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How to be an Anarchist (visueel, niet filosofisch)

voorstelling wat een anarchist moet hebben of bezitten om er als een anarchist uit te zien, puur visueel zonder enige toelichting van de filosofische achtergronden.

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clothing bv: https://www.no-gods-no-masters.com
gadgets, must haves, phone covers, lighters
maskers, wapens
haarstijlen
films, muziek
burning flags
welke tattoos moet ik zetten
bv anarchistische kastanjetten (typisch spaans) verwijzen naar spaanse anarchisme
....

eventueel alles weergeven met prijs en populariteit er bij.


teksten die niets te maken hebben met de anarchistiche overtuiging maar eerder teksten zoals:

"We use 100% eco-friendly water-based inks in order to avoid having a negative impact on the environment while guaranteeing an optimal quality. No chemical product is used during the printing process and our inks are certified by many different environmental respect labels."

dit ook om aan te tonen dat anarchisten zich niet per se van niets iets aantrekken maar juist wel begaan zijn met alles en iedereen, wat het algemeen beeld van de anarchist teniet doet.

Symbolen

Anarchist Symbolism

The black flag

The black flag is, among other things, the traditional anarchist symbol. The black flag and the color black in general, have been associated with anarchism since the 1880s. Many anarchist collectives contain the word "black" in their names. There have been a number of anarchist periodicals entitled Black Flag.

Circle-A

The Circle-A is almost certainly the best-known present-day symbol for anarchy. It is a monogram that consists of the capital letter "A" surrounded by the capital letter "O". The letter "A" is derived from the first letter of "anarchy" or "anarchism" in most European languages and is the same in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts. The "O" stands for order. Together they stand for "Anarchy is the mother of Order," the first part of a Proudhon quotation. 

Bisected flags and stars

Various schools within the anarchist movement have adopted their own flags. These flags are bisected diagonally with the right half in black for anarchy and the left half in a color representing each school's ideas. These color templates are also extended to five-pointed stars representing the same schools.

Other symbols

The Black Cat

The black cat, also called the "wild cat" or "sabot-cat", usually with an arched back and with claws and teeth bared, is closely associated with anarchism, especially with anarcho-syndicalism. It was designed by Ralph Chaplin, who was a prominent figure in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). As its aggressive stance suggests, the cat is meant to suggest such ideas as wildcat strikes, sabotage, and radical unionism.

The Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)

The Anarchist Black Cross organization's primary goal is to eliminate all prisons. It originated in Tsarist Russia as a support organization for political prisoners. Their symbol is a black cross, with the upwards-facing line being replaced with a raised fist, a symbol also associated with anarchism, defiance of authority, and personal empowerment (black power, youth power, women's liberation, American Indian Movement, International Socialist Organization, 'power to the people', etc...). The fist also represents union, as "many weak fingers can come together to create a strong fist".

Sabot

The sabot or wooden shoe (also known as clog) was used symbolically by anarchists in the 19th and early 20th century, although it has largely faded from use since then. The French word for wooden shoe, sabot is the probable root of the word sabotage: and refers to the tactic by early Dutch unionists of throwing sabots into the gears of factory or farm machinery, effectively stopping work until the equipment could be repaired. The American analogue of this tactic is "monkeywrenching," referring to the similar practice of throwing a monkeywrench in the machinery to damage it and prevent strikebreakers from being able to replace striking union members.

What is anarchy, background

Although Gerard Winstanley (The New Law of Righteousness, 1649) and William Godwin (Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, 1793) had begun to unfold the philosophy of anarchism in the 17th and 18th centuries, it was not until the second half of the 19th century that anarchism emerged as a coherent theory with a systematic, developed programme. This work was mainly started by four people -- a German, Max Stirner (1806-1856), a Frenchman, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), and two Russians, Michael Bakunin (1814-1876) and Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921). They took the ideas in common circulation within sections of the working population and expressed them in written form.

Anarchism is a political theory which aims to create anarchy, "the absence of a master, of a sovereign." In other words, anarchism is a political theory which aims to create a society within which individuals freely co-operate together as equals. As such anarchism opposes all forms of hierarchical control - be that control by the state or a capitalist - as harmful to the individual and their individuality as well as unnecessary.

