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Yes, I agree, which would disagree with the other comment's point that socialism inherently opposes individualism.
Interesting. Where/when are they not opposed?
Edit: Noting that I didn't mean that they are mutually exclusive outside of social structure.. You can take individual actions in a socialist society. The question is just around which is the core principle of the organisation of society.
Edit 2: to me anarchy isn't inherently individualistic, it is just opposed to power-over social structures. You can have a voluntary socialism. Look at Chiapas, for instance.
As much as i know, anarchy is not indivualist since the entire point of anarchism should be that the community works togheter to do stuff
While respecting the rights and autonomy of the individual. It is entirely about respecting individual freedom while also encouraging work together as a community.
so its a fell good circlejerk with no framework on how to organize and overthrow capitalism. Hah
Tell me you know nothing about Anarchist philosophy or history with explicitly saying so.
you still didnt explain
This whole quote seem like motivation speech
Try reading a book and you'll get those answers explained in full. I'm not gonna sit here and paraphrase volumes of anarchist theory just so you can play judge nitpicking the specifics. I have explained my position well enough. If you want specifics, go read the source materials.
Kropotkin, Graeber, Bakunin, Proudhon, Luxembourg, Parsons, etc ... All have explained the mechanisms of decentralized resistance and horizontally structured systems of authority as well as the incentive structures of how people decide what to labor on and organize with their communities to ensure desired services are rendered alongside how this change of incentives and authoritative structure would counteract reactionary efforts.
FYI, that quote is from renowned anthropologist, David Graeber, who wrote multiple books on these very subjects. You should try reading them. You'll learn something.
lol. Read Lenin and Stalin - People who actually did something in real life.
You mean those who started an authoritarian regime who committed untold acts of oppression upon the working class they claimed to represent? Whose only reason they succeeded was due to the anarchists who helped build the revolution in the first place only to be stabbed in the back by your idols?
Get bent tankie.
Bolsheviks succeded due to anarchists? lmfao
anways, symbol of anarchism is usually a graffiti under a bridge, flag of marxism leninism has been flown over big nations and once encapsulated 1/3rd of humanity
Thats the difference.
Telle you don't understand what Anarchism is without explicitly telling me.
You're a joke.
The majority of human history is anarchist in nature. Far longer than your little authoritarian bullshit flag. You'd know this if you'd have read Graeber.
Anarchism is about resolving the apparent contradictions between individual rights/responsibilities and collective rights/responsibilities.
Victor Serge & George Woodcock enter the chat.
It's about a community of individuals. The individual is celebrated, but in a way that's far more akin to Mr. Rodgers (you're special and unique just like everyone else) rather than of say a heroic society (where the ability to command attention and stand uniquely above others is valued).
An anarchist would say that you need to figure out how you can best contribute to your community in a way that fits with your unique self rather than taking away from it. It's akin to a family, where various things need to be done and it's up to the members of the household to figure out how to get it done in a way most associated with everyone's wants and needs, but also in the discussion are the nice to haves like someone may grow an herb garden, while another household may decide nobody wants it enough to do it or push for it.