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"If there is one wish I have [...] is for people to start considering the services they are using and how this affects everyone else around them. [...] But, most of all, it's not me who choses to be 'out of reach', 'not to participate in your community or your meeting', 'to isolate myself from communicating on the internet' (even though I am constantly online). It's you who choose to hide behind proprietary services with terms I cannot consciously agree to."

https://rsip22.github.io/blog/the-right-to-be-included-on-the-conversation.html

@cwebber When I'm working and I need to focus, I usually turn off the music and turn on this: https://asoftmurmur.com/

@kavbojka @wu_lee @fabianhjr Just devolving? Expecting power to be "absorbed back into the soil"?
I really don't think we are talking about the same things here. As an anarchist, I am all about empowering individuals through liberation and solidarity and building and maintaining collective organizational structures that facilitate specifically that.

Regarding Harvey: I am not really interested in reading the thousandth marxist/centralist critique of anarchism. That chauvinist stuff is tiring.

@fabianhjr @wu_lee @kavbojka This is the first time, though, I read that anarchism is supposedly not confrontational enough. So much for direct action. However, I am indeed a lot more interested in building a positive counter-reality, not feeding crisis, and in actively connecting compatible approaches instead of wasting energy in non-stop friction with incompatible ones.

@kavbojka @wu_lee @fabianhjr As an anarchist, of course, I am opposed to leaders, both the explicit and implicit kinds, and instead want organizational structures that render leadership (≠ initiative and/or dedication) obsolete.

@fabianhjr @wu_lee @kavbojka I also do not understand how horizontal scalability would lead to "self-segregation/retreat", but maybe that is just me. Unless you mean not working with political opponents like centralist socialists and other authoritarians or chauvinists. Yes, I really want to be "segregated" from these.

@kavbojka @wu_lee @fabianhjr Maybe I have a very different understanding of anarchism, but as far as I am concerned it is not opposed to consensus, including actual, grassroots democracy, and organization. On the contrary, anarchism in practice is pretty much about bottom-up organization of consenting individuals. (I am not writing about insurrectionalism, but what would an insurrectionalist approach have to do with cooperative/collective economic projects?)

@wu_lee @kavbojka @fabianhjr
That is one of the many reasons why cooperative/collective economic projects should, in my opinion, already incorporate an inherently anarchist approach at the founding level, and options for long-term horizontal scalability via federation with politically and structurally compatible projects shouldn't be an afterthought.

@fabianhjr @kavbojka @wu_lee I agree that coops ultimately need to be connected horizontally by embedding them into anarchist, e.g. syndicalist, organizational frameworks.

This, however, can (and should, in my opinion) only really work in a bottom-up way.

@risabee But probably I just read much too much into the word "archaic" here.

@risabee While I agree that we should fight technocracy and oppressive (use of) technology, I do no think primitivism can or should be the answer — liberating (use of) technology embedded in organizational structures of empowerment and solidarity should.

(That is not to say we shouldn't employ suffiency strategies to address socio-ecological issues, though.)

@andrej https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/brian-a-dominick-animal-liberation-and-social-revolution

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peggy-kornegger-anarchism-the-feminist-connection

@FuckOffGoogle Yes, and people should stop using and/or promoting their services.

@FuckOffGoogle Google has never been a "no evil" company. Being a monopolistic inhuman surveillance machine has always been their very core business.