I'm reading the broken teapot and realizing that my very tentative understanding of anarchy does not have good answers for women's issues.
First quote:
I did not want an accountability process and all the exposure and tendrils that came with it. I wanted to be left alone. I would not identify myself as a victim because I was not solely ‘a victim’. Is anyone? In their saner moments neither was my ex solely ‘a perp’,
I guess this is probably a basic concept but it sounds like that thinking would make anarchy equally or more permissive of sex crime than the current model of government?
Second point:
There is no space we can create in a world as damaged as the one we live in which is absent from violence. That we even think it is possible says more about our privilege than anything else. Our only autonomy lies in how we negotiate and use power and violence ourselves.
This might not be an anarchist issue, but for others who have arrived at this conclusion already is there a subsequent evolution in thought that follows it?
Anarchism doesn't have good answers for... literally anything. What anarchism does have is a better understanding of what things shouldn't be.
It generally isn't... but the fact that a lot of anarchists I speak to don't seem to understand why it isn't an anarchist issue is. The answers to what an anarchist (or any kind of libertarian socialist) society should do about (insert given problem here) will not be found within the tradition of anarchist critique itself and the idea that they can isn't just hopelessly naive and utopian but , in my opinion, a self-destructive regression into orthodoxy.