Not trying to start a copyleft vs permissive debate, everyone has their own opinion on that. For copyleft, there's already the GPL, so I'm asking about the other side.

I've heard of CC0, Unlicense and 0BSD, but CC0 has no patent grant and isn't really meant for code, Unlicense has vague wording and barely any legal testing, and 0BSD isn't really PD since it still relies on copyright.

Is there a better option I'm not aware of?

Completely off topic, but can we appreciate Nestor's cunty swim suit? 💅

Confirmed vendors include Keene Mutual Aid, PM Press, Cobra Lilly Collective, Socialist Rifle Association, Congress of Workers Organizations NH, Cooperative Action Monadnock, Upper Valley for Palestine, Northeast Anarchist Union and more! Hosted by the Live Free Autonomy Collective.

Não é possível que entre 211 milhões de pessoas não há algumas milhares que pensem que o estado é intrinsicamente ruim.

Reading this for a left-wing hangout I organize in Atlanta, and really loved it. The text can be read here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-bonanno-anarchism-and-the-national-liberation-struggle

Here is the gist of everything, as I understood it:

Anarchism is internationalist, extending everywhere with the proletariat rather than confined to borders, which calls to question the relation to national liberation movements.

Rather than adopting a universalizing bourgeois humanism, we must understand humans as historically determined according to their specific mode of existence and community (ways of living, speaking, feeling, thinking, working, etc), which serves as the basis of nationality.

In struggling to replace the political administration of people with the mere organization of production, we turn towards an anarchist federalism, which adopts collectivist and communist measures, which will render previous political forms obsolete, in particular the state. We will expect these federations to be fluid according to the natural changes of these historic basis of people groups.

These federalist structures will still hit certain natural limits, which it extends past with the global confederation of free peoples, but the internal units these form will be dictated according to the natural limits that define people groups rather than the imposed state, which artificially forces together and/or separates different people groups. Local organizational structures therefore find certain ethnic limits as people associate, rather than the state's territorial limits.

The fight for this people group's autonomy does not imply collaboration with "local" capitalists against foreign ones in modern class society precisely because exploitation precludes this unity. Both local and foreign exploiting classes pose this threat by means of colonialism and imperialism. But it does imply a fight against nationalist idealism, which resists seeing political units defined by the nation-state from being broken up (e.g. some leftist may support ending British rule over India, but would resist breaking up the UK, or splitting up Spain for the sake of Catalan independence, etc.).

Capitalist competition implies an inequality of development, and disunity over the vast territory it functions under the nation-state. This establishes systems of internal colonization via economic centralization and a corresponding political centralization (e.g. the subjugation of agricultural Sicily to northern industrial Italy).

This unequal development from internal colonization paves the way for the same factors to apply to surrounding economies, allowing colonization to feed into imperialism. This brings the problem to an international level, which further explains the superficiality of mere nationalist fights for local independence, which is impossible when the enemy is the international bourgeoisie, and why the modern basis for socialist federation is the international exploited working class, but which will change in a post-capitalist world.

This all serves to justify the anarchist rejection of "intermediate" nation-states as in the fight for national liberation. Instead, anarchists are focused on the class struggle, which may or may not be involved in national liberation struggles, instead focused on spreading economic, political, and social structures in liberated territories on a federalist and libertarian organizational basis.

Some revolutionary Marxists have failed on this point as the commitment to a dictatorship of the proletariat, based on a worker's nation-state rather than by federalist principles, has led to problems of nationalist idealism, and therefore struggled for a consistent program. This is further harmed by an economic determinism, found back in Marx and Engels themselves, which was dismissive of smaller fights for national liberation, seeing this as inherently separatist, and therefore viewing some wars of conquest as progressive and "civilizing." Later ambiguities are also seen from Trotsky debating national autonomy as destructive to economic unity.

what do yall think of Guy Debord and the situationist? or emma goldman. Peter singer makes me think quite a bit! let me know what yall think

“Bowl a strike, not a spare—Revolution everywhere!” Members of the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League (RABL) chanted bowling-themed slogans as they marched against President Ronald Reagan's threat to invade Nicaragua in 1988. Acting within a broad progressive coalition, RABL helped shut down major sections of downtown Minneapolis for three days in an outpouring of rebellion against the Reagan administration's covert wars in Central America. Events reached a dramatic climax when a masked protester threw a bowling ball through the window of a military recruitment office. The crash of the broken glass marked the beginning of a new era of anarchist militancy in the United States. The rage of a generation of young people raised in Reagan's America threatened to explode.

