Shit post in question since their account is now deleted:
Stepping down as an /r/Antiwork mod
What a journey it has been. It all started with the Abolition of Work
An idea where we live in a society without being forced in your childhood to go to school 8 hours - half of your lifetime, to a place you don't like. For me it was 10 hours usually. Without being forced to work for 8-10 hours or even longer. Holy shit, America has it really bad. But it's not like social democracies are better either.
And well regarding the experience with r/antiwork... long story short: I had lots of fun with anarchists and other radicals, brilliant discussions the almost 2 years I was active there (before I was invited to be a mod) and I'm honestly not sad that the liberals, with their failed reformism, as history always shows, are mad at me.
What I am: I'm disappointed. At the people not even reading the sidebar - the introduction pieces and slowly co-opting antiwork in an idea it never was.
Let me make it clear as a post-leftist.
I don't fucking care about your democracy - the tyranny of the majority (well, supposedly, but the rich are ruling us right now - I care about my own well-being, about my willful self-creation. I care about to live. And if I see someone else sad, I'm sad too.
And it was making me sad how r/antiwork slowly was dying to liberals. The original userbase was full of radicals, a lot of anarchists and there were several discussions in subreddits where radicals frequented how it's just full of liberals now that want "nicer bosses" - even though the structure itself is just shit. I tried listening to community feedback and was actively trying to implement them in the 28 days I was modding - to the point of sleep deprivation today with 3 hours of sleep. Ironic, isn't it?
I actually thought about deleting Reddit the same day I got invited, as I was reading https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/return-fire-vol-4-supplement-caught-in-the-net - the dangers about companies, monopolies, capitalists, owning not only the physical space through private property, but also the internet itself. NFT were almost an evolution of property - making particular pieces in the internet itself being owned by someone. I guess it kind of failed?
Anyways, I'll deleting my Account soon and I'll be focusing on doing mutual aid in real life.
And for any Anti-Worker reading this, no, not the liberals, let me tell you this:
Our rights were fight for on the street, not begged in front of a capitalist that couldn't care less.
Let's not remember the bad moments, but the good memories we had with our pairs.
https://crimethinc.com/2015/05/05/feature-why-we-dont-make-demands
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime." - Max Stirner
How fitting that they should end the posting career of their made-up non-ideology with a quote from a someone that didn't exist
Don't over-estimate how much of a fetish westerners have for failure.
I think they're just young people with a different upbringing or environment than others. People shouldn't harp on them too much. Sometimes people aren't aware of how much pressure they'll be under in a given situation. Tons of people have dumb or weird beliefs, including us previously (or now). These people just had theirs exposed to thousands of people on the internet.
Whatever, good for them. Hopefully they stick to their guns and move from activity on Reddit to activity in real life. They didn't deserve a fraction of the shit flung their way for just being themselves and doing a shitty job of moderating a shitty subreddit on a shitty website.
Honestly yeah. I've just been watching this dumpster fire collapse like:
:antelope-popcorn:
staying awake for 21 hour stretches to... be a reddit mod
big yikes. there is literally nothing a moderator of any internet forum could possibly be doing that would justify missing sleep.
Stirnerists need a new thing to call themselves, because "post-left" has been co-opted by right wing grifters like Aimee Therese for a while now.
Now they’ll step down and more conservative mods will take their place. The “movement,” at least what little there was of one, will be officially castrated.
and where does that lead the few actual leftists on the sub? Back to us.
Now they’ll step down and more conservative mods will take their place. The “movement,” at least what little there was of one, will be officially castrated.
I was thinking the same thing. This seems like the internet version of a color revolution.
lol the marx fandom here continue to make the tim allen noise when they encounter post left anarchism
Max Stirner!?!?!? Mate, it was a joke, mate! Max Stirner was just a joke!
