so the modern anarchist solution is to instead adopt alternative ways of living

that don't rely on ownership

this is *very* difficult to do right now under capitalism

but ideally we should be going the way of offgrid people (who are usually libertarian) along with making individual communes and smaller communities

so far it's not going too well

because trying to replace all infrastructure is very expensive

and not too many people support it just yet

i see

so right now a lot of anarchists tend to support progressive candidates who help remove capitalist reliance, and focus on buildin alternative ways of living

Is there anarchist politicians rn?

no

best we've got are some communists and progressives

Oh that makes it kinda hard

without support from powerfull people

it's funny because anarchists naturally tend towards "I don't want to lead nor anyone to lead" but also go "well these communists are kinda like us, so we'll support them to advance our goals"

but feel free to think about it yourself. Imagine you're fed up with the world

and want to live on your own

or maybe with a small group

how would you go about doing it?

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

rather than in a historic communist one

like today we can easily imagine automated systems doing a lot of cool stuff