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Title: Anarchy is Author: ziq Date: 2021 Language: en Topics: introductory, theory, practical anarchism, Practice, theory and practice Source: https://raddle.me/wiki/what_anarchy_means
Anarchy is an ongoing process to dismantle authority
Anarchy is the relentless negation of structures of domination, the
endeavor to carve out little pockets of life free from exploitation and
suffering.
Anarchy is the uncompromising push against oppression and the vocal
demand for autonomy and self-determination, the rejection of all the
classes, institutions and dogmas built to rule people.
Anarchy is above all a practice, not a theory. It is about actively
working to end authoritarian relationships wherever they exist, and
build non-authoritarian alternatives. It is not about trying to
prescribe a way of life for an imagined place and time, and imagined
people. It is for real people and dealing with real problems.
Anarchy is a living and breathing practice that we incorporate into our
everyday lives. A personal stance against domination that informs all
our decisions and thus shapes the trajectory of our existence.
There is no end-goal to anarchy. It is ongoing, unending action against
hierarchical structures and the authority figures who sit in luxury at
the top of them.
Anarchy is a desire for freedom from tyranny. Anarchy is countless
generations of disparate people with the drive to be freer than they are
under the systems that forcibly govern them.
Anarchy is the rejection of government, states, borders, capital,
patriarchy, gender essentialism, slavery, ideology, the right wing, the
left wing, the clergy, democracy, private property, technocracy, nuclear
family, humanism, imperialism, prisons, factories, founding fathers,
bureaucracy, ethnocracy, heteronormativity, idols, tradition, policing,
neuronormativity, ecocide, civilization and every other form of
authority.
Anarchy is community gardens, free shops, graffiti, 3D printed guns,
naturism, vegan potlucks, squats, food forests, sabotaging pipelines,
free software, liberating cows, shoplifting, heirloom seed saving,
forming autonomous zones, assassinating tyrants, guerilla gardening,
writing zines, catching rainwater, burning ballot boxes, postering,
biodiversity, abolishing whiteness, hacking, aquaponics, music making,
upcycling, torching police stations and seed bombing wildflowers all
across the landscape.
An anarchist is anyone who refuses to be governed, dominated, ruled by
anyone and anything. An anarchist is an angry, bitter, lost, anxious,
disillusioned, violent, peaceful, courageous, idealistic, captivating,
fearless dreamer.
An anarchist stands alone against the giant tide of authority that rises
in every direction. Anarchists connect with every battered downtrodden
soul in concerted attack against the ruthless systems designed to
disempower and alienate us.
Anarchy is marred in endless contradiction, existential dread and
insufferable internal conflict and yet anarchy makes perfect sense to
anyone who is appalled or enraged by the gross injustices that engulf
this little blue planet. Anarchy is for anyone who seeks to live with
any kind of dignity.
Anarchy is an impossible, preposterous pursuit yet necessary for our
very survival.
Anarchy is--