I'm a Better Anarchist Than You
Вставка
- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- A song for all the better anarchists. As I've just noticed this video has gotten more than 100K views, it occurs to me to mention that there are in existence "I'm A Better Anarchist Than You" t-shirts, hoodies, and onesies at davidrovics.com/merch. There's also an animated video of this song you'll find on UA-cam. My favorite live versions that exists online are the ones with Lorna McKinnon singing with me in Rostrevor, Ireland, and Kamala Emanuel singing with me in Australia on the playlist you'll find on my UA-cam channel, Live in Sydney.
Being a better anarchist is inherently hierarchical, therefore I am a better anarchist than you
so a paradox, nice
WE are better anarchists together, comrade 🤔
thus joining the hierarchy.
@@bbbartolo that’s the joke
@@choctaw_co4871 Anarcho-Communists have joined the chat
singing is bourgeois, I'm a better anarchist than you
non-classical singing is one of the most non-burgeois thing one can do lol
What is more radical than ripping apart the dogma of your own "side"? If you see a sacred cow walking down the street, slap a "kick me" sign on its ass. That is the only way to end hierarchies.
"Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger" :D
well, as long as you're ripping apart the right bits of the dogma to improve it overall
He is more of a Marxist-Leninist than anarchist, though he don't have anything against anarchists
When your only 99.999999% ideologically pure IM A BETTER ANARCHIST THAN YOU
To be fair, those who are 100% are also fake anarchists: to be a true anarchist, you need to be AT LEAST 110%!
Long live 111% Anarcho communism
@@Harakengard 111
What type of anarchism do you consider true and it could it be the oxy-moronic ones like anarcho fascism
you are all shills, 112% here
This is the "love me im a liberal" for anarchism
Except he doesn't understand what anarchism really is.
@@titusmccarthy he's an anarchist. This song is meant to poke fun at the people who act like this
@@jamesparker8529 if you couldnt figure that out just by listening to the song i feel bad
Real talk
@@titusmccarthy yeah bro let's be honest, we all know a comrade or two like this if we've done any connecting
I like how the message of this song isn't "doing these things makes you a lesser anarchist" rather that thinking you're superior for doing these things makes you a shitty person.
This. ♡
Also purity testing is stupid
I think I'm become an anarchist just because this song
All socialists and anarchists can come together and acknowledge that they are all better than AnCaps.
Not a l l socialists are better than ancaps.
AnCaps = Anti-nationalist Cosplayer
As a Natsoc what did you mean by this
Larri þyrnir a national socialist huh. So are they actually socialist now or still fascist?
@@k2coolsullivan948 they have always been socialists
It's true, he is.
In the justified hierarchy of better anarchists, I am right at the bottom.
If so then I am second
I'm better at being a worse anarchist than you
THERE IS NO ETHICAL CONSUMPTION UNDER CAPITALISM
Capitalism breeds degenerate behaviors we need a theocratic socialist America
Ozzy Moon fuck off
@Chaos Burrito lol I needed that laugh.
Eating the wealthy is the only ethical consumption under capitalism.
There are no ethical consumables under capitalism.
Dude... as an anarchist, I so fucking love this! Fuck the hidden hierarchy and pose.
PS The first song ever that made me to participate in anything on this "platform" or whatever it is.
How have I only now discovered this gem of a song
I see Seattle has had an underground anarchist thing going on
for a long time now. see seattle general strike of 1919 for more information.
someone asked for the chords, but now i can't see the comment... anyway, here you go:
www.davidrovics.com/songbook/im-a-better-anarchist-than-you-2/
Hey, I can't see it on the website, can you send it just like that without a link? (The chords)
Brilliant satire, comrade. I had a phase like this, but I suppose we all do. Glad to have come out of it.
I'll be here, watching, judging, whenever you click on this video to copy the link to an anarchist discussion board.
i'm so glad to contribute to the discussion without actually having to take part in it! :-)
I voted today, and came here because I actually felt guilty about it, lol.
I click and I share, with my heart on my sleeve,
Online revolution, so much to achieve,
A like's all it takes to show that I care,
My couch is my front line, so I'm sure aware,
In my virtual world, perception is true,
I'm a better anarchist than you.
