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RE: The Plan: An Anarchist’s Guide to Freedom

in #anarchism8 years ago

Compassionate communication, while potentially frustrating, is a really important factor, in my eyes. I'm an anarchist and pro freedom, but the problem I see with a lot of people with a similar mindset is the overly aggressive approach to communication.

There's a reason why anarchists and libertarians are generally thought of as a-holes, unfortunately.

And as long as that happens, the ideas of anarchists are not taken seriously by the general public.

Therefore, I'm a huge fan of analogies. Bring anarchy to the everyday life. I personally like comparing economic actions to human relationships, for example.

It's hard, but I see it as the only way. When people accept freedom - and most already do, they just don't know it yet - anarchy kinda happens by itself.

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It's amazing how many anarchists talk past people instead of with them. We were all statists once, and it's easy to forget our own challenges we had understanding all of this.

Most people do value anarchism, since we all value consent every day. In any other part of our lives, if consent is withdrawn, we see a problem. When it comes to the State's actions, does our consent all of sudden become worthless?

Asking people to be consistent can certainly be a challenge, but there's no use in making it more challenging than it needs to be by being angry and aggressive with people who don't understand us.