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[This is a highly abridged version of an essay that can be found here: https://raddle.me/wiki/open_source_absolutists]

Open-source practices can be enormously valuable to anarchists. They facilitate cooperation, make technology more accessible and modifiable, and can undermine proprietary monopolies. But there is nothing inherently anarchist about the label “open source,” and treating openness as an absolute moral principle can obscure the relationships of power surrounding the labor that produces things.

From Raddle by ziq

Green anarchy, or anti-civilization (anti-civ), is an anti-left (often, though less accurately, described as post-left) current within anarchist thought that differs fundamentally from programmatic traditions such as anarcho-communism and anarcho-syndicalism.

A New Anarchist FAQ: An Introduction to Anarchy in the 21st Century, developed by the Raddle Collective, aims to address the shortcomings of An Anarchist FAQ by Iain McKay, particularly its perceived sectarian attacks against certain anarchist currents, immense length and complexity.

by ziq

Journalist Maria Ressa recently explained how the rise of the authoritarian right has been directly caused by social media algorithms which hack our biology and change the way we see the world

from raddle.me by ziq

Probably going to continue until whoever is doing it stops.

From raddle.me/f/Anarchism/ by ziq

The recent erasure of anarchist spaces from corporate platforms shows we need a strong anarchist media alliance

We can't keep expecting platforms owned by far-right billionaires to stay honest. Anarchists are the biggest threat to any capitalist, so of course they're going to shut us down at every opportunity.