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One famous anarchist colony was in Home, Washington, at the southern tip of Puget Sound. The excellent Pacific Northwest journalist of the first half of the 20th century Stuart Holbrook chronicled its glories and difficulties (you may or may not be able to get access to the article through your library, but here's a preview):

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41204829

Another famous anarchist community was Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. Apparently the city was thriving under anarchist (non)control. The problem was that the three anti-fascist factions (the anarchists, the Republicans and the communists) couldn't agree on anything. Unfortunately, the Communists were the smallest faction, but had the most power because they had access to Russian planes, tanks, and other arms. So the coalition fell apart, and Franco ruled Spain for 40 years.

Because open, real world hatred like Oct 7, Sept 11, WW11 genocide (an actual one) is so much better than hurty wurty online feelies. For fuck sake.

promethean75 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 05, 2025 6:03 pm "Acting as an anarchist often does not involve breaking any laws"

That's soft-anarchism and it's baloney because it uses bourgeois institutions as a means to achieve ends that should have already been met, thus spinning its wheels. Example. The homeless. All this precious time, effort, and energy to outreach and organize charity and resources for a class of people who would be gainfully employed and sufficiently housed if it weren't for the goddamn capitalists and its croney State.

Again, this should be its own topic. As an anarchist, what are my moral responsibilities? NORMALLY we consider under morality only POSSIBLE choices of action. I might not believe any action of MINE could solve the problem of hunger by bringing down capitalism and replacing it with something else where there would be no hunger. I'm not sure I know what that something else might be.

But handing that hungry person in front of me a sandwich from my backpack. That IS a possible choice of action, within my power. Or if I come together with others to open a soup kitchen.

I reject your soft/hard distinction. As an anarchist, what matters are choices within my power.