Hey folks, time for the weekly monthly whenever I can remember check-in. How are we feeling? Read anything good lately? How's the weather?

Been thinking about anarchism as realized in rural areas versus anarchism as realized in urban areas. I've always thought that anarchism is more realistically achievable in the short-term in rural areas - they have a higher degree of independence from authority, and oftentimes there's greater per capita involvement in social structures that could (and sometimes already do) perform most of the work formerly performed by the state.

I'd love to see an anarchist municipality realized, and I'm a shameless :LIB: ertarian municipalism apologist, but I just don't think that it would be as easy to implement the same kind of social structures that exist in rural areas. Is this a bad take? Thoughts?

Edit cause I fucked up the emote oh shit oh fuck

    • krothotkin [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think one of the most important American leftist projects right now should be developing a new language and new iconography to use when talking about leftist ideas like anarchism. People are too propagandized - they aren't suddenly going to decide that Lenin and Mao were based all along and that red is their new favorite color. Developing local symbols and avoiding association with historical movements or figures is a worthwhile strategy.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's interesting to hear people who aren't anarchists throwing around words like "mutual aid" and "direct action" and using slogans like "acab." It really shows the downstream success of our political movement, even if we're never the majority.

    • fx8690gii [he/him, he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Anarchism and a lot of its vocabulary hasn’t been as tainted by the Red Scare and McCarthyism, compared to other strains of leftism.

      As long as you don't use the word "Anarchism."