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Sorry for the long post, tl;dr at the end if you want.
When I first went to college and then university, I started meeting people who not only shared interests with me, but were more open-minded then anyone I had ever met (save for maybe my parents). I feel like meeting them was an integral part of my education, and the environment allowed me to be open and curious.
Flash forward a few years, I graduate and I join the USMC for complicated personal reasons. Among those reasons, I still believed (mostly) in the state and thought that if there was to be a force or military in the world, it should be directed by the people through a democracy. I'm still currently active duty, and while I can say that looking back now I wouldn't have done it, I don't currently feel strongly enough to get myself kicked out.
When I do finish my enlistment, I plan on going back to the same university I graduated from, and continuing my education. It's the only place I've ever been where I feel like I can really be myself (where all of my friends live), and that the population is (at least more than normally) open to new ideas. In retrospect, I'm actually kind of angry that I never heard anything about anarchism during the course of my education. I feel like the open discussion and debate of radically different systems of human interaction is important, at earlier stages than college even.
So when I happened to make a reddit account almost a year ago, and found /r/anarchism and /r/anarcho_capitalism, and I started meeting people from a variety of political backgrounds through Civcraft, I felt like I should have been exposed to all of it at a much earlier point in my life.
When I get out and go back to school, I want to bring these ideas back with me, and start talking with people. I'm not sure what types of activities or actions I can take to get people talking, which is why I'm here now. What would you do?
tl;dr Where should I go within my local university to find discussion about anarchism, what sorts of activities can I facilitate to further more discussion, and what are some stories you guys have about anarchism at universities you've been to? For that matter, how were you introduced to anarchism?
Edit: Please, I'm not here to argue about anarcho-capitalism, I just want ideas!
Edit 2: I'm not trying to say that anarcho-capitalism is a type of anarchism. I don't care about how it's classified. It has nothing to do with what I'm asking about, or looking to discuss in this post.
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