Only the video/youtube crew quit. The writing/website crew remained the same.

Definitely not in the case of the USSR. They force-fed socialism down everyone’s throats so hard that as soon as they loosened their grip the people rebelled and went as liberal as possible, with russia speed-running the liberalism->autocracy pipeline. The USSR was an imperialist nation that forced its view of the world down its population, attempting to drown out peoples’ culture by calling that culture capitalist or fascist, ensuring that people hated them and everything they stood for. (Sending entire families to siberia when they first arrived didn’t help)

Even now. FOUR decades after the collapse. There is no socialist movement. No calls to get communism unbanned. All you can do is participate in the capitalist politics. The fallout even extended to anarchism. The people are so thrilled to finally “be free” (read: have people who speak our language rule over us) that any real attempt to challenge the state is seen as weird, not even dangerous. The only reason I’m the way I’m an anarchist is because of the internet and my mother, who is anarchist-adjacent (she handed me the book that turned me anarchist (“On anarchism” by chomsky (we all gotta start somewhere)).

You wanted a more experienced take. Here you go. A first hand account of someone living in a former USSR country, hating it with every inch of my being due to how much it fucked up all leftist politics here.

but yes, they did house a lot of people (including me right now (through inheritance)), and through that improved the standards of living, but that’s just something a successful country in the 20th century did I wouldn’t consider it specific to the ideology of the country.

The problem with citing dictionary is because they are based on current status quo. When I used it as a reference I got “Let’s not let liberals define the words we use” and I agree with that. We need an anarchist dictionary that’s wildly used to solve these problem. Every anarchist has their own path, and they have different words. We should try and consolidate as much as possible to a dictionary.

This was told to me by an anarchist who is in this com. They seem knowledgeable about anarchism so I don’t think this is ignorance. Rather a genuine disagreement on what leadership is or its role in anarchism.

They also said this:

When anarchists talk about “leaderless” organisation, they don’t just contradict the real-world experience of the working class - they literally contradict the very historical reality of anarchist organisation throughout the ages… which has never, EVER been “leaderless.”

This contradiction is a very, very serious one - and pretending that it doesn’t exist hurts anarchist narratives.

They are apparently trying to do AI as greenly as possible: https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-ai/

Reducing AI’s footprint isn’t enough — we’re here to make a positive impact. That’s why we generate more renewable energy than our AI features use, from 100% clean sources like solar and wind.

We’ve invested €18M in renewable energy projects — expanding solar parks and adding clean power to the grid. The energy we generate helps displace fossil fuels and accelerate the transition to renewable energy.

We use tools like the AI Energy Score and Ecologits to select efficient models and track their energy use — keeping our process transparent, and ourselves accountable.

https://support.ecosia.org/article/1006-ai-search#Model-training-and-adjustments-LOaKB

We use OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 mini because it strikes a strong balance between performance and efficiency. By choosing a smaller, mainstream model, we aim to deliver a high-quality experience while keeping our energy and water footprint low. We believe there is a need for greater transparency around AI’s environmental impact and continue to push for change across the tech industry.

Our AI Search is built using smaller, more efficient models less energy than larger ones, according to a recent study. We assessed the model’s impact using tools like EcoLogits, CodeCarbon or Hugging Face AI Energy Score. Additionally, we avoid energy-intensive functionalities like video generation or deep research.

We generate more clean energy from solar and wind than our AI features consume. The surplus goes into the electricity grid, helping to replace fossil fuels. While we can’t yet account for the emissions generated during the AI model’s training, using our AI Search features helps accelerate the energy transition towards renewables.

Go full robot: “Estimated timescale for the completion of this task?”. I doubt they’ll get annoyed at that, might just find it funny, or weird. no, definitely wierd.

Yeah the sub-culture that had star trek as one of it’s major contributors is surprisingly welcome to diversity. I wonder why that is? \j

I think it’s simply the case of the media that nerd culture grew out of was very welcoming to diversity, setting the standard for the entire sub-culture. I mean DS9 had a same-sex kiss in the 90s, with Dax a gender-swapping alien. I doubt that’s a coincidence.

I don’t consider it possible for any anarchists to be heroes. They are just people who say message. This is the reason I like V. They even say who I am isn’t important, just a person in a mask, not to hide their identity but to erase it.

This is the same reason I still like listening to anti-flag. The message behind the songs remains the same no matter how horrible the person singing them is, although I anyone wants to make a cover version I would probably like that more.

With media you could go even further and put a sarcastic twist on a message and make it mean the complete opposite of what the artist intended.

Thank you! I have been trying, and there does seem to be an uptick in socialist thought, most likely due to the internet and USA collapsing. There’s an anarchist bookfair in may that I plan to go to and of course I will keep training my social and anarchist skills here.

Ok. let’s try that again. Don’t worry this is probably my last time (I’m getting rather tired):

I know what I’m up against.

Archy

The belief that society must be divided hierarchically. That there must be a relationship of command and subordination in order for society to function.

