Hey everyone. It's been a while! Some quick updates: 1. Yes, some of my videos have been privatised. Hopefully not forever. 2. I have a lot of videos planned that require a lot of reading, research, and writing. With my writing two books and much more, my old pace just isn't sustainable. But I hope y'all will bear with me for more quality educational content at least once a month. 3. This video is much shorter and less in-depth than usual, but not to worry folks, a new solarpunk video is coming soon later this month. Stay tuned! Peace.☀️

My Caribbean bredren strikes again with another concept that I've never heard of nor can pronounce 👏🏾😮‍💨 Orwell would be proud.. i write as I watch but this for the Algoriddim 🙌🏾

I think this is the best intro to especifismo on the internet now! Very concise and well articulated. I will be showing this to people all the time!

💥 Yes! This is a great intro. One thing worth emphasizing: especifist groups have certain *kinds* of organizing in mind when it comes to social insertion. Their focus is on "mass level" organizing, that is, organizations whose members come together based on a shared exploitation, instead of shared ideology. The classic example of that is a labor union, but tenant unions, prison unions, and neighborhood assemblies also count. This focus is because of the structural power of those organizations in halting and ultimately overthrowing capital & the state. So especifist groups should be careful not to include traditional "activist" activities - e.g. mutual aid projects, co-ops, events aimed at other leftists, etc. - under the banner of social insertion. It doesn't mean they shouldn't be done, but we should be consistent with what our comrades have been using that term to mean.

as a brazilian anarchist involved with especifismo, my heart warms every time i hear St Drew talking about it, this ideas reaching more people, give me that little boost of morale thats so precious when living in the hellscape we all call capitalism. especifismo is not a magic bullet but is ONE of the tools we can use to bring this old world down so we can build whatever we feel necessary. (Drew please think about creating a channel in telegram or anything like it so all this beautiful people can talk and exchange their experiences)

I come back and watch this one every once in a while as a reminder, a refresher. Helps me focus my efforts.

This is really informative. Thank you. I've been trying to talk to folx about ways of not just cutting ourselves off or engaging in toxic 'left unity' with authoritarians and this is incredibly helpful.

Wow thank you sooo much for this St. Drew! I've been trying to communicate ideas about platformism and especifismo to other anarchists that I organize with and people have been a bit hesitant to grab hold. I think this video will reach them much better than I've been able to, eager to share it around!

As someone from Rio de Janeiro, who has been to and lived besides farj's (federação anarquista do rio de Janeiro) physical location, it was nice hearing about them.

Thank you for the video. I try to learn more about leftist organisational strategies because we really need this in Russia, but it's difficult to fight feelings of hopelessness. My country's government got so proficient at violating human rights it can manage a genocidal invasion and internal oppression of all dissent at the same time. A few activists I know have been arrested and it's only getting worse. And I don't know what's more terryfing - watching people stubbornly deny reality like mass murder of civilians or watching people with previously no political standing turn into fucking neonazis. (I also feel shame complaining about this, because our brothers and sisters in Ukraine are dealing with so much more now).

The role of anarchists in opposing bureaucratisation and leadership within larger popular organisations is vital in preventing opportunism, personality politics and careerism. But two questions come to my mind. 1. How should anarchists reconcile the need to combat reformism (a historically discredited strategy which does not imagine or implement a qualitative change the social relations of production) with people's tendency to put faith in the easiest-looking path towards "progress," as a psychological defence mechanism amid the horror of capitalism? How can popular organisations be directed away from such recurrent errors? 2. How does an anarchist organisation implementing the suggestions in this video differ from a Leninist organisation implementing the mass line and the three tiers of mass organisation, intermediate cadres and vanguard party?

Heyy it's nice to see a Tarsila do Amrala artwork in your thumbnail 😊

I feel like your videos always have ideas and theories that i've never heard of previously and it's really amazing! thank you

If this kind of thing exists or comes to exist in Boston, I want in.

Casually dropping your involvement in the Robert Evans podcast universe as if you weren't already my favourite KZfaqr...

I'm always breathing easier & feeling more hopeful & powerful by the end of your videos. Thank you.

Keep the learning up! I love hearing about new stuff and finding new ways to organize!

yeaaaaaaa new videoooo!!!

Homie on a podcast? Say less I'm finna pull up.

