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#DSA

"Democratic Socialists" aren't socialists. "Democratic socialism" isn't socialism. It's just candy coated capitalism. It still has bosses. Bosses still own the means of production. DSA propose a better safety net and a better benefit/retirement package, but so what? A gilded cage is still a cage.

#LibertarianSocialism is real socialism. Anything less is a fraud and a sham.

The Front of Libertarian Students organizes students across Chile around revolutionary politics and direct democracy. FEL works to unite the student movement while building toward libertarian communism through horizontal organizing and federation, connecting education struggles to broader class politics.

https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/frente-de-estudiantes-libertarios/

#Chile #StudentOrganizing #LibertarianSocialism #DirectDemocracy

#stoicism #libertariansocialism #anarchocommunism

"Look, we have to side with the Stalinists to win the civil war." - Spanish government which would lose the civil war

https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/1903561/look-we-have-to-side-with-the-stalinists-to-win-the-civil-war-spanish-government-which

"Look, we have to side with the Stalinists to win the civil war." - Spanish government which would lose the civil war

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1903558/look-we-have-to-side-with-the-stalinists-to-win-the-civil-war-spanish-government-which

"Baba, what a fuzzy mustache you have!"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1866661/baba-what-a-fuzzy-mustache-you-have

Not quite a utopia, but a functioning society at the least!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1778392/not-quite-a-utopia-but-a-functioning-society-at-the-least

Not quite a utopia, but a functioning society at the least!

https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/1778391/not-quite-a-utopia-but-a-functioning-society-at-the-least

@MikeDunnAuthor

Capitalism is just candy coated feudalism. This landless peasant is fed up with it. #LibertarianSocialism is better. It's not only possible, it's already started:

https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/115418872510413514

@PeachMcD

Anarchists are not attempting to get to an "ideal form of governance". There is no such thing. No one has the right to govern anybody. What we are doing is creating an ideal society, one piece at a time, from the ground up. The ideal society must, by definition, have an ideal economy. It's called #LibertarianSocialism, i.e., worker self-owned, worker self-managed workplaces, federated in whatever ways they choose.

Libertarian Socialism is already up and running and merely needs to grow. See:

#NoBAWC

#Mondragon

etc.

I myself put in 26 years at Bound Together Anarchist Bookstore Collective, a NoBAWC shop. We didn't have a boss. We didn't need one. We held a meeting once a month to do what a boss would do in a normal shop, i.e., manage the business. It worked fine.

The coop principle is scalable. It ranges from ad hoc neighborhood food purchasing coops to Mondragon, a multi-national, multi billion dollar enterprise.

Decisions should be made by the people they effect. Everybody else should butt out.

We apply the basic principles of anarchism to everything we do, starting with, but in no way limited to, work:

Sharing
Cooperation
Solidarity
Mutual Aid
Direct Action

*****
Here's a true story about one such coop. Perhaps it may inspire you:

In about '73-4 some people in New Haven, Connecticut started a food coop. My communal household was the 12th household to join. One night a week, at three in the morning, one of the households would go to the loading dock and buy wholesale produce when it came in, fresh off the trucks, then take it back to the house and divide it up. We rotated this task. More and more households joined.

Pretty soon we were moving enough food that the living room floors of communal households weren't a big enough sorting space. There were about 1500 of us. We chipped in and rented an unused bodega on the Hill (a ghetto neighborhood), not to do retail, but just to have enough floor and shelf space to sort the food. We also were able to store non perishables there so we could buy that stuff in bigger lots.

We immediately ran into another food coop operating in the neighborhood. It was all Black and based on the basement floors of a network of Black churches, instead of a network of living room floors like we were doing. Other than that, we operated exactly the same. There were about 1500 of them, too. We held one joint meeting and voted unanimously to fuse. Now there was 3,000 of us.

So we rented out this old abandoned supermarket. It might have once been a Kroger. I forget. One of those chains. We cleared one space out for childcare and another for socializing. The rest of the layout stayed the same. It had everything available that a grocery store had. Everything but the meat sold at 2% over cost, which covered the building's overhead. The meat was prorated according to cut because that was the only to make the money work.

