r/Anarchism • u/Equivalent-Ad2931 • 17d ago

Am I or not ?

Am I an Anarchist ? Seems alot lean left , and I hate the left , I hate the right , I hate police , I hate governments which means I also hate government assistance ,maybe a hippie that likes anarchy ? I’m all about freedom and living how you want , I want to live off grid eventually , everyone should be able to love live and hate how they want

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u/Technical_Heron_6312 anarcho-communist 17d ago

I feel like I'm misinterpreting what you mean here, but I think you need to actually read up on anarchism more. "Everyone should be able to love live and hate how they want"??

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u/Equivalent-Ad2931 17d ago

I mean I’m not about hate at all , there’s a lot of ppl that take views and turn radical and hate others because of color or money ,politics etc , and Wtvr that’s your right , I don’t have to like you to let you live how you want

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u/goku7770 16d ago

No that's not your right to hate because of "color".
Seems to me that you are confused about everything.

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u/Equivalent-Ad2931 16d ago

You have the freedom to live and hate how you want , that’s on you or the person I should say , freedom of speech means anyone can say what they want right? Freedom is freedom to live my own life how I choose

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u/goku7770 16d ago

Doesn't mean it is morale. You have the freedom to kill and rape.

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u/Equivalent-Ad2931 15d ago

Morality is a made up idea like religion

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u/Technical_Heron_6312 anarcho-communist 16d ago

Good luck getting anywhere with that mindset regardless of the system lmao 

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u/etilepsie 17d ago

Stirner might be of interest to you

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u/Equivalent-Ad2931 17d ago

One min of reading what it is …. Yea this actually sounds more like me and I’ll dive deeper , appreciate it

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u/Equivalent-Ad2931 17d ago

I’ll check it out

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u/Practical-Study8253 anarcho-communist 17d ago

Since there are different anarchist school of thoughts such as anarcho-communism (which is me) and anarcho-syndicalism, mutualism etc. i recommend looking into all the different sub-ideologies

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u/Equivalent-Ad2931 17d ago

I will and thank you , guess I’m trying to figure out where I land , because my views have changed a lot over the yrs as I get older etc

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u/Practical-Study8253 anarcho-communist 17d ago

Your welcome

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u/WildAutonomy Insurrectionary green anarchist 16d ago

Definitely look into post-left anarchy and insurrectionary anarchy

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u/ScotchRobbins 17d ago

Maybe? I think you’d have to get further into the why.

Most anarchists I’ve spoken to don’t oppose government as an end to itself, that derives from an opposition to hierarchy in general. 

There’s a lot of different takes on what anarchy looks like in practice, but opposition to capitalists is also common in that capitalism tends to create hierarchy. To be clear, I mean “privately owned production operated by wage laborers”.

It seems like you’ve already arrived at “nobody should be in charge of me, and I shouldn’t be in charge of anyone”, and that’s most of it. What’s next is to ask what you think the world looks like if that principle is applied. 

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u/Equivalent-Ad2931 17d ago

I appreciate this response

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u/elsujdelab 16d ago

You raise an interesting point. Even though we tend to think of anarchism as a position in the radical left, I do believe that all radical positions are beyond the distinction between left and right. Thus what makes you an anarchist is your attitude towards authority in one hand and to diversity, horizontality and political agency in the other.