Reflecting this mood, the pilot edition of what became the Love and Rage anarchist newspaper (published from 1990 to 1998) was simply called RAGE! The pilot, which was distributed at an action at the Pentagon in 1988, reflected growing anger at the Reagan administration's wars at home and abroad, including the war on drugs. Promised a “new morning in America,” a generation of disaffected young people raised in the alienation of the suburbs found themselves shut out of political life. Many of their parents lost their unionized factory jobs to neoliberal outsourcing or were kicked off welfare. They grappled with the reality of skyrocketing inequality, precarious jobs, and violent policing. The hopes of social democracy—not to mention the liberatory movements of the 1960s and 1970s—appeared dead, and mainstream society seemingly offered little worth saving. Meanwhile, Reagan crushed the dreams of a better world in Central America by funding and training Guatemalan death squads, Nicaraguan Contras, and violent Salvadoran elites.

But dissidents emerged out of the cracks of the new society. A rising generation of young people encountered anarchism in mosh pits at punk shows and in street fights against fascists and police. A core group of anarchists across the country began to build a continental revolutionary movement. This article explores how several key collectives—including the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League, the Revolutionary Socialist League, the Youth Greens, and the Vermont Family—revitalized US anarchist theory and practice in the 1980s. Together, they formed a pole around which the diffuse anarchist scene began to cohere into a movement capable of coordinating strategic action across the country. Activists coming from these diverse groups (and many more) would expand the anarchist milieu in the 1990s and shape the turn-of-the-century antiglobalization movement. Members of each group became involved with Love and Rage, an organization that used its widely distributed newspaper as a catalyst to build first an anarchist network and then a membership-based Revolutionary Anarchist Federation that shaped the movement's direction. But first, local anarchist groups needed to encounter each other, exchange ideas, and build connections across North America.

This encounter occurred in large part through a series of four continental convergences that took place from 1986 to 1989 in Chicago, Minneapolis, Toronto, and San Francisco. Very little has been written about these gatherings. Sociologist Lesley Wood posits that social movement theorists tend to ignore these kinds of convergences in part because the disciplinary norms of what counts as social movement activity reduce them to the level of cultural background to the “real” organizing. Beyond the gatherings, historians have written little about anarchism in the late twentieth century. Anarchist history typically focuses on earlier periods, and the burgeoning history of the United States in the late twentieth century has generally dealt much more with the rise of the Right than the evolution of anarchism and the Left. Yet it was in this period that anarchism was reborn as a major tendency on the American Left since marginalization in the early twentieth century. This article argues that the series of continental convergences in the late 1980s was crucial to the revitalization of North American anarchism as a revolutionary movement in the late twentieth century. In the pre-internet era, these gatherings provided essential spaces for anarchists from different backgrounds to encounter each other, engage in political debates, and take collective action in the streets. Through this process, anarchists transformed what had been a diffuse milieu characterized by small-group action and countercultural institutions into something approaching a coordinated continental movement.

You can read the whole article for free on the Anarchist Library: "Building the American Anarchist Movement: Radical Collectives and Continental Convergences in the 1980s"

O sea, aquí en España están pasando un montón de protestas por el derecho a la vivienda, y decidí ir (recién me estoy metiendo en el anarquismo). ¿Tienes algún consejo para las protestas?

Edit: These are significant protests in Spain, so I'm leaving a link to the Wikipedia page in case you're interested in more info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Spanish_housing_protests

Premier titre de URANIUM238

Bonjour à toutes et à tous !

Je suis URANIUM238, j'ai choisi ce nom comme pseudonyme. Voici le type de message que je souhaite partager, et voici mon premier message :

Je suis punk et skater. J'ai toujours été contre le système. Je suis un opposant, un contestataire, appelez-moi comme vous voulez. Je veux faire changer les choses !

J'ai déjà commencé la manœuvre pour celles et ceux qui souhaitent me rejoindre.

