What school of anarchist thought do you most align with?

1. The immediate concern should be...

liberating myself.
advancing science and technology in order to improve the human condition.
anarchists settling their differences and working together.
replacing patriarchy with decentralised free association.
the removal of violence from human relations.
eliminating the state.
abolishing capitalism, and with it, the state.
ecological liberation and environmental sustainability.
deindustrialisation, abolition of the division of labor and specialisation, and abandonment of large-scale organisation technologies.
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2. The root we have to weed out in order to eliminate the origin of oppression should be...

violence.
death.
the state.
the state and capitalism.
patriarchy.
our domination of our planet and our fellow earthlings.
treating the abstract as concrete.
treating the concrete as abstract.
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3. The state should be...

ignored insofar as possible.
peacefully undermined. it is ilegitimate to use violence to create a peaceful society.
violently overthrown. Non-violence protects the state.
overthrown by any means necessary. Different anarchists can use different tactics, as long as we agree on our immediate goals.
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4. Most functions that are presently provided by the state should be...

my responsibility.
provided by privately funded competitors in the free market.
provided by horizontal organisations based on voluntary association.
handled by unconscious AI.
handled however the specific community wants to handle it.
abolished. They are not desirable in the first place.
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5. Capitalism should be...

allowed to prosper in a stateless free market of individual sovereignity and private property.
abolished when science and technology has been furthered enough to render it pointless, or, if we are in a position to advance science and technology better by other means.
abolished as quickly as possible. Abolishing capitalism is at the core of our struggle.
considered a logical part of the industrial society experience -- which is much closer to the root of oppression.
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6. Property should be...

mine!
self-owned.
only legitimate in the product of labour for so long as it remains in use or occupation.
collectively owned.
abolished, except for possesions. Subsistence, productive and distributive property should be common or social possessions, while personal property should be private possessions.
considered absurd, abolished, and deemed undesirable.
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7. Means of production should be...

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8. Workplaces should be...

privately owned.
autonomous and self-managed.
worker managed, and organised in a democratic network of voluntary associations and councils of workers.
managed in ways that different workplaces want to be managed. We should tolerate different approaches so long as they are not oppressive.
abolished, at least as far as human workplaces are concerned. We should let unconscious AI work for us, so that we may live lives of leisure.
abolished. Work is genocide. No one should ever work.
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9. Goods should be...

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10. Money should be...

privately and competitively provided in an open market.
taken back by the people so that they can establish systems of free credit
replaced with labour notes, with salaries based on job difficulty and time spent.
abolished along with wage slavery.
dealt with however specific communites would like to.
unecessary altogether, we should abolish consumer goods.
unecessary altogether, we should upload our consciousness and have everything we want in our new posthuman world.
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11. Democracy should be...

direct.
participatory.
industrial.
a combination of direct and consensus that heeds scientific expertise.
up to the specific communities.
abolished lest we all suffer the tyranny of the majority.
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12. Agriculture should be...

organised like other workplaces.
revolutionised. Only sustainable permaculture is acceptable; abolish Big Farma.
up to the specific communities.
abolished like other workplaces. Agriculture is unsustainable, statist, a result of division of labour and specialisation; it is the materialisation of alienation.
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13. Civilisation should be...

expanded and furthered.
rid of capitalism, so that it can live up to its full potential.
moving into space and/or the virtual world.
abolished. Civilisation is the logic, institution, and physical apparatus of domestication, control, and domination.
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14. Violence should be...

an integral strategy in overthrowing the state.
used, because it is necessary. Asking kindly will not end capitalism. And capitalism is itself a violence.
used if I want to.
only used in order to defend myself or my property from aggressors.
rejected in the struggle for social change.
an alternative. It is not strategic for anarchists to focus on delegitimising our different efforts.
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15. Industrial society should be...

expanded and furthered.
reorganised from the ground up, in a horizontal fashion based on free association.
destroyed. The state is a logical conclusion of industrial technology.
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16. Technology should be...

advanced as much as possible, so that we can live lives of leisure.
considered neutral. Technology is only a problem per se if it is in the wrong hands, or an active ingredient in a destructive system. We need democratic technics.
be drastically scaled back, to sustainable levels.
abolished insofar possible. It is at the core of human domination.
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17. The freedom of a community should be...

secondary to my freedom.
contractual.
considered the same as the the freedom of its comprisors. Individuals need a free society to live up to their potential.
secondary to the health of our ecosystem.
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18. Abolishing patriarchy should be...

an essential part of our struggle. Patriarchy goes beyond the state.
part of our abolishment of civilisation.
secondary to, or yet another aspect of, abolishing the state.
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19. Domination of nature and other animals should be...

fine if done in order to advance science and technology.
reduced. It has gone way too far under capitalism. If we defeat capitalism, we can stop the excess.
considered a symptom of patriarchic culture. If we abolish patriarchy, we can stop the excess.
stopped immediately. Stopping this needs to be at the core of our struggle.
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20. Global warming and climate change should be...

considered a symptom of capitalism. We need to defeat capitalism in order to turn back the trend.
considered a symptom of patriarchic culture. We need to abolish patriarchy in order to turn back the trend.
dealt with by green technology.
kept in check as long as we are subject to biological bodies.
expected. It is an inevitable result of industrial society. All of this madness has got to go.
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21. Illegalism (criminality as a lifestyle) should be...

embraced as a way to live freely in the here and now.
opposed. It is a distraction from real social struggle, and it replicates the mentality of capitalism.
an alternative. It is not strategic for anarchists to focus on delegitimising our different efforts.
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22. Propaganda of the deed (direct political actions like tyrannicide, regicide, bombings), and individual revolt should be...

practiced, in order to lead an exemplary life.
peaceful.
abandoned as a tactic. It has historically proven fruitless.
an alternative. It is not strategic for anarchists to focus on delegitimising our different efforts.
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23. Lifestylism (living as close to your personal view of anarchy as possible) should be...

essential. Not only are lifestylists leading by example, but they are practising anarchy right here and now.
ignored. Real societal change comes through revolutionary movements, lifestylism does not really change anything. In fact, it can be a detrimental distraction from social struggle.
an alternative. It is not strategic for anarchists to focus on delegitimising our different efforts.
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24. "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need" should be...

a guide for the ideal society.
considered unfair. People should get as much as they deserve, based on how much they have worked.
considered an archaic recipe for tyranny.
perfectly acceptable. Communities could appropriate that as a guideline, or choose different guidelines if that is more appropriate.
unecessary dogma. People should only showcase their ability if they want to, and people do not need as much as they think they do.
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25. Primitive societies should be...

studied extensively in order to understand where we went wrong along the way. Our society should be a future primitive.
able to coexist with other anarchist societies.
history. They are pervertly romanticised for no good reason. We should be moving forward.
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