Message from @April
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Id probably go to a farm or small town
generally speaking most people don't know how to farm nor have the land for it. We can't build our own electronics nor generate our electricity
some people can build, but we don't have the materials to do it
things like mining are pretty heavily regulated and under statist/capitalist control
What if they use communist to rise in power a little, and then "betray" the commies?
see the problem is that you have your leading communist+anarchist party
and then the masses
the masses start supporting the party, and are either communist or anarchist
the anarchists then go "fuck you we're done with this"
and try to dismantle
so all the anarchists pull support
the communists go 🤷 and continue their powerstructure
and we end up with the same communist system
Oh thats bad
anarchists could perhaps try *enforcing* anarchism
but the problem is that without the support communists will just continue pushing communism
and historically they have outnumbered us anyway
as anarchism is kinda a weird idea
I see
and one that really is only attractive in today's society
like today we can easily imagine automated systems doing a lot of cool stuff
but back then?
Is there any effective way for you guys to rise in power and stay?
like legit most people were farmers and working in factories
the only way to really do that would be to go against anarchism
since the whole point is to *not* have a coercive violent government enforcing it's will
this is why IMO the best solution is to instead focus on building alternatives
rather than trying to fuck with the existing stuff
maybe make nonprofit organizations that help push anarchist causes
do anarchist acts even if illegal
etc
I see
digitally this is really easy
we have stuff like scihub and torrents
that help share knowledge and media to all
copyright is a very easy thing to reject
we've also got censorship resistent distributed networks and infrastructure
so things like website takedowns can't happen
the hardware for the internet is still reliant on the statist+capitalist one, but mesh networks are being built that avoid that
and I mentioned earlier about electricity and solar power and all that