thanks :)

100% with you on that.

I've been doing this for long enough that sometimes I feel like I know what I'm doing, and that's a bad place to be imo.

How come?

How do folks here generally feel about necroposting? I'm seeing a lot of old and done conversations that I'd like to ask questions about, but I can see replying to year+ old comments straying into "being super annoying" territory :)

Which is better: 1.) Necropost; 2.) Make a new post about the old topic; 3.) something else; 4.) leave it be, or take it to an appropriate sub on reddit

As far as being willing to change my mind, it's prolly coz I'm just generally very aware that I don't know much about anything at this point. I'm only like 2 years in to engaging with actually-left politics, and it's been mostly limited to reading, watching video essays, listening to podcasts, and talking with people online (but I'm slowly starting to get out of that.) At the start straight-up anarchism seemed too nebulous for me to wrap my head around how it might be accomplished, and the more I looked at Marxism the more it seemed too arcane and cult-y and rigid and dogmatic and reliant on a weird teleological understanding of the progression of history, but nevertheless seemed to have some interesting nuggets here and there. So, like a li'l Goldilocks baby-lefty I asked "is there anything in between anarchism and Marxism?" and someone pointed me to libertarian municipalism, and I was like "oh shit, this makes a lot of sense"--so that's mostly what I've been looking at. It's pretty easy to wrap your head around, and I still like the like... shape of the strategy even if I'm not married to the particulars (which pretty much every Communalist I've talked to isn't either, to be fair.)

On things that affected/reached me, well, I just finished reading the crimethinc piece linked in this post by u/ziq in f/okbookchin. I think ziq just meant to use a quote from it to illustrate an undesirable feature of libertarian municipalism, but I actually liked the essay overall. I think there might be something to the idea of preferring "spaces of encounter" to directly democratic decision making bodies; the example of how assemblies at Occupy were perceived by participants was useful in illustrating the difference. Up to now, the discourse about decision-making has only been presented to me as a debate between majoritarian democracy vs. consensus, so it's cool to learn about this other way of thinking about it.

it's more that I'm not really connected to anything or anyone here beyond a desire to check some of my assumptions about things, which is pretty tenuous, I'd say.

Yeah I seen it :)