/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>2248040
Stirner and Bakunin

read hitler and join your local drug smuggling crime gang, preferably the one that terrorizes the largest amount of workers

you dont have to read anything or even know how to read or agree with any other existing anarchists thats the fun part no authority can define anarchism so each individual gets to have their own personal anarchy and no one can criticize you because you can just unsubscribe from people who who have icky ideas if someone points it out

nothing just be stupid and say dumb things

Why would you want an ideology to make you feel less like a fat loser, when you could have one which would make you not one. This is the true emancipatory power of authoritarian revolutionary ideologies.

don't read anything. reading is hierarchical you're literally letting someone exert authority over your opinions

>>2248071
that is rooted on anti social western mentality. Anti social behavior leads to the desibtegration if society. Who eoukd of thought.

>>2248040
>I am clinging onto any identity that makes me feel less like a fat loser
Becoming a Marxist ain't going to help with that either. Look at >>2248053 for instance.

With that being said, Zoe Baker is one of the few Anarchists who knows what she's talking about and gives good intros into Anarchism and what it stands for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8qamRewWg4&t=54s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPzAn5fo60k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syR0P-2uwp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnxpfpXF_es~

Andrewism also gives a good breakdown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrTzjaXskUU&t=614s

Once you understand those- it's up to you to where you want to go from there and wether you want to delve deeper into these ideas.

My recommendation would be for Malatesta's Anarchy, and Peter Kropotkin's "are we good enough?"

start slow, and if you're still intrigued, it's up to you to continue reading.

>>2248128
Also should note, as someone who once was an anarchist- you're better off learning from a variety of practices, Communalism, Juche, Pan-Africanism, Leninism, Dem-Con etc. so that you can understand not only their arguments but also if they are applicable in the material conditions you find them in.

Surrendering to dogma either makes you resentful of people who should be your allies, and making allies with people who should be your enemies.

For the love of god, don't go the way of Haz or V.aush.

>>2248040
Anarchism is a concept that takes time to digest and develop your own vision of it. It cover social organization (direct democracy, socialism, free association, etc.) and even personal relationships (family, romance, etc.). Just beware, some anarchists, specially individualists or post left anarchists pretend to be the Master Anarchists who determine the True Principles of what anarchism is. Avoid these, and become a social anarchist. From there, build your own path.

Read Kropotkin, Rudolf Rocker, Chomsky, Bakunin, Bookchin, and ignore the modern anarchist pseudointellectuals

>>2248040
>what do I think what do I read what do I do please help me become le based anarchist
Get involved with stuff locally to you, participate in action.
Politics are what you do, not what you read and think.
>>/QTDDTOT/

>>2248040
Rudolf Rocker and Alexander Berkman, Leftcoms like Council Communists compliment anarchist thought nicely and bring it to a more 'scientific' understanding ala Marx without the Leninism

https://archive.org/details/worldfoodnotbomb00food_0

Food Not Bombs style organizing is very effective.

>>2248040
Whachugondu?

this was made slightly in jest because I'm still figuring everything out but I'm surprised everybody took the time to reply with genuine answers

thanks everybody

>>2248457
anarchists from 180 years ago are cool, but you should want to understand what's going on today although keep in mind picrel with these types of guys.

>>2248595
picrel

stop showering

post-left is the only anarchy that makes sense.

>>2248040
I like Sartwell.

>In Against the State, Crispin Sartwell unleashes a quick and brutal rejection of the traditional arguments for state legitimacy. Sartwell considers the classics of Western political philosophy-Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Hume, Bentham, Rawls, and Habermas, among others-and argues that their positions are not only wrong but also embarrassingly bad. He separates the traditional pro-state arguments into three classes: social contract theories, utilitarian justifications, and justicial views, all while attacking both general strategies and particular formulations. Sartwell argues that the state rests on nothing but deadly force and its accompanying coercion, and that no one is under any obligation to obey the law merely because it is the law. He concludes by articulating a positive vision of an anarchist future, based on the "individualism" of such figures as Emerson and Thoreau. Against the State provides a rigorous and provocative foil to the classic texts, and also serves as a concise statement of the anarchist challenge.