Errico Malatesta:
"since it was thought that government was necessary and that without government there could only be disorder and confusion, it was natural and logical that anarchy, which means absence of government, should sound like absence of order."

The word "anarchy" is from the Greek, prefix an (or a), meaning  "not," "the want of," "the absence of," or "the lack of", plus archos, meaning "a ruler," "director", "chief," "person in charge," or "authority." Or, as Peter Kropotkin put it, Anarchy comes from the Greek words meaning "contrary to authority."

Rather than being purely anti-government or anti-state, anarchism is primarily a movement against hierarchy. Why? Because hierarchy is the organisational structure that embodies authority. Since the state is the "highest" form of hierarchy, anarchists are, by definition, anti-state; but this is not a sufficient definition of anarchism. This means that real anarchists are opposed to all forms of hierarchical organisation, not only the state.

These words by Percy Bysshe Shelley gives an idea of what anarchism stands for in practice and what ideals drive it:
The man
Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
A mechanised automaton.

As Shelley's lines suggest, anarchists place a high priority on liberty, desiring it both for themselves and others. They also consider individuality -- that which makes one a unique person -- to be a most important aspect of humanity. They recognise, however, that individuality does not exist in a vacuum but is a social phenomenon. Outside of society, individuality is impossible, since one needs other people in order to develop, expand, and grow.

As Alexander Berkman puts it:

"Any one who tells you that Anarchists don't believe in organisation is talking nonsense. Organisation is everything, and everything is organisation. The whole of life is organisation, conscious or unconscious . . . But there is organisation and organisation. Capitalist society is so badly organised that its various members suffer: just as when you have a pain in some part of you, your whole body aches and you are ill. . . , not a single member of the organisation or union may with impunity be discriminated against, suppressed or ignored. To do so would be the same as to ignore an aching tooth: you would be sick all over."

Anarchists desire a decentralised society, based on free association. We consider this form of society the best one for maximising the values we have outlined above -- liberty, equality and solidarity.

The key difference between a statist or hierarchical system and an anarchist community is who wields power. In a parliamentary system, for example, people give power to a group of representatives to make decisions for them for a fixed period of time.
In an anarchist society this relationship is reversed. No one individual or group (elected or unelected) holds power in an anarchist community. Instead decisions are made using direct democratic principles and, when required, the community can elect or appoint delegates to carry out these decisions. There is a clear distinction between policy making (which lies with everyone who is affected) and the co-ordination and administration of any adopted policy (which is the job for delegates).

Historische anarchistische gebeurtenissen

De Commune van Parijs was een revolutionaire regering die heerste over de stad Parijs van 18 maart 1871 totdat ze bloedig werd neergeslagen op 28 mei van datzelfde jaar.

In de dagen dat de Commune de stad regeerde werden ingrijpende hervormingen doorgevoerd: zo werd het leger vervangen door een nationale garde van burgers, kerk en staat werden gescheiden, en de middenstand werd gesteund door kwijtschelding van schulden. In de beweging waren uiteenlopende groepen revolutionairen actief, waaronder anarchisten, marxisten, blanquisten en republikeinse liberalen.

De Haymarket-affaire (ook wel bekend als de Haymarket riot) is de benaming voor een vier dagen durende demonstratie van arbeiders en vakverenigingen in Chicago, van 1 tot en met 4 mei 1886, de onlusten die erop volgden en het proces tegen de als anarchisten bestempelde personen die daarvoor verantwoordelijk werden gesteld. De Dag van de Arbeid op 1 mei vindt als datum zijn oorsprong in de ‘Haymarket-affaire’.

Emma Goldman

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born

in Kaunas, Lithuania 

June 27, 1869

died

May 14, 1940

gender

female

genre

Politics, Women & Gender Studies, Philosophy

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Alexander Berkman

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Emma Goldman was a feminist anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.

Born in Kovno in the Russian Empire (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement.Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands.

She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Although Frick survived the attempt on his life, Berkman was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth.

In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrested—along with hundreds of others—and deported to Russia.

Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik revolution, Goldman quickly voiced her opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the repression of independent voices. In 1923, she wrote a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia. While living in England, Canada, and France, she wrote an autobiography called Living My Life. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she traveled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there. She died in Toronto on May 14, 1940, aged 70.

During her life, Goldman was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided by critics as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution.Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, and homosexuality. Although she distanced herself from first-wave feminism and its efforts toward women's suffrage, she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism. After decades of obscurity, Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s, when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life.

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman, 1911

Emma Goldman (Kaunas, Litouwen, 27 juni 1869 – Toronto, Canada, 14 mei 1940) was een Amerikaanse anarchist en feministe van Joodse afkomst.

Afkomstig uit Litouwen verhuisde haar familie tijdens haar tienerjaren naar Sint-Petersburg. Daar deed ze haar eerste revolutionaire ideeën op. Daarvandaan emigreerde ze op haar zeventiende naar de Verenigde Staten. Later woonde ze ook in Rusland (daar vanwege haar revolutionaire overtuiging naartoe getransporteerd), Zuid-Frankrijk en Groot-Brittannië.
Ze heeft zowel de Russische Revolutie alswel de Spaanse Burgeroorlog meegemaakt.

Haar bekendste werk is Anarchism, and Other Essays.

Het bekende citaat 'If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution' wordt vaak aan Emma Goldman toegeschreven, maar het is onduidelijk of zij dit werkelijk heeft gezegd.

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In New York ontmoette ze Alexander Berkman. Ze waren spilfiguren binnen de anarchistische beweging in de VS.

Door haar ervaringen in Rusland veranderde ze van mening over het gebruik van geweld. Nadat het Rode Leger ingezet werd tegen stakers, ging ze geweld verwerpen behalve in het geval van zelfbescherming.

In 1936 ging ze naar Spanje om de Spaanse revolutie te steunen en om te vechten tegen Franco's fascisme in de Spaanse Burgeroorlog. Gedurende deze tijd schreef ze de grafrede van de prominente Spaanse anarchist Buenaventura Durruti, getiteld "Durruti is Dead, Yet Living".

Emma Goldman ligt begraven in Chicago.

How to Be an Anarchist

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Anarchism does not mean philosophy; it does not mean theory, intellect, etc. Anarchism means belief and tranquility to all. The word Anarchism comes to us from the Greek word ἄναρχος which literally means "no rulers". Anarchism is, therefore, a society built upon the foundation of non-coercive free association of all, guaranteeing freedom of thought and action.

Anarchism is not kids throwing rocks through windows and causing chaos. It is practical, contrary to popular belief. There have been hundreds of thousands of societies throughout history we would now consider to have been organized along anarchist principles - including most indigenous societies. Compared to hierarchical authoritarian societies they typically were and are much more stable and afford their members dramatically higher standards of living. Anarchism is self-organization created by consent and mutual association, without coercion. It is not mob rule, statism, or tyranny.

Neither is Anarchism against religion, despite many prominent anarchist thinkers being atheists themselves. Anarchism is, however, against ecclesiastical tyranny just as much as it is fervently against the state and governmental tyranny. Faith is a personal matter to each individual. If Anarchism were against faith, it would contradict its own maxim of complete freedom of thought and action.

Steps

1. 1
   Decide whether or not you want to be an anarchist. This means studying it! Reading some basic introductions to anarchism is the first step. Familiarize yourself with the ideas of some of the other most important anarchist theorists and writers
   • 19th Century such as

     Pierre Joseph Proudhon,
     Peter Kropotkin[1],
     Daniel De Leon[2],
     Mikhail Bakunin[3]	(God and the State),
     Alexander Berkman	(The ABC of Communist-Anarchism)
     Benjamin Tucker.

   • 20th Century such as

     Emma Goldman[4]	(Anarchism and other Essays),
     Errico Malatesta	(Anarchy),
     Alfredo Bonanno,
     Bob Black,	(The Abolition of Work)
     Wolfi Landstreicher	(Willful Disobedience),
     John Zerzan,
     Murray Bookchin,
     Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective	(Recipes for Disaster),
     Daniel Guerin	(Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism),
     Rudolf Rocker	(Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice),
     Colin Ward	(Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction)
     Noam Chomsky	(Chomsky on Anarchism).

