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OdiousOutlaw wrote

"Treason" is betraying "your" country's government. You owe it allegiance because...you said you did when you were born, I guess? I don't get jingoism/patriotism.

"Revolution" entails a change in who's in charge, it's not inherently an anarchist sentiment; some would argue that the fact that it generally puts people into power means that revolutions aren't anarchist at all.

Putting anarchism into practice can be considered an act of treason; but not all treason is anarchism, especially when it's to form a new power structure.

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OdiousOutlaw wrote

"Putting anarchism into practice" - doesn't this imply that anarchism is a system?

No, and I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion.

If the commonality between every strain of anarchism is a desire to live without Capitalism and the state, then anarchism is a negation of the current state of affairs. Putting it into practice is merely the means of realizing that goal; of course, this is a point of contention between social anarchists and what Bookchin called "lifestylists". Most users here are the latter, so mass social upheaval and system building isn't something we're into. Instead, we believe that anarchy is best achieved on a smaller scale (not necessarily on an individual scale; all anarchy is good. The state can infiltrate organizations easily, but tight-knit groups and individual actors? Not so much.): whether that's through doing crime, growing food, or what have you; putting anarchism into practice, to us, simply means doing what you can to negate the power that systems have over you, whether it's short term or long term.

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