communism, not sure which variant but you could ask some flowchart questions and i’ll try my best to answer based on my beliefs back then. one such belief was paternalism
You mean what your parents and school etc. indoctrinated you into before becoming an anarchist again?
My first self chosen ideology was anarchism. But I was raised social democrat / liberal and also indoctrinated to liberalism by the school system.
Also I still have to reflect on the marks that being raised in an authoritarian ( structurally white supremacist, colonialist, patriarchical, ableist, classist, cisheteronormative, gerontocratic, capitalist) society left on and in me.
i used to be a “centrist”
I was all over the shop. Far left, massively pro-lgbt, anti-gov, anti-authoritarian… but then people on far left started telling me I was obligated to support their chosen politicians and I felt some sort of resentment. I read Colin Ward and I realised that I was an anarchist.
Yep, no one is obligated. When you are subject to electoralism, it does generally behoove you to have some solidarity to keep the worst possible people from the levers of power. You aren’t obligated however. No more obligated than those seeking power are obliged to you. Which is usually not at all.
Electoralism and those seeking power are broadly speaking the problem.
Exactly. If the system is going ‘here is a line-up of absolute fucking clowns who are in it for themselves, choose one’ then how can people call it democracy? Financially-incentivised politicians are literally killing people in pursuit of money and this is somehow the best system we’ve got?
Sorry for teenager-like rant, but it really gets my goat.
Middle school I was a very progressive liberal. Early highschool I was Trotskyist, and then later high school till I turned 20 I was a Council Communist and Luxemburgist. Then I learned about the Spanish Civil War by playing HOI4 and read At the Cafe by Malatesta, and became an anarchist.
@A404 perhaps libertarian right, I would say. Kinda close to the center in terms of economics, but right nontheless. What I’m sure I never supported tho, was authoritarianism.
Apolitical
What made you become a anarchist?
I read Epicurus then I realized I’ve always been living like an Epicurean, then it was a matter of bridging the is-ought
Once I reached communism as the end goal, I needed to figure out the way to get there, and anarchism is the only realistic way.
I did a full 180 from complete authoritarianism. I’d watch movies like The Giver and get annoyed that the protagonist was ruining the great thing the govt had going
Confused.
I started drifting away from conservative values when I was very young. It was slow and constant and I never stopped drifting away. My current state of believes never made much sense to myself so there was no good reason to stop.
I found anarchism in my mid 20’s and that was the first time I found something that almost made sense. It would take another 10ish years of lived experiences and listening to other people’s stories to really understand my relationship with anarchism.
I never really read any anarchist books or dug deep into the philosophy. Listening to people and their traumas was way more than enough to help me understand the significance of anarchism.
Social Democrat, but I became disillusioned with voting.
I’ve been an anarchist since I was a teenager. It was my first approach to politics, and I have considered myself one ever since.
Sometimes I have had doubts about my political position, but I think that is healthy behavior.
I don’t know enough about it to say I am anarchist but I always been leftish but of course when I was a kid I did get some info that was actually evil and right leaning that I took as real. Also had hate of any authority which I still struggle with to a lesser degree (but a healthy distrust always a good thing). Why am posting if I don’t know? I guess i just been slowly acclimating to the idea.
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