When you have to add "Anarcho-syndicalism" to your phone’s dictionary, you know you’ve truly arrived.

It’s like your life’s GPS finally said, “Recalculating... to the most rebellious route possible.”

Because nothing says “I’m on the right path” quite like your phone throwing up its hands and admitting, “I have no idea what this word means either, but hey, you do you.”

Anarchism fixes this problem by getting rid of the systems that put profit before people. Instead of exploitation, it focuses on communities working together to share resources and meet everyone’s needs. It ends the cycle of working just to spend and survive by breaking down wage slavery and the hoarding of wealth.

Consumerism loses its grip because people build local communities that care about using things well, not just buying and throwing away. There are no billionaires controlling everything and no politicians doing their bidding. It’s about real freedom, cooperation, and taking care of the local community instead of destroying it.

I have #autism and can be very shy around new people and friends. Please be welcoming and patient with me as I try to better understand these ideas and connect with the local community here in #Bergen, #Norway.

I want to learn and get involved, but sometimes my autism makes social situations challenging. Your support will help me feel more comfortable and confident in exploring these ideas together.

If you live in #Bergen, #Norway, and share anarchist ideas like mutual aid, community building, collectivism, or federalism, feel free to reach out.

You can contact me on Signal at @pmarg.01 or email me through my website at https://midtsveen.github.io.

Collaborating can strengthen our efforts to create self-governing spaces without bosses or profit-driven hierarchies.

I’m going to start looking for local communities to get involved with. I don’t want to stay isolated or face this struggle alone.

Taking action can feel difficult because of my autism, but I know it’s important to push past that and connect with others.

Getting involved will help me make a real difference, not just read about change from the sidelines.

I'm interested in federalism, mutual aid networks, and self-governing communities where people make things based on what’s actually needed, not just profit.

I know I should get more involved locally instead of just reading articles on The Anarchist Library. I feel guilty for spending so much time reading instead of actually helping my community, though my autism can make it harder to take action.

Ideally, I believe communities should be run by and for workers themselves, through direct democracy and federated unions, without bosses, managers, or profit-driven hierarchies.

To me, vanguardism is just a fancy term for suppression, hierarchies, and state control.

It's about a small elite claiming to lead the masses, which is fundamentally at odds with traditional anarchism and syndicalism.

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguardism

I guess it's obvious I'm a syndicalist when I start crying at work, realizing the system that's been holding me down for almost 25 years of my life.

It’s a broken, unfair system that strips away our humanity. Every day it forces us to swallow the same garbage, reminding us who really holds the power.

I guess it’s obvious I’m an anarchist, given my interest in autonomous collectives and democratic, bottom-up unions.

I advocate for abolishing the state as we know it, and the more I micro-blog about it online, the more it sparks real-life conversations.

Again, if you disagree, move on. Build new connections instead of clinging to the same person who’s now a committed Anarcho-syndicalist.

No, I won't apologize for being an Anarchist. I believe in AnarchoSyndicalism, and that's not going to change.

It’s pointless to try convincing me to abandon this path I’ve chosen. Whether it’s family or friends, if you disagree, move on. Build new connections instead of clinging to the same person who’s now a committed Anarcho-syndicalist.

I was talking to someone in my Signal chat who said unions are hierarchical. But I don't see how that's true. If we're the ones running the union democratically from the ground up, with no bosses or rulers, how is that a hierarchy? We're not trying to replace one oppressive system with another. We're getting rid of the whole structure that stifles creativity, freedom, and solidarity.

If you're against syndicalism just because we organize through unions where everyone has an equal voice, no elites, no power imbalances, just people making decisions together, then you're misunderstanding what we're doing.