Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin discusses major events in his life and their influence on his views of Black anarchism. 1:25:35 long interview. If you're unfamiliar with Black anarchism, give this interview a listen!
If you want to learn more about Lorenzo or Black anarchism, his book "Anarchism and the Black Revolution" is available at the Anarchist Library, as well as many other of his writings and transcribed interviews.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lorenzo-kom-boa-ervin-anarchism-and-the-black-revolution
A PDF of an informative zine critiquing the food service industry. It's a good intro level dive into organizing and can be printed into a booklet for distribution.
I didn't see an existing anarchist community on here, so I decided to create one. Right now, just going to gauge interest and take it from there. I would like this community to be run in a matter consistent with non-hierarchical principles, to the extent practicable by this Lemmy instance. Member input
Creating community guidelines/a charter is job #1 at the moment, but since it's late where I'm at (UTC-4), I'm just going wait a day or so to see if anyone decides to join. After all, the membership should have a say in how we conduct ourselves.
Just to clarify the sort of community I'm intending to help grow, it might help to at least state what I'm hoping to avoid. I don't want this to be some sort of "bash the tankies" low-effort place; no problem with discussing authoritarian leftist philosophies and their shortcomings, but just goofing on terminally-online teenagers "worshiping" Stalin is (IMHO) unproductive. Better to spend our time discussing community defense or mutual aid strategies, wouldn't you say?
Also, I'm hoping to discourage "class-reductionist" nonsense from gaining a foothold. What I mean is, the working class includes people of all gender identities, ethnic and racial identities, disabilities, etc... deferring liberation for comrades of marginalized identities to focus on some nebulous idea of "worker solidarity" isn't what I have in mind. Hope that makes sense.
Anyway, hope to see a few folks hop on board!
Edit: Should've mentioned, what do you hope to see on here? Is there a particular topic that you're passionate about that you feel doesn't get discussed enough? Veganism? Queer self-defense? Art? Organizing your workplace in hostile places? Indigenous views on land stewardship?
