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A404 lemmy.dbzer0.com A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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rnercle sh.itjust.works merde@sh.itjust.works
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can you elaborate your question?

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punkisundead [they/them] slrpnk.net punkisundead@slrpnk.net
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Link to raddle

Post-left anarchy is a recent current in anarchist thought that promotes a critique of anarchism's relationship to traditional leftism.

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A404 lemmy.dbzer0.com A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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can you elaborate your question?

I wanted to know what distinguishes post-left anarchy from classical anarchism.

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A404 lemmy.dbzer0.com A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Link to raddle Post-left anarchy is a recent current in anarchist thought that promotes a critique of anarchism's relationship to traditional leftism.

ty, that explains it

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rnercle sh.itjust.works merde@sh.itjust.works
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I wanted to know what distinguishes post-left anarchy from classical anarchism.

even "classical" anarchism had different branches (schools?). We shouldn't treat it as one monolithic movement.

Today anarchist movements are scapegoated as "ultra-left", to pull frightened masses towards extreme-right (banalised as right) but anarchists, refusing to participate in the government, had no place in the left-right seating of politics.

What do you mean by "post-left anarchy"?

edit: i was reading "Les Nouveaux Anarchistes » by Francis Dupuis-Déri. At the end of the book he mentioned Bob Black. I started reading one of his from https://theanarchistlibrary.org/ and now i know what you mean by "post-left anarchism".
Not everybody is aware of who Bob Black is and the terms he invented.

i had a copy of "The Abolition of Work", printed as a pamphlet, handed out at a squat. It was light and fun. "Post-left" doesn't mean much when you're not into Bob's writings: "What is post-left anarchism? I’m not sure who coined the phrase, but it looks like I did."

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ianhclark510 lemmy.blahaj.zone ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Everytime I see the logo and think it’s the NMS logo without reading the community name and I’m so confused XD

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rnercle sh.itjust.works merde@sh.itjust.works
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“Post-“ originally is a temporal signifier. It means “after.” Post-left anarchism, whatever it means, refers to an anarchism which has, by and large, come after, and largely out of, anarcho-leftism.[6] In my case, I was receptive to exactly the influences which Jason McQuinn mentions. When I use the phrase (I don’t use it a lot), I think of anarchists writing in the last 40 or 50 years who have taken up, or taken on, matters which the traditional anarcho-leftists never considered; or if they occasionally did consider them, their reactions – variously stereotyped, superficial, mocking, and dismissive — called for critique.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-notes-on-post-left-anarchism

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