• JcbAzPx
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    12 days ago

    since it doesn’t immediately bring to mind the concept of chaos or bomb throwing that people unfamiliar with Anarchism may attribute to it.

    Anarchists are the ones that created that view in the first place. If you’re ashamed of it, perhaps you aren’t really meant for anarchism.

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      11 days ago

      Anarchists have never been for lawless chaos, that’s been put on them in a decades long smear campaign.

      There was a time 100 years ago when ‘Propaganda of the deed’ was seen as a viable method toward waking up the masses, but it was quickly found to actually do the opposite of what they intended, and Anarchists today generally do not endorse such methods. I’m not ashamed of it, I’m just trying to avoid knee-jerk reactions from decades of anti-anarchist propaganda.

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        11 days ago

        I don’t know who you’re trying to fool. Probably yourself, but we have plenty of video much more recently than 100 years with actual anarchists doing exactly what you’re trying to pretend they’re against.

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          11 days ago

          An extreme minority, perhaps, but it hasn’t been a mainstream anarchist position for a century. And accepted Anarchist theory has never in all of its history advocated for lawless chaos.

          Out of curiosity, what is your own personal political worldview?

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            11 days ago

            It is all the public facing anarchists. They are the face of the movement whether you believe it or not.

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              10 days ago

              Are you involved in Anarchist movements to know that to be true? Because it sounds like FUD to me.

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                10 days ago

                Are you really trying to gatekeep public perception? I seriously doubt there are billions of anarchists that are just too shy to say anything against the ones that are out in public being the face of the movement.