I change my profile picture to the cause of the week,
With a filter and slogan, no need to even speak,
I fight with my keyboard, my passion is reviled,
Though petitions are tame and their impact's mild,
In the safety of my room, where no real risk is due,
I'm a better anarchist than you.
I retweet the rebels, and their chants I sing,
With every post, I fight capitalism's sting,
But I ignore the homeless man out on the street,
I'll just scroll past, no need for eyes to meet,
With a hashtag and meme, my duty's all through,
I'm a better anarchist than you.
I join the groups, I follow movement pages,
I fight the system in digital stages,
But a protest march? Oh, that's not for me,
I'll watch it online, in safety, you see,
My emoji's a fist, my commitment's barely true,
I'm a better anarchist than you.
I'm a warrior online, I'll tell you what's wrong,
I criticize others; 'cause in my world, I'm so strong,
But when faced with real issues, I'll quietly shy,
I'll keep to my screen, and outside world defy,
In the echo chamber, where my likes accrue,
I'm a better anarchist than you.
I'll sign an e-petition, or write a fiery blog,
I'll comment and argue, in my digital fog,
I'll wear my opinions, and shout them quite loud,
But never leave comfort, never join the crowd,
Despite all this, I proudly claim it's true,
I'm a better anarchist than you.
Underrated work-- I want to hear this now
@@axolotlfeverdream thank you kindly!
@jsalsman of course! Oh and btw I'm a better anarchist than you
After all these years this song still hits.
not to toot my own horn, but i think the song gets more relevant with every passing year that twitter continues to exist...!
Aight I would say everyone needs to hear this, but some people would take this seriously 😳
Pinnacle of Anarchism
Hey, this is fucking fantastic. Thanks David! I have been feeling a little betrayed by art and music recently, and as an artist it has completely disarmed the whole meaning and purpose behind doing it in the first place. So it was nice hear something real-life for a change. I may even pick up a guitar again in the near future.
@Kali this comment above is adorable, it's so relatable to me.
craving dumpster donuts now, thanks
I am better anarcist than everyone,everyone is better anarchist than me.
Love this song!
What Murray Bookchin would call, "lifestyle Anarchism"
Concert Punk ok but Bookchin is bad
Dead Channel I found merit in his dialetic naturalism, and libertarian municipalism. Was he a grumpy old man, sure, but as a theorist he's pretty good.
Concert Punk libertarian municipalism more like a state
Dead Channel neighborhoods being autonomous is a state?
Google Murray Bookchin
Moral superiority sucks! love this song
Can't tell if he is a hardcore anarchist or just making fun of anarchists or both. Lol
out of those options i'd go with "both"... :-)
I figured as such
He's clearly making fun of anarchists.
indeed. however, that doesn't mean i'm not an anarchist! :-)
Anarchism/anarchists is/are best when we can poke a lil fun at ourselves and such, love this song!
Pretty much sums up my experience of activist circles during my time at uni. Both anarchist and socialist/trot circles had their own we weird quirks.
I didn't think this level of lifestylism was possible.
only in certain select places, these days...
Try discord or twitter. It’s a nightmare lol
Bookchin, is that you? On the Internet, risen from the dead?!
Ahahahaahahahaahahh . Love it 😂😂😂. U r a genius😂😂😂. Greets from italy
Saluti a voi compagni
@@valeriolibratti7559 grandi compagni, siamo ovunque lol
@@666mrdoctor ciao compare 🏴
*Horizontal applause*
I knew in my heart of hearts this was by a Portlander who knows people like this
Awesome song comrade ! I loved it so much :)
Love both your profile pic and pseudo, comrade !
Anarcho-hipsterism
formerly known as lifestylism, yes.
Liebe an Revolte Springen
Kind of love this, reminds me a lot of Arrogant Worms, I used to listen to them a lot when I was younger. This rocks.
Thank you so much for coming to Orlando!
thanks for bringing me there, orlando workers league!
I'm not even an anarchist, I just want the world to be better for the human race, not one excluded. Better anarchist.
Nah just another human being with humanity and ethics as my guiding principles.
