Is there a link between anarchism and being a westerner? I feel like the only anarchists I know are from the west, but I could be wrong (it seems like an out-of-touch ideology that follows the bourgeois line more often than they think). I feel like this idealist thinking would be prominent in western circles.
Anarchists aren’t exclusive to the West but there’s a vast gulf of difference between Western Anarchists and Anarchists from, say, the Global South. The former are almost entirely online; the latter actually go outside.
As you might imagine the difference is night and day.
I honestly cannot say I have heard of any Global South anarchists (if you count the Zapatistas as libertarian socialists) though. Anarchism really does fit the “westerner who thinks an ideology is cool and does not understand that it is impractical” stereotype.
I’m friends with a Russian anarchist. They’re queer and disabled and they likely find it much more difficult to critically support Russia against the US than we do for example. A lot of anarchists I know come from misanthropy that comes from being surrounded by people who hate you; they don’t want a dictatorship of people who want you suppressed or dead based on your existence. I heard from a comrade in the UK that the queerphobia of ML orgs there fuel anarchist orgs.
I am sorry to hear that from your friend :<
I can definitely see how they can come to dislike any authority, but of course, I still think it is the incorrect path (and yeah, UK has an abhorrent amount of queerphobia from what people have said).
Is there a link between anarchism and being a westerner? I feel like the only anarchists I know are from the west, but I could be wrong (it seems like an out-of-touch ideology that follows the bourgeois line more often than they think). I feel like this idealist thinking would be prominent in western circles.
Anarchists aren’t exclusive to the West but there’s a vast gulf of difference between Western Anarchists and Anarchists from, say, the Global South. The former are almost entirely online; the latter actually go outside.
As you might imagine the difference is night and day.
I honestly cannot say I have heard of any Global South anarchists (if you count the Zapatistas as libertarian socialists) though. Anarchism really does fit the “westerner who thinks an ideology is cool and does not understand that it is impractical” stereotype.
I’m friends with a Russian anarchist. They’re queer and disabled and they likely find it much more difficult to critically support Russia against the US than we do for example. A lot of anarchists I know come from misanthropy that comes from being surrounded by people who hate you; they don’t want a dictatorship of people who want you suppressed or dead based on your existence. I heard from a comrade in the UK that the queerphobia of ML orgs there fuel anarchist orgs.
I am sorry to hear that from your friend :< I can definitely see how they can come to dislike any authority, but of course, I still think it is the incorrect path (and yeah, UK has an abhorrent amount of queerphobia from what people have said).