Dear media,

I am an anarchist.

I assure you, the Capitol Hill mob are NOT anarchists.

Anarchists support, among other things, social and economic egalitarianism; not extreme cultural conservatism, nationalism, and the like. That’s fascism. Do some actual research.

If you ever see an "anarchist coup", it won’t involve people storming government buildings and trying to take over

It will involve people ignoring those buildings and coming together in their neighbourhoods and workplaces, then deciding to run them autonomously and cooperatively

Liberals and conservatives alike throw around the word "anarchists" to mean "people who cause a fuss in public", regardless of their actual politics.

If you’re at all interested, there’s more to social anarchist political philosophy than causing a fuss in public.

Social anarchism is about trying to push society in a direction that is more

• free
• egalitarian
• cooperative

It sees the central antagonism within society as the conflict between

1. Sociality: the voluntary cooperation of free equals
2. Hierarchy in its various forms

Social anarchists propose replacing the various forms of social hierarchy that restrict both freedom and equality – statism, patriarchy, white supremacy, queerphobia, ruling classes – with various forms of horizontal organisation through free associations.