• @[email protected]
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    18 months ago

    What is the best example of something built by anarchists?

    For the sake of curiosity I’d leave this quite broad. Buildings, institutions, inventions, art. What’s the showcase example of what anarchy has created for us?

    • db0OP
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      68 months ago

      40 hour work week. 8 hour day.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        I thought credit for both of those usually goes to unions. Which anarchists or groups of anarchists made the most significant contributions to the 40 hour work week or 8 hour days?

        How did a philosophy of minimized government involvement contribute to the regulations and enforcement mechanisms around our labor laws?

        • onoira [they/them]
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          48 months ago

          syndicalism is a tendency of libertarian socialism. it was anarchists engaging in — typically violent — direct action that bred the popular labour movement, women’s suffrage, the abolition of racial segregation, and others.

          How did a philosophy of minimized government involvement contribute to the regulations and enforcement mechanisms around our labor laws?

          … because we live in a society? the State needs labour, but if all the labourers refuse to sell themselves until labour-buyers stop X, then the State may decide very graciously to abolish the practise of X. so the theory of syndicalism goes: rinse and repeat till you have eroded all the power of labour-buyers, and you can seize the workplace and cut out the State.

          • @Zehzin
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            18 months ago

            … because we live in a society?

            I FUCKING KNEW IT

        • db0OP
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          38 months ago

          I… Don’t think you have an idea what anarchism is, so there’s really no point in discussing here until you do

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      8 months ago

      much of the basic technique in photography and film? not being a chattel slave? OSHA? there not being a cop city in atlanta just yet? several major art movements; really most of them at least since radio became a thing? the personal computer? FOSS(what about Lemmy, originally? was that anarchists?)? a major chunk of the muscle behind the positive parts of the early internet and trying to keep it free? modern shadow archives? most (by a very small very arguable margin) of the Russian revolution, before the Bolsheviks killed all the communists? organized labor? curry burritos? LOTR? the entire genre of science fiction?