Stop sending me aggressively phrased and accusatory messages that ask for answers to very basic questions about anarchism, you lazy and irritating anon fucks. Here, I’ll even make it easy for you and put the questions on your dash. This writer organized his entire book based on frequently asked questions:
- Introduction
- Anarchy Would Never Work
- What exactly is anarchism?
- A note on inspiration
- The tricky topic of representation
- Recommended Reading
- 1. Human Nature
- Aren’t people naturally selfish?
- Aren’t people naturally competitive?
- Haven’t humans always been patriarchal?
- Aren’t people naturally warlike?
- Aren’t domination and authority natural?
- A broader sense of self
- Recommended Reading
- 2. Decisions
- How will decisions be made?
- How will decisions be enforced?
- Who will settle disputes?
- Meeting in the streets
- Recommended Reading
- 3. Economy
- Without wages, what is the incentive to work?
- Don’t people need bosses and experts?
- Who will take out the trash?
- Who will take care of the elderly and disabled?
- How will people get healthcare?
- What about education?
- What about technology?
- How will exchange work?
- What about people who don’t want to give up a consumerist lifestyle?
- What about building and organizing large, spread-out infrastructure?
- How will cities work?
- What about drought, famine, or other catastrophes?
- Meeting our needs without keeping count
- Recommended Reading
- 4. Environment
- What’s to stop someone from destroying the environment?
- What about global environmental problems, like climate change?
- The only way to save the planet
- Recommended Reading
- 5. Crime
- Who will protect us without police?
- What about gangs and bullies?
- What’s to stop someone from killing people?
- What about rape, domestic violence, and other forms of harm?
- Beyond individual justice
- Recommended Reading
- 6. Revolution
- How could people organized horizontally possibly overcome the state?
- How do we know revolutionaries won’t become new authorities?
- How will communities decide to organize themselves at first?
- How will reparations for past oppressions be worked out?
- How will a common, anti-authoritarian, ecological ethos come about?
- A revolution that is many revolutions
- Recommended Reading
- 7. Neighboring Societies
- Could an anarchist society defend itself from an authoritarian neighbor?
- What will we do about societies that remain patriarchal or racist?
- What will prevent constant warfare and feuding?
- Networks not borders
- Recommended Reading
- 8. The Future
- Won’t the state just reemerge over time?
- What about other problems we can’t foresee?
- Making Anarchy Work
- Recommended Reading
- It Works When We Make It Work
There, all you gotta do is click the question and read. Or start at the beginning and read the whole book if you are genuinely interested and want the best reading experience. It’s one of my favourite books. It doesn’t cover everything but it’s a great place to start.
If you are friendly, genuinely interested in understanding anarchism and have a question that you can’t easily find elsewhere or need some help understanding the texts that are out there or can’t find the information in a format accessible to you, feel free to come and chat. I love meeting nice new people with a genuine interest in exchanging ideas about how to create a truly better world and a truly better right-here-and-right-now.
If you’re getting angry at a movement you’ve never bothered to understand: You are pathetic. Your question will be deleted. Fuck off.
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