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I will explain my username

Some of us anarchists want radical change now and will not settle for anything less, as in the slogan "if voting changed anything, it would be illegal!"
But I am a patient anarchist.
I vote in elections, because democracy is closer to anarchism than dictatorship is.
My paycheque goes into a credit union, because a credit union, ultimately run by members, is closer to anarchism than a bank is.
I shop at the locally owned grocery store in preference to the big corporate one, and the workers' coop health food store in preference to both, because local is closer to anarchism than corporate, and a workers' coop is anarchism in practice on a small scale.
I dream of a transformed world of free cooperation. I don't expect to see it in my lifetime, but I try to live in that direction.
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Jokersswild · 22-25
I dream of a transformed world of free cooperation.

Why try to change the world before changing your own circumstances? You can't free the world if you haven't found freedom yourself. Anarchy isn't about fixing the world; that’s a fantasy. It's about personal freedom.
ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69New
@Jokersswild thanks for joining the conversation! I have a lot of personal freedom, but to me anarchism is a broader concept, a vision of how the world could be. It doesn't have to have the same meaning to you. Words are tricky!! Sometimes I just want to start from scratch, make up my own words, and floothwa umbalaba wentoo shooloomoo !