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i have to believe one day we’ll get it right or my heart will burst open. one day we’ll have something good and no one will be in pain. one day
Unfortunately in our current society antisemitism is still very much alive. It is uncomfortable to come to terms with the fact that NAZI’s are still a thing and have been a thing since the 1930′s. They never left. However NAZI’s aren’t the only form of antisemitism but casual and hidden antisemitism often lead to Nazism or is crypto-Nazism. Something that annoys me quite a lot and are also rather antisemitic are conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories often talk about “elites” which is often used as a substitute for CEOs and corrupt government officials however “elites” is also used as a dog whistle for Jewish people by NAZI’s and other far-right people. If you watched a lot of conspiracy videos at one point I recommend that you make sure that you haven't picked up any antisemitic or racist opinions, even if they weren't openly antisemitic or racist it can still influence the way you think.
I can't donate atm, but it seems like a great place! I wish there was something more similar to this where I live but I'm in the epitome of Red State. So yeah.
Perhaps the funniest thing that could have happened lately was that this anticapitalist cafe and community space near my place was shutting down near the end of May - but because so many Texas and Florida conservatives celebrated it online, the place got a huge donation to keep operating
It's a great place. It functions mostly like a regular cafe but it has this free/pay what you want drip coffee for anyone who wants it, free bathroom use, and it stocks indie merch and books on antifascist, queer, leftist, socialist, indigenous topics. I've met a lot of awesome people there.
Its very existence enrages conservatives, and anarchocapitalists who tried to claim it only to be shown the middle finger by its anticapitalist owner, who is an all around nice dude (and a fellow Elden Ring fan)
If you can toss a coin to its continued operation, please do! Upon request from their followers on insta they opened a Gofundme. Even just a few dollars will be a huge help.
On the fifth of August, 2024, the Bangladeshi prime minister was forced to resign the flee the country following civil riots after 16 years of autocratic rule. What followed was political violence against minorities, looting and burning of public property and historical museums. The infrastructure that kept these things in check, the police and the army, had fallen in a matter of hours and 4 days letter the new government has still not formed and neither have the infrastructure.
Yet, after the first wave of confusion, what happened was incredible. Students and citizens alike gathered to clean the city and repair public property to the best of their abilities. Traffic was the best in decades thanks to teachers volunteering to manage them. Food prices halved as the corporate syndicates and cartels fell. Muslim religious schools stayed up overnight to protect Hindu temples and Christians churches. Communities prepared local night guards to protect from thieves. All of this, without a formal government or any sort of authoritarian institute to compel them.
Today might be the last day, as the interim government is formed and volunteers move on to their lives. There was still mob violence, lynching and killing of cops and burning of minority houses, and many of the poorest people suffered immensely from lack of sales and not enough food drives were started to support them.
What i want to say is this: this is living proof than a people can function without government, even if it was for a short time. That when people take responsibility and do not rely on a government or party for their problems, true anarchy emerges. It might all go to waste as the interim government is filled with right winged conservatives and centrists as well as army generals, and the eventual elections are taken by the Islamic fundamentalists and the conservative party. But if i have learned anything these past 3 days, it is to never let anyone tell me anarchy is naive or unrealistic. I have witnessed living proof.
“We are so perverted by an education which from infancy seeks to kill in us the spirit of revolt, and to develop that of submission to authority; we are so perverted by this existence under the ferule of a law, which regulates every event in life — our birth, our education, our development, our love, our friendship — that, if this state of things continues, we shall lose all initiative, all habit of thinking for ourselves. Our society seems no longer able to understand that it is possible to exist otherwise than under the reign of law…” — Pyotr Kropotkin: Law and Authority
The problem with provisional governments is that they normally put in place some sort of emergency power to even work, which can backfire horribly at a moments notice because giving someone power and little to no repercussions, tends to make them get carried away. Purges happen in any system that requires authority and has tension (e.g., both the red and white armies were responsible for various pogroms in the Russian Civil War, read "my Disillusionment in Russia" by Emma Goldman).
Furthermore, humans can't account for everything, so if you have to deal with an issue with a plan that is a decade old and can't adapt fast enough, you just lost everything because you were to rigid, too stubborn, and did not realize that you cannot have a "perfect plan".
And also, how will this provisional state be run without the squabble of all six "most sublime men-of-state peoples governor generalissimo oligarchs" all in one room? And that's one of the fundamental issues with hierarchy and power, people agree when one of them has a gun on the table and knows how to use it, because the gunman is projecting a force onto the other members. And the moment the gun is gone, the system collapses into factionalism and haphazard genocide due to the fact there was no consent within that organization, no free association, and no one had a say except the gunman.