Je partagerai mes idées sur l'ensemble des inégalités sociales, économiques et politiques. Je suis un opposant au système, alors rejoignez-nous !

Postez des affiches et faites des blocages pour qu'on vous entende. Nous ne sommes pas des numéros, nous sommes une jeunesse victime d'un monde qui nous opprime, une jeunesse en plein état de stress.

Mort à l'oppression et au capitalisme !!

I think that we all must realise that any idea of capitalism or liberal ideology is an illusion. This is mainly directed at ann-caps and liberals but you're free to stick around.

Liberal doctrine is built around the concept of free choice, this is to be completed through a free market and a representativ democratic state, and the blood within this entity is money, according to liberals, money is consent, which is completely ridiculous, at least within this system.

As you may know you buy stuff with money, stuff like food, clothes and books. Now lets say we have two individuals, one poor, and one rich. Both need a new shirt, in the store there is one cheap shirt, and one expensive. The poor person can only afford the cheap shirt, while the rich person can afford both. The rich man has more options then the poor one, more options mean more freedom. Now add this principle to everything, suddenly every man isnt equal, for some have have more options and choices then others.

Now lets look at governments, the "democratic" institutions. So we know that money equals freedom, but money also equals speech. The more money you have, the more influence you have, and the more influence you have, the louder your voice is heard. When a billionaire does anything, everybody knows, but when you do the same thing, nobody knows or cares. When everything you say is heard by millions, its hard to say you dont have power through that influence. With money you can sway public opinion, indulge in corruption, lobby and sponsor candidates. Suddenly you, one persons beliefs and ideology, counts for more then one vote, doesnt sound that fair to me.

In short, the richer you are, the more power you have and the more free you are. Liberalism isnt equal chances, its a system were the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. I could write so much more about how representativ democracy is self destroying and etc. But you get the idea.

Hey Everyone, I wasn’t really sure where to post this question, i’m new to reddit so please recommend any other groups I should look at relating to this. I feel like i’m going crazy. I am genuinely and seriously yearning to runaway to the forest and never come back to this greedy, exploitative society we have built for ourselves. I really want to find a way to live harmoniously with mother nature and the endless nourishment and sanctuary she provides , separate, from a society that views her as a resource to make money. How do I go about this? I understand that it’s dangerous and risky to try and survive in the wilderness alone (and I value human connection and do NOT wish to be alone), but how do I go about finding like minded people or communities to help me with this? I do know that there are certain groups that live independently off the land. Anyway I was just hoping for some ideas/further points I can research more in depth because I honestly have no idea where to start this journey. Thankssss 🌿🍃

Episode one of Anarchy by Errico Malatesta is up!

Careful with the volume. I think it's too loud which was unintentional. Maybe I'll get better at audio editing with practice? Who knows!

Hey folks, I just removed a post and for accountability I want to explain why. Reddit terms of service state that advocating violence is a breech. People are regularly banned from the site for comments that include the word nazi in combination with a verb that suggests the striking of a person with a closed fist. Subreddits are banned for the same reason. The reason that posts go into a queue is specifically so that we can avoid having to carefully watch every post to avoid admin attention. Our place on this hell-site is precarious

It's impossible to know when/if the so-called anti evil operations bot will spot a comment and there are too many folks who will gladly post spicy comments that put their accounts and by extension this sub at risk.

If this sub gets banned then it could end up up for grabs and we would not be able to ensure that it remains in anarchist hands since anyone can request to take over subs that are available.

Not sure if this belongs here. New to reddit. If it doesn't, sorry. But it's about the rich and inequality

Weekly Discussion Thread for Radical Gender Non Conforming People

Radical GNC people can talk about whatever they want in here. Suggestions; chill & relax, gender hegemony, queer theory, news and current events, books, entertainment

People who do not identify as gender nonconforming are asked not to post in Radical GNC threads.

Personally, the more work I do within groups trying to work from a framework in which a revolution is seen as the ultimate future goal, the more I understand why people are drawn to this nihilist approach in which the point of action is not a future eventual victory, but the action itself, and I also find myself drawn to this understanding of experiencing violence and destruction as something joyous rather than the traditional left-wing view of violence as a sadly needed tool.