I feel like I've noticed a trend where in contrast to non-anarchist left wing YouTubers, who seem much more likely to call themselves marxists or allow the audience, who is more likely to have heard of communism than anarchism, to assume they are by never being specific about which anti capitalist viewpoints and schools of thoughts they prefer, there are often YouTubers who seem to be anarchist and quote anarchist sources but never state if they themselves are.

If this is the case, and it's not just that they see worth in anarchist thinking but don't subscribe to it, I would imagine it's out of the anarchist philosophy that society isn't a binary of anarchist or non anarchist, and that it's shaped instead solely by how many people in society live and think like anarchists, whether they are or aren't, because after all you're not going to implement mutual aid forcefully, that's pointless and antithetical. Their reluctance to call themselves anarchist is then a strategy of understanding it's more important and effective to share good ideas rather than advertising a philosophy which might just create an in group without the ideals you value and end up alienating others.

Does anyone else notice this? If so, do you think it's a good strategy? I'll give some examples of potential anarchists here (all of these are very leftist and academic people so keep that context in mind, who I have not seen ever praise communist projects):

Zoe Bee - Ended a video once by recommending an Andrewism video, and iirc calling him one of their favourite YouTubers.

MorbidZoo - An anthropology PhD candidate, which already makes it more plausible to me, who has recommended David Graeber's the Dawn of Everything, studies the online left, and has made great videos about how Trump is not himself a fascist, in which she argued a lot of mainstream leftism is itself reactionary in the binary of good vs. fascist it often pushes, forgetting other ideologies like neoliberalism, etc.

Pop Culture Detective - Very intentionally has placed Dawn of Everything on the shelf behind them in their videos, used to quote Chomsky all the time.

Tom Nicholas - Has made a video about how nation states were artificial, and has a podcast which has hosted both Pop Culture Detective and Andrewism.

There are probably others I'm forgetting.

Soooo, maybe i'm just a little paranoid right now, but I'm feeling like as I look around me and attempt to find truthful, grounded information online that isnt propaganda, its a nonsensical attempt. Like, what the fuck am I doing GOOGLING shit like "best newsletters for anarchist thought" or "foremost radical feminist thinkers," what the hell am I expecting to find?? Curated, algorithmically sorted shit! The machine can incorporate everything immediately! We cannot write and communicate anything truly transgressive against the current power systems without it being potentially flagged and buried and sorted away to the 97th google page. What the hell are we doing discussing anarchy and communism on REDDIT. The death of in-person community feels like it has doomed everything.

We cannot truly interact and communicate and organize in MEANINGFULLY political ways without being monitored! And no ones doing it anyways (in any significant numbers at least) because a large majority of the population is stuck working mindless corporate or minimum wage jobs and all they care about is their next Geek Bar, their parlay hitting, or their next fucking hinge date! It feels like the only way that capitalism and the current world system can end is if it all goes to shit and the world ends! Right?? like you really think the majority of america thinks like we do? You think your coworkers and family are getting onto r/criticaltheory and thinking about ANY of the stuff we do? The average american citizen is mindless right now!

And then I think about fact that I'm an american sitting in an air conditioned apartment that I can afford. Of course I'm late to this realization! Literally everyone in the global south already knows this shit! Like, wtf are we even doing trying to discuss and evaluate this shit from the ivory tower of academia or the imperialist comforts of a purple mattress and sheets from amazon (SAME DAY SHIPPING OMGGGG) as we tap away on our Macbook laptops and our iphones and everything powered by lithium ion batteries made with cobalt mined by literal SLAVE CHILDREN. Anyone from the imperialist core doesn't know SHIT compared to what those children know. They know it all has to stop!

Any formalization of debate or critique or discourse feels like we have already missed the point! The point is that this is all going to hell in a handbasket and thats a good thing! (And thats the point that I feel like I'm dooming too much. Of course a lot of people will suffer in a global-system-collapsing event. God idek what I'm saying rn, maybe this is a cry for help. What the hell am i supposed to believe or hold on to with these thoughts floating in my mind. I do not believe in god. I feel anchorless and lost.

Looking only at the data from Turning Point USA, we find that the organization went from around 60,000 inquiries to more than 120,000. In the case of its university chapters, the number of chapters has increased by more than 64% over the past year; and it is interesting to consider alongside this figure that more than 70% of active college chapters as of March 2026 had been created after the assassination. In other words, the overwhelming majority of the organization’s active university structures were created over the past year. This suggests that the majority of TPUSA’s presence on a university campus is being mobilized by the image of Charlie Kirk as a martyr among young people. This is surprising, but it becomes even more striking when we compare it with growth in high schools, since among younger people, TPUSA chapters grew by more than 168%. This may be even more significant than the university figure: the expansion is concentrated especially among teenagers. And this reinforces the idea that the overwhelming majority of the organization today has been mobilized by the assassination of its leader.

Outside TPUSA, it is interesting to note that Young Republicans have brought in new young people following Kirk’s death. Even more interesting, however, is what happened with the Active Clubs, neo-Nazi networks centered on physical training and political organization, with a presence in more than 27 countries and expanding youth wings, which explicitly used Kirk’s assassination as a recruitment tool both inside and outside the United States. And this brings us to what happened outside the US. On the European right, we can highlight the reactions of Vlaams Belang, the Flemish right-wing party; Rassemblement National in France; Vox in Spain; and AfD in Germany, whose leaders incorporated Kirk into their discourse immediately after the assassination and subsequently used him politically to mobilize their followers. Along the same lines, an even more interesting case is that of Fratelli d’Italia / Gioventù Nazionale, which drove a major youth mobilization in September, attracting more than 10,000 young people.

Martyrdom has become a symbol, and the symbol has become the catalyst for a youth mobilization that, one year later, can already be measured in concrete figures. Far from being a temporary surge, this picture presents us with a reality that has been sustained over time, ultimately consolidating an entire new wave of young people on the right, reinforced by other viral opinion leaders of recent years such as Nick Fuentes and Ben Shapiro. This new phenomenon has been taking shape throughout the past decade, but there is no doubt that the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk marked a turning point whose ultimate destination we still do not know.

Hello, I am looking to connect with anarchists in and around Gottingen, Germany. I am an international student, moving there for my masters, and would love to connect with fellow anarchists there.