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A New Anarchist FAQ: An Introduction to Anarchy in the 21st Century (raddle.me)
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It is an attempt at a crowdsourced alternative to An Anarchist FAQ, mainly aiming to eliminate any biases by having multiple people write this work.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Short version:

  1. No that's a straw man. There are too many cool options for how to solve that problem, and no i cant explain every detail of my ideal society at its peak to you, because im not the god queen of it, and i want everyone to have a say.

  2. We tend to propose starting by not putting so many of our combined resources towards doing the bad thing on purpose, then finding the reasons why the bad thing happens and fixing those.

  3. Can i get some of what you're smoking? It sounds wild.

  4. No. If you touch me with your toothbrush i will scream.

I think that covers all the standard questions and accusations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck off, Ziq.

And take your shitty personality cult masquerading as "anarchism" with you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I didn't post this, don't attack random people for linking to anarchist literature because of whatever ancient drama you're fixated on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh... so you're going to pretend it's not one of your sock-accounts that posted this poisoned shit here?

I guess Raddle was't large enough to contain your ego, eh?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Ziq is gonna try to use Lemmy and bot everyone into their ideals, since it worked well enough on Raddle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

The way it looks is the way it is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

But many people did work on afaq, no?

Edit: what things do you think are biased on afaq? I feel like a link to a critique would help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hi, I'm the one who started the new FAQ. I started it specifically because the old FAQ repeatedly claims anarchy is dedicated to majoritarianism i.e. direct democracy, and because of how readily it smears and dismisses green anarchy, while praising non-anarchists like Murray Bookchin. You can see some examples here: https://raddle.me/wiki/A_New_Anarchist_FAQ_Instructions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Wait, are you Ziq?

EDIT: It seems so. So, still steadfastly opposed to postmill joining the fediverse? Then you wouldn't need accounts like these to interact :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Watch out for Ziq, the mods of anarchist subreddit had to ban him several times for stiring up shit.

And they use sock puppets on raddle.me to mod and comment as other users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Lol you peeps don't realize I used to be a mod in /r/anarchism for more than a decade and was in that sub since 2009. That is to say, I'm familiar with ziq 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Had no idea about that part. But glad to know you're aware of Ziq being weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I made an account because someone told me your site was being used to attack me and the FAQ I started.

I'm not against postmill joining the fediverse, I'm against lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm not against postmill joining the fediverse, I'm against lemmy.

By now both piefed and mbin also exist. Anyway why not add apub support to postmill then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

it's foss, go ahead and add it. i don't have the skills to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Why don't you ask the developer to do so?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks. I'll check that out. That said, I happen to be in a lot of anarchist groups and read quite a bit in between.

Afaik, the afaq rightfully claims that both direct democracy and consent are legit ways of anarchist group decisionmaking. I'd agree if you said it doesnt shed light of things like qualified majorities which are used in anarcho syndicalism quite a bit.

Am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It says "most anarchists are in favour of direct democracy" i.e. majoritarianism. We're in favour of reaching consensus, not forcing the will of the majority on minorities. That's Bookchin who insists we all obey the will of the majority.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Well. Consensus is great but especially in a world where forcing others is commonly taught from early age, at least qualified majority isnt worth completely throwing it out. It feels very harsh to delegitimize the work instead of just criticizing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Raddle is very post-left. For example:

Anarchists are not leftists, we side with neither monarchy nor republic, dictatorship nor democracy, free market capitalism nor state capitalism. We stand for anarchy. The absolute negation of all authority, including both wings of government.

Like I would argue that the items to the left of the bolded text make anarchists leftists, in the sense that we claim to support (and do support) non-hierarchical modes of living as the classical Left claims to do as well. Of course any serious left-wing anarchists do not want to replicate the left wing of the State. But making that critique and rejecting left unity where it conflicts with our anarchist values does not mean that we're not leftists and that there's nothing to be learned from classical Left literature.

So I would assume that the bias is towards the classical Left. Which...I think that the original FAQ is pretty critical of the classical Left? But a shorter FAQ for outsiders or classical-Left-averse people is still incredibly useful IMO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Very informative! Thanks a lot! :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I should have clarified in the post; this is not my opinion, nor am I a participant of Raddle. I just found a cool link that I wanted to share.

According to Raddle,

[An Anarchist FAQ] is written entirely by one man and often pushes a strong Bookchinite perspective, to the point of smearing the anarchist currents that Bookchin rallied against

Again, I don't have much of an opinion on this, as I don't know how much of it is true. I haven't read AFAQ in much detail: I preferred the digestibility of Peter Gelderloos' Anarchy Works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I started the new FAQ, I can provide direct quotes from the old FAQ to outline its biases if you want. But biases aren't really a problem, that's to be expected in any project, the problem is the vicious smears it directs at anarchists of different schools, and the way it's tries to assert monolithic thought onto anarchy, especially the author's ideology of majoritarianism which he borrows from Murray Bookchin's theories.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

nor am I a participant of Raddle.

Nothing about Raddle, or it's creator, deserves any kind of trust.

It's maker, Ziq, was caught red-handed on Raddle using an army of sock-puppet accounts to harass participants and manipulate narratives on Raddle itself - a method they were suspected of using to disrupt and hijack r/anarchism way back when.

They are literally a text-book example of a bad actor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Yep, they're not exactly trust worthy. It's why I like db0 over Raddle.

Raddle has like 10% of the users and half of them are Ziq's alts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for clarifying. That helps a great deal! :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't believe every bitter and resentful internet commenter. They're talking about 8 year old drama where I used several accounts to speak out against the politics and behavior of other users (almost all of them tankies) and then told them I did it and apologized. Hardly 'caught red handed'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

almost all of them tankie

Right, right, Ziq... all the people you hounded and harrassed off r/anarchism (including quite a few of the mods) is now just conveniently tankies (according to you).

I see you still rail against tankies while using the very same underhanded tactics they do... you haven't changed one spot on your coat, have you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

"Anarchists against me aren't anarchists, they're tankies."

Ziq is a liberal confirmed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Holey moley give it a rest. It had nothing to do with reddit, it was literally Marxist-Leninists who were banning anarchists from raddle forums.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Still the same old liar, eh Ziq?

You know what? I'm kinda glad you didn't change - you're still the same old breathing and talking reminder of why we should always be vigilant against raging narcissists hiding under leftist camouflage.

It's not just the tankies and the liberals we should be guarding against - after all... the likes of you are still out there, too.