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zoom_zip OP wrote

Reply to comment by ziq in What is Anarchy? by zoom_zip

tbh i was just trying to avoid over-using the word authority. change it back if it doesn’t work

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ziq wrote (edited )

what wiki are you working from? this is the version I wrote for the FAQ, but it's nothing like your version - like why are you using the word 'struggle'? It's best to avoid language that depicts anarchy as a holy crusade and now i'm worried it's in some old wiki you're using that i can't find:

Anarchy is the relentless negation of structures of domination, the endeavor to carve out little pockets of life free from exploitation and suffering.

Anarchy is the uncompromising push against oppression and the vocal demand for autonomy and self-determination, the rejection of all the classes, institutions and dogmas built to rule people.

Anarchy is above all a practice, not a theory. It is about actively working to end authoritarian relationships wherever they exist, and build non-authoritarian alternatives.

It is not about trying to prescribe a way of life for an imagined place and time, and imagined people. It is for real people and dealing with real problems.

Anarchy is a living and breathing practice that we incorporate into our everyday lives. A personal stance against domination that informs all our decisions and thus shapes the trajectory of our existence.

There is no end-goal to anarchy. It is an ongoing, unending fight against hierarchical systems and the authority figures that construct them.

Anarchy is a desire for freedom from tyranny. Anarchy is countless generations of disparate people with the drive to be freer than they are under the systems that forcibly govern them.

An anarchist is anyone who refuses to be governed, dominated, ruled.

Here are some of those people.

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zoom_zip OP wrote

yeah it’s quite different, which is why i didn’t want to erase what you already had. it’s just another perspective on parts of the text. use it or don’t use it, or use parts of it if they work and throw away the parts that don’t work. the main reason for the edit was just trying to increase clarity, reduce repetition, and cut down the end quotes (some of which seemed off topic to me?)

if none of it is used it won’t bother me any

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