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submitted 2 months ago by ButtBidet@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

So I bought a heap of cheap manufacturered soviet medals on Aliexpress, and I occasionally will let people in my org award them to each other for praiseworthy stuff. But now there's anarchists in my group and they might find that offensive. So what's the anarchist version?

I swear to God, this isn't a bit.

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[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

Give them a little smooch on their little noses

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

But now there's anarchists in my group and they might find that offensive.

bear-despair I would feel honored if anarchists thought my deeds merit an award even though we have differing views

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm sure some people would be cool. But ~~many~~ some leftists still equate the Soviet Union with totalitarianism. Anyhow, a Lenin award might not be an award to them.

[-] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don’t get how you could equate Lenin, who basically became incapacitated in 1922, to the worst excesses of the Soviet regime in the 30s. But I guess anarchists like not reading history.

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

Comrade Commendation? I can already hear some ultra lecturing you about power imbalance, hierarchy etc

but i guess you could nominate people and vote, form a committee haha, sounds like more work than its worth though

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

Comrade Commendation from the Commendation Panel CCCP

I'll see myself out

[-] Edie@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

This only works on a "westerners mistake Cyrillic letters for Latin letters" though. A transliteration of СССР would be SSSR.

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

i was just taking the piss, but youre right!

[-] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Semi-serious, because I would like it: The most anarchic of creatures are the cat and the various cephalopods, and thus the highest awards possible are a lil' sleepy cat pin, octopus tentacle holding a hammer, or cuddlefish.

[-] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The most anarchic of creatures are the cat

there actually is popular AnCom / syndicalist imagery around cats:

sabo

This originated with so-called wildcat strikes organized by the IWW, but nowadays is used in all kinds of agitprop about becoming ungovernable. Variations include a portrait image of a black cat hissing and so on

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Despite it's later formalised royal moniker, the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution), formerly the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, is still an independent volunteer force funded by charity. Kropotkin frequently cited it as an exemplar of free agreement and anarchist organisation, and rightly so. Crews who risk their lives or other people who contribute significantly are awarded medals, with almost 2500 given out over the last 200 years, and many more 'Letters of Appriciation'.

So maybe a lifeboat letter / medal?

(Yes, this was mostly just an excuse to talk about lifeboat history)

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thigh highs and a copy of The Dispossessed

[-] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

The Disorder of Kropotkin (jk)

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

CNT-FAI must have had some medals in Revolutionary Catalonia? Where you'd find this documented though I do not know.

[-] roux@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Honestly, you could just ask them. Let them know you hand out the medals for awards and put it to a vote if they mind it being an Order of Lenin medal or if they want something else or if they even care. That's probably what I'd do. Maybe first let them know that the medals are meant as a just for fun thing.

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