Polity

That humans should belong to distinct groups with distinct rulers chosen by some method. The groups have their own written rules and members cannot join this group without some initiation ceremony or leave this group by their own will.

and the methods they use to enforce their control:

• Social Contracts: Various different methods of control that must be entered before being allowed to be part of society. for example: Money, Contracts, Laws. If the contract gets broken:
• Violence: Physical, mental or social. examples: punching, isolation, debt, limiting access to resources.

I know what I need to do to combat it.

1. Find others to organise and share ideas with. (Ultimately changing my mind and making all of my thoughts a lot less meaningful)
2. Create spaces that exist without the previously mentioned elements. Most likely finding other aspects that I haven’t considered yet.
3. Once (if ever) these spaces become big enough start influencing the rest of society by preforming outreach and showing that living without these aspects is possible.
4. If the states start fighting against us. Fight back in self defence. Otherwise try and get along with them as best as you can. It’s not our job to make people embrace anarchy.

As step 1 says everything after it will probably change as soon as I reach it (which is why I haven’t really brought it up).

And this is just one instance of me describing it. Next time it will be changed, it may even be completely different. My ideology exists in my brain, and my brain exists in a constant state of change. This is a snapshot influenced by my mood and what I can remember. Don’t think this is all that I believe/know (it definitely isn’t) or even accurate tomorrow.

I don’t want to. It seems like a lot of work for very little gain. I know what I’m up against. I know what I need to do to combat it. The first step in that process is going to give me more insight and change my mind anyway. My time is much better spent practising how to interact with others and trying to gain more understanding of revolutionary customs and cultures.

Yep. Same here. I’d gladly give up all of my electronics to be part of a socialist movement and not have to worry about money ever again.

Oh I’m very baby leftist. My country has no leftist orgs, and communism is banned. I have never had a chance to be part of an actually anarchic group, and all I’ve ever done is read theory. I did manage to hang out with a couple during trips and those were great but right now I’m stuck here.

But it is grounded in the real world. It’s just that my analysis is anarchic, it focusses on all power structures instead of just class. I don’t need to know anything more than “these are the people who use these means to oppress this group”. Doesn’t matter if they are capitalists, politicians, revolutionary leaders, school teachers or family.

Considering the liberals expect me to pay for my existence, making money a constant source of anxiety. I will never be comfortable under capitalism, not to mention patriarchy and NeuroTypArchy causing me to be trapped in norms and expectations I don’t want to conform to, making the aforementioned moneymaking even more difficult.

Don’t worry, I’ll take communists over liberals, no hesitation. Although obviously I would prefer anarchists.

Point taken. Don’t refer to writing styles as universal.

I will admit that I don’t actually know that much about class analysis. The material I consume is more focused on critique of authority, decentralised organisation and production, things like that. Which is why I think class analysis is redundant as it is already covered under critique of authority. Except authority focuses on the actual actions that people take instead of their positions, and it covers representative democracy as well.

But I still think it’s a valid framework, not just one that I would use.

And if you think I haven’t read anything I’ve posted a list as a response in this thread.

• AFAQ is the big one: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/index.html
• Adrewism: https://www.youtube.com/@Andrewism, or transcribed: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/andrewism
• Quite a lot of my own thoughts mostly formed by imagining different scenarios and playing them out.
• CrimethInk. : https://crimethinc.com/begin, https://crimethinc.com/tce
• My introduction was “On Anarchism” by Chomsky. (gotta start somewhere)
• Other pieces I’ve found on https://theanarchistlibrary.org/ Don’t remember them all so I’ll list a cople:
• • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-all-cocoons-are-temporary
• • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine (the first piece from crimethink i found)

But mostly I use the forgetting filter. My thoughts are a combination of countless little experiences from media, text and IRL that coalesce into my beliefs by forgetting the things that don’t speak to me. This makes it a patchwork of half-remembered and incomplete ideas and that makes me rather useless at explaining them (which probably explains this entire thread), but I like it because it guarantees I keep moving forward, currently I’m focused a lot on pluralism and that’s probably the fault of “all cocoons are temporary” being the last anarchist text that really spoke to me, but also part of Andrewisms videos discussing polity and free association.

I like to think of it as “improving quality of life” creates an attractive movement which will eventually be capable of toppling capitalism. More anarchist prefiguration than “don’t mind capitalism just keep improving your life”. I guess it’s “Fuck you capitalism. I’m just not going to care about you. I’ll sit in this corner with my friends and ignore you, and soon enough I’ll have enough friends that you stop existing.”

Oh no I don’t intend to wait… I went to an Anarchist bookfair in Berlin last month. Intending to go to another one in may, and meanwhile keep browsing the leftist comms, getting into arguments and finding people I connect with. I am actively looking. It’s just that the country I reside in had all leftist thought pummelled out of it due to being occupied by the USSR and transforming to ultra-liberalism and nationalism. The only orgs that could exist are anarchist ones because communism is banned. I could move. But that requires to have some connections outside and I don’t have those as well.