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Brick wrote

I agree and am a little freaked out by the tomes of text some anarchists expect you to read in general just to oppose hierarchy and oppression. We don't need to be over-read scholars to be anarchists and it does more damage than good when anarchists build intellectual walls around their movements. It's just another form of vanguardism.

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PerfectSociety OP wrote

This is an excellent point. It's analogous to the role that written language has played in early civilization - a means of restricting the dissemination of knowledge so that it can rest in the hands of an elite.

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rot wrote

People who read a ton of theory are not necessarily good at praxis or understanding theory and how it applies.

I never read any Marx but I feel like I get the idea

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