It’s for one specific strain of anarchism: Anarcho-communism (anarcho-syndicalism uses these colors, too, but it’s usually used for AnCom).
There are several designs for the different kinds of anarchism. Usually, it’s diagonal-black and some other color (e.g.: violet: anarcho-feminism, green: eco-anarchism, …).
Yellow doesn’t count, since ancaps aren’t anarchist.
Doesn’t look like an official symbol, and it’s also used for signaling. Libertarian socialism?
Cool quote about the black flag, another traditional anarchist flag:
The black flag is the negation of all flags. It is a negation of nationhood … Black is a mood of anger and outrage at all the hideous crimes against humanity perpetrated in the name of allegiance to one state or another … But black is also beautiful. It is a colour of determination, of resolve, of strength, a colour by which all others are clarified and defined … So black is negation, is anger, is outrage, is mourning, is beauty, is hope, is the fostering and sheltering of new forms of human life and relationship on and with this earth
Doesn’t look like an official symbol, and it’s also used for signaling. Libertarian socialism?
It has been used by the spanish CNT/FAI, so at least since the 1930s.
Libertarian socialism is just another term for anarcho-communism.
The fact that “libertarian” is mostly connotated with ancaps goes back to Murray Rothbard, who “stole” the term. Before him, “libertarian” was a synonym for “anarchist”.
Arkhos (as in an-arkhos = anarchy) means “chief” (anarchy = no chief).
Anarchy, loosely, is governance without a figurehead or centralized leadership. I’d argue the stars and stripes doesn’t mean “Biden” or even “the executive branch”, the union jack doesn’t mean “Rishi Sunak” and the tricolor doesn’t mean “Macron”
I’d argue you could radically amend the system of government and still keep the flag.
The concept of an official symbol for anarchy seems antithetical
It’s for one specific strain of anarchism: Anarcho-communism (anarcho-syndicalism uses these colors, too, but it’s usually used for AnCom).
There are several designs for the different kinds of anarchism. Usually, it’s diagonal-black and some other color (e.g.: violet: anarcho-feminism, green: eco-anarchism, …).
Yellow doesn’t count, since ancaps aren’t anarchist.
Edit: typo
Doesn’t look like an official symbol, and it’s also used for signaling. Libertarian socialism?
Cool quote about the black flag, another traditional anarchist flag:
The black flag is the negation of all flags. It is a negation of nationhood … Black is a mood of anger and outrage at all the hideous crimes against humanity perpetrated in the name of allegiance to one state or another … But black is also beautiful. It is a colour of determination, of resolve, of strength, a colour by which all others are clarified and defined … So black is negation, is anger, is outrage, is mourning, is beauty, is hope, is the fostering and sheltering of new forms of human life and relationship on and with this earth
It has been used by the spanish CNT/FAI, so at least since the 1930s.
Libertarian socialism is just another term for anarcho-communism.
The fact that “libertarian” is mostly connotated with ancaps goes back to Murray Rothbard, who “stole” the term. Before him, “libertarian” was a synonym for “anarchist”.
Honestly, once I understood this, I found anarcho-communism much more understandable. Funny what power there is in words.
Oh thank goodness. Thank you. Well I am totally down with Anarcho communism
Arkhos (as in an-arkhos = anarchy) means “chief” (anarchy = no chief).
Anarchy, loosely, is governance without a figurehead or centralized leadership. I’d argue the stars and stripes doesn’t mean “Biden” or even “the executive branch”, the union jack doesn’t mean “Rishi Sunak” and the tricolor doesn’t mean “Macron”
I’d argue you could radically amend the system of government and still keep the flag.
I reject your
realityflag and substitute my own.Whoops
Anarchism isn’t the absence of structure, but the presence of a complex web of horizontal organization.