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The branch of anarchism which sees individual freedom as being dependent upon mutual aid. Social anarchist thought generally emphasizes community and social equality.
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Social Anarchism: The branch of anarchism which sees individual freedom as being dependent on mutual aid; community and social equality.
Social anarchism is an umbrella term that includes collectivist anarchism, anarchist communism, anarcho-syndicalism, mutualism, platformism, social ecology and more.
Alexander Berkman: "There are revolutions and revolutions. Some revolutions change only the governmental form by putting a new set of rulers in place of the old. These are political revolutions, and as such they are often met with little resistance. But a revolution that aims to abolish the entire system of wage slavery must also do away with the power of one class to oppress another. That is, it is not any more a mere change of rulers, of government, not a political revolution, but one that seeks to alter the whole character of society. That would be a social revolution."
Moderation Policy: Ideally we'd need no moderators, but our sub exists inside reddit's forced hierarchies. To work around this, we invite every proven contributor to be a mod. That way we can collectively police ourselves & not depend on a handful of enforcers. A 'proven contributor' is anyone with a post history that shows an understanding and support of the social anarchist struggle and is not prone to any bigotry.
Rules: All we ask is that you follow our anti-oppression policy: Members will remove anything that alienates people by presenting bigoted views towards: ethnicity, sexual orientation, biological sex, gender identity, age or physical/mental ability. Threats and personal attacks against other social anarchists will lead to bans.
All members are asked to report offensive posts. It is equally important that we report moderators that have overstepped and deleted a submission without suitable cause.
Not all new members can ban people. If you don't have ban privs yet and there is a need to ban a user, post in modmail explaining why. If there is an objection to the ban from another mod, all mods will be able to vote in a [META] thread.
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Only anarchists can be mods. 'Ancaps', 'national anarchists' & other coersive perversions aren't anarchists & are unwelcome. Please do not invite non anarchists or bigots to be members.
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The Solutions are Already Here - Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below
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How we vandalized the US embassy wall in Moscow and were not caught
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I'm searching for people interested in creation of remote, horizontal game dev worker cooperative
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Really Really Free Market in action
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I’m creating an online mutual aid community, hoping to get some people to help get it moving!
Starting a discord community for those who find joy in the act of giving!
I’m just starting my server up, still ironing out the kinks. I’d love to have some first comers to join and keep me company while I get it rolling!
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I’m making a game where you create anarchist societies on Mars and live in them
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Living Utopia: the best documentary I've seen about the Spanish Civil War anarchists
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What are some Social Anarchist Models for how to achieve Large Public Works?
So I've always been pretty leftist but I relatively recently consolidated my anti-capitalist and anti-caracel thoughts into a box that I think fits in with social anarchism. My (good faith) question is are there any readings I can see on social anarchist models for public services such as roads, the internet, metro systems, GPS, healthcare etc? I am aware of many abolitionist alternatives to state use of police and prisons as well as many organizing models for cooperative communities, but I haven't read much on how to manage large scale systems under a social anrachy model.
I suppose one idea would be to scale up anarcho-syndicalism and have large-scale industry be run by free associations of trade unions (so for example, a space agency would be run by a parliament of Prospsect, Amicus and such).
I suppose you could also try to "nationalize" a private company like SpaceX by converting it into an employee-run co-op and then have such co-ops democratically affiliate on such projects in a scale up version of individual human co-ops.
My concern is how to manage such large scale ventures without just recreating the statist system in practice.
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