@EeveeEuphoria@social.translunar.academy

Post #2306284

2023-11-27 18:56 UTC

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems isn't her position antithetical to anarchism believes anyways? i won't pretend to understand theory but isn't one of the main arguments for anarchism that power can enable corruption? this is living and breathing proof of that, and it's from someone supposedly making anarchist materials! this is like buying a book about technology from someone who hates technology lmfao

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@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems 2023-11-27 20:22

@EeveeEuphoria@social.translunar.academy The thing is that she doesn't actually attribute "being anarchist" to herself. A lot of anarchists do, and she merely never corrects that (nor does she even confirm it... she merely says nothing); this actually gives her a lot of space in places that she'd consider 'niche', helping to promote her materials within them. And I (personally) think that a lot of anarchists have felt starved for materials (especially those wanting things like anarchist education, since there's... not much available there), so they kind of... latch onto things that have the word "anarchism" written on them. And a lot of those same anarchists also really seem to hold academia in such high regard (much to my own, again, personal dismay), which helps promote these materials coming out of anarcho-curious academics (most of whom, from my own interactions and conversations with them, see anarchism as an "untapped area" of exploration, which gives them the much needed "special" research topics to get into PhD programs and be seen as an "expert" in such things). I'm sure there are people who, like... aren't that. But that has been a lot of my own interactions with the very people who continually recommend the same handfuls of books like this. And sadly, they often overlook people *outside* academia who have been working in these areas, and they tend to overlook a lot of anarchist (and anarchist-adjacent) spaces that are fighting to get things like this running. But yes, her position is antithetical to anarchism and has been for quite a long time because this has always been kind of bubbling under the surface.

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