Notices by EmbraceBecoming (embracebecoming@kolektiva.social)

@AnarchoNinaWrites "Fascists are bad" seems like a good point to unify around and I don't trust anyone who isn't willing to do so.

@floatybirb @Radical_EgoCom What capitalism frames as poverty reduction is in large part the process of proletarianization, where people living subsistence lifestyles are brought into economies controlled by capital. There are upsides and downsides to this process, but a significant number of the people affected are not doing this willingly.

@ryanhoulihan if you use something enough it becomes grammatically correct. That's how language works.

@ami_angelwings @PJ_Evans I need that extra hour in winter. I need it so bad. I can't stand getting off work when it's already dark.

@Huntn00 @SocialistStan @mloxton @Radical_EgoCom @HeavenlyPossum Anarchists are not opposed to organization and are certainly not opposed to democracy. We object to the state, which is a specific form of social organization characterized by hierarchical class structures, governments that claim sovereignty over territory and have the exclusive right to enforce that sovereignty through a monopoly on the use of force, and in the modern era the ideology of nationalism. There are other ways to organize a society on scales both large and small through diverse combinations of voluntary affinity groups, democratically managed workers councils, systems of mutual aid and community self defense, and federations of all the above. The world we envision is not mad max, nor is it a bunch of hippies holding hands and singing kumbya, but an alternate world system that incorporates modern science and sociology, spontaneous grassroots political organization, and indigenous lifeways to create a model on which a diverse set of societies can be constructed to fit the needs of humans and their communities in harmony with nature.

And even if we are not able to implement this vision in full, bits and pieces of it can be used to make people's lives better in our day to day lives through organizing dual power and mutual aid, and by promoting the values of egalitarianism, socialism, solidarity, curiosity, and opposition to nationalism and fascism whenever and wherever possible.