I have recently found myself in debates about the fedipact and corporate influence. The fact that fedipact exists and I had the counter arguments and participants handy, was great. But there is more evil out there, mostly hierarchical thinking (up to speciecism imo) which leads to consumerism, destruction of our climate and more.
Imo, the rise of corporate control and surveilance (-capitalism) gives both power to autocracy (bc corporations are autocracies which influence people around them into thinking its fine) and facilitates loss of empathy for fellow humans and other living creatures.
So I began searching if there is a movement which is just anti corporate. The only one I found was occupy but it hasnt made any news for years. No big deal I thought since it has been around since 1920 so it might come back.
The wikipedia article shows occupy as having no hierarchical structure so it reminded me of anarchism in a way. Since my last post over in .ml was deleted by a mod, I hope I have shown why this is in fact an anarchism topic.
Feel free to disagree or elaborate, I'm here to learn.
Occupy is probably pretty close to a popular movement that many anarchists dream about. I never participated but from what I heard / read it seems your judgement seems to spot on.
I think its important to point out, that even if a movement tries to put some anarchist ideals into practices, the goals often are not in line with anarchist ideals. Also more often than not, its really hard to have no hierarchies in a broader movement. Privilege and unspoken hierarchies around knowledge, skill and connections still exist and sometimes get really highlighted in supposedly "non hierarchical" environments.
Look at what is happening in argentina right now, the amount of social movements that are forming and are active, on both protest and direct action is something that Americans have never seen in their republic history.
I really appreciate you mentioning this. I‘ll read up about it. Thanks!
The amount of damage the US has done to their citizens, community, society and pretty much everything is staggering imo. I‘m sad for the people who live there.
That said... the occupy movement was mostly run by Anarchists and even a cursory glance at the sources should have told you as much. It's nice that you are interested in Anarchism, but it would be great if you spend like more than 5 seconds to learn about it before posting.
I really dont like your tone mate. I didnt like it when you deleted my post and didnt react to my messages and I dont like it now. Your fellow moderator told me in writing that they think you made a mistake and their empathetic reaction led me to not pursue the matter of you abusing your mod power in an anarchist community. So please dont push me.
Since you’re saying yourself that Hauis question/topic does have something to do with anarchism, it is illogical and unfair to delete it.
Also, insulting another person and stating they didn’t read more than 5 seconds about anarchism makes you appear like a gatekeeper about knowledge on anarchism.
Haui is asking a legitimate question here, so he deserves argument instead of abusive rhetoric.
This was about a totally different question weeks ago that had literally nothing to do with Anarchism and would have better fit into the /c/showerthoughts community. And besides, it wasn't even deleted but just locked, see: https://lemmy.ml/post/12525634