Lmfao I didn’t even think of that aspect. I was just riffing on the stereotype of the anarchist community - online anarchist spaces have more ideological schisms than the fuckin’ Baptists and they’re constantly trying to find enough people that they can effectively maintain a space. It’s exhausting to the point of hilarity to slog through.
If anything I’d say our ideological diversity is a good thing. It enables us to try new things and keep our communities and ideologies fresh as well as to prevent the problem of trying to fit all of our problems into our one solution.
But I do think in some ways she has a good point here, especially about the online anarchist community. We spend a lot of time doing redundant things trying to promote our specific ideas within anarchism as anarchism. A single anarchist wiki with mods that range the gamut from Marxist anarchists to mutualists to syndicalists to catholic workers would be a much better use of resources and tool for presenting ourselves as the ideologically diverse coalition we actually are. Where schism is easy like online it can be something we default to rather than working together.
IRL we do this, you see it at food not bombs, at books to prisoners programs, at IWW and affiliated organizations, and at various other anarchist projects like bicycle repair co-ops. I’ve had lively disagreements with respected friends while doing mutual aid for our community, and yet online we tend to fracture and focus on how we’re different. This is despite the fact that our pluralism is literally one of our biggest selling points. We don’t want to form a monoparty! There are no vanguard to rule, but rather an attempt to build a better world even through our conflicts
This is so true, anarchy is when you don’t have content moderation on your website
The more spam and low quality content you allow on your website the anarchier it is
Lmfao I didn’t even think of that aspect. I was just riffing on the stereotype of the anarchist community - online anarchist spaces have more ideological schisms than the fuckin’ Baptists and they’re constantly trying to find enough people that they can effectively maintain a space. It’s exhausting to the point of hilarity to slog through.
Eh, I think you’re overestimating. Most left wing anarchists generally get along from my experience, both offline and online.
Plus the screenshot that was shared here had like one actual anarchist wiki, the rest were memes (polcompball) and an actual Minecraft mod.
If anything I’d say our ideological diversity is a good thing. It enables us to try new things and keep our communities and ideologies fresh as well as to prevent the problem of trying to fit all of our problems into our one solution.
But I do think in some ways she has a good point here, especially about the online anarchist community. We spend a lot of time doing redundant things trying to promote our specific ideas within anarchism as anarchism. A single anarchist wiki with mods that range the gamut from Marxist anarchists to mutualists to syndicalists to catholic workers would be a much better use of resources and tool for presenting ourselves as the ideologically diverse coalition we actually are. Where schism is easy like online it can be something we default to rather than working together.
IRL we do this, you see it at food not bombs, at books to prisoners programs, at IWW and affiliated organizations, and at various other anarchist projects like bicycle repair co-ops. I’ve had lively disagreements with respected friends while doing mutual aid for our community, and yet online we tend to fracture and focus on how we’re different. This is despite the fact that our pluralism is literally one of our biggest selling points. We don’t want to form a monoparty! There are no vanguard to rule, but rather an attempt to build a better world even through our conflicts
(Er, yes. The screenshot was a joke. Admittedly a more depressing one than I’d even realized when I took the screenshot, but still)
Your experience has been very different from my own, I guess.