratic-Socialist" more concerned with constraining the ill effects of capitalism through the legislature than trying to dismantle the monster itself. I also came to understand the inflationary wealth extraction aparatus that is the Federal Reserve, and my ideal reforms were thus... 1 - A minimum wage bracket system must be implemented (like how we have tax brackets that determine the percentage of income you pay in taxes, these min wage brackets would impose a higher percentage of net profit be paid to the workers the more profitable a company was) 2 - The total abolition of political parties and the implementation of ranked choice voting nationwide. This way candidates for public office would need to run on individual merit rather that relying on team affiliation to do all the heavy lifting for earning support. 3 - The abolition of the electoral college. Because its a regulatory measure on how closely the People's will is adhered to, and that's fundementally undemocratic. 4 - Cessation of all taxes on people living below the poverty line. Also, raising the poverty line to include all financially insecure people. It was only after reading Mumford and watching Andrewism and yourself that I realized all states are authoritarian, just to different degrees. While I understood this innately before, I always thought of States as necessary evils. Unavoidable. I was a Hierarchical Realist. But now I know non-hierarchical societies not only have existed throughout human history, they outlasted hierarchical governments by centuries and sometimes millenia. This knowledge took the idea of non-hierarchical societies swiftly out of the realm of the hypothetical and placed it squarely in the realm of the *inevitable.* The state and capitalism have proven, not only unsustainable, but antithetical to human nature, and to the values of liberty, community, and equality. I now yearn for the seething sea of social emergence that is Anarchic Society. I want to blanket the land in agro-forestry projects and eco-friendly micro-cities of confederated freely associating peoples. Down with the Mega Machine, commandeer Spaceship Earth! ✊️

It was the only ideology that actually saw hierarchy and concentration of power as a problem rather than an inevitability.. I hate cults, personality cults, authoritarianism, celebrity, and the dictators in life both large and small.

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Great light this video!

Many different paths. one destination

Thank you for your work. It helps me immensely.

As you do… I just watched the second half of the video and must write a second comment 😂😂 i have to def agree with the idea of widely reading. You never know when a reflection from another tradition will totally resonate with you. Ironically my life current doesn’t afford this skill very well as I’m a postal worker, have 3 kids, a puppy and ADHD. (I trying tho 💪🏻)

ALL DAY, ALL WEEK, PIZZA IS ALL WE EAT!

Our journey is so bizarrely similar, made even more bizarre by the fact that we look so much alike

Christian/ conservative --> atheist /neoliberal/neocon/globalist --> atheist/liberal --> atheist/ anarchist.

_Spread the bread, comrade!_

Me too, about psychological advertising and oppositional defiance against rogue teachers/authority figures.

I really want to see your video on why you no longer identify as an Anarcho Syndiclist.

