[Noisebridge-discuss] Anarchist? Libertarian?

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At 15:20 31.07.2013, you wrote:
>Snail snailtsunami at gmail.com, Tue Jul 30 21:40:27 UTC 2013
> >I checked out the wiki & couldn't get any results on "core wiki 
> pages" with words like anarchist
>
>Snail, I believe Danny was questioning the "Libertarian" label, not 
>"Anarchist".
>
>While i cannot yet track down the page containing "Libertarian" 
>(which surprised me too), I would be pretty shocked to discover that 
>Noisebridge is not considered Anarchist, at least unofficially, and 
>very much so.
>
>Noisebridge founder Mitch Altman has used the term "anarchy" on-list 
>to describe how NB operates: "Anarchy will take care of it". Danny 
>O'Brien has been heard at meetings complaining "some people don't 
>understand how Anarchy works". A google search for the terms 
>'noisebridge anarchist' turns up 9,000 results. NB has no rules and no rulers.
>
>In his essay, "Is Noisebridge Anarchist?", Danny O'Brien penned:
>
>"The founders were anarchist... many of Noisebridge's constitutional 
>elements -- notably, Consensus, and the largely non-privileged 
>position of members...arose from a strong belief that Noisebridge 
>should look to recent anarchist-with-a-capital-A-and-a-big-circle 
>traditions in institution-building ...That's why we don't have 
>leaders... hacker culture is distinctly anti-authoritarian... 
>self-empowerment, radical decentralization, and at least some intent 
>to disintegrate the bonds of power ...deeply buried tendrils that 
>connect free software/free speech/free thinking hackers with the 
>WTO-fighting, direct action Zapatistas... Noisebridge's own inbuilt 
>cultural reticence to let itself be defined is part of that very 
>congeniality to anarchist process.... there is a point of 
>commonality, rather than contrast, with the anarchist project."
><http://zine.noisebridge.net/zip/ch3/zx0095%C6%92_web>http://zine.noisebridge.net/zip/ch3/zx0095%C6%92_web
>
>i hope this does not spark a debate which i imagine NB has already 
>been through. Danny argues convincingly that NB leans heavily toward 
>Anarchy. If we lack the official label, it's only because we're so 
>darned anarchistic.
>
>
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