I'm not any ist or ism's, I am one consciousness experiencing my own ignorant perspective, that is all.
To have a humane death
No.
I love your song!!!!!!!!!!!
this is the best song i have ever heard
Rovics nails another one.
I love this song, David Rovics is amazing
this is so awesome on a million levels
❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great rendition Dave.
The most ironically based song ever written.
Pretty amazing how much you can do with just one instrument.
This song is both powerful and hilarious! I love it!
You ROCK!
looks like I left my rule book in someone's compost loo 😂
Got a good laugh outta this great music man! keep up the good work comrade.
This is description of me
"Representative democracy is bad, therefore voting is bad! And somehow contradictory to direct action!"
Imagine thinking being politically irrelevant is good anarchist praxis.
this is full of sarcasm so dont take it too seriously
voting for neoliberals isn’t praxis.
@@MishaFlower Considering the options are between neolib pussies and fascists that want us dead? Yes. That's praxis.
Sorry, but being trans, I don't want to be persecuted like trans people in Texas just cause some holier than thao dipshits are too prideful to vote for the lesser evil.
@@MishaFlower I mean, it is marginally better then voting for fascists, and sometimes perfect is the enemy of the good enough.
@@rambysophistry1220This. Also, imagine the subtle irony of "I'm not voting until we have an ideologically pure anarchist politician."
この冬［I'm a Better Anarchist Than You］のパーカ(？）を、老夫婦《もやいで》で着ています。
🌱🌱🌱 Awesome 🤪🤣😘😜👍😳
Love this!
🖤
This reminds me of one Anti Flag song
which one
so many of you seam to miss the point that if you think if you are above others especially if its in the context of claiming that you are more of a revolutionary against someone else who is also just trying to survive just like you. tbh attacking your fellow working class like that is counter productive to the revolution. stop it.
Just found you and this is great, the voter shaming is especially relevant these days.
absolutely. the idea that participating in what is largely a sham election means that you lose all your ability to see what you've just participated in, and how real social change happens, is sectarian.
I hold a job, I'm self employed, I own my home, I pay my bills on time, "I'm a better anarchist than you". 😂
Lol I fuckin love this song it's so truthful
I never even needed to write a song about it! I WIN! 😸🙀😸
Perfection is the enemy of the good.
I don't do all what you said, but yes you are batter I agree with you.
I get it and the hierarchy, ego, rigidity and isolated reality of some are ridiculous. I take issue with the meat and leather though. Right there it should be a definite that no one supports the industries that torture and kill animals with there being no need to do so whatsoever. Have been an animal liberation activist for 9 years and I've seen it all. Horrors and immorality you cannot imagine. Human freedom AND animal liberation thank you. Otherwise, thanks for your great songs David. I've followed your work for awhile now.
Fantastic song. But even more so Fantastic ryhtm.
amazing :D
Fuck moral superiority and sectarism. I love this song.
Heh, thanks for the good laugh yo! This is a banger
This but unironically.
sappin its me
I can tell if this is serious, or played to the extreme, or if it's a brag, but I love it
But as long as you make songs to tell anarchists what’s correct to do,
I’m a better anarchist than uuu..
It was a good one😂
Thank you so much! Cute as F.
I feel bad unironically agreeing to some of these opinions. Especially the 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th verses.
😎
not into heterosexuality eh?
i guess the song had the intended effect? haha ;) that was very honest of you to admit, though. take care man
@@dubbedminecraft No, I'm not.
this is such a funny song
as a memmebe ro fthe high couccil of misspelled but inehreently impotent (the writerr here meant important we are sure)anarchists ,without adjectives (they might add )
its importation t that peopel know krass exists.
The Anti-Flag line is even funnier now that we know that Justin Sane is a predator
Shit, too real...
Is there a link to the lyrics, please?
davidrovics.com/songbook has them all in alphabetical order
@@drovics SO. MANY. SONGS! 😍🥰🤩
Based
yeah ok
theres a german version of it
yes, i love it!
@@drovics i love seeing anarchist music spread and shared cause in my opinion sharing is the first anarchist praxis you can can learn in this dystopia. big love sleep well
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but most anarchists have always been against representative democracy, no?
it depends on who's defining "representative" and how.
