Q: Should anarchists be political or anti-political?
Hakaii’ka: I believe that everyone should be political. I have seen a many of folk say they'll protest against the system by not partaking in it and not voting, however people fail to realize that indoing so you do not get a choice. All politicians are paid off by corporate entities and are going to screw you over but when you vote and are poltically active you at least get to choose who is going to fuck you over. Now this is being politically active in elections which is important but I don't think thats what you were asking. On the question of politics and whether anarchists should be active within it I still resoundingly say yas. To be anarchist is to be inherently political and to voice your opposition to state and capital. To be an anti-political or politically inactive anarchist is to be a slacktivist or anarchist by label. Without actual action by writing, protesting, organizing, and community aid anarchism is powerless. So to be an anarchist is to be politically active not only in elections but in most aspects of public life.
Q: How can anarchists make politics/anti-politics enjoyable?
mk: this is what happens when a syndicalist and a BashBack influenced antifuturist answer a question together…because i’d argue that anti-politics, the form of anarchy that’s beautiful to me, requires that organizing practices be meaningful (or “enjoyable”) in and of themselves, independent of any idealized anarchic future. that is, if a non-hierarchical society were impossible, would your organizing practice still be meaningful? if so, then it’s anarchist praxis. we can make anarchist organizing enjoyable by focusing on material change over policy-based harm reduction, lived experiences over stuffy theory (sorry, bro, but all the neo-Marxist jargon in the world doesn’t justify your transphobia), care-negation over legalistic “restorative justice,” universal love over providing care out of a sense of duty, jouissance over futurity. anarchy is enjoyable when we are free to unmask in organizing spaces. anarchy is enjoyable when it’s a way of relating, not something cordoned-off and treated as a “hobby.” anarchy is enjoyable when our tactics are chosen for what’s already meaningful to people. anarchy is enjoyable when it’s a release into universal love, not a new set of Behavior Norms. anarchy is enjoyable when it’s an act of queer joy. anarchy is enjoyable when our affinity groups also feel like chosen families (or polycules or whatever). anarchy is enjoyable when everyone’s interpretation of anarchism is different and people enjoy the liberatory tension of that. anarchy is enjoyable when it doesn’t feel at all like politics, just like providing care. anarchy is enjoyable when it’s radically queer and that is the point. anarchy is enjoyable when it’s done solely because it’s beautiful.