I could write a very long paragraph about the current state of the world: genocides, wars, exploitation, climate catastrophe, fascism, and so on. But we, as anarchists, know that it is the state and capitalism that are causing these crises.
Let’s be brutally honest with ourselves: anarchism in 2025 is still not a social force that the state or capitalism has to be afraid of. The social revolution is nowhere in sight. Of course, there are anarchist movements throughout the world. There are infoshops, bookfairs, protests, mutual aid networks, attacks on state infrastructure, graffiti of the A in an O all over the place.
But many of us don’t even believe that we will achieve a social revolution — that we will achieve anarchy. We’re just going with the flow and doing what modern anarchist tradition has become: reading groups, some direct action, black blocs at protests, distributing zines, squatting buildings, helping people and ourselves through mutual aid. These are all good and essential things, don’t get me wrong — but we must reflect critically on what we have been doing for the last two decades, and why we are at the point where anarchism is only a force to be reckoned with in a very few places.
Apart from a few anarcho-syndicalist unions, anarchism is virtually absent from the labor movement. The common folk neither knows about nor has heard of the idea of self-management in our workplaces and lives — let alone anarchism. Anarchy is still widely associated with chaos and disorder.
Youth around the world is radicalizing, but mostly toward the far right. When we open social media, we’re met with immense hatred toward sexual and ethnic minorities, toward women — it’s really not uncommon to stumble upon neo-Nazi and fascist content and edits.
Some youth are still radicalized toward anarchism through the punk subculture, through our limited social media presence, and, finally, through real-life interactions with the movement.
We must change our tactics and critically reflect on how we are currently organizing. We must evaluate the state of anarchism in 2025. A social revolution must happen within our lifetimes — the current state of the world demands it.
I call myself a platformist. Platformism is the idea that committed anarchists come together in an organization and, through tactical and theoretical unity, engage with society with the ultimate goal of transforming it. Especifismo goes deeper: it sees social movements as the seeds of social revolution and emphasizes the need to analyze our socio-economic context and act accordingly.
While I identify with these currents, I don’t believe they are the ultimate solution to the current state of anarchism — especially in my own socio-economic context, and others like it, where the anarchist movement is small, social movements are nonexistent, and there are not enough committed anarchists to form a coherent platform.
This blog will build on my experiences and draw from my Eastern European socio-economic context, while aiming to explore and offer answers to the problems anarchism is currently facing on a global scale. I will focus on how, in my view, anarchists should organize and what steps we should take to make social revolution a possible reality — all through a perspective clearly influenced by platformism and especifismo.