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As usual, a lot of chatter calling today's right wing nonsense "anarchy" and even unfounded rumors that #antifa somehow started this. Today is not what anarchy looks like. Anarchy looks like empathy. Here are some examples:
I'll start with something my branch of the @iww helped with. Shout out to @IwwYpsilanti & @SIWA3_. This is mutal aid, a founding principle of anarchism. Helping each other not because we HAVE to, but because help is needed. https://www.clickondetroit.com/all-about-ann-arbor/2020/12/07/local-group-launches-fundraiser-for-washtenaw-county-service-workers-ahead-of-holidays/#//
In the simplest of terms, anarchism is the belief that no one has the inherit right to rule over anyone else and that all power comes from the bottom and is illegitimate until proven otherwise. What is bottom up power?
It looks a lot like unions, worker ownership & places like the @trumbullplex. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumbullplex
If you want to read about actual anarchism, as always I've got to recommend one of my favorite people in history, Emma Goldman. Get some food from @redemmas and sit down with a copy of Red Emma Speaks. It'll change your life. https://www.akpress.org/redemmaspeaks
And anarchism isn't just some white American punk boy thing either (hey that's me). Its world wide, all genders and races. It's a belief in humanity. From Rojava to ancient China. https://bookshop.org/books/anarcho-blackness-notes-toward-a-black-anarchism/9781849353755
But I'm just one guy who's read too many books. I'm sure people smarter than me have even better examples about the new world we could have in anarchism. Regardless, what you saw today wasn't anarchism. It was fascism.
I guess I should cc @CNN
