The real anarchists aren’t on twitter :think-about-it:

Nah but there is an unfortunate situation here semantically. Like the majority of the people on twitter/Reddit calling themselves anarchists are mostly liberals who are flirting with the aesthetic, maybe tangentially the idea of anticapitalism as a signifier without doing any sort of serious thinking or reconciling a life of brainworm propaganda with it. I don’t think they really constitute “anarchist” in the same way that those that hang out here or I’ve met irl do, tho this does feel a bit gatekeep-y I think it’s something quantifiable

we’ve had these types stumble their way here before and I’ve seen anarchist comrades here be like “youre not an anarchist you’re a liberal”

I also think a lot of these people are pretty young, college age and younger so still trying to figure shit out, so that’s another element.

Idk I don’t think there’s a simple answer bc it’s kind of tangled bc of the co-opting of anarchist label and aesthetics but also clearly a lot of anarchists here don’t love it when we dunk on them using the word even with modifiers like twitter-anarchist. I’m in favor of what makes people feel comfortable generally,