Duval is a very purple county that flips often. There is an active voter base here. Making generalizations about a city with a million people, let alone one of the most populous states in the country doesn’t help anything and only makes you look like a dumbass

Probably. That did not look good

Awesome, I appreciate it! Especially the inclusion of something that would seem to have (at least some) criticisms of anarchism. I’ve been having trouble finding good faith critiques of leftist thought be it Marxism, anarchism, Maoism, etc. Searching “criticism of x” usually results in right wing hit pieces

Awesome, thank you! I’d be happy to hear any other recommendations you have. I’m reading an anarchist programme by Malatesta next, then it’s on to anarchy by Malatesta. I might dive a bit deeper into David Graeber’s works after that. Bullshit Jobs was fascinating

Sweet, thanks!

Awesome, thanks! Sounds a lot like what I’ve been looking for

Can do!

I also find a lot of Marxism to be agreeable. I’ve read a bit of Marx, the principles of communism by Engles, I’m about half way through Imperialism by Lenin. I’ve done some reading on life in the USSR, the Chinese revolution, as well as Allende and project cybersyn. There’s some great concepts laid out and good arguments as well. Where Marxism/ML/MLM kind of lose me is social liberties. I’m coming from the perspective of “my rights end where yours begin”. We all ultimately make concessions to our freedom in order to peacefully live in a society. I feel a governments only duty to social issues is to intervene when a groups rights are being violated and to not interfere otherwise. There’s some nuance to that obviously but speaking generally I feel it’s a good rule to go by

I see a lot of praise for China and modern day Russia from Marxists spaces online. And while I’m able to admit I’m not the most informed on life in either of these countries, China particularly because its pretty difficult to find reliable info on the social climate there. Things like the Uyghur concentration camps, LGBT rights, racism, and general discrimination along social lines seems pretty common and largely accepted. I get it’s kind of the pot calling the kettle black on these things coming from the US, but I’d think a socialist government would be better equipped and much more willing to tackle these problems. Support for modern Russia just straight up doesn’t make sense to me. They’re a capitalist society, rife with inequities and corruption like every other capitalist state. I see no reason to support them. The amount of support for them leaves a sour taste in my mouth. As I continue to learn that may change but it’s hard reconciling what I read with what I see

Thanks! I’ll check them out

Thanks for the tips! I’ve found a mutual aid group in my city and apparently there’s a food not bombs chapter here too. I’ve looked through the anarchist Library a few times but their search function isn’t the greatest and being pretty new to leftist ideology, anarchism in particular, a lot of the authors are completely unfamiliar to me. I’m not sure if what I’ll be digging into is any good and/or too much for me to wrap my head around. I was hoping to find the general consensus among anarchists of where to start, what to look into, etc. so id be able to read more confidently and with most of the basics covered

Thank you, I appreciate it! I’m not 100% an anarchist but I’ve really become enamored with the concept and wanted to dive deeper. It scratches that social libertarian itch that a lot of other leftist ideologies don’t spend a lot of time on (at least in my reading so far)

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