“Most of us didn’t pop out of a womb as an anarchist—although babies, toddlers, and other young folks typically engage in anarchic behaviors until adult ‘authority figures’ beat such instinctual impulses out of them. Likely, many of us were once liberals, and via a meandering path of experimentation, started to think and act for ourselves, with others, in nonhierarchical ways. And at some point, we began to proudly embrace anarchism, not merely as a circle A patch or tag, but rather as an embodied set of ethics and liberatory practices, and indeed, a clear-eyed lens through which we routinely see and engage with the world. From there, as anarchists, we daily, routinely—like breathing, as something we must do, yet almost stop noticing—model otherworldly forms of social organization and social relations, such as solidarity, reciprocity, mutual aid, and communal care.
“Then we usually feel annoyed at liberals—and even outraged, often justifiably so. Or at a minimum, deeply impatient, particularly because so much is at stake these christofascist days. …
“… But we shouldn’t abdicate our crucial role and responsibility in welcoming new folks into our beautiful circle(s). We shouldn’t forget that someone, something, or many things did that for us!
“This little zine, then, offers some humble stories of what it means, figuratively and perhaps literally, to set up anarchist ‘welcome wagons’ for those not-yet-anarchists—those many liberals who know that their ‘dreams don’t fit in ballot boxes’—especially given the collapse of ‘representative democracies’ and rise of fascisms globally—but can’t (yet) imagine how to ‘break free.’”
This listing is for a print copy sent to you in the mail, the digital version is here.
