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Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life

Radicals in Conversation

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Unlearning the Need to Appeal to External Authority

I think that it's an ideology that's put on us that forcing people to work is the only way to get things done. capitalism uses the wage basically as a way to remove people from their subsistence and then force them into working so there has to be a refusal of work involved in our anarchism. I also speak of like not romanticizing the idea of like working a shitty job is theonly way to be a good anarchist because that works you to the bone and you have no energy or access to resources. So enmeshes politics with anti-authoritarianism means unlearning the need to appeal to external authority again.

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