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In 2017 everyone was like "antifa was just invented by Hillary to murder grandpas who want lower taxes" and I engaged at length in a symposium at C4SS to defend

Domination is an example of a strategy that catalyzes. An individual adopts the strategy of attempting to dominate others and they in response are pressured to change their strategy to

It would be interesting to make a graph of how many people could parlay being an anarchist into a career over time. I'm not unsympathetic, but the sheer inability to

Gentrification and capitalist control are complicated dynamics with many considerations, but I will never stop fighting with my friends over 1) the need to build more housing at all tiers

Anarchists: "It's possible to create bottom-up solutions to collective action problems without the state, indeed *better* than the state, through pro-social cooperation and aggressive boycott dynamics."Libertarians: "Aski

The break around, "but what if inaccurate models make me happy?!" I think highlights the difference between "anarchy as instrumental value" and "anarchy as terminal value."I'm not an anarchist to

Shitty truths:The Proud Boys are infested with white supremacists and defend structural white supremacy, but also calling them white supremacists will continually backfire with a huge section of the populace

There's a figure once again going around claiming anarchist collectives in spain saw a 20% increase in productivity. This is way too simple of an account and doesn't really apply

Many anarchists assume that because the anarchist movement has been around for a couple hundred years, it'll be around in the future. This is not at all guaranteed. My own

Tools & skills are about efficaciously changing the world. And, um, that doesn't really reinforce a sense of community nor a status hierarchy, ah, I don't know why you would

Okay, um, yall know about the FIRST American Revolution? The good one?In 1741 black slaves, irish refugees, & spanish pirates, inspired by the diggers in the English Civil War, conspired

A good prompt. Let me try to do a thread on notable developments / events in US anarchism since 2011...https://twitter.com/transform6789/status/1297560145736630274 * While the Syrian civil war began before Occupy, anarchist