I'm not american either but I think historically and up til now plenty if not most of the people who call themselves anarchists did so because that was the "safe" kind of leftism, plus it also had some state backing. I'm not talking about ursula k le guin or emma goldman here, there are real committed american anarchists but past a certain point, namely when everyone started using twitter, I don't think you can people's self-identification that seriously so I can't say that "anarchism" is that prevalent in the US so much so that it would have to be accommodated, idk maybe this doesn't make sense
to be fair so do a lot of the communists
I'd say the same about them, weirdoes, especially if they call themselves "marxist-leninists" but don't want to join a party or do anything.
It is. Here in Portland at least, the radical labor unions (the IWW and the ILWU) both operate on anarchist lines (although ILWU was originally communist lead), and most resistance to oppressive city policy has take the form of militant direct action. Meanwhile there's a small business movement of offering your shop to your workers when you go out of business, so now there's a lot of coops. There's also multiple anarchist info shops and a small collective farm just south of the city.
There are a lot of people who call themselves Anarchists. A lot of the online ones seem primarily interested in perpetuating American radical individualism in a "I don't want to participate in society and telling me that I have to cooperate with others and not just do anything I want with no repercussions is authoritarianism".
Most of my critiques of American Anarchism is trying to work with Anarchists who believe it primarily means they can do whatever they want and don't have any obligations to others beyond what they choose to have. Like they're not thinking about how to bring about a fundamentally different society, they're thinking about how great it would be not to have building codes and be able to do their own plumbing and electrical. It's all American individualism, "every man in his own castle" rugged frontiersman bs with a thin coat of left paint. There are more theoretically sound Anarchists but they're a lot thinner on the ground.
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I'm not american either but I think historically and up til now plenty if not most of the people who call themselves anarchists did so because that was the "safe" kind of leftism, plus it also had some state backing. I'm not talking about ursula k le guin or emma goldman here, there are real committed american anarchists but past a certain point, namely when everyone started using twitter, I don't think you can people's self-identification that seriously so I can't say that "anarchism" is that prevalent in the US so much so that it would have to be accommodated, idk maybe this doesn't make sense
I'd say the same about them, weirdoes, especially if they call themselves "marxist-leninists" but don't want to join a party or do anything.
It is. Here in Portland at least, the radical labor unions (the IWW and the ILWU) both operate on anarchist lines (although ILWU was originally communist lead), and most resistance to oppressive city policy has take the form of militant direct action. Meanwhile there's a small business movement of offering your shop to your workers when you go out of business, so now there's a lot of coops. There's also multiple anarchist info shops and a small collective farm just south of the city.
There are a lot of people who call themselves Anarchists. A lot of the online ones seem primarily interested in perpetuating American radical individualism in a "I don't want to participate in society and telling me that I have to cooperate with others and not just do anything I want with no repercussions is authoritarianism".
Most of my critiques of American Anarchism is trying to work with Anarchists who believe it primarily means they can do whatever they want and don't have any obligations to others beyond what they choose to have. Like they're not thinking about how to bring about a fundamentally different society, they're thinking about how great it would be not to have building codes and be able to do their own plumbing and electrical. It's all American individualism, "every man in his own castle" rugged frontiersman bs with a thin coat of left paint. There are more theoretically sound Anarchists but they're a lot thinner on the ground.