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I am not a Anarchist. But the philosophy does entertain me and the more intelligent of you often make REALLY GOOD POINTS that me go, "GASP!" That being said, I want a forum dedicated to me gasping. I also want to know some good material to read as it relates to Anarchy. After I'm finished with my book, I plan on reading Everyday Anarchy and if I don't like it, I want to have a backup. So here's the sitch...

1. Say your favorite Anarchic literature
2. Say your Anarchic type.
3.Explain why you're an Anarchist

OH And Anarchist are kind of minorities here. So if you're not one, let some of your Anarchist friends know so we can get as many post here as possible.

Well I'm currently a ancom, but I'll support whichever form of anarchism works best.

Sometimes I associate as an anarcho-monarchist, but take that with a grain of salt.

You should make the poll not mutually exclusive, because most of these aren't mutually exclusive. It is possible to be a religious green communist, or a mutualist post-left individualist.

Personally, I am an egoist anarchist and an anarcho-communist. I support green anarchism, and in terms of praxis I support platformism, insurrectionism and illegalism. My favorite anarchist authors would be Renzo Novatore, Max Stirner, the "For Ourselves" collective, and Peter Gelderloos. Books I'd recommend are in my signature, along with The Ego and Its Own.

I'm several things from that poll

Ancom here. I consider myself an anarchist as well as a communist because the past few hundred years have shown us the kind of atrocities that can come from men in power, be they leaders of the state or leaders of industry. There have been countless crimes against humanity perpetrated by state systems. I cannot support that.

For reading, I recommend Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid, as well as The Conquest of Bread. The former deals more with humans' biological tendency to assist one another (in direct opposition to social Darwinism), while the latter is actual groundwork for anarcho-communist philosophy plus a history lesson on why other economic and governmental systems have collapsed in the past.

I'm an ancom, individualist, and have insurrectionary influences.

BAM You can pick as many options as you want from the survey. Don't let it spoil you now.

IGAA* all fuckin day

*Interest Group Advancement Anarchy

(I also picked green, individualist, communist and socialist.)

Gages Icelandic Army wrote:BAM You can pick as many options as you want from the survey. Don't let it spoil you now.

Too late, already spoiled.

I am what I call a "wishful anarchist". I don't think anarchy would work, but if everyone cooperated, it would be PERFECT.

The Siri wrote:I am what I call a "wishful anarchist". I don't think anarchy would work, but if everyone cooperated, it would be PERFECT.

Anarhy could work if we could amass enough manpower to overthrow the bloated militaries and governments of the world.

Homework help?

The Siri wrote:I am what I call a "wishful anarchist". I don't think anarchy would work, but if everyone cooperated, it would be PERFECT.

So, theoretically, all governments disappeared. *WHOOSH*
Even amidst this global anarchy, inevitably communities would pop up and it's likely these communities would have their own unique code of conduct. From the survey, which kind of community would you be most inclined to join?

The first Galactic Republic wrote:Homework help?

Nope. I already have a book in mind to read, I already have my idea anarchy listed in the survey, and I already have my own defense for anarchy. I'm just curious.
Besides, forums are not reliable at all. A poster may be a genius or an idiot and you can't tell.

I'm the anarchist kind of anarchist.

Egohedonia wrote:I'm the anarchist kind of anarchist.

Witty. Though the flag kinda gives away that you're a commie.

Arcturus Novus wrote:

Egohedonia wrote:I'm the anarchist kind of anarchist.

Witty. Though the flag kinda gives away that you're a commie.

Like I said. Anarchist kinda anarchist. It's the most anarchist you can get.

Besides, red isn't used only by commies, noob.

Egohedonia wrote:

Arcturus Novus wrote:Witty. Though the flag kinda gives away that you're a commie.

Like I said. Anarchist kinda anarchist. It's the most anarchist you can get.

Besides, red isn't used only by commies, noob.

Yeah but the red/black patterned like so is the traditional ancom flag so like... there, man.

Not an anarchist, but ancap seems the least crap.

The rest are either too utopic or would make you the tribe/committee's bitch.

Others I don't find to be even logically consistent.

Arcturus Novus wrote:

Egohedonia wrote:Like I said. Anarchist kinda anarchist. It's the most anarchist you can get.

Besides, red isn't used only by commies, noob.

Yeah but the red/black patterned like so is the traditional ancomsyndicalist flag so like... there, man.

fixd

The Liberated Territories wrote:Not an anarchist, but ancap seems the least crap.

The rest are either too utopic or would make you the tribe/committee's bitch.

Others I don't find to be even logically consistent.

the meems are reel

I'm an anarchist-communist, syndicalist, green anarchist, queer anarchist, and anarcho-feminist who adhered to the synthesis approach to reconciliation of the various anarchist tendencies.

The New Sea Territory wrote:You should make the poll not mutually exclusive, because most of these aren't mutually exclusive. It is possible to be a religious green communist, or a mutualist post-left individualist.

Personally, I am an egoist anarchist and an anarcho-communist. I support green anarchism, and in terms of praxis I support platformism, insurrectionism and illegalism. My favorite anarchist authors would be Renzo Novatore, Max Stirner, the "For Ourselves" collective, and Peter Gelderloos. Books I'd recommend are in my signature, along with The Ego and Its Own.

It seems immensely difficult if not outright contradictory to reconcile the highly-organized and group-centric nature of platformism with the hyper-individualism, general anti-group mentality, and spontaneity of illegalism and insurrectionism in particular.

Egohedonia wrote:

Arcturus Novus wrote:Yeah but the red/black patterned like so is the traditional ancomsyndicalist flag so like... there, man.

fixd

The Liberated Territories wrote:Not an anarchist, but ancap seems the least crap.

The rest are either too utopic or would make you the tribe/committee's bitch.

Others I don't find to be even logically consistent.

the meems are reel

no tread

I'm a philosophical anarchist. The state has no inherent legitimacy or right to command, so there is no obligation or duty to obey it.

I don't know of any anarchist literature to recommend as I have arrived at my position independently, not because I was convinced by reading any such literature. I could recommend marxists.org and theanarchistlibrary.org if you're interested in reading a wide variety far-left works with having to buy it. Despite the name, the library at marxists.org doesn't just feature Marxist or even just communist literature. It has Adam Smith's "The Wealth Of Nations" on it, for example.