The coop was staffed by volunteers, except we also hired a butcher and two part time drivers with the money we saved not having a boss. Then we acquired a grant writer who worked for commission. We spent the grant money on infrastructure. Membership was by household, not individuals. Tight scheduling made sure there was always enough staff on hand. It was never a problem.

The food was excellent. The people were the best ever. It became a sort of community hang out in addition to being the community pantry.

Sometimes political groups held meetings in the socializing area. It was sweet.

Then I moved to California and lost track of the place. Long story, for some other time.

Dictionary of Anarchist Thought: The First-Ever Comprehensive Lexicon of Anarchism

Available now: https://a.co/d/2DthR00

#anarchism #dictionary #anarchistthought #socialecology #libertariansocialism #book #readers #authors #readerscommunity #masoncarterauthor #masoncarter

#LibertarianSocialism

The worker self-owned, worker self-managed, workplace is the #anarchist ideal.

#RainbowGrocery in #SanFrancisco is one of them.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/rainbow-grocery-50th/

#RainbowGrocery #CooperativeEconomics #LibertarianSocialism

"Rainbow Grocery is a worker-owned cooperative, meaning its employees collectively own and democratically manage the business. Each worker-owner has an equal vote in major decisions, reflecting the co-op’s founding values of equality and shared responsibility.

Though modest in scale, the stores were backed by a bold idea: That food could be distributed ethically and labor could be organized without hierarchy. The concept attracted idealists, activists and those united by shared spiritual values.

'That part of the Mission wasn’t the greatest,' co-op worker/owner Pat Seguin told Mission Local in an interview about Rainbow’s 40th anniversary. 'A lot of people couldn’t afford clean, healthy food, nutritious food.'

While other food conspiracies fractured under the weight of ideological divisions and internal conflict, Rainbow endured.

(. . .)

Beyond being a grocery store, Rainbow is a radical experiment in workplace democracy.

Everyone who works at Rainbow is an owner. After nine months on the job, new hires pay a $10 fee to become voting members of the cooperative. There is no CEO. Wages are equal, regardless of job title. Departments self-govern and hire their own."

https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/rainbow-grocery-50th-anniversary/

Hello Fediverse! We are The Rising Tide Fellowship, a new, local community organization based in Buffalo, NY. We are a fellowship of neighbors dedicated to building a more just, equitable, and peaceful world from the ground up.
Our core principles are rooted in Social Anarchism, Libertarian Socialism, and Pacifism. We practice:
Mutual Aid & Community Care: Through initiatives like our Self-Help Accompaniment Pods.
Direct Democracy & Anti-Hierarchy: We are a non-hierarchical, consensus-based group.
Building Community Wealth: Our Housing Justice Initiative is fighting corporate landlords and exploring cooperative models.
Our goal is to build a "3.5% coalition" of allies to create lasting change. We believe in a future that is socialist, feminist, anti-racist, and ecologically sustainable.
We are here to learn, share, and build solidarity.

#introduction #MutualAid #Anarchism #Socialism #LibertarianSocialism #HousingJustice #SolidarityEconomy #Buffalo #Antifascist #Abolition #Pacifism

Direct Democracy & Anti-Hierarchy: We are a non-hierarchical, consensus-based group.
Building Community Wealth: Our Housing Justice Initiative is fighting corporate landlords and exploring cooperative models.

Our goal is to build a "3.5% coalition" of allies to create lasting change. We believe in a future that is socialist, feminist, anti-racist, and ecologically sustainable.
We are here to learn, share, and build solidarity.
#introduction #MutualAid #Anarchism #Socialism #LibertarianSocialism

@aapis @rbreich

That's not true. *Some* American people wanted this. Most didn't. It happened anyway because electoral politics are eminently corruptable and the Electoral College is an evil, anti-democratic, relic from back in the days of slavery.

The majority of the American people either voted for that genocidal ex-cop or for nobody. Once again, nobody won hands down. We need a different system. This one only makes everything get worse.

