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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

Reply to comment by celebratedrecluse in by !deleted8217

My thoughts:

The end of state-capitalism and civilisation is a framework for an abstract goal. Concrete goals are must be real.

We would not consider ourselves to have failed if a giant meteor came and destroyed the planet, because such a thing is out of our hands.
Whether we succeed or fail has to be about the things that are in our hands, the things that we can actually do together. What those things are is unknown, but we do have the way of living that unfolds them, the lived ethic of anarchy.

And so, success is living anarchy. Something any of us can do, in some sense at least.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

Ah, but the things within our grasp, they are also fleeting for anarchists. At every turn it seems, communities are breaking apart, most of us live years of idolation from fellow travelers, and for every temporary advance there are very few concrete strongholds and quite numerous retreats. And that is in the good times.

If success for anarchists is purely in individual feeling, then i think we have lost grasp of most of the material reality that inexorably binds our destinies.

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ziq wrote

We would not consider ourselves to have failed if a giant meteor came and destroyed the planet

an anarcho-posadist would consider that a great triumpth

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