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Why do anarchists stay on reddit or other corporate-run platforms? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know these federated communities exist as well as raddle, but it still seems like most people will stay on toxic and corporate-run platforms like reddit or Twitter. I'm far from perfect myself and I still use reddit sometimes, especially for more niche communities, but when it comes to ideologically strong communities like the anarchist ones, it just feels wrong that the majority still hang out on reddit. Or you know, moving to something like Bsky when Twitter became too toxic but which is still run by a large, for-profit corporation (if they moved in the first place). What are your thoughts? Is there any justification for this?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Another common trait of the "anarchist as an aesthetic" liberal is that they call everyone cops for criticizing them.

To be an anarchist you do need to actually know what one is, what the principles are, and subsequently do work. If you don't know what one is, you could never identify as one correctly. If you don't know the principles, well I'm just being redundant, that's essential to knowing what one is. If you don't do work, you are anarchism sympathizer, but have nothing to show for your beliefs. Praxis is essential to anarchism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's just, like, your opinion, man

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago

Well it's definitely just not mine.

So, we perceive, there are actual, material barriers blockading the way. These must be removed. If we could hope they would melt away, or be voted or prayed into nothingness, we would be content to wait and vote and pray. But they are like great frowning rocks towering between us and a land of freedom, while the dark chasms of a hard-fought past yawn behind us. Crumbling they may be with their own weight and the decay of time, but to quietly stand under until they fall is to be buried in the crash. There is something to be done in a case like this—the rocks must be removed. Passivity while slavery is stealing over us is a crime. For the moment we must forget that we are anarchists—when the work is accomplished we may forget that we were revolutionists—hence most anarchists believe the coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.