Party politics is what got us into this mess in the first place. We don't elect our rulers. At most we elect a few of their henchmen. Our rulers themselves aren't elected officials. They're the #oligarchs that pull the elected officials' strings. Without capitalism, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

Stop supporting capitalism and most of our problems either go away with it and/or at least we'll be able to solve the ones that don't. Climate change, for example, is a direct result of capitalists being in control of both resources and technology.

Step one: People need to learn the difference between markets capitalism.

Step two: #LibertarianSocialism

New essay on Community-Self-Management and Commoning within 6 Libertarian Socialist Influenced Revolutions is now on our substack. Featuring: Morelos Commune, Makhnovia, Shinmin, Spanish Revolution, Zapatistas/ACGAZ, and Rojava/DAANES!!! https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/community-self-management-and-commoning

#rojava #zapatistas #DAANES #ACGAZ #communalism #commoning #directdemocracy #mutualaid #directaction #communitydefense #anarchism #anarchy #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism

New essay on community self management and commoning within 6 libertarian socialist influenced revolutions!!!

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/community-self-management-and-commoning-within-6-libertarian-socialist-influenced-revolutions/

#anarchism #anarchy #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #libertariancommunalism #communalism #directdemocracy #selfmanagement #mutualaid #directaction #rojava #zapatistas

@libramoon @cferdinandi @gerrymcgovern

We do have an alternative system already up and running, #LibertarianSocialism. It's running well, and is scalable.

The worker self-owned, worker self-managed, workplace is the #anarchist ideal.

See:

#NoBAWC

#Mondragon

@BrianJopek

#LibertarianSocialism

The worker self-owned, worker self managed workplace is the ideal we strive for. It's a proven economic strategy. It's already up and running, it just needs to spread.

See:

#NoBAWC

#Mondragon

Etc.

@epistomai @lauren

They still rely on capital because they have yet to adopt #LibertarianSocialism

@MissGayle @DeanObeidallah

#StreetJustice on individuals is not enough. The entire capitalist system need to be dismantled and replaced with #LibertarianSocialism.

@_Dreugan_ @feike @nerb @msb @randahl

That's not what the word "Libertarian" in "#LibertarianSocialism" means. Read some history of the term, or at least click the hashtag. Anarchists used the term over a century before it was claimed by these modern miscreants. Today, the word "libertarian" means nothing but "Republicans on drugs".

Libertarian Socialism and anarchism mean the same thing, society and social relations based on worker self-owned, worker self-managed, workplaces.

For working models, see #NoBawc, #Mondragon, etc. It scales. The smallest member of NoBawc is a pizza joint run by a handful of hippies. Mondragon is a multi-billion dollar, multi-national business.

@feike @_Dreugan_ @nerb @msb @randahl

Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic is self-evidently futile. In the short term, we need life boats. In the long term we need a plan. Only #LibertarianSocialism can save us from capitalism. It's a proven system, already up and running (see: #NoBAWC, #Mondragon, etc.), it needs to grow. Capitalism needs to die.

There is a basic flaw in Dandy Andy's analysis of anarchists and anarchism in general. No, anarchists are not part of the "far left". Both "left" and "right", are styles of government. Anarchism is diametrically opposed to *any* style of government. We don't fit in the spectrum of binary political analysis. Personally, I prefer to think of us the forefront of the labor movement. Unlike the left, both near and far, we have moved beyond advocating for collaborationist "unions". It's like advocating for politicians to represent us. Politicians and union bureaucrats don't represent the working class. With very few exceptions, modern unions are essentially labor brokers. They represent their own narrow interest. What is in their own interest is a more favorable relationship between the capitalists and their own narrow (paying) membership. It keeps labor on the job. Que bono?

Anarchists do not advocate for better relationships with the capitalists. Anarchists advocate the abolition of capitalists. In its place, anarchists advocate for, and as far as possible practice, #LibertarianSocialism, i.e. worker self-owned, worker self-managed workplaces, federated with each other by the basic anarchist principles: sharing, cooperation, solidarity, mutual aid, and direct action. So-called "better representatives" are neither wanted nor necessary. We represent ourselves. This is antithetical to the core basics of leftism. They want to get rid of the bosses. They don't want to get rid of bossism. They want the boss's job. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Self-professed "leftists" have repeatedly slaughtered us wholesale and stacked our bodies in pits. It's time we learned our lesson. Leftists are not our friends. As allies they are unreliable. The only thing they ever do that benefits anarchists is swell the crowd at anti-fascist demos. In a real fight, they are only useful as the very cannon fodder for which they have used anarchists for a century. It would greatly behoove us to avoid having real fight with the fascists. #CivilWarII wouldn't be fought between states or regions. It would be fought between neighbors. It would be a bloodbath. It would also be America's national suicide. The world would pick our bones and we'd deserve it. A lot of people think we deserve it already.

