Submitted by Smookey4444 in Anarchism
I'm guessing this question has been asked before but I can't find any posts about it so I'll ask it again.
I'd say I'm an eco-anarchist ,anarcho-communist with strong nihilism tendencies, and an anarchist-feminist.
no adjectives, like that u can adapt in real time to get under anyone's skin whenever you feel like it.
Lettuce thought
anarcho-bearhogism
I am an anarcho- nihilist post left maoist with anti colonial nationalist 3rd worldism, but with an additional anti revolution revolutionary vanguard foco who create revolutionary conditions with essoteric occult powers by creating subversive lumpen prol front groups of straight edge accelerationism. The decolonial anti racist nihilist post left maoist essoteric foco shall create revolutionary conditions with extremely lifestylism mujahadeenism though their lumpen prol revolutionary cadre shall crush any successful revolution. The anti colonial nationalism shall user in anarcho nihilist individualist post left revolutionary utopia by having so many nationalist and ethnic revolutions that divide the indigenous nation so they all indigenous nations and all ethnicities are of one person. A nihilist post left communist utopia will be achieved once all the prols have reached anarcho LifeStylist class consciousness.
An ultimately is anarchism with lettuce characterists.
These days I like synthesist but will also respond to mutualist. I like to think I'm an accomplice and friend to egoists, insurrectionaries, nihilists, anti-civ folk including primitivists, post-left, and everything queer and punk.
I hate putting labels on my beliefs, like "____-anarchism". Feels too trendy. Plus if I call myself a "green anarchist" or whatever, then I have to fit into the little box of whatever other people associate with that label.
So idk I just hate civilization and society, don't believe in democracy, and think our planet would be better off if we stopped with the whole "progress" shtick.
I generally avoid labelling my beliefs, not only does it make people just auto put me in boxes which I won't fit in because of their pre-concieved notions, it also tends to end up in a ''Well you can't be this because you don't think xyx''
The only label I will accept for my beliefs are hypocritical and confusing
I don't, for me anarchy is an action, or a non-action, not a label I would deserve to ascribe to myself.
If I'm an anarchist, then I have to act like an anarchist, always, whatever that means, and I'm not able to live up to that kind of ideal. I don't want to be controlled by it, by the idea of what an anarchist should be like. It would be like describing myself as a good person, that's not something I can assume to be.
I'm just me, Jialunes. I just act based on my own desires.
I agree that anarchy is actions but it's not specifically the things glamorized i.e. basically black bloc and charity. I think lots of stuff is anarchy sleeping, not working, actively choosing to not do X or Y, eating well, being nice to ur friends, surviving ect.
Not to debate u or anything. Tho I def think most ppl when they think anarchists have to do stuff they feel excluded bc the idea of what an anarchist does is very narrow and mostly for able bodied people.
Yeah, which is why I included non actions. Not doing something is important I think
Agreed I think inaction is essential. Tho I was more trying to say I think you do way more anarchist stuff than u give urself credit so the label fits u prob asuch as any black bloc person
It would be like describing myself as a good person, that's not something I can assume to be.
Excellent thought
Oh my, thank you! 💚
(not the person you responded to)
just anti-authoritarian, i think
I don't know, it's hard for me to conceive that there's people not opposed to authority. Being ruled is unpleasant, and ruling over others is source of stress.
It feels normal for me to be "opposed to authority on principle", like, it feels incomprehensible for me to not be.
But for people who seems to thrive in hierarchy, I just call them archists. I know that labeling others can be practical to remember other's positions. It's just not something I do to myself, but I can call others anarchists if they want me to.
The problem is, there's so many dynamics where one has power on another, whether they want it or not, that it feels extremely difficult to not step on anyone. Just buying things is problematic to me. Just giving or receiving money is a problem, because it's based on power differences. And if you live in nature, then you have to choose what you will devour. What you eat, you take it with force or speed from others who would need to eat it. Those berries are for the opportunists.