That's an interesting story, thank you for sharing it. Here, my process was a bit different, and much less consistent with a lot less reading (but still some reading). I started from a more anarchist position fairly early on, because I didn't believe that meaningful change could be implemented if the details of life were taken care of by people other than "ourselves", and that the delegation of decision making to small groups would necessarily give undue power to these groups and disempower everyone else. I absolutely hated borders, as I saw them as a trick to keep people in geographic regions where they could be exploited. I also had a very pessimistic vision for my future in a business as usual world. Go to school, work, probably never retire because of a diminishing social safety net, and then die, unaccomplished and with many regrets. I didn't want to live a life someone else designed for me with the intended goal to keep me in chains. Also, early experiences shaped my view of the world. For example, when I was a toddler, my dad often took me to a forest near which we lived, and we walked around. In the winter, he'd drag me on a sled. One day, we went to the forest only to see it getting cut down. My dad said they were going to cut it down to make space for a new neighbourhood, and that they'd build a school. I told him I'd come back with a bulldozer, and destroy it all, when I'd be big enough. Never did it. Instinctively, I had a bad opinion of capitalism because the base premise of it seemed both unfair and inconductive to living in a world I found desirable. Communism, in principle, seemed great, but state "communist" experiences were clearly very dystopian, so I figured, perhaps no rulers and no money was the way to go. At first, I didn't have words to describe what I would later identify as anarchism, but I thought that my goal should be to figure out a way to live outside society, by creating a parallel society of sorts that would function in a better way. At the same time, it seemed like fair game to attack whatever I could that was part of "the system" and was causing injustices in the world, so I had a bit of an insurrectionist phase. As time went on and I'd talk to people about my ideas, more and more people would call me an anarchist, but I refused the label. To me, I was "nothing". All ideologies were abject failures, and while I didn't have a negative perception of the words anarchy or anarchism, I had a negative perception of anarchists, and since I had come to my conclusions mostly on my own, well, I didn't want to call myself one. But then I got curious, read some theory, and finally admitted that indeed, an anarchist is what I am. Around at this time, I attempted to set up my life to be an insurrectionist. I did a lot of really sketchy things, and found a few like minded people (that was quite a process, I was not looking for militants, but for people who were deeply unsatisfied with society and had a desire for action yet didn't quite know what to do with it), with whom I trained to carry out direct action and with whom I wanted to build an archipelago of safe houses that are to some degree independent from the rest of society. I distanced myself from my family so that no one would try to stop me. I lived outside for a while. Eventually, I landed very far from home, and met a girl who offered me an interesting job, and I thought that I could learn a lot from it and that the girl was pretty, so I decided to accept it. I only wanted to stay there for a year or two, and then resume my life as an insurrectionist vagrant. But I was really interested in the girl, and as I was about to leave, she expressed that she really wanted me to stay and I thought "Hey, as is, I'll probably die young, might as well experience love even if it's short lived." It was very difficult for me, because in order to be with her, I had to change my plans completely and assimilate more. I had to live a little bit more like she did. She eventually came to hold philosophical beliefs much more similar to mine, but at first, she did not understand my perspective and neither did my coworkers. Actually, they were often rather offended by it, in part because I wasn't very good at expressing myself in English back then, but also, I wasn't very socialized and was sometimes brash. I'd tell people that if they were part of the system, they were slaves. Or I'd get to work really annoyed with something horrible that I would have just seen fundamentalist Christians do (I helped them cook meals for the homeless, and ate a bit of it myself), and I'd yell "I fucking hate Christians!" Anyway. Dating that girl, I tried hard to meet her halfway. I was always very split between wanting a revolution, and having normal human experiences. Initially, I didn't care whether I lived or die, because I thought that I was too broken to be happy anyway. In retrospect, think that ultimately, it made me ineffective because I was too eager to risk my life and do things that happy people wouldn't dare doing. I believed that it was the value that I could bring to the revolution. To sacrifice myself so that those who can be happy don't have to. Time does a lot of things. Making friends, loving and being loved, and doing work that I actually liked, showed me that I could heal and be happy, but also lulled me away from action. I was still an anarchist, but one who doesn't really do anything about it. And people like Bernie Sanders actually made me think that maybe I was wrong. Maybe society could be bettered without constant revolution and the emancipation of everyone. The potential was there. But that hope was short lived. I should've known better, and I still had a reasonable amount of skepticism, but I did have hope. Bernie Sanders is one of the only politicians I wouldn't want to kill if I had the chance, ha ha. (I wouldn't kill anyone unless absolutely necessary tho.) But many things kept reminding me that overall, I had been right. Years before the Bernie runs, my dad nearly died from a heart attack from having to work 3 full time jobs after separating from his wife, because it changed the way his taxes were accounted for. That was fucked. I saw my mom, who was a nurse, constantly having to be on strike because of cuts in the healthcare system. I saw her get burnt out. I saw her in physical pain. She took meds that made her not quite be herself, sometimes. That was all caused by her life. Then she died only one week after her final mortgage payment. She and my dad had gotten a house for $80k CAD, in the mid-90s. It took them, and then later her and her boyfriend, 25 years to pay it off. 25 years of mortgage for an $80k house. Back in 2020, my little brother killed himself, too. Capitalism wasn't the main cause, but it was definitely an aggravating factor, and he indirectly wrote about it in his notes as he was looking for a tree to hang himself from. The things I wanted so badly to fight against and find an alternative to directly and very deeply hurt my family. As an anarchist and a human, it's heartbreaking to see. I'm at a point where, after having been pacified for about 12 years, I want to do something again, but I don't think that I need to be as reckless as I used to be. I'd still die if I had to in order to make something big happen, but I'd rather not. I want to focus on building the alternative. I don't want people to keep dying from despair. I don't want people to continue to live exploited. I don't want life on Earth to be threatened by a system that's not even pleasant to live in. I want everyone to have access to a fulfilling, sustainable life, and that's why I'd still an anarchist.

