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This is why I will never admit to being an anarchist. smdh.
Offline anarchists are cool and based and do direct action. Most online anarchists you run into are like either feds or baby's first steps into leftism.
Yeah. And honestly it is a useful stepping stone towards better forms of communist ideology.
My policy though is that I'm rolling with the strongest socialists when SHTF or opportunity arises, I don't care about the details, kill me in a struggle sesh later.
I probably would have said I was an anarchist back in the days of r/cth, but after the move to hexbear it was a pretty short walk to ML. Anarchism as a political framing for world politics is really quite shit, looking at things through a marxist lens clarified a lot for me. I do still appreciate anarchist approaches for small scale organizing/community efforts.
Yeah I'm a no theory MFer. I mean I'm not totally devoid of theory, enough to recognise a good thing and get with the cause. But I am far more interested in Actually Doing Something than participating in a party. So I am basically a free agent ideologically-agnostic socialist, offering or bringing my services or like, just thinking "hey I bet the guys are the protest could use some water" and showing up with a couple cases of bottled water. Suddenly I'm back stage with our indigenous people looking at me sus while I'm like "ey I just thought yall might want something to drink, here take two, I'll leave now, keep fighting. I'm sorry you even have to struggle."
That's like, the anarchist part of me, the part that will contribute off rip without expecting compensation or recognition (from behind my mask and goggles lol) or kudos or anything. It's the same part of me that if I had a ride-on mower would be anarcho-grillpilled riding it down the road like I'm str8 outta florida to the local park to cut the grass because the council takes too long and certain animals I know need that space to play.
It's the same part of me that saves injured wildlife. I resist the bystander effect and try to think ahead of what the least glorious most useful thing to contribute would be and then just do it because we don't need permission to do praxis.
In an org I would have the responsibility to represent. I don't know that I'm consistent enough or disciplined enough not to be a problem. I get it cops faces at protests and try to provoke them. I'll boost the youth onto rooftops and whatnot to get the high ground to put up their banners and posters and paint in front of the pigs, they dont even need to ask, it's applied moshpit etiquette and I love that they're active and doing something.
Not everything I do is probably fully defensible from a true ML analysis point of view, my work may be ineffectual and opportunistic, but I am what I am and I'm basically oppositional / defiant and have been since I started getting abused by teachers in schools for being neurodivergent. I'm the vanguard or the backstop for the boomer level local organising, a wink and a sly comment so they know who to come to if all else fails and someone has to go do something hilarious.
I should stop typing now. I pity the law firm intern who has to comb through my posts if something ever does happen and if I have fucked up my opsec in an unplanned way and end up finding this unique persona and account.
(DW they wont.
violence / SA / "bragging"
I've done the "okay we're moving all the tech into anonymous storage NOW" scramble when there was even a hint that I would have cops coming down the pipeline. I've prepped for antiremoved-action before being talked down from the ledge of becoming a murderer, but I operated from an abundance of caution to keep everyone safe and no devices snitching.)Anyway, that's why I'm "not" an anarchist. But in practice, well. Aktion speaks louder than words.