How I Became An Anarchist Extended

I further describe my feelings on anarchist-communism compared to other schools of thought, and discuss racism.
I had to cut out the last 55 seconds of my video, but after this, I more or less went on to ask anarchists of color to talk with me, and help me understand what it is I should do to help end racism.

Thanks to all for watching.
Feel free to comment, reply with a video, message me, etc.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Racism
• anarchism
• anarchist-communism
• sexism

[swdmn]

What happened to my original post?

[IamMrAwesome]

It should still be there.

The one that said "Understand that bakeries and factories etc" right?

Its there for me.

[swdmn]

Understand that bakeries and factories are not magically conjured into existence and that even your hands are means of production. Now if you and a few friends want to build a bakery and have rules (or no rules) on its use, go right ahead. But saying that you can just walk into an existing bakery and claim the right to use it then you're just expropriating the labor that went into building that bakery.

[IamMrAwesome]

By your argument then the factory shouldn't be there at all, because the land it was built upon was not owned by any one individual to begin with.

[swdmn]

What? Of course I can build a factory on unowned land and claim it. Or buy the land if it was owned. Or build a factory for someone else who wants to pay me to do it. So if some union of workers want a factory, they have to pay someone to build it, or do it themselves If they find a non-owned factory they can of course go ahead and claim ownership. Or just sell their labor to a factory-owner if they feel that is right for them.

[IamMrAwesome]

Its unjustified, and is no different than stealing an already running factory.

But that's aside the point of this video, I was making a statement about my self in response to another video, and I'm pretty burnt out from arguing right now.

[DJAnarchoRedist]

Red and Black Salute! I am Anarcho Communist as well.

[chrispollock]

@titmo why not both?

[titmo]

you can have a factory or a bakery. The real question is why do you want it. Do you want it to produce something everybody needs, or do you want it to enrichen yourself?

[NewVinland]

You're not exactly correct... Collective ownership ultimately applies to everything. How can we shed the illusion of self if we are hoarding things to ourselves? The people behind the Venus Project do a great job at explaining my stance on Anarchist Communism without using the term, because they don't want "ism" labels. I can kind of understand why.

[KillBorn88]

I've never heard a white person what you said 4:17 onward. I've heard many black people say it but it's true that there seem to be many interpretations of what a white person is, however, when it comes to "people of colour" there is only one type.

Speaking of which, even the term "people of colour" is disturbing. Doesn't everyone have a colour? Even if you're white, is that not a colour? At the end of the day, I've learned to not give a shit what anyone thinks.

[swdmn]

It's there, just didn't show up in the "all comments", I think it gets fucked because yt doesn't count the uploaders comments as comments.

[swdmn]

Fair enough.

If you want to clarify what you think is unjustified I would appreciate it. Homesteading non-owned property?

Peace.