Anarchists have the best bookstores! And the zines!

Jokes aside - I think there’s typically a misconception of what anarchism actually means (probably because there are so many flavors/bastardizations) - and in Amerikkka it basically means libertarian/individualism but they used to skateboard.

I recall this site/cth was big on getting people to read Conquest of Bread in the early days. And that was my first exposure to left theory.

I can’t claim to understand the intricacies of ancient social interactions (I barely understand modern ones) to know why I should care that Marx and Proudhon had a falling out, for instance. But I’ve found that anarchist writing (Proudhon, Kropotkin, Bakunin) resonates as much as anything Lenin/Marx/Mao/others have written.

My personal interest in this overlap is how Indigenous communities have historically integrated both ideas pre/post kkkolonization - like federations of otherwise disparate groups which operate independently but as a collective. One example I found https://www.jstor.org/stable/41604467

Idk maybe I’m just a book nerd 🤓 and really like stuff with pictures of angry cats on it