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 AnarchoSyndicalist.

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.

We are not tearing down democracy, political systems, monarchies, or hierarchies just to create new forms of authoritarian rule. That would be replacing one system of oppression with another.

Instead, the focus is on dismantling centralized power structures, corporate domination, and oppressive hierarchies.

From there, work toward a society where workers collectively organize through democratic, bottom-up unions to build and sustain communities free from control and suppression imposed from above.

I've never voted for a political party, and I never will. Why should I support a system that puts profits above people's needs?

We need a community-driven approach where resources are allocated based on what people actually need, not just to make money. We should focus on creating things for our local communities, not just for corporate profits.

If our demands aren't met, taking collective action like going on strike is the way to go. I believe in taking direct action and building strong, community-led initiatives, rather than relying on parties that don't address our basic needs.

I'm only 24, turning 25 this year, and I'm glad I found my way early on. Some people might think @nsf_iaa is just some propaganda group, but to me, they're true to anarcho-syndicalist ideas.

I might not see an anarcho-syndicalist society in my lifetime, but I'm happy to be part of it by joining @nsf_iaa. Even if they're not as big as they used to be back in the 1920s, every little bit helps in making another anarcho-syndicalist's day brighter.

I love anarcho-syndicalist ideas and I won't apologize for them. I hate how money, bosses, political parties, and hierarchical systems control our lives.

What I really want is to make things based on what people actually need, not just for profit. I'd rather create stuff for my local community, not some big company that doesn't care about us. I want to work with my union to make decisions that benefit us, not just some distant corporation.

I've never been a fan of bosses or systems where someone tells you what to do. I've never voted for a political party, and I'm not into monarchies either. And while I use money because it's necessary in our capitalist world, I've always felt weird about it. The thing is, no one knows what I need better than I do myself.

All these things are exactly what we anarchists and syndicalists are fighting against.

Anarchists, especially those aligned with anarcho-syndicalism, seek to dismantle all forms of hierarchy, to create a society where individuals and communities can organize themselves freely, particularly in workplaces and communities, without external control.

Syndicalists, especially those aligned with anarcho-syndicalism, focus on building democratic unions that let workers manage their workplaces through solidarity and mutual aid, aiming for a society where resources are distributed based on need.

In the end, it's about building a society where workers manage their own workplaces and communities through democratic unions and solidarity, free from the control of bosses and the state, and where resources are shared based on need, not profit.

I like to simplify Anarcho-syndicalism as a strategy for anarchism focused on radical industrial labor unions. Basically it achieves anarchism by a union of all workers banding together, going on a general strike, and eventually seizing the workplace for themselves, which their union manages together.

Capitalism's is making me more radical, but I'm surviving in this flawed system. My mom might blame my autism or vitamin levels for my radical views, but the truth is, I'm fed up with top-down structures claiming to know what's best for me.

I'm radical because no one understands my needs better than I do. That's why I'm drawn to anarcho-syndicalism. It envisions a society built on worker-controlled unions and federations, where people collectively decide what to produce based on actual needs. It aims to replace hierarchical systems with democratic, bottom-up organization in both workplaces and communities.

Anarcho-syndicalism isn't just about labor rights; it's a revolutionary strategy for transforming society. It seeks to create a world where workers directly control the means of production and distribution, eliminating the need for both bosses and state bureaucracies.

Working for bosses who profit from our labor is messed up. We should be making things for our own communities, not some far-off company.

Imagine if we organized our local communities ourselves. No more orders from above. We could decide what to produce based on what people actually need.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really like the idea of money, but I still have to use it to get by in today's world. It's not that I want to live without any way to exchange goods and services, but I think our current system could use some big changes.

I've been thinking a lot about how we could do things differently. What if we had a system where people got what they needed based on, well, their actual needs? Instead of having to sell their time and energy just to survive, or worrying about profits all the time.

I think it could make life better for everyone. We could focus more on helping each other out and less on chasing paychecks.

If I have the ability to sell my labor for food, I'm essentially forced to do so in this system. Sure, I could stop selling my labor and end up homeless, but who would actually choose that?

The fact is, even in Norway, we're trapped in a system where we have to work just to meet our basic needs. If you're genuinely poor, there are support systems. But for someone like me who can afford food, I can't just pretend to be poor to get it for free. I'd probably face consequences.

What I want is a world where food isn't behind a paywall of labor. Where we don't have to sell our time and energy just to eat. This system, where we're forced to work to survive, is what I'm questioning. It's why anarcho-syndicalist ideas resonate with me, they offer a vision of a different way to organize society.