iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There right-wing so-called Libertarians are okay with people who rule by property or profit - believing that people themselves are a form of property. anarwiki.org/wiki/Propert...

010

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anarchism is a society organised without rulers. Libertarianism was originally another word for Anarchism. Then in 1970 a right-wing capitalist named Murray Rothbard said he liked the word and wanted to steal it for his group. peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com/p/taking-bac...

peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com

Taking Back Libertarianism

What's In A (Left-Wing) Word?

131

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What Kind Of Hero Do You Want To Be? On means and ends, and the choices that separate them peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com/p/what-kind-... ‘Everyone wants to be heroic. Nobody wants to be the bad guy, or the villain. But few villains think they’re evil.’ #politics #prefiguration

peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com

What Kind Of Hero Do You Want To Be?

On means and ends, and the choices that separate them

000

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How to tell if someone misunderstands anarchism As I get fed up repeating the same responses over and over again ... I made it into an easily sharable image If you believed any of these misunderstandings then this is a chance for you to learn more and be better informed. #anarchism #anarchist

**How to tell if someone misunderstands anarchism -**
- They think anarchism is chaotic and unorganised
- *Nope.* The O around the anarchist Ⓐ symbol stands for order or organisation
- They think anarchism assumes people are good natured
- *Nope.* They know people are capable of evil thats why they don’t want them to be rulers over others
- They think anarchism is an individualistic philosophy
- *Nope.* Anarchism has a long cooperative, collective and communal history
- They think anarchism is compatible with capitalism
- *Nope.* There is no such thing as anarcho-capitalists because capitalism is hierarchy
- They think anarchism has only existed in small groups
- *Nope.* There are examples of millions of people over country sized anarchist regions
- They think anarchism hasn’t considered how to defend itself
- *Nope.* There have been very effective anarchist militaries
Etc.

064

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We'll take the word back in America one of these days (& in many other countries it is still the popular word for anarchists)

010

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You are part of a long venerable tradition of anti-state Marxists such as Rosa Luxemberg. & arguably Marx himself - 'the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made State machinery and wield it for its own purposes.' anarwiki.org/wiki/Liberta... anarwiki.org/wiki/Council...

000

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Anarchists have often been attacked on several fronts at once - by capitalist and 'socialist' states, and there are lessons to be learnt from that. But most 'socialist' states (95%) have been defeated by capitalist ones too, so states are no guarantee of successful defence from capitalist invaders.

001

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You’re right that it isn’t anarchism in and of itself - although some have seen it as a possible method of achieving anarchism - through taking over workplaces and out of capitalists hands & producing for need - but if all a union does is negotiate wages then it certainly isn’t accomplishing that

120

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I figured if it popped up on my feed others might be seeing it too, so thought it might be a thought worth sharing. BSky is a bit chaotic like that - some might even call it anarchistic ;-)

010

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Or maybe anarchism is the only ideology not relying on faith in humanity - if you don’t trust anyone not to abuse power then maybe the best way to stop them abusing it is to try to prevent them from getting any power over anyone else.

120

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Note: This doesn’t stop other anarchists wanting more radical change sooner and using more radical methods now (direct action), or others working in the systems and processes we already have (platformism). It is a large tent of all sort of egalitarians seeking to help others.

000

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some anarchists aren't convinced that complete anarchism (fully communal, stateless, moneyless) will be achieved for a thousand years, but are focused on lessening the negative effects of hierarchy, inequality, and injustice in their communities now, because that does make a difference in the world.

120

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As Edward Abbey says - "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realisation … that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others … Anarchism is [just] democracy taken seriously.” ...

110

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The way we do things now creates such inequality, injustice and environmental destruction that it is unsustainable and beyond simple reform, this comes from being in an environment in which conditions imposed from above determine such outcomes in order to maintain the power and wealth of a few. …

100

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This isn’t an untried experiment, but has been realised in large regions among millions of people for hundreds of years & as Gall’s law states, ‘every complex system which worked evolved from a simple system that worked’. I don’t think our current capitalist system works for most people. ...

100

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The question is whether we are stuck in the top-down-systems we already have and that only those systems can guarantee us our rights - I don’t believe history or even more modern examples show this to be true, but show credible alternatives instead. …

100

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anarchists don’t want less ‘rights’ they want more freedoms, they don’t want rugged individualism they want collective flourishing. It takes societal change to ultimately accomplish this for everyone, whether from our communities outwards or some other way. …

100

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I agree that conditions largely determine outcomes - this is why I want the conditions to change so the outcomes can too. Current incentives lead us to actions which undermine our wellbeing and freedoms, so we need to change those those incentives. …

111

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If Anarchism had a formula it might be - how much can we be free from needless suffering and how far can we be free to make choices and have opportunities - while maximising co-operation and shared power together (rather than power of others over us). It’s a process, as much as it is a goal.

010

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One example - Maybe anarchism ‘starts to look like states’ from that outside, but it has at least two major fundamental differences - no group or system ruling over anyone else & no-one compelled to serve the system or be punished. peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com/i/181585410/... …

peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com

Misunderstanding Anarchism

& Misunderstanding Self-Defence, Expertise, Leadership, Justification, Governments & Democracy

210

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

You brought up a few new topics that each deserve their own reply (needs, rights, profits, resources), and which could have (and have had) several volumes written on them. anarwiki.org/wiki/Introdu... …

110

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's a challenge to envision things different from what we're familiar with - we already know how they (dysfunctionally) work & spent a lifetime dealing with them, so its harder to conceive of radical alternatives. So it can be helpful to look at historical examples anarwiki.org/wiki/Anarchi... …

110

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think the focus on the local is due to the fact that this is where we encounter needs & inequalities & opportunities most readily and personally & even at that level there is the potential to federate outwards - which anarchists are beginning to redo after major setbacks decades ago

010

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Stafford Beer's work on Cybernetics give us a more modern approach to this - anarwiki.org/wiki/Cyberne... But there are other models which have been tried - anarwiki.org/wiki/Anarchi... & anarwiki.org/wiki/Complex... - Working in the open source field I've seen some of this used in the digital realm

110

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If all the systems of a state disappeared tomorrow it'd be a huge challenge to reproduce all of that quickly from scratch, although shifting sideways from a top-down hierarchy to a horizontal decentralised reorganisation performing the same functions would (I'd argue) be entirely possible ...

