It is an attempt at a crowdsourced alternative to An Anarchist FAQ, mainly aiming to eliminate any biases by having multiple people write this work.

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    21 hours ago

    Short version:

    1. No that’s a straw man. There are too many cool options for how to solve that problem, and no i cant explain every detail of my ideal society at its peak to you, because im not the god queen of it, and i want everyone to have a say.

    2. We tend to propose starting by not putting so many of our combined resources towards doing the bad thing on purpose, then finding the reasons why the bad thing happens and fixing those.

    3. Can i get some of what you’re smoking? It sounds wild.

    4. No. If you touch me with your toothbrush i will scream.

    I think that covers all the standard questions and accusations.

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    But many people did work on afaq, no?

    Edit: what things do you think are biased on afaq? I feel like a link to a critique would help.

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        Wait, are you Ziq?

        EDIT: It seems so. So, still steadfastly opposed to postmill joining the fediverse? Then you wouldn’t need accounts like these to interact :D

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            Lol you peeps don’t realize I used to be a mod in /r/anarchism for more than a decade and was in that sub since 2009. That is to say, I’m familiar with ziq 😅

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          9 hours ago

          Yeah, I made an account because someone told me your site was being used to attack me and the FAQ I started.

          I’m not against postmill joining the fediverse, I’m against lemmy.

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        14 hours ago

        Thanks. I’ll check that out. That said, I happen to be in a lot of anarchist groups and read quite a bit in between.

        Afaik, the afaq rightfully claims that both direct democracy and consent are legit ways of anarchist group decisionmaking. I’d agree if you said it doesnt shed light of things like qualified majorities which are used in anarcho syndicalism quite a bit.

        Am I missing something?

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          9 hours ago

          It says “most anarchists are in favour of direct democracy” i.e. majoritarianism. We’re in favour of reaching consensus, not forcing the will of the majority on minorities. That’s Bookchin who insists we all obey the will of the majority.

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            Well. Consensus is great but especially in a world where forcing others is commonly taught from early age, at least qualified majority isnt worth completely throwing it out. It feels very harsh to delegitimize the work instead of just criticizing.

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      Raddle is very post-left. For example:

      Anarchists are not leftists, we side with neither monarchy nor republic, dictatorship nor democracy, free market capitalism nor state capitalism. We stand for anarchy. The absolute negation of all authority, including both wings of government.

      Like I would argue that the items to the left of the bolded text make anarchists leftists, in the sense that we claim to support (and do support) non-hierarchical modes of living as the classical Left claims to do as well. Of course any serious left-wing anarchists do not want to replicate the left wing of the State. But making that critique and rejecting left unity where it conflicts with our anarchist values does not mean that we’re not leftists and that there’s nothing to be learned from classical Left literature.

      So I would assume that the bias is towards the classical Left. Which…I think that the original FAQ is pretty critical of the classical Left? But a shorter FAQ for outsiders or classical-Left-averse people is still incredibly useful IMO.

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        2 days ago

        Very informative! Thanks a lot! :)

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      I should have clarified in the post; this is not my opinion, nor am I a participant of Raddle. I just found a cool link that I wanted to share.

      According to Raddle,

      [An Anarchist FAQ] is written entirely by one man and often pushes a strong Bookchinite perspective, to the point of smearing the anarchist currents that Bookchin rallied against

      Again, I don’t have much of an opinion on this, as I don’t know how much of it is true. I haven’t read AFAQ in much detail: I preferred the digestibility of Peter Gelderloos’ Anarchy Works.

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        I started the new FAQ, I can provide direct quotes from the old FAQ to outline its biases if you want. But biases aren’t really a problem, that’s to be expected in any project, the problem is the vicious smears it directs at anarchists of different schools, and the way it’s tries to assert monolithic thought onto anarchy, especially the author’s ideology of majoritarianism which he borrows from Murray Bookchin’s theories.

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        1 day ago

        nor am I a participant of Raddle.

        Nothing about Raddle, or it’s creator, deserves any kind of trust.

        It’s maker, Ziq, was caught red-handed on Raddle using an army of sock-puppet accounts to harass participants and manipulate narratives on Raddle itself - a method they were suspected of using to disrupt and hijack r/anarchism way back when.

        They are literally a text-book example of a bad actor.

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        2 days ago

        Thank you for clarifying. That helps a great deal! :)

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          22 hours ago

          Don’t believe every bitter and resentful internet commenter. They’re talking about 8 year old drama where I used several accounts to speak out against the politics and behavior of other users (almost all of them tankies) and then told them I did it and apologized. Hardly ‘caught red handed’.

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            21 hours ago

            almost all of them tankie

            Right, right, Ziq… all the people you hounded and harrassed off r/anarchism (including quite a few of the mods) is now just conveniently tankies (according to you).

            I see you still rail against tankies while using the very same underhanded tactics they do… you haven’t changed one spot on your coat, have you?

            • ChanceHappening@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              9 hours ago

              Holey moley give it a rest. It had nothing to do with reddit, it was literally Marxist-Leninists who were banning anarchists from raddle forums.

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                6 hours ago

                Still the same old liar, eh Ziq?

                You know what? I’m kinda glad you didn’t change - you’re still the same old breathing and talking reminder of why we should always be vigilant against raging narcissists hiding under leftist camouflage.

                It’s not just the tankies and the liberals we should be guarding against - after all… the likes of you are still out there, too.