dead oppossum on Nostr: preamble: because i tend to overthink things and want to help you, i'm gonna say a ...

preamble: because i tend to overthink things and want to help you, i'm gonna say a bunch of stuff you're free to ignore, they are merely suggestions

so this is an introduction so it's not so much a definitive collection but a popular and general one aimed at 'normies', so it should include classics and representative works across a broad spectrum, from different times and place, so anarchism seems serious, diverse, including many admirable people with intersting ideas, might also want to include a list of archives and resources at the bottom, like marxists.org spunk library., zlib like this one has classics https://www.anarchyisorder.org/


or other general resources for educational materials, also maybe prefer usa.anarchistlibraries.net over the main one, or include both, like there are dark web mirrors of anarchist or marxist library, that's cool af, but in general reframe from linking to shady corpo type sites, just sites that are relatively autonomous

consider having a little more variety in the selection, it's very red and black currently, which is cool, personallyi am very class struggle oriented but i think you could add a little green stuff, just a little nihilism, a little decolonialism, maybe have sections on platformism and insurrectionary anarchism along with syndicalism -- some modern pamphlets, you shouldn't include everything, like Bob Book and Murray Blackchin, fuck them, they're cops, or at least deeply unserious, let's be serious here, let's try and stray away from from great man bs, narrow sectarianism or whatever,and for each other include just a few texts at the most and let users look further if they want... a lot of stuff doesn't belong in an intro, but that's up to you.

also want to design things around most accessible option, so like instead of linking directly to pdf, link to a website or entry where different formats are available, for example audiobooks we should link those, for example Audio Zine has a lot of classics, we could probably find audio books for most of the texts if we're dealing with very well known books. So like each entry can have a pdf, an html, epub, and audio.. and the sites that host it should be other anarchist sites that can get people down a rabbit hole. Luckily the anarchist libraries and libcom make that pretty easy, just gotta link to them along with an audio zine

with accessibility comes alt and title text and semantics and rel attributes, rdfa mf, microformats dawg, seo that shit

As the list i'm noticing these fall into lots of broad categories, like History, Theory, Biography, Geography, they're all interconnected, organizing this stuff coherently will become more challenging the longer it gets