Since we want peace, we must prepare for war. The fascists are planning to kill us in a bloody civil war. They are armed and dangerous. They're organizing, even as we speak. They have friends in high places. They have lawyers, guns and money. We'd damned well better be ready to deal with them if they ever work up enough nerve to attack. We'd better not planning to be cannon fodder for the left, either. The left would sell us out. Again. For sure. History is very clear on this point.

Does anyone sane still think we should disarm ourselves? Just wondering, not trying to incite any untoward behavior.

@gwynnion

Yeah, and if my aunt had wheels, she'd be a wagon. None of your suggestions are possible as long as society practices #capitalism, except for getting rid of billionaires. There is a way to get rid of billionaires but it's slow and tedious, the Luigi method. Unfortunately, other billionaires would take their place.

I suggest that instead we reorganize society from the grassroots up to function along the basic principles of sharing, cooperation, solidarity, and direct action. In other words, practice, preach, and grow #LibertarianSocialism till capitalism withers on the vine.

@BenAveling @Bugspriet @dbattistella

You must be thinking of *Bolshevik* communism. It's totally unlike *anarchist* communism, or as we call it, #LibertarianSocialism. It's most like early (pre-Constantine) Christian anarchism.

According to the bible, if you're not a communist, you're not a real Christian.

See:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+2%3A44-45&version=NRSVCE

See also:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+4:32&version=KJV

@Toadlyturtle @mutualaid @MutualAidNet @anarchomutual @mutual_aid #MutualAid #mutualsupport #directaid #directsupport #communitycare #Communalism #communism #anarchism #anarchocommunism #libertariansocialism #kropotkin #marxism #decolonial #decolonialism #decolonize

We need to expand the mutual aid and direct support content on this platform.

There are so many people struggling rn, and I don’t see enough ppl on my timeline uplifting requests for support- particularly support requests from Black and Indigenous ppl are ignored the most

#MutualAid #Anarchist #Anarchisme #anarchocommunism #anarchosocialism #anarchonihilism #anarchismwithoutadjectives #AntiCivAnarchism #anarchoprimitivism #communism #socialism #libertariansocialism #authoritariancommunism #stalinism #marxism #marxistLeninist #MarxistLeninism #maoism #mlm #tankies #tankiescum

"Contrary to anti-human myths, the ecological crisis is not caused by an excess of human freedom; it is instead caused by the destruction of social freedom that happens through domination and exploitation towards goals of profit and power-over others."

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/wtf-is-social-ecology

#anarchism #socialecology #communalism #commune #mutualaid #commons #commoning #ecology #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism

Revolutionary Government by Peter Kropotkin

https://kolektiva.media/w/bGviEZaA8Sdzr5TcU4qEGJ

@yianiris with #LibertarianSocialism you can have cake and eat it too.

For instance, bring back cooperative companies ffs - especially when it comes to energy. You should have to buy a stake in an energy company that operates in an area, or the water company, and no one can own a bigger percentage or be an outside investor.

In this model, the ones who own the companies are also it's clients, and you being more concerned about having access to clean water and cheap electricity trumps all.

Arrived today from lovely Merlin Press. Big Flame emerged in 1970 in Liverpool, and until 1984 was the one of the best non-vanguardist of all the many left groups and parties in the UK
bigflameuk.wordpress.com

#BigFlame

#LibertarianSocialism

#UK_Left

#Resistance

"The basic premise of everything you read here is fairly simple and straightforward: we live in a tyrannical dystopia that’s driving humanity to its doom, and we need to wake up from the propaganda indoctrination and egoic delusions which keep us complying with the status quo so that we can use the power of our numbers to overthrow our oppressors and create a healthy world. We come at it from countless angles using all different approaches, but that’s the basic message and the idea underpinning it all."