>>2270608
He's also more in the American tradition. There's a whole American anarchist thing going back to the 19th century which is distinct from Bakunin and Kropotkin and those guys, and he has a funny way of shitting on authoritarian leftists. I'm not an anarchist but I like him.

supporting communism is unironically the best anarchist praxis because anarchism is what comes after communism and the true final stage of humanity

Food Not Bombs - Operator's Manual (2002)— indepth guide on starting a food not bombs chapter
https://archive.org/details/worldfoodnotbomb00food_0/page/2/mode/2up

Peter Kropotkin - The Conquest of Bread — the roots of mutual aid
https://files.libcom.org/files/Peter%20Kropotkin%20-%20The%20Conquest%20of%20Bread_0.pdf

Luxemburg Collective - Direct Action Handbook — clean, well-written how-to rebel guide
https://www.organizingforpower.org//wp-content/uploads/2009/03/da_handbook.pdf

Anonymous - Blockade, Occupy, Strike Back — taking escalation to the next rung, essential reading
https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/direct-action/blockade-occupy-strike-back/

>>2248040
there is only one righteous path, that of God

>>2248136
>as someone who once was an anarchist
you still are, btw

>>2248040
Ignore all the people telling you to read dudes from 200 years ago.

If you want to *be* an anarchist, the best thing you can do is understand that the State is a historical form and not a natural institution that exists forever.

Find a mutual aid group near you.

>>2270594
what the fuck is a post-left anything

>>2271171
This poster has it right. Ignore all the people telling you to read, that's the easiest way to really become an anarchist.

You literally just need to label yourself one. That's it.

>>2248040
Analyze CHAZ and employ everything they did into your worldview

>>2271411
CHAZ actually existed at least unlike the fantasist US communist utopia that appeared in your dreams ultra

The upside and downside of anarchism is that there's no formal process of being one, save for the general desire to liberate humanity from oppression. Because of that anarchism usually overlaps with communism despite how much both groups might chafe at each other's presence. If you're wondering where to start though I'd strongly recommend Malatesta's "At The Cafe". It's a series of socratic dialogues about anarchism and communism that conveys in easy to understand terms the origins and nature of property as well as some decent counterarguments for apologists for capitalism and/or statism. Conquest of Bread and What is Property are good too, but a lot of core Marxist texts also tend to be shared by anarchists.

From there though? Well you can continue reading more modern theory, which can vary heavily in quality to say the least and on average looks more like avant garde slam poetry made into a manifesto than a serious political polemic, but sometimes that's part of the fun. But what's far more useful in the present day and age is to look at what anarchists, libertarian socialists, and similar such groups are doing in terms of tactics and strategy. Observe the Zapatistas, take note of the Greek anarchists, study the successes and failures of various protest tactics during those campus occupations in America. For that Crimethinc is a pretty decent resource, but the important thing is not to put your eggs in one basket regarding any aspect of anarchism and communism.

>>2248040
What is it with middle-class losers and jumping ideologies and wearing them like pokemon skins

>>2271457
Personally I blame the proliferation of hoi4 alt history mods. Now having a wacky esoteric ideology cobbled together from multiple mutually exclusive influences is considered "gucci" as they say in Nippon. It's not enough to be a communist or an anarchist, no now you have to be a Technocratic Mayakovskyite or Anarcho-Jucheist with Elements of Harmony characteristics. Yes the ideological supermarket is best fit for looting but you dont loot the rotting food

>>2248596
I look like 2014 and say that stuff

>>2271457
Social media and hypernormalization. Midders (yes, the hard r this time) especially dislike having to actually read and do political research so they vaguely internalize the ramblings of internet strangers to make up for it. Hence the fact that all it takes is a thesaurus or an infographic to sway them.

>>2248040
Join reddit.

honestly op, the truth is there is no single anarchist theory. hell, there is no single theory even for a single flavor of anarchism. all you have is a community with strong sense of anti-capitalism but a very vague sense of organization and direction. its a very comforting political movement because you can never be wrong.

i wont judge you for wanting to radicalize towards anarchism since i myself used to be an anarchist, but after a combination seeing the flaws of the movement and reading marx, engels and lenin, i became a communist.

ill say this though, there is a website called "the anarchist library" where there is plenty of resources for all kinds of anarchism. knock yourself out, but this website is one of the reasons i left the anarchist movement, because i have never seen a catalog of such contradictory ideas in my life.

>>2271416
Even a day later I still can't find a way to respond to this BTFO. It's over.

First you should transition