Should kolektiva change its registration policy? Currently it's open.
#Kolektiva
keep open
38.3%
basic screening
55.3%
close registration
6.4%
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This poll is just a vibe check. We're anarchists and a lot of non-anarchists are joining from Twitter and there's a question around what kind of environment we collectively want and can sustain. Really interested in hearing why people joined #Kolektiva and what y'all would like to see continue. 🏴🖤     

@admin I joined because I would love to see a classless, stateless, and moneyless society and I figured I was more anarchist than socialist, I've read the conquest of bread and am sold on the communism kropotkin spoke of, as well as erico Malatesta's Anarchy, but haven't read Marx (besides the manifesto) Lenin, Trotsky, Mao and such so, while I've seen Alki's series on why "the state is counterevolutionary" , I would like to basically read everybody's ideas, wouldn't try it, just don't want to knock it before I've read it. And not just from back then but contemporary left/leftish writers like David graeber and yanis varoufakis.

I personally want to get along with any leftist I meet, so I'd rather not pick a fight with someone advocating for anything less than Anarchy. Atm I don't mind befriending keynsians wishing to move away from neoliberalism and just, stopping there, their big wins are my small wins. But of course I still want Anarchy.

So I've got some questions.

I saw a "rules" post in this thread.

Regarding posting for a political campaigns, does that include reblogs? Like if I wanted to reblog a message uriging people to vote for Raphael Warnock in the runoff just a little while ago.

Since it was mentioned posting CCP, USSR, and DPRK propaganda is not allowed. Is it strictly these countries? Or does it include the GDR, Vietnam, Cuba and so on? Would posting say, a meme video with anime characters singing "Der heimliche aufmarsch" be considered GDR propaganda?

Is posting appreciation for something happening or that happened in an existing socialist, social democratic or such country like Cuba, Vietnam, Venezuela, Sweden, Norway or even Brazil now that they have Lula, "glorification of a nation state" ? Like say if I expressed appreciation for the handling of covid in Vietnam or Cuba, because they're less of a capitalist death cult than the US. Or infrastructure building because a country decided to ignore the profit motive when building it.

Regarding conspiracy articles, I'm glad to see that since joining kolektiva I've run into sites like anarchist federation, however when I first started my journey going left I used to listen to and read grayzone articles and am now convinced they're not always factual. I would like to help spread leftist news and ideas, but am also worried I could spread misinformation. At this moment for me, all news feels like fake news until fact checked, or gets loaded with source links. If I found an "anarchist" news article that doesn't have sources, or can't be fact checked, if it's basically isolated, can we call that a conspiracy theory/article?

Reblogging applies to all the questions including this last one, I've listened to many leftist over the years, some are statist, if they tooted something I liked from an anti-capitalist perspective but not a pro-state prospective, is it okay to reblog it?