Here it is, my brand of anarchism. All the way through, in an accent I have to listen to carefully, because I’m not used to it, but WOW! I knew there was a good reason I subscribed to this channel. Thank you. ❤️

Recently found your channel and so far all the videos I've watched slap, being more informative and radical than most stuff I've seen, keep it up!

Wow. Pretty straightforward concept but really well articulated.

Wishing good and all. Hope things get easier and nicer.

I love the revolutionary energy when listening to your videos, thank you comrade!!!

One of the dangers of this sort of thinking (at least according to my personal experience) consists of larger anarchist organizations, consiously or unconsiously, trying to dominate over smaller ones, in a sort of hegemonical way. I think that diversity (of everything) is an important part of anarchist organization and it is much better to form alliances than a large group snuffing out the smaller ones.

Not an anarchist but this was such a clear and detailed explanation. Great video as usual!

Thank you for remembering the amazing Tarsila.

I'm so good at theory that I though this video was going to be about Esperanto

Saint Andrew x It Could Happen Here is definitely on the top 10 anime crossovers list. I especially enjoyed the episodes on the books Desert and Island.

Right on. This is a admittedly a totally new concept for me. It hits a number of questions that I’ve been contemplating lately. Questions specific to these times we live in. Questions about how to proceed w/ a forward momentum, and I’ve been confounded mostly because I haven’t been able to articulate myself. So thank you for this intro. I certainly needed it.

I really cherish your channel. Truly a blessing all the information you share. Thank you

another banger! still providing hope like sunshine

Excellent video, with the ending - I'm reminded of Ashanti Alston who starts his talks like that too

Thank you so much for this video. We have needed this type of video for a long time.

your vids are exactly what the people need to hear, thank you so much for making them!!

So much value in this video. Thank you for sharing. Thrilled to have found this channel

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Thanks for the work comrade! This is an excellent English video!! I especially like the succinct point about social movements having anarchist characteristics that need to be encouraged and defended from reformist tendencies and cooptation.

I listened to that episode of It Could Happen Here. Still loved this succinct description. Great intro, and review of that episode.

Wow, this video made me realize that I’m essentially a part of an especifismo movement within the sunrise movement 😮

Literally subscribed to It Could Happen Here podcast because of this video haha

I really like seeing your videos and learning about these concepts, though I feel like I'm not sure how to actually start participating in action in my own area. I have too much difficulty with forming social relationships and reaching out to be the one to start things (this is on a disability level, please nobody try to tell me that I just need to learn how). I'm anxious to try to look into things in my area though. I am lucky to be part of a worker's union, but I feel often disillusioned with the practices of the union and I'm just, scared about trying to take such a big stance to change things, even if I really want to.

How come you always read my mind? 😮

As always thank you for the great video!!!

Great video, man! Just a heads up but looked up the outro song and it's 'Cedar Womb' not 'Cedar Grove'.

an inspiration as always

Thanks for the video, I had to rewatch and let the info sink in.

Thanks for another great video, from Alberta, Canada.

the portuguese "ç" in "federação" makes an /s/ sound, not a /ʃ/ sound, btw

Thanks Andrew, this gives me hope!

another banger by andrewism

Thank you 🙏🏾

Keep up the good work! Looking forward to your books. Subvert the algorithm.

Thank you so muuuuuch for your work, it is truly a gift to anarchists and leftists all people as a whole (just as all of human progress and potential is!), I especially love the part about Usfruct Collective, and the use of the term "libertarian socialist" as an anarchist philosophy (as all leftist philosophy is eventually haha). its a shame so called "anarchists" and so called "Marxist-Leninists" who have lead many successful revolutions and organizations throughout the world, have such a difficult time working together as we anarchists can learn very well about organization from them and us keeping the focus on voluntary and mutual-aid based decision making. Organization and democratic cohesion is the sward and shield of the proletariat! I (an 'ancom' who follows the "stateless, classless, moneyless, (and ideally post-scarcity/industrialized) society" definition of communism and therefore that *true* 'anarchist/libertarian society' and 'communism' are synonymous, I view anarchism *as* communism (and perhaps even under the name of "libertarianism" because just like capitalism is incompatible with "anarchism" capitalism is incompatible with libertarian society (the term "libertarian", basically meaning a society designed around achieving 'liberty' or "creating maximal freedom", which can only be done under anarchism/communism) I am small but I have a short (and a tad old) video on the subject of 'rebranding' "Fully Automated Gay/Queer Space Communism", to "Automated Interplanetary/stellar libertarianism", or 'AIL' for short, (similar to the idea of adopting the bright and prosperous 'Solar-Punk' aesthetic out of the dark and depressing Cyber-Punk aesthetic) Link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y9hhi66f28jOnKc.html edit: I also have a (currently) free and open discord server designed SPICIFICALLY around organization and mutual aid though discussion/good faith debate for the purpose of leftist unity (bringing so called "anarchists" and "ML's" together and to understand each others ideology (again for the position of leftist unity and better class solidarity called "Leftist Win-Fighting" haha and anyone who reads this, please feel free to join! Link: discord.gg/V2bxRjRx just reply to this comment asking for the link to be updated (or potentially sent to you) if it ever needs to be changed/updated 👌

