In St. Louis the stop was coordinated by another comrade from the Worker Solidarity Alliance, who had actually attended the stop in El Paso as well. The talk was in a space called the World Community Center that seemed like a catch-all space for various social justice organizations in the city.
There were just under 20 people at this talk. The talk went very smoothly, and didn't really get much push back. It seemed like a few people there were looking for more of an introduction to anarchism than to especifismo.
There was a brief question about "especifismo's critique of industrial civilization". This was confusing to me for a couple of reasons. First, the language sounded like it was coming from a primitivist perspective, but when I said that was told that I was misunderstanding. Second, I think the question seems to come from the notion that especifismo is like a new suffix to anarcho-. It's as if we are advocating for an anarcho-especifismo rather than especifismo as it's own theory of the role of revolutionary anarchist organizing, which is definitely not the intention.
I'm not actually sure if there are especifista groups that would call themselves anything other than anarchist communists. But, if there are, I've never seen them.
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