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and you're lucky if you've found the one anarchist/progressive space that works for you, but try to grow that effort into one that can affect the existing systems, and you'll suddenly find your group is either a terrorist organization, or that the group hates women, and now you have to prove to a bunch of angry public reaction to any association with that woman hating group. it is constant for anyone actually being noticed as a danger to the status quo.

Here's the thing. It's not one space. And it's not all explicitly labeled as political or leftist. I'm rural, and there is a lot of mutual aid and community efforts that certainly fit with my ideals even if the people doing it wouldn't consider themselves left wing.

I also don't waste time arguing with the public. I'm not trying to convince people to believe in what I believe. I'm interested in building systems where we can support each other outside of the formal economy and police state. I don't think it makes sense to expand these projects to huge geographical areas. Needs are different in different places. We can learn from each other and adopt things that are useful, but it shouldn't be one org.

There is an anarchist collective in a nearby city who's only public activity is boosting the efforts of various progressive initiatives. Hopefully that gives you some idea of how little interest there is putting one label on someting.

i'm usually trying to talk about anarchistic efforts that affect more than one small community, as individualized and isolated communities aren't gonna do much the moment the big imperial body notices the potential for actual social change happening.

They build community security to reduce deoendance on the state, which free people to resist in meaningful ways.