prince lucija
decolonize y/our ideologies
Mar 1 at 9:43pmWeb
Show threadOlm-eMar 1

@prinlu agree to decolonize but this is like confusing anarchy with anomy or libertiarianism ... I think "anarchy" is actually quite close to that "indigenous governance" in it's diverse forms (applied or theoretical)

as in anarchy is there to preserve the commons, to organise solidarity without privilege, to "let every one receive what it needs and contribute what it can"

it's literal "indigenous governance" for people dominated by a "super class" in their own country

#decolonize EU 👍

Show threadvoidMar 2

@olm_e @prinlu on one hand, there are meters of literature about anarchy.
then there's the word itself: "the absence of the absolute ruler (archon)."

does that preclude people from simply being kind to one another and taking responsibility?

then I see people going into nature for picnics and leaving their trash behind.
people who, in their cars, impede other people on their way to work to arrive two minutes earlier.

i'm at a loss.

Show threadprince lucijaMar 2

@PersonM @olm_e I agree that their (person in the video) understanding of anarchism (not anarchy) is somewhat generalized and perhaps superficial. it assumes absence of responsibility, which in my experience with anarchist groups it isn't true. there's usually a lot of talk about taking responsibility about land or place for the collective. I would guess or asume there are strands of anarchism that are considering such responsibility as secondhand or even undesired - perhaps individualism- and even anarchocapitalism (ok i know anarchism is mainly anticapitalist). so it probably depends at which type of anarchism one is looking at.

bottom line, considering also libertarianism (free market anarchism) i feel video's take is not out of place (perhaps anarchists do need to re-evaluate existence of decolonial thought in their practice/philosophy), but it also isn't very nuanced.

Show threadprince lucijaMar 2

@PersonM @olm_e quite interesting reading is this: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anders-corr-anarchist-squatting-and-land-use-in-the-west

I'm currently under the spell of Rosi Braidotti's Posthuman Feminism - or in general her Posthumanist project - which among other things argues critically the failures of humanist 'Man' and I can interpret the above text so much in this view, where cartesianism and renessaince permeate this individualism in anarchist thought - a constant fight against the domination of state just leaves little space for other considerations. i bet there's been more critical writing and also synthesis of decolonial thought and anarchism. but i currently have a feeling the two of them are in somehow uncomfortable tension (how much is revolutionary anti-state movement feminist, indigenous, antiracist, queer, really, and how much it is white, masculinist, colonial...?). just wondering here, no firm positions from me.

Anarchist Squatting and Land Use in the West

Anders Corr Anarchist Squatting and Land Use in the West Direct Action and the Critique of Real Estate

The Anarchist Library
Show threadvoidMar 2
@prinlu @olm_e thanks :)