I think sometimes anarchists don't know how to dream big enough. Which is weird, because we envision a complete rebuilding of society along cooperative, antiauthoritarian lines. Yet we don't envision our projects big enough.

i remember when a friend of mine and I were discussing starting a cooperative publisher (another one, we both worked for different ones at the time). It frankly didn't occur to me to take out loans, pay ourselves a salary, and look at what it took to build something big.

Coming up from DIY it's so hard to imagine that we can make projects that change the world, yet we participate in actions that DO. I hate to get all historical-reenactor here for a minute, but the more I study history, the more I realize we need to think bigger.

Anarchists historically, it seems like, had learned how to really grasp the amount of power they could wield. Maybe it's because the proletarian class was newer. Who knows. But they did shit at scale.

While I'm at it, the other thing I keep noticing about historical anarchists is that we were better internationalists. A german-language newspaper in Chicago might be running a letter from a Japanese anarchist reacting to strikes happening in Argentina.

they didn't even have the internet. what's our excuse? we're part of a global movement.

my resolutions for myself as an anarchist:
-do more bigger
-be more internationalist
-don't be afraid to envision winning
-don't be ashamed of my beliefs

and yeah i'm such an asshole antiauthoritarian that I can't even phrase this as "here's what you all need to be better at!" but just shit that I need to think about myself that may or may not be useful to you.