Yeah the 2008 financial crisis was a big turning point for my politics as well.

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Have you considered reading the theory of World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction by Immanuel Wallerstein?

Reminds me a lot of my own journey, though I started leaning ultra-authoritarian for a while in my youth, because I started to see parlamentarist politics as utterly pointless, and thought an honest dictator was preferable to the constant bullshit that comes out of so called "representative democracy". I like your original theory, but I also think it would be great if you could explain various terms that one tends to encounter in anarchist spaces, and share your thoughts on them, like post-left, communalism, primitivism, post-civ, anti-civ, etc.

I like listening to people's radicalization stories because it's weird to me. As someone who basically sees it as they were anarchical since they were born so it seemed more innate to me. So I basically feel like I just solidified my ideology before I could properly be indoctrinated by the system. Therefore, anarchy just seems like the natural way to me, at least very much more so than the systems we utilized today. My base ideologies from the start were the first one given to me for my mom being the golden rule - due to others what you want done unto you, as well as just not wanting to be ruled by someone else, especially when they are less knowledgeable than me, and the final one being communal. Cooperation- why can't we just come together and create things?

We have a similar path. Ron Paul was my safe choice before I had the courage to “leave” the republicans out of fear of social pressure at the time. I always had Chomsky in my back pocket, so eventually it went like this: Obama, Bernie, Richard Wolff and now, anarchism with various Marxist analytical Framing. I went back and forth from generally Marxist and anarchist identities, but Bookchin is correct when he said that not everything is economic, it’s more about confronting denomination itself that includes many areas.

Emma Goldman wrote My Disillusionment in Russia, fyi. Edgar J Hoover was in part responsible for it. He at one point asked her if he did a good job, and she replied something like “I don’t expect anything from anyone beyond their abilities.”

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Hi Anark, I just discovered your channel. Sry for my english Im kurdish and I live in Germany. I recommend Ocalans 5 Books ,,Manifesto of democratic civilisation“ especially the third book ,,sociology of freedom“ is a very interesting book about how to create a free, natural society. The First book is about the history of civilisation from the first civilisation (sumeria, babylonia, egypt, greece, roman empire) to christianity and islam second book is about capitalist modernity Like i said if you re interested i recommend to read sociology of freedom you have very nice Videos keep going

