back in the day our university had anarchist intellectual club. it consisted solely of tenured left-leaning professors who talked shit about their place of work while staying at work after hours to massage their egos and also first-year edgelords saying inspirational quotes from social media. it was funny as fuck to sit at their meet-ups and listen to their empty posturing. if you wanted to decompress and take it easy - that was the place.
It sounds like a nice place to be, honestly. I would have enjoyed hanging out there. I’m glad to hear it existed. If I’m lucky I’ll find someplace like that at some point in my life.
my description made it look better than it actually was - that whole scene was incredibly toxic and hypocrite. It wasn’t a serious discussion on how to self-organize and create a sustainable community or just spread knowledge - it was mostly about “ain’t Nestor Makhno was a cool guy, huh? I think Bakunin was gangsta bro” - that kind of depth - shit like this is kindergarten. that is why i called it funny. It was posturing.
none of the folks who studied political theory and economy ever showed up in that place. It barely had anything to do with actual anarchism as much as it had everything to do with bunch of people just supporting each other in being childish and naive in their perception of the world. Nothing wrong with that in itself but it is very counterproductive in actually understanding anarchism as practical theory you can use in your life.
back in the day our university had anarchist intellectual club. it consisted solely of tenured left-leaning professors who talked shit about their place of work while staying at work after hours to massage their egos and also first-year edgelords saying inspirational quotes from social media. it was funny as fuck to sit at their meet-ups and listen to their empty posturing. if you wanted to decompress and take it easy - that was the place.
It sounds like a nice place to be, honestly. I would have enjoyed hanging out there. I’m glad to hear it existed. If I’m lucky I’ll find someplace like that at some point in my life.
my description made it look better than it actually was - that whole scene was incredibly toxic and hypocrite. It wasn’t a serious discussion on how to self-organize and create a sustainable community or just spread knowledge - it was mostly about “ain’t Nestor Makhno was a cool guy, huh? I think Bakunin was gangsta bro” - that kind of depth - shit like this is kindergarten. that is why i called it funny. It was posturing.
none of the folks who studied political theory and economy ever showed up in that place. It barely had anything to do with actual anarchism as much as it had everything to do with bunch of people just supporting each other in being childish and naive in their perception of the world. Nothing wrong with that in itself but it is very counterproductive in actually understanding anarchism as practical theory you can use in your life.