     Read up on the different schools of thought: Libertarian socialism^[5][6], Anarcho-communism, Syndicalism, Platformism, Post-left anarchism, Mutualism, Indigenism, Anarcha-feminism, Greenanarchism, and others.
     
     Take control over your own life to the greatest degree possible. Nobody owns you, but you, and no authority over you is legitimate unless you voluntarily grant the authority: cooperate.
     
     Think independently: think through philosophies of anarchists. Encourage independent thinking around you and think independently yourself and authentically avoid faddist thinking. See this article as just ideas to reflect on and not rules imposed on some sort of membership. Be introspective about the institutions around you and understand the difference between the things you really need (food, water, etc.) and the things that aren't really necessary (TV distractions, celebrity gossip, brand-name products, etc.).
     
     Find other peoplewho believe some of the same things you do and form a small, informal network of friends. You will need to rely on others, this is unavoidable (it's called "community"). You can learn from each other, teach one another and expand the network.
     
     Participate in protests, direct action, and grass-roots organizing against all those things that limit your basic liberties or propagate injustice. But remember, protest changes nothing if there is no movement behind it. Reality is consensus-based. Government is a social construct & the world is the way it is because we all believe it is. So the work of a Revolutionary is to help change the consensus about what is and what is possible. That means long hours of community organizing, sitting through meetings, working with people who you probably disagree with and may not even like. It's not easy but it's the single most important thing any of us can do.
     
     Openly oppose governmentand stand for rights to freedom of speech, thought and action! If you are secretly an anarchist and are only open in chat rooms you're not helping the struggle for an anarchist society. Unlike the capitalist statist political parties we don't have giant media networks working 24/7 to spread our ideas, that means that if we want to change the world we have to do it ourselves. And that starts by talking to your friends and neighbors.
     
     Be proudof being an anarchist and of our movement and our history. Anarchism is still the single best shot that our species has of stopping the ongoing capitalist ecocide that threatens all life on earth. Spread the facts and debunk the misconceptions. Don't let your co-workers, friends, or family think you're a Liberal, Conservative, etc. The current "mainstream" of political discourse is part of the problem, be proud to stand outside it and change it so that Anarchism becomes mainstream. That's the only way our movement can create real change - when ordinary people can understand it and it makes sense.
     
     Set up meetings with like-minded individuals. Pass out fliers and speak to people about your ideals. Learn to be persuasive, not argumentative. Remember that we all want the same things (peace, prosperity, et cetera), so start with points you can agree on and work from there. You will be especially effective if your questions direct their answers toward your conclusions. Make sure they know that anarchism is not about chaos or smashing things, it is a political and social ideology that advocates self-organization and a non-hierarchical political and economic system rooted in Direct Democracy.
     
     Prepare to respond to accusations. Accusations of utopianism with examples of anarchy in action, most indigenous societies throughout history have been Anarchist and even today there are many intentional communities that operate along Anarchist lines - not always in the places you'd expect. The Amish, for instance, are a great example of non-ideological Anarchism in action.
     
     Remember that Anarchy has many negative connotations. Not only because of negative propaganda but because of the actions of uniformed people who believe the propaganda and decide to call themselves Anarchists while smashing things and causing chaos. Being an Anarchist means learning to deal with these people and keep them from sabotaging our work.
     
     Read up on current affairs! Please don't make yourself look stupid and oppose something you know nothing about. Learn about capitalism, Marxism, fascism, and other political ideologies. Know your enemies. Going off half-cocked and saying stupid and uninformed things only hurts the movement.
   • Make sure not to perpetuate hierarchy and domination in your life. We are allequals! Men should learn about and embrace feminism and seriously examine their own relationships. Same goes for people who come from wealthier backgrounds in regards to class, straight people in regards to LGBTQ issues, and members of the dominant racial or ethnic group wherever you happen to be in relation to minorities. Solidarity is our greatest strength, remember that.