Me at the end with a mouthful of food: “Allapowa…alapeeple.”

Thank you for introducing me to this concept, too much stuff on the Anarchist Library is loose as fuck about this and Twitter discussion about this kind of thing often devolves into factionalism and "but it's just Left Unity from an anarchist coat of paint".

Always adore your work

Especifismo is the cutting edge of anarchism

I: This seems to fit right in with the theory and proposed praxis of anarchosyndicalism (we)´ve read recently (though of course both are their own thing), and further solidifies my wish to learn Spanish eventually, to access a huge part of anarchist literature in its original language

thanks

great video saint andrewism!!!!:)))

Would you say especifismo is compatible with zapatismo? It sounds like it would essentially be the anarchist component of such a movement if I'm catching your drift

While Lenin and Marx did contribute much to leftist thought they are not the be-all and end-all of leftist thought. Anarchism is the ultimate goal of all communists this should be kept in mind always.

How can I build an anarchist movement in my community?

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i cant believe my 3% lasted this whole video

How does especifismo relate to syndicalist and anarcho-syndicalist tendencies? Do they advocate participation in reformist unions over building anarcho-syndicalist ones? (not that it's a binary or that anarcho-syndicalists don't also participate in reformist unions when absolutely necessary)

I don't think I can listen to the podcast from the UK :(

Comment got deleted, probably because of external link. But I'm still curious, do you think anarchism can truly be "leaderless"? I've seen some statement that when we attach so deeply to the idea of leaderlessness, we limit our communities' initiatives and power. And rather use term Autonomist Leadership as antithesis to authority, describing the very unique, fluid form of power dynamics that's usually born within anarchist movements.

_Spread the bread, algorhithm!_

I love you.

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Espcifismo sounds interesting

I recommend you to read murray bookchin (if haven’t already done that of course)

To me this is bolchevism, trotskysm or so. Read State and Revolution by Lenin, read Mandel’s texts about the party, especifismo’s organizations seem to be the same sort of things. You’re talking about centralizing strategy etc

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I hope you can do a face reveal sometime.

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Wait, THE swordsage?

Have you ever considered hiring an animator?

black rose fed seems dead. Idk where it's former members went

I have a problem. "Especifismo" translates to "specism", as in, how it is called bigotry/bias agaisnt other species. Really don't understand why they choose that name, and that halts me from really hearing the concept. My primitivist mind can't acknowledge that word meaning something so different. Sorry, maybe my bad.

Platformisms cousin?

My problem is how to apply this stuff? An anarchist alone can do nothing.. and I'm pretty alone when it comes to this. I live in Indiana and the closest thing I can get to people that agree with me is liberals

Have you watched Vijay Prashad's recent keynote address about the importance of cultural work for bringing about radical social change? (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oZOCec-JktrRZHU.html ) (Vijay is not an anarchist per se, but a nonsectarian Marxist philosopher and activist.)

I wish all people had limited needs and wants. That would make change more economically feasible.

Hi great video, Love them. Im aware it has nothing to do with your video. I just like your opinion on World economic forum, and the great reset from Klaus Schwab, because it scares me a lot. All power to all the People✊🏿✊🏼✊🏻

we should collab

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this is confusing😅

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I feel like the first step would be to not admit that you’re anarchists - you should have no attachment to this word and reject using it the way you would reject all labels

How compelling. Now face the wall comrade.

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