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just a quick question, how many anarchists that arent punks are in your area, and how many anarchopunks (real trying anarchopunks) are there?

just wanting to compare.

over here its about the same amount, maybe 20 anarchopunks and 20 anarchists.

For me it's mostly Anarchists, though no adults. It's mostly the youth, as most of the adults are employed in the military, it's their kids that tend to venture away from it somewhat. Though in that respect, I would say we have over a hundred, the only problem is that none of them are motivated. Maybe if I get the means, we could get the life back that the military has taken away from us by putting us as the best candidates for the military's front lines. Where there's poverty, a military recruiter will be in the schools close behind... Welcoem to the education system.

As for punks, very few, mostly self defined gothic kids and people who tend to stay in the middle. What we really need is some form of unity- maybe when I start up some sort of political program, we could get some momentum. But first, I think the first priority is to get the military out of our school. Enough of the kids are against it, we just need unity. Step by step, maybe we could bring ourselves together... We just need to establish our voice.

i pretend im an anarchist so I can wear black bandannas to punk shows for no good reason.

trufax.

Lol, gangs = worship of social hierarchies and capitalist ideals.

Yay, desimplification! xd

Nerdanarchists ftw!

Anarcho-punk.
And I'm in a band.

It's interesting to note the association of punks with anarchy in the popular view. There are plenty of people in the same "scene" who don't understand anarchism or don't want to be associated with it. Punk and anarchism are two different things, a cultural and philosophical sphere respectively, which happen to overlap.
I personally don't really feel a whole lot of purpose or hope behind the punk mentality without the added factor of anarchism. That isn't to say that there isn't something beneficial about people who don't give a ******** and are determined to live life their own way. Even punks who aren't anarchists tend to be extremely critical of anyone or anything that tells them what to think. So I might disagree with another punk completely about politics (or my lack of, theoretically), but chances are they aren't just repeating some crap they heard on the news.

Just out of curiosity, what are most people counting as "here?" Like, schools/workplaces or entire cities? Where I live is a big city that's supposedly liberal although it's mostly yuppies and also one of the most segregated cities in the nation and it's chock full O' new age hippies. Anyway, there's a lot of anarchists milling around the colleges and some homeless anarchopunk kids that chill in an empty lot near the biggest college. I'd say several hundred anarchists at least and I have no idea about the punk, the punk scene here isn't mostly centered around anarcho-punk although I always see a few of em' at shows.