Yeah, I don't really have one of those great radicalization tales the Internet is full of lol I came up around a few old black radicals (ex NYC panthers and the like), Sicilian/Italian labor and civil rights activists, some hippie types, and reformed radicals from the 60's and 70's New Left waves. But next to no one I knew would call themselves anarchists, communists, socialists, Marxists, etc, but a lotta the ideas were definitely there, a lotta the Red Scare talk wasn't as big as in a lotta places (it was surprising when I first left the City), and figures like Fred Hampton and Sacco and Vanzetti were among the heros as casually as Michael Jordan and MLK. We were poor asl and in the hood gettin knocked around by the pigs every day and night during a time when the cities murder rate was pushing 2k a year and the urban decay was undeniably bad as deindustrialization and the opium and crack epidemics ravaged communities, so we had no illusions about rather or not the cops, politicians, or businesses gave af about any of us. So in my very early teens when I was running dope to some squatter punks I got caught up in the fact that they had a skateboard (I was always fascinated but I didn't know anybody that skated) and as I slowly built a relationship with em they introduced me to skating, punk, and anarchism. They'd send me home with lit and pamphlets and stuff like that and discuss the ideas with me as they taught me to skate and about punk and it's many derivatives. I was always rebellious, I was always different, I always struggled with obedience, I always questioned power structures and was generally antagonistic with em. Anarchism is the only tendency that is applicable to everything, is internally consistent, is flexible enough to survive practice, is varied enough to not require total agreement, is realistic imo, and that is very intuitive once ya break the spell of our conditioning. So the last 2+ decades have been a journey of me growing and becoming a better anarchist. And reading EVERYTHING, even the stuff that I very much don't agree with, has been a huge part of that. If we're serious about making change and not just LARPing then we wanna be as accurate and effective as possible and we have to rely on the evidence, from all I've seen the evidence leans heavily towards anarchism as the only solution. One thing though, Emma Goldman's book was "My Disillusionment in Russia" but and it was a title her editor picked against her wishes iirc. Sasha's was "The Bolshevic Myth" and it's a phenomenal collection. He actually had planned to write and release his book before her but as she started to write one he decided to let Emma release her's first. His story is so sad. I don't have heros but if I did Alexander Berkman would be high on the list. So much so that our first 2 rescues are named Emma and Sasha de la Rosa (a play on Alexander Berkman, Rosa Luxemburg, and Zack de la Rocha lol). Another great contribution, family. Stay at it and stay safe 🏴

Any advice on how to better engage with the theory you're reading? How to critically analyse the arguments being made, retain the information etc.? I'm quite a slow reader because of dyslexia which kind of discourages me from reading (I do ffing love audiobooks for fiction and casual non-fiction, but I don't think that's useful for more dense material).

Another excellent video. I'm currently in a voracious hoovering up of theory (and history) as you describe, it sounds like with a very similar range. I'd love to see an essential reading list from you! I want to pose a question about some of the places where historical Anarchist actions give me some pause- I believe that much of this is hyperbolic and propagandistic smear campaigns against anarchism- but there are accounts of some ugly violence committed by Anarchists. In Spain against the Clergy, in Ukraine against the Mennonites, and so on. Of course these groups were the embodiments of systems of power in those times- I have read about priests shooting Anarchists dead in confession booths, in addition to the long history of oppression. It still hits me wrong though. What do you think?

16:53 lol the bernie campaign was basically to prove electoral politics doesnt work in this system. I was so pro Bernie at that time as well. But my position was that he was clearly by far with no contest the absolute best candidate for the country in every sense given who we had to pick from, and anyone who was for any candidate orher than him was at best completely ignorant on politics so much so that they should be barred from being able to make decisions/vote in this society. Bc there were zero reasons to be against him as opposed to the other candidates unless you are just afraid of progress ei socialism/communism/anarchism. People like my dad would say that he was my dude and what happened to my dude that i was so on his nuts about and i would try to explain to them that I! do not want him or anyone else that would even be allowed to run in the primary to be president. Its just that it appeared that for the first time our choices weren't just how big a bowl of crap we would have to eat but there would be some fruit in the crap too lol. But i would always be amazed at how much people would be so against Bernie and thus so for their own slavery and against their own salvation. But the bernie campaign was, by the establishment, a way to silence the radicals and funnel them back into the system. If Bernie cared at all he 1 would have never dropped out, 2 wouldnt have called biden his dear friend, 3 would have gone to every court when we proved he was screwed over in every state, and 4 should have had a backup plan for or just should have went 3rd party or independent. Also the most important part is that he never mobilized his followers to do anything to get anything from the establishment. Not even any concessions from Biden that we all know he would just forget about anyway. Not even that easy headfake. He is such a fake now.

