Submitted by PerfectSociety in PostLeftAnarchy
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.
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.
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
theblackcat wrote
Classism too.
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