Anti-anarchists sometimes like to accuse "anarchists" of having terrible opinions, and then if you're like "I'm an anarchist and that's not true" they say "Oh, I mean internet anarchists."

I've seen some of you mirroring this rhetoric and complaining about "internet anarchists." This is playing into anti-anarchist rhetoric that discredits anarchism and divides the movement. You don't have to prove you're one of the good ones.

We used to call those people "baby anarchists." They weren't pretenders who we had to distance ourselves from, they were uneducated people who needed some pointers on things like cooption, anti-imperialism, lesser evilism and the non-profit industrial complex.

Don't distance yourself from internet anarchists, educate baby anarchists.

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    What!? No! That would be pragmatic, we can't have that! Our politics must be entirely based around aping the aesthetics of past revolutionaries, basing things around the material conditions of the time and place you are in is for armchairs! What are you, some kind of person who doesn't have the flag of an obscure revolutionary party behind them that they feel compelled to explain to everyone they get in a video call with at great length?