Anarchists Watch THE ANARCHISTS ON HBO

I'm pretty annoyed about this show's title. People already generally have no clue what anarchism actually means or what anarchists actually believe. It's annoying to see a legitimate political ideology with a centuries long tradition of philosophy and theory reduced to "punk kid trying to be badass", or "January 6th rioter", or "crank who thinks nothing in society should follow any form of organization". This just muddies the waters further.

idk, I have recently watched that Netflix series that had episodes about neo-Nazis, another Netflix show about the Revenge Porn guy, and the Showtime miniseries The Comey Rule ... the ancaps are nowhere near the literal worst people compared to the subjects of these shows, and there was only so much I could stomach at once.

― sarahell

yeah i was just exaggerating there, sorry about that

rojava was ostensibly inspired by murray bookchin who for all his flaws was a genuinely left wing libertarian socialist (he'd probably hate that) who'd have no time for these clowns- rothbard is a very different proposition

rojava/AANES not doing great atm afaict but it's not their fault

It's annoying to see a legitimate political ideology with a centuries long tradition of philosophy and theory reduced to "punk kid trying to be badass", or "January 6th rioter", or "crank who thinks nothing in society should follow any form of organization". This just muddies the waters further.

the punk kids can be okay, they are mostly action without theory, but the other two categories ... wrong philosophy and theory.

xp Left -- Bookchin! Now that's a familiar name I had expected to get dropped.

Meanwhile ... Chicago dude who was sponging off his wife complains that his house actually is property of the community in terms of building and land use regulations ... which, yes, there are a lot of problematic things about building permits and land use regulations, but I strongly doubt that the problem he had with them personally was a symptom of "statist" oppression, as opposed to the many many ways these systems contribute to the affordable housing crisis.

I think if I watched this I would become unhealthily enraged

enraged + triggered tbh

rojava/AANES not doing great atm afaict but it's not their fault

― Left, Friday, July 29, 2022
update:https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2022/08/26/what-are-we-still-doing-in-syria-00053898