110

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Some anarchist focus more on what they can practically do to improve the world immediately around them right now where they are. That's fine with me. But out of curiosity - What is it you feel you aren't getting answers to that you feel anarchists should have answers to?

110

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I can understand the anxiousness of some anarchists at the moment with recent clampdowns in some countries, and as for finding detailed answers I suppose that not every anarchist is an academic, but it's not like there is any lack of research and history and answers online.

110

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Agreed - the evils done under the pretence on being ‘our behalf’ in order to enrich defence contractors and weapons manufacturers and to distract from more fundamental problems has led to some of the greatest atrocities the world has known in the last century.

010

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The internet hasn’t been anarchistic in most major areas for quite a while - but it is the capitalistic side that took over and prioritised anger and divisiveness and extremes because they generated more advertising profit - rather than the older anarchistic cooperative & supportive models.

010

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Well it isn’t my ‘NATO’ & I’ll acknowledge the existence and evil of fascists wherever they are. I appreciate too that this is a proxy war between NATO & Russian imperialism & don’t want to support either.

100

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I understand that there can be lesser and greater evils, that not all evils are of the same equivalency - But in a scenario in which Putin might kill me for my Socialist beliefs and Zelensky might imprison me for them I suppose I’d be forced to choose Ukraine, but I’d rather choose neither.

100

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is he technically wrong? Apart from those Russian fascists on the Ukrainian side aren't there still Russian fascists on the Russian side? Perhaps even more of them there? Either way, Is it such a surprise to find fascists in capitalist Ukraine and capitalist Russia?

100

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Well there have been some pretty long lived societies without rulers - millions of people for hundreds of years over country sized regions - so it has been possible, but you're right that it is often attacked and anarchists need to be better at defending themselves than they have been.

000

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Having only a couple bad examples out of hundreds seems more like rare aberrations than a general trend to me. Wasn't CHAZ the opposite of you're arguing? It was a protest - Nobody formed a government & it fell apart into vigilante violence because no accountable structure existed

100

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’d be interested to learn about your examples of anarchists with guns getting conquered from the inside.

100

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some certainly do believe that & maybe they’ll yet be proven right When those who try to build socialism that way transition their state to communism then maybe even anarchists might believe that too - but until then anarchists may be forgiven for having some doubts.

000

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Since almost all anarchists are socialists and since most anarchists are anarcho-communists you can assume most of them see socialism and communism as an essential and inseparable part of the process of achieving anarchism - albeit without the step of states.

120

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Better Master Fallacy ‘Anyone seeking power over you is not on your side. It doesn’t matter how much they claim to share your politics, your values, or your enemies.’ peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com/p/the-better... #anarchism #politics

peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com

The Better Master Fallacy

It Isn’t Who Is On The Throne - It Is That There Is A Throne At All

062

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These have not been socialist states - by their own admission, unless we want to start changing the meaning of socialism & many of these states killed anarchists - that's not the kind of freedom I want, nor am I willing to sacrifice for some future that may not be.

000

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So it protected socialism by never implementing it & by implementing state capitalism instead? If thats the best way of achieving socialism then it seems indistinguishable from not implementing it all - which capitalism already does. I'm sorry I can't see the merit or socialism in such an approach.

000

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Anarchists are not pacifists. But a state isn't a gun - it is a rulership, it is a system of dominant power over others. "The state is the executive committee of the ruling class" (Marx) & "While the State exists, there can be no freedom." (Lenin) I want freedom.

100

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

State vs state loses too. There is no USSR any longer. They sacrificed socialism to fight capitalism and capitalism still won. States are not a strategy that has ever achieved socialism or ended capitalism. I respect your right to have faith that it one day will, but I don't share your belief.

110

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You're right - buying groceries isn't communism. That's not mutual aid, which is communal - 'to each according to need'. Communism is stateless, classless (thus hierarchyless), propertyless, producing for need, and moneyless. Communism isn't states etc. - the opposite of the USSR in every way.

110

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Well when that socialist state exists let me know so I can judge it on its merits, including its ability to transition to communism one day. Whereas I've seen real / material changes that embody communist principle through anarchist mutual aid and direct action personally already.

110

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

But it wasn't communism was it? It didn't meet any definition of the word. The USSR (or China) may have organised non-communism very well, but that doesn't make it any more communistic. They were trying to attain / maintain power to try communism later, I just don't see that as a path to communism.

100

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When you achieve communism with your state approach let me know, until then from what I’ve seen I’ve concluded that such an approach isn’t possible, and that trying it ultimately thwarts progress towards communism. So good luck with that!

110

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

By the might makes right argument capitalism is definitely the winner (unless you are looking at earlier decentralised societies over large regions and populations which lasted much longer, as well as decentralised communities and resistance which are still ongoing today).

000

Nate The Prole @nateprole.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Anarchism wants fundamentally different things and judges what constitutes progress in fundamentally different ways. What you call success (obtaining state power for a limited time) it considers a failure. Maybe such states will one day achieve socialism, but anarchists see no reason to believe so.

200