@@drovics I appreciate the reply!
If representative democracy is taken to mean any of the systems we have in liberal "democracies" today, it's contrary to anarchism, right? For one thing, representatives can't be recalled by popular vote at any time.
I love all the music of yours I've heard so far, by the way!
Even as an ML i like our anarchist comrades and I love this song:)
Yay comrade. Please don't put us against the wall when our day comes
@@mintjulius275 idk even know if I can apply the ML label to myself anymore. A vanguard in my opinion is not the best way to implement socialism. Instead I’d want a council to help run things. But I still don’t know what I am. Also it is a shame how many times anarchists were betrayed by Marxists.
Just @ me next time
Ancom comrades after discovering they don't invented anarchism
This song so accurately describes the fallacies of most "anarchists" I've ever encountered, online or physically, it's almost uncanny.
absolutely, Rasputin. love your comment and your profile pic dude. haha. Rasputin: the magical immortal homeless dude. fucking awesome
Long live Palestine 🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🌿❤️❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸🌿🌿🌿🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🌿🇵🇸❤️🌿🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸🌿
david david david,wanna contact you :\
i'm here! email me at david@davidrovics.com anytime.
I like your other songs lol, this one is catchy you should make a conservative monarchist version. I like your Saint Patrick's Battalion video that was amazing!
I’m no anarchist, but nonetheless, good song.
I don't drive a car because they run on gas
I wouldn’t drive them either, even on biomass
I ride a bike, or sometimes a skateboard
But not a horse, that’s exploitive! So, fuck your yuppie hordes
Sitting all day in the traffic queues
I'm a better anarchist than you
I don't eat meat; but I would cannibalize the fash
I break all the laws, and I also dine and dash
Look you people in that restaurant, I think you are so sad
That you all the fear blackness of the void of which I am
I think it is a shame all the bourgeois things you do
I'm a better anarchist than you
I don't wear leather and I like my clothes in black
They keep me unidentified in the larger black bloc mass
I like to hop on cop cars, I think that is so cool
It's so much fun striking a reactionary with a 2x2
I am gonna steal everything, even those brand-new shiny shoes
I'm a better anarchist than you
I like sex, and I don’t care if there’s no sequel
Because hierarchies that exist prevent us from being equal
They’re a burden that prevents us from enjoying life
They are the source of all problems and the source of all strife
I like setting fires on all the boys in blue
I'm a better anarchist than you
I am not a pacifist, I like throwing bricks
And insurrection is a pastime that gives me just a kick
When I see someone shoplifting, it always makes me blush
Putting a Nazi 6 feet under gives me such a rush
By the time state collapses and everything is through
I'm a better anarchist than you
I don't believe in leaders, or capital, or God
I don't care if they’re real because you’re just a dog
They’re fictions, mental spooks, I know it is the case
When you go to your voting booths, I know that you’re a slave
Only total liberation should be the course of the human race
I'm a better anarchist than you
I don’t believe in civilization
And neither should you
I'm a better anarchist than you
Rock on, David!
Anarcho-strasserism
Oh, god no.
sadly it actually exists, they're called national "anarchists"
@@peareproudham9750 yeah I've read into it I read many books into national anarchist they seem to be all about panarchy and racial separation they are a minority but I have never seen a anarcho fascist even tho they are kinda a thing
Anarcho-National Bolshevik
@@peareproudham9750 do you consider them anarchist cause anarchist is just a broad term like libertarian and man ideals emerge from it in fact one problem I have with anarchist is that they have a small disagreement and one side splits off also can you tell me the difference between anarcho communism and anarcho syndicalism
You call yourself an anarchist, and yet you participate in capitalism in order to sustain yourself. Interesting
i guess even if you live off the land on a farm somewhere, you still have to face the problem of buying the land in the first place, eh? unless you squat somewhere. then you can end up in prison, and be a proper anarchist!
Ahem...Jimmy Dore anyone?
Post-leftists irl
300th comment
It's always funny the elitism with anarchist like do you want to be better then me or do you want equality?