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Hey all, I'm hoping this is the right comm for this kind of post. I'm really interested what brought my fellow lemmings to anarchism (or just radical politics in general). Was is a youtube video? A book? A conversation IRL or on the internet? For me personally it was a friend IRL who introduced me to an local anarchist collective.

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

When I was still a religious believer I first learned about the recurring christian anarchist movements and groups throughout the religion's history, and I had a lot of respect and admiration for the people who were able and willing to critic an unjust authoritarian hierarchy imposed on them and take seriously the call for mutual aid instead of expecting someone else to do the hard work. I deconverted from the childhood religious indoctrination, but kept the virtues of participating in mutual aid efforts and rejecting unearned authority and imposed by force hierarchy I learned from the anarchists.

Tl;Dr books, curiosity about how to ethically organize groups of people