You have a nice voice. Have you considered doing voice acting for an odd job?

I'm curious, what problems do you have with Anarcho-Syndicalism?

Have really been enjoying exploring anarchist thought, since you mentioned it in the video I would be curious what you think are rigorous critiques of anarchism that are worth reading?

I’m a marxist because I can’t decide between all the leftist ideologies. All I know is that marx’s end goal of no hierarchy good

I honestly did not know that there were any legitimate anarchist writings before I started watching your videos. Can I really claim? I am much of an anarchist if I have not read any anarchist stuff?? Lol. If I am being consistent then personally I would say no because I always thought how could you consider yourself a person of that religion if you don't actually follow with the book says. But that also brings me to the fact that I only consider myself an anarchist because I was looking for a word that could define the way I saw things. I have never been one for groups or boxes and I genuinely despise tribalism in most every form so it is hard for me to identify with a group term like anarchist. So I'd say I've always held an anarchist view of the world but I have only recently considered myself an anarchist.

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i’ve always been an Anarchist every sense i was a kid i just didn’t know it until 2020 when the lockdown BS started that’s when i began to realise i’m an Anarchist 🏴

Do you have a list of books that you recommend?

The bolschevic myth actually, the other written by Emma Goldman

Very interesting stuff! I myself identified as an anarchist since I was 13 which was around 2008, I was more interested in anti capitalist train of thought through music and whatnot. Around the same time I was getting into atheism I always had a punk/hippy way of viewing the world, I understood that the way we conducted business was damaging to the Earth. But like I was a teenager so I had a lot of anger towards the powers that be, and rejected participation in politics so obviously I didn't know what the fuck I was talking about when it came to Anarchy. But now that I look back, my perception of it could have been much worse. Nonetheless, I wasn't aware of Anarchist alternatives to the government and capitalism. So all I did was criticize everything lol I didn't start reading theory however until very recently. When Trump said "anarchists who deface confederate monuments will do ten years in prison" I read everything and anything I could about anarchism cuz I was like in my head 'that could have been me' and 'fuck them statues anyways are you fuckin kidding me?' So now I have a whole ass classical libertarian Library in my closet from Kropotkin to Tucker, and I can say now I have a much better understanding of anarchist analysis. Now my next step is engaging in actual anarchist praxis. Thanks for the video Anark much love and solidarity ✊🏴

I'm curious about how you were earning a living and making time to read. I'd like to read more but I don't really have the resources to spare for it

"I read so much it sometimes blurs together" Yeah, that's why you misattributed Emma Goldman's "My Disillusionment in Russia" to Alexander Berkman, lol

Hey, you're pretty cool.

Isn't Marx's LTV mostly rejected by anarchists?

17:50 this is so common man but also incredibly stupid

Whats your opinion/assessment of Vaush and his takes?

Haven't watched this yet am going to right now, can't wait to see it! ✊🏴

Hey man i love ur channel. I almost lose hope when i see all those state socialist and "anarchist" that really are just amoral egoist, primitivist or aimless subculture activist. The time for new social anarchism has come and I am so exited that there are more and more well educated, socialist and feminist anarchist with positions that seem approachable for most people. Eversince i broke with individualist primitivistic anarchism I see that I can share my ideas clear with a broader mass of people in a way they can not only understand but feel on a human level. The human is meant to be collective and social. You give hope that we can reach a society based on those principles.

You're making a mistake man. Humans will never be truly in peace if there is no structure, it's in our DNA. People will eventually want power, people will do a lot of things for said power. They will force their ideals on everyone else like they've done for thousands of years now. Anarchism only sounds good in a perfect world (as do most political systems such as communism and nationalism) but are all extremely flawed and exploitable. The rich and the poor, the privileged and the damned will always exist. It's something we either adapt to, fight against, or join in on.