Why are there so few anarchists? Discussion.

Greetings everyone!

If you haven't already, it's best you begin by reading the description for the group on our main page on meetup: https://www.meetup.com/anarchists-in-berlin/ Today we aim to discuss a few dimensions around the question: 'Why are there so few anarchists?' It would actually be redundant to put 'today' at the end of that question, since that question is probably a valid one regardless the time period or age into which one is born. The dimensions around this question we'll discuss include: why are so many hesitant to reject status quo politics and economics, and societal circumstances and at the very least entertain radical anti-capitalist, anti-statist, and democratic alternatives? how has this situation come about? Or perhaps more accurately, how have forces of power, including the state, police, military, local community fascists and anti-radicals, and big business or corporate powers sustained such fierce repression of our innate creative, imaginative, radical, and grassroots impulses to create a better life for us all? how can we change this? Not just in the abstraction, not just theoretically and in general, but how can our group, Anarchists in Berlin, do something to open others to anarchist or in general radical politics and ideas? Although we spoke a bit about Gustav Landauer and his powerfully spiritual writings on anarchism, he might be a focus of another time. Today, here are a few works worth reading to help us begin or provide a little food for fodder throughout our discussion, but you can always suggest others in the comments: David Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-fragments-of-an-anarchist-anthropology - recommended the first two sections of introduction Stefanie Knoll's and Aragorn Eloff's 2010 Anarchist Survey Report at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/stefanie-knoll-and-aragorn-eloff-2010-anarchist-survey-report Dan Colson's Propaganda and the Deed - only available via JSTOR and I can bring a hardcopy of it to our discussion; quite interesting, he reviews the history of anarchist propaganda, both violent and nonviolent, as a specific form of direct action and discusses the tensions between anarchists who differ on the question of violence as a means to an end...could be nice to throw in here as a possible point of consideration why many avert anarchism Lastly, CrimethInc.'s introduction to affinity groups at https://de.crimethinc.com/2017/02/06/how-to-form-an-affinity-group-the-essential-building-block-of-anarchist-organization What did we do last time? We discussed mutual aid and examples thereof. In the future? We aren't sure! We usually decide on this during the preceding discussion. All ideas are welcome. Remember to look for my book/tablet! I'll be sitting with it reading. Lastly, while we usually meet up at BAIZ, there are two other locations being considered at this time as possible places which we can alternate between. We might change the location for this meetup so stay tuned.


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Freitag, 20. Mai 2022 - 19:00 Uhr

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