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Hi, thanks for visiting the ABC’s of Anarchy! First, this is a work-in-progress, I’m not finished, I’m still ironing out a few kinks, heavily editing the text, and will be re-vetting the actual words I ended up choosing.
Wait, did I just say “I” end up “choosing”? Sounds pretty authoritative and top down doesn’t it? I’ve actually been criticized in that it seems like I’m taking on too much power in this project and that the “Anarchy” I’m presenting in these pages isn’t really anarchy at all, just my screwed-up incorrect perspective of Anarchy.
Here’s the deal though, a few years ago I wanted to purchase a children’s anarchy alphabet book for one of my newborn nephews. The problem was that there weren’t any books like that. So I decided to make one. Over the last year I started asking more and more people about which words would be included, and got lots of great suggestions. I’ve always sought different views and perspectives and was always willing to change an image or word if I had something wrong.
Recently, a friend of a friend posted a link to this webpage on a socialist/communist based anarchist web-forum. I think it’s safe to say that most of the people hated what I’ve created so far. Many of the comments are typical of anarchist-infighting such as: “If you are a nihilist please leave the anarchist movement. You aren't contributing anyways, and if you are, it is pointless.” or “The fact you didn't put "C is for Class war" makes you a horrible person”.
But other people commented that they didn’t like that I was presenting things as “anarchy” which actually weren’t (eg. C is for Critical Mass). I’ll point these issues out as you move through the alphabet, but I was well aware of the issue that not all anarchists participate in critical mass, and that not all participants of critical mass are anarchists. I do believe that there are pieces of the concept of “no masters” contained within each of the pages in this collection.
At least now I know that I need to state this somehow as a preface.
Once again, I’m not finished, this is a work in progress, I’m in the process of redrawing people (also going to add more people of different nationalities and cultural and racial backgrounds) rewriting the text, and a host of other things that need to be changed.
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