Among all of that, I feel that determining what is the most anarchistic action, what's the least oppressing thing you can do, what's the most liberating things you can do, to be complicated mathematics. That's why I don't want to be an utilitarian.
So I just follow my heart, it's much easier. But like, I feel like everyone does it, so I make special efforts to not look away from anyone's suffering, since it seems that archists cultivate willful ignorance and apathy. Feeling defiant seems to be a specially anarchistic emotion I think, and it feels really good, so I let it burn brighter in me.
not anarchist but BLVDEist
its similar but the main difference is that its mine
Anarcho-International Man of Mysteryist
I came here as an intersectional feminist now I just count myself as quasi-informed/mostly uninformed and roll with it
Reading is hard now with my chronic acquired disabilities, so I don't think I'll ever catch up with all the history or terminology. It's been 5 months and I still can't read enough to feel like I have a grasp even of the basics of anarchism, let alone subcategories. I just do my best to get by, do no harm, listen, put my money where my mouth is/do what I can to support others, and scream in solidarity when needed. Honestly a lot of the screaming is for my own sake!
saying "anarchist" is already confusing for most people, anarchists included.
Can respect a good bookending effort.
left-wing market anarchist
Just anarchist is fine for me. I'd have to add a lot of adjectives to get an accurate label, and at that point I may as well just explain my views as they're relevant to a given situation.
if i’m talking to other anarchists i’m a post-anarchist, post/anti-civ with nihilist tendencies and very queer but usually just say anarchist ¯\(ツ)/¯
anfem
I'd like to say just "anarchist". But if I'm allowed to go on for long enough the egoism and nihilism will inevitably come out.
I am just trying to survive 😔.
I have found anarchist literature most helpful towards explaining my mental health. But I don't have a game plan or anything.
An abomination of various post-left related stuff including nihilism, egoism, anti-civ, insurrectionary/illegalist, and other things that I randomly put together like weird art/anti-art freak, insane liberation, "Noise not music" punk, voidpunk, godless treehugging pagan redneck, deicidal tendencies, and whatever else I feel like adding on a whim. I don't know, I've been really confident in letting myself be weird recently.
Probably a lot of unnecessary info, and maybe a lot of contradictions, but I don't care lol
I just consider myself an anarchist. I haven't really thought about the labels under that umbrella.
I rarely read theory, so whenever I pick a label that I think means one thing, people get angry because they think I want something completely different.
tbh that's about half the reason I go for 'synthesist' and 'mutualist'. It picks the fights I want for me.
When I want to have an argument I always pick the label that I think is most convenient for me, because I don't give as much of a shit about labels as the people I argue with.
answered this question last time it got asked and the answer didn't really change much.
An eldritch one beyond human comprehension.
How's about just Anarchist?
No need for additional signifiers, just Anarchist: no rulers.
tbh if i tried to synthesiss my beliefs into a ideaology it would just be me ism so id say im probably an egoist, but i prefer to say individualist
Broadly post-left - specifically daoist or zen anarchism.
idk im some anarchist nihilistic thing. id say im pretty similar to a lot of individualist anticiv anarchists but im not really convinced the individual exists in the first place I guess.
Currently reading "Anarchists Welcome" by the Subcomandante, and he mentioned seeing the term anarcho-anarchist used as an insult and frankly that's the best thing I've ever heard. So fuck it. I'm an anarcho-anarchist.
Anarcho-subcomandante is the real insult.
???
Anarcho plus name of a hierarchical rank/ term denoting authority...
Oh wait is that about the whole 'Zapatistas are actually anarchist' argument? Is that still a thing?
I was just making a low effort jab but yea, im sure thats still a thing tho i dont want to check reddit to be sure- obvi the joke didn't land.
I guess? I don't really get it
BURN-SHIT!!!!-anarchist! I think if we need to get anything done peaceful protests wont do anything we need to riot!
black_badger wrote
saying "anarchist" is already confusing for most people, anarchists included.