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I feel Engels with his text “On Authority” is the OG of this kind of activity. Here is a text that goes into more detail

You do not need to be perfect to be anarchist. You do not need anyones permissions to be an anarchist. But you also dont have to be an anarchist to vibe and cooperate with anarchists, their ideas and practices.

Anarchism is primarily about communalization of production and distribution

I think your comparison is extremely valuable to read. I never had it written out in such a concise manner.

BUT

It is seemingly a marxists way of describing anarchism because the focus is very much on the sphere of production. Anarchism can and should be applied in so many more contexts. To say it with the words from Crimethinc, the goal of (many proponents of anarchism) is “To Change everything”.

Well for sure one of the reason is that even in non marxist communities they show up and write comments in a style that many people resonate with. I mean using citations, good grammar, appealing to logic, (seemingly) good argumentations etc.

This makes them look reasonable and even if you do not read all their sources, you might remember their comments and talking points in a pretty positive light.

I dont want to say this style of arguing is bad, but I think it gets valued higher than arguments based on intuition and emotion with a less “scientific” style, because that is what many people are taught when growing up, going to school etc.

Also I would like to say, in some cases this “showing up” is done in a way that feels invasive to (parts of) communties. Like an online version of Jehovas Witnesses.

Jedoch ist zu beobachten das in der politischen Arbeit der anarchistischen- und radikal linken Bewegung andere Themen immer mehr in den Hintergrund rücken, der Antifaschismus immer mehr zum Ziel und Inhalt wird.

Sehe ich jetzt irgendwie nicht so doll, neben Widersetzen waren in den letzten Jahren auch Klimagerechtigkeit (Lützerath) und Wohnungfrage (DW Enteignen) extrem groß und radikal bespielt.

Zudem ist Antifaschismus ein prima Ausgangspunkt um Themen wie Staatskritik, Feminismus oder Antirassimus näherzubringen und mit dem aktuellen Zeitgeist zu verknüpfen.

Bin aber natürlich immer offen für mehr statt weniger und die Verteidigung der FDGO sollte weder das Ziel noch die Message radikaler Akteure sein.

I think propaganda is more than just convincing people. Its also describes a way of acting and a relationship between the one(s) doing propaganda and the one(s) being (not) influenced/convinced by it.

From my anarchist perspective propaganda as a tool is not really desirable in achieving my vision of anarchism because instead of building trusting realtionships between equals, it kinda opens up a divide between the propagandists and the others without really enabling a dialogue or discussion. Of course in reality its not this much of a binary (and I can see others having a different understanding of the term propaganda), but I think it would be still preferable to choose ways of convincing others that actually build those relationships.

I have 2-3k ratios on Das Kapital by Marx and the manga version of Das Kapital. In fact all my highest ratios are some politcal classic ebooks with one comedy series mixed into it.

You really enjoy making up stuff, dont you?

Ich finde Siedler ist auch nur verharmlosend weil es einfach nicht genug Thematisierung, Bildung und Verständnis zu Kolonialismus gibt. Besonders in englischsprachigen Staaten die quasi Siedlerkolononien sind (Canada, USA, Australien) wird auch in meiner Erfahrung immer die direkte Übersetzung “settler” verwendet.

Aber ja, es gibt schon einen Unterschied zwischen selber aktiv Vertreibung zu machen und von teils Jahrhunderte zurückliegender Vertreibung passiv zu profitieren.

Hey i dont know why you are reacting with such negativity. I also am surprised that you make such statements without acknowledging that words can have very different meanings to individuals and groups based on lots of really simple factors. Your understanding of the word leader is not better or more correct than anyone elses.

Weird that yours is the only comment willing to take the deal,

Maybe I could have been more clear, but I would be willing to negotiate. Of course you dont take the first offer and especially not when other alternatives (limited or unlimited) ceasefires are possible. I think a state recognizing an insurgent force and also granting it land is something that shows how good the conditions for negotiations actually are. State usually do everything to not have to do that.

Obviously this would be something decided by a collective meeting.

For sure, I just wanted to point that out because not everyone reading this post will have that in the back of their head / have much experience with anarchist thinking and decisionmaking

Ich kann den Drang, sich bei völkerrechtswidrigen Aktivitäten nicht filmen zu lassen, schon verstehen.

Ansonsten traurig, dass das hier nur ein Nebensatz ist:

Eine Korrespondentin und ein Kameramann der DW seien von israelischen Siedlern bei einem Angriff auf das palästinensische Dorf Sindschil nördlich von Ramallah mit Steinen beworfen und verfolgt worden

Sollte das nicht irgendwie der Hauptfokus det medialen Berichterstattung sein?

This questions seems semi related to the plot of the book A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy. I think the book an interesting interpretation of how anarchist communities would maybe act in the case of a war against a state.

Well in the best case the participants of the revolt already have a clear framework of actions for these kind of situations. So we would just follow those. Examples might be things like “never make deals with the state” or “prefer peaceful solutions” etc.

If not, this would be a really good point to start doing this as a community via meetings and discussions. And from the sounds of it, the opponent is willing to give us that time via a ceasefire etc.

Personally, looking at the stae of the world right now, I would think a ceasefire would be benificial to to our side because we could rally global solidarity and invite folks to live on our land and in this way raising our collective power.

They are lying to influence the election

The potential is there, but usually winning one election is not enough to actually achieve structural change such as stopping racist police actions.

Every empty slogan harbours the ambition of one day growing up to be a thought-terminating cliche.

Its okay if you cant (fully) relate to the shared experiences and feel emotions such as pain and anger behind those words. I certainly can and that what makes it powerful to me.

I dont need part of my money going to advertisment campaigns

You can pay them in cash, for me this is a great feature