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/a-bit-about-this-strange-little-project

#Capitalism #Socialism #Dystopia #LibertarianSocialism

"The following adaptation of Ostrom’s rules for managing the commons is informed by libertarian socialism/communism/communalism, organizations and revolutions influenced by libertarian socialism that utilize community assemblies related to common decisions and resources, various commons Ostrom looks at, as well as an expanded history of commoning in multiple modes of subsistence:

1. Participants know they are part of a group and what the group is about (Wilson, 2016).
2. Agreements for sharing and at times rotating labor/work and implementation of decisions as well as for sharing the fruits thereof (Kropotkin, 1906, Sixth Commission of the EZLN, 2016, Ostrom, 2021, Usufruct Collective, 2022). People can co-create a cornucopia where there is more than enough for all or otherwise agree to specific ways of distributing less abundant fruits of re/production according to needs.
3. Direct collective decision making by participants through deliberation. For there to be self-management of each and all, there must also be mutual non-domination. By extension, community assemblies related to the commons should utilize direct, participatory, and non-hierarchical forms of democracy (Bookchin, 2005b).
4. Organizational transparency that allows participants to mutually-monitor the commons (Atkins, Wilson, Hayes, 2019). This can happen through the process of co-managing and interacting with the commons, collective action, living in community with others, relevant accounting/calculation as needed, and availability of relevant information to participants.
5. Graduated defense against domination and exploitation such as: informal social disapproval, self-defense and defense of others as needed, and recourse to expelling someone from a particular collective (through deliberation, assembly, and due process) in response to the most extreme violations of the commons and freedoms of persons (Boehm, 2001, Ostrom, 2021, Usufruct Collective, 2023).
6. Good-enough conflict resolution such as: people talking directly to each other, mediation to find out how to move forward, dispute resolution to resolve disputes, restorative justice and transformative justice processes for people to repair harm and transform causes thereof, and organization-wide assembly when the conflict is in regards to organizational form and content. (Kaba, 2019, Usufruct Collective, 2023).
7. Communities and participants need sufficient autonomy to organize.
8. The use of co-federation and embedded councils. Community assemblies can co-manage inter-communal commons in a way where policy-making power is held by participants and assemblies directly (Bookchin, 1992, Ocalan, 2014). This enables self-management and mutual aid within and between communities as well as inter-communal management of the commons. Community assemblies can utilize mandated and recallable councils and rotating delegates to implement decisions within the bounds of policies made by community assemblies directly (Bookchin, 1992, 2007, 2018). "

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/ostroms-8-rules-of-the-commons-for-anarchists/

#anarchism #anarchy #democracy #directdemocracy #mutualaid #commons #commoning #communalism #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #ostrom

Ostrom’s 8 Rules of the Commons for Anarchists
by the Usufruct Collective :

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2024/10/22/ostroms-8-rules-of-the-commons-for-anarchists/

👇 Traduction en français ci-dessous 👇

#anarchism #anarchy, #commons #communalism #commune #communism #environment #history #libertariancommunism #libertariansocialism #politicalphilosophy #politics #socialism

"David talks to the historian of Russia Edward Acton about how the Russian Revolution might have unfolded if the Left SRs and not the Bolsheviks had come out on top. Could Lenin have been sidelined? Might the Terror have been avoided? And what would it have meant to the wider world if revolutionary socialism had been liberated from Marxist communism?"

https://shows.acast.com/pastpresentfuture/episodes/66d99b6cd4991eb8a6d39ac6

(1/?)

#RussianRevolution #LibertarianSocialism #EdwardActon #Bolsheviks #Leninism

No matter who is president: we need self-managed social movement organizations engaging in mutual aid and direct action against hierarchy wisely adapted to specific moving contexts in such a way that bridges short-term needs and goals to long term needs and goals of social transformation

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/elements-of-liberatory-social-movement

#anarchism #mutualaid #directaction #selfmanagement #directdemocracy #democracy #anarchy #anarchism #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #anarchocommunism #communalism #syndicalism #organization