I wrote this article in 2005 for a personal zine which I never published. However it got published in Letters journal, original site of which has disappeared a long time ago.
After Greek movement of 2008, insurrectional and anti-organisational anarchism has gained a hegemony in anarchist movement worldwide. With it, the idea of "organic" affinities and friendships as an alternative to other means of human connections. This point of view is abundant, just one example is Inhabit: Instructions for autonomy In this old text, I offer a point of view that there is nothing inherently "anti-capitalist" in affinities and friendships, but matter of mutuality and exploitation is a more subtle one. Whereas I am currently not the rather disappointed and depressed person who wrote this text 13 years ago, I feel that the general criticism still holds.
Friendship and loneliness
Much has been said about fetishization of closed loving relationships with the opposite sex in our society, relations which should last forever but which rarely do, at least without sacrifices not worth of it. But I think there is pretty much idealization of the friendship around as well.
After Greek movement of 2008, insurrectional and anti-organisational anarchism has gained a hegemony in anarchist movement worldwide. With it, the idea of "organic" affinities and friendships as an alternative to other means of human connections. This point of view is abundant, just one example is Inhabit: Instructions for autonomy In this old text, I offer a point of view that there is nothing inherently "anti-capitalist" in affinities and friendships, but matter of mutuality and exploitation is a more subtle one. Whereas I am currently not the rather disappointed and depressed person who wrote this text 13 years ago, I feel that the general criticism still holds.
Friendship and loneliness
Much has been said about fetishization of closed loving relationships with the opposite sex in our society, relations which should last forever but which rarely do, at least without sacrifices not worth of it. But I think there is pretty much idealization of the friendship around as well.
