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Why are you an anarchist? (piefed.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by fl1p@piefed.zip to c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hey all, I'm hoping this is the right comm for this kind of post. I'm really interested what brought my fellow lemmings to anarchism (or just radical politics in general). Was is a youtube video? A book? A conversation IRL or on the internet? For me personally it was a friend IRL who introduced me to an local anarchist collective.

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[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 6 points 1 day ago

Because pretending to be anything else in a system where all power structures have the same incentives to oppress and abuse the lowest rung is giving in to that power structure. You can vote the greatest person into power and they'll still be ineffective and their term will be over before they can move the needle.

Everywhere I've been in life, there has been an asshole above me who made it their mission to make me miserable, either through negligence, malice or apathy.

I want to be a socialist, but I can't, so anarchist it is.