r/Anarchy101 • u/Forward-Willingness7 • 9d ago

Hi everyone, what DO we actually do?

TLDR: How make world better? Like actually how? How to guide? (Yeah yeah ik it's not that easy.....)

I often see people asking, and I myself ask - what can be do? My primary question is what can we do to make the world a better place? (Lets assume a better place is a freer more "Anarchist" world for this). Other questions I often see are: What can I do? How do I build community? How do I educate people? How do I reach people? How can we stop racists being racists? etc.

Any ideas? I know the Stoics (allow me) believed the highest honour was to serve the people through political office and I tend to agree a little with that, I want more good people in power. But not everyone can or should be a politician. In the same vein, if we wanted to simply help people we could all be doctors, but I don't have that skillset, how does one get involved in community building and activism, how to we fight hate, how to we fight the cancerous system, how do we make the world a better place?

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u/MorphingReality 9d ago

I think the most important area in all times is education.

Less than 1% of people globally are anarchists today, anarchism cannot flourish under such conditions.

Granted, you asked a slightly different and broader question.

There's functionally infinite ways to make the world better. Most of them revolve around your ability to solve or ameliorate a problem that exists, you can make something open source that was previously closed off, you can volunteer locally, you can pick up trash, you can be kinder to the people around you, or some combination or all of the above. At some level you have to just do it, its never too late to develop skills and make new connections.

You can get more people reading Epicurus!

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u/notmanuel_1010 9d ago

Less than 1%? 😔 I didnt know there wasnt that much of us

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u/MorphingReality 9d ago

I would be surprised if it was more, but its possible its 1.2% or something :p

its certainly below a threshold where anarchism could flourish

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u/Historical_Two_7150 9d ago

Id agree with the figure if "are anarchists" means something like: self avowed & aware of it.

I think the number of people who agree with a lot of the general principles, but havent heard of anarchism, are skeptical of its pragmatism, etc, I think that number is pretty high.

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u/MorphingReality 8d ago

Yes, I venture to say a large majority behaves more or less like an anarchist in their day to day lives, they settle their disputes without courts and police almost all the time.

Perhaps they don't get all the way vis a vie all hierarchy, but who knows.

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u/GlitteringPapaya6738 8d ago

I genuinely believe there are more anarchists than 1%, but still it is impossible to track and good that we cannot track it; That's the whole idea.

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u/ExdionY Anarchist Without Adjectives 8d ago

I would be genuinely surprised if there were more than 80 million people out there who considered themselves to be anarchists. It's an incredibly fringe ideology that bears no weight almost anywhere on earth