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_caspar_ wrote

this question was proposed awhile back where my two cents are found. Im still fine with my shorthand answer: "If anarchism is a set of practices in tension against both ruling and being ruled, then anarchy is the motivating force behind these practices."

if that sounds vague, its due to my understanding of anarchy being irreducible to programmatic one-size-fits-all thinking: the underlying motivations for practice informed by the particularities of the tension you find yourself in are going to (and can only be) yours.

"So we continually need to maintain a relationship between this tension towards something absolutely other, the unthinkable, the unsayable, a dimension we must realise without very well knowing how to, and the daily experience of the things we can and do, do. A precise relationship of change, of transformation."

-Alfredo Bonanno, The Anarchist Tension

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