In an even worse scenario, everyone within lets say, a provisional council, is ready to counter-coup and has detailed plans on how to murder and purge the opposition within or outside their party. This is the inherent paranoia and mistrust that comes with being in a system that rewards ambition, it doesn't matter what stance or ideology someone has if they are ambitious enough and can maneuver through the political climate, they can essentially install themselves as a dictator (with enough support of course), My proof? just look at the Sandinista's in Nicaragua, take this with a grain of salt of course (can't trust EVERYTHING on the internet, I know, shocker), but I know people that where college students in the 70s-90s southern Mexico, who wanted to fight for the Sandinista's. These people truly believed they where changing the horrible dictatorship in Nicaragua. They could have been right at one point, but based off of how critical they are of the Sandinista regime, some going as far as saying that the Sandinista's barely achieved anything, or made things worse. Now I am in the processes of studying and "interviewing" the people that know the subject, so this is by no means a full fledged case study. But many of these people say they compromised the freedom of the same workers they were fighting for. there were men that fled after being ordered to murder 800 Miskito indigenous CHILDREN!
In conclusion, Marxism shows us that power is just a brute tool, you can drape it in red all you want, it still leeches onto someone like a parasite that has convinced its host its giving people freedom, freedom of breathing more like.
“MLs be like, ‘Oh YoU’rE aN aNaRcHiSt? TeLl Me ExAcTlY hOw EvErYtHiNg WiLl WoRk UnDeR aNaRcHiSm RiGhT nOw!’”
Damn straight we are.
Know why?
Because you have two options: either you have everything planned down to the least minute detail before you pop off the revolution–which I agree is an absurd requirement–or you admit that there will have to be experimentation with new ways of doing things once we’ve overthrown the government.
Now, the thing about experiments is that they fail sometimes.
And the thing about failing to get people the life-saving medicine they need is that they! fucking! DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since the whole point of revolution is to make people’s lives better, this is counterproductive.
This is the purpose of the transitional state: it gives you a safe environment in which to run socialist experiments with the goal of gradually transitioning to a stateless, classless society. You know, explicitly so that your entire society doesn’t collapse because one single thing went horribly wrong in the massive new social and economic system you decided to build from scratch and release in alpha.
(Also it keeps MI6 from coming in and wrecking your shit so liberal bootlickers can look at it and be like “Another example of how socialism never works!”)
What does the picture tell us or what does it want to tell us?
Incidentally, the cool-looking fighter all in black alone against a system is somehow already a romantic narrative in which you like yourself. A transfiguration of good versus evil without shades of grey, but unfortunately the world is not good or evil in many shades.
The black bloc is anarchy is it, does not belong to the youth the anarchy just to destroy any symbols that symbolise capitalism.
The romance of the street fight and then the athletic, the hormonal extasy that makes the hunt or rather the cat and mouse game with the executive even better.
Is it perhaps just to escape from his conformist everyday life or really the expression of a philosophy!
What does the black block look like in private, does he live what he strives for?
Or are they just wealthy people who like to riot and loot the shops of people who work hard to survive in the kind of capitalism they have so favoured?
In reality, anarchy is mostly a disappointment everything is so self-organising, beautiful from the smallest to the largest. How explains it to everyone and shows how you can realise it and live in it.
But if that's not your ambition, it's probably not worth living it.
The French Revolution failed because some wanted to decide everything, not with the commune that organises itself.
It was about eliminating the classes in the sense of killing them on the scaffold and taking their position.
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Whoever shows us how to live with an entire society should have a plan to convince us. Throwing stones and setting cars on fire is anything but anarchism.
Anarchy (ancient Greek ἀναρχία anarchía "rulelessness", from ἀρχία archía "rule" with negating alpha privativum) refers to a state of absence of rule. It is mainly used in political philosophy, where anarchism advocates such a social order.
Anarchists want society to regulate itself, for example through councils, free agreement or purely functional decisions, in the words of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: "Anarchy is order without domination." A central figure of modern anarchism in German-speaking countries, Horst Stowasser, also referred to Proudhon's programmatic definition.
Anarchy is also commonly associated with a state of social disorder, tyranny and lawlessness caused by the absence of the state and institutionalised violence, and is often used in many media outlets to distort the actual meaning of the term "chaos and anarchy". However, the actual term for such a state is anomie.
Wikipedia more or less
Show us an old anarchist who has not been eaten by the system and has renounced an easy life, then the dream is alive.
ItHadToBeSaid -- What If There Were More Anarchists?:
I'mma boil it down again:
Do ye think maybe capitalists are giddy as fuck when we assert that human beings are inherently awful, and that humanity is worthless?
Do ye think you can drum up enough dedication to defend something that you allow yourself to see as worthless?
the "humans are egoistical by nature, so capitalism is natural" ngas probably never thought enough to realize that, if it was true, humanity would have never survived in the first place.
The “no one would ever work for free” crowd never really considered the eternal bond between humans and increasingly complex tools
