Oh hey. So I want some advice on introductory books to read about #anarchism. But, like, there's two ways to learn about something with a history and I definitely prefer one of them over the other. So... please read:
I'm asking, "Where are we?" You can either answer by describing where we started and describing the path we took to get where we are. Or you can answer by describing our current location on a map and the surroundings.
I'm interested in starting with the latter and getting into the history after I have a reasonable understanding of the current state, if that makes sense?
What should I read?
@benhamill @paulfree14 there is no "where we are now", because everyone is in a different place.
Small projects get by with very little actual organization, because all they need to agree on is to debate until all of them are happy with the result. That's anarchism in its purest form, no rulers, everyone's voice is heard, but it doesn't scale up.
Larger and older projects have organizational rules, and a history how they arrived at them, but very little will be written down.
@GyrosGeier @paulfree14 Yeah. If the map metaphor, I figure it's less like we're in a group standing in a spot and more that we're a number of groups arrayed across a region. I'm interested in the region and who is where and why, I guess.
@GyrosGeier AnCap doesn't work. 👏🏻 Perfect summary. Haha. Thanks (and not just for the ancap burn).
@benhamill there are a few (hyphenated) directions.
Anarcho-Syndicalism is one of the main approaches to scaling an anarchist society by creating cooperating groups and a governance structure that allows taking decisions on a larger scale without reintroducing a state.
Anarcho-Primitivism wants to return to a simpler way of living.
Anarcho-Capitalism doesn't work.