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Are Lemmy anarchists okay? How does this person have 24 upvotes? In what universe are anarchists NOT doing class analysis, (therefore) don't want to abolish capitalism, and don't want to fight archism?
I suspect this is just because libs absolutely DESPISE comrade @Cowbee@hexbear.net and will upvote anything smart-sounding that supposedly addresses whatever is being discussed?
Also, gotta love the whole "I have this opinion and many anarchists will disagree and that's what anarchism is about". Like, buddy, you haven't read one book or talked to one anarchist IRL, let alone organized in your entire life.
I mildly disagree with Awoo here (though I respect her opinion both in general and here specifically), but I have a different criticism: I think this focus on decentralized everything leading to an idea of decentralized, modular political theory is unhelpful. I think that it's fine to not personally be much of a fighter, at least so long as you recognize that there are circumstances where that might need to change. What I think is not okay is not having an understanding of why and how to fight (because it's not "my anarchy"). That's not political theory, that's a lifestyle brand.
There is no "your anarchy" in the sense of a modular truth, there is only "what you currently understand about anarchy," where what you don't understand isn't marked as merely someone else's business, or a soup of definitional contradictions that are all still true, but merely things that you do not understand yet, and typically should be concerned with learning the answers for.