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Im not sure I agree with this low key anarcho-puritanism. Most of my friends are in the milieu. The media I have access to is within the milieu. So if I were involved directly in harm reduction, Id approach it as an anarchist and if I wanted to talk about it in media Id probably end up doing so with anarchists.

I don't feel that charity acts like this and FNB are inherently anarchist or that they're some form of prefiguration, regardless of the mental gymnastics used to insist theyre mutual aid. I still think they're worthwhile. But this idea that anarchism needs to be a pure idea that we compartmentalize from other things we do is a bit strange to me.

Should we not have other interests? Is it that we should not allow our anarchist self and our syringe access self to ever cross over? Must we always clarify when things dont totally fit into anarchism?

Should anarchist publishers always include a thing about how their projects are capitalist and work? They know the complexities. Should anarchists doing charitable work always clarify that their projects aren't perfectly anarchist? I think these things go without saying. Whenever I've had these convos people have understood the complexities.

Theres always an "anarchist response" because there is always anarchists doing things outside of anarchy.