Especifist. Building the new in the shell of the old. (He/Him). Co-founder of @cooptulsaok I run the YT channel Anark: piped.video/c/anark/
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I am very excited to announce that pre-orders for A Modern Anarchism are now available on the @PMPressOrg website!
This new edition is a compilation of all four parts of A Modern Anarchism into one book, along with some elaboration and clarification of the original text.
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When your state tells you that it will kill you for opposing them, the only option left is to overthrow the state. They should be careful what they wish for.
A Florida sheriff has issues a chilling warning to any violent protestors, saying they will kill them on sight:
“We will kill you, graveyard dead. We’re NOT gonna play.”
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But without police, who will arrive after harm has already been committed, fill out some paperwork, and then either do nothing or ruin the lives of everyone involved?
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The most surprising part about this is that you uploaded it. Nothing happened. Nobody even reacted. Your provocation failed. This demonstrates that you are not unsafe among supporters of Palestinian liberation.
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The kind of stupid-ass techniques you teach your soldiers when your enemies are half-starved women and children in a concentration camp.
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Aaron Bushnell was a patron of the channel and posted several links to the Anark Discord server early yesterday. We didn't know what to make of them at the time. We now realize that one of those links was a dead-man's contingency containing a full upload of the livestream.
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Don't forget; any successful protest will be deemed violent by the state. The police are liars. They are telling you they will kill you if your protest is too successful.
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Police pretend every protest is violent, so it's basically just license to murder protesters.
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It's so bizarre to see MAGA talking about how they are "done with the peaceful path."
You drove cars into protesters.
You shot up countless schools.
You murdered Democratic politicians.
You tried to coup the government when your politician lost the election.
What the fuck?
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Listen to him openly ADMIT that corporations want to create mass insecurity, starvation, and poverty in order to create an obedient working class. The owning class is so mask-off that they are casually saying these things in front of huge audiences.
We’re seeing a surge in worker power globally, but that upsets some people.
This businessman, speaking at a “property summit,” is going viral for saying:
“We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.”
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Given another horrifying massacre, we have returned to the gun discourse. But, as usual, it seems that no one is discussing the elephant in the room: we live in an intensely alienated society based around violence worship and full-on brainwashing by hierarchical power structures.
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Just a reminder that health insurance companies don't provide healthcare. They profit from gatekeeping access to healthcare. Doctors and hospitals provide healthcare.
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The most uncontroversial opinion imaginable. Unless you're a white supremacist that is.
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The administration is targeting antifa precisely because it isn't an organization and precisely because it has no leaders or structure. It allows them to qualify anyone who opposes them as a terrorist.
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This is what the First Amendment was ACTUALLY created to prevent. It exists to stop the state from penalizing political speech.
The right-wing is speed running the destruction of the US civil order.
JUST IN: President Trump announces that left wing extremists who posted insensitive comments about Charlie Kirk are under major investigation.
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Antifa is not an organization.
Antifa is not a group of organizations.
Antifa is not even a network of informal cells.
Antifa is any and all direct action against fascism.
Labeling antifa a terrorist organization means outlawing anti-fascist action.
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We need more of what you see in this video. That's why they say they're going to use "every investigative tool to find him." If protestors took this approach in large numbers, the state would be absolutely incapable of coping with it.
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🚨 JUST IN: Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is now publicly asking for help identifying a helmeted protester caught throwing rocks at vehicles during the LA immigration raids.
“We’ll use every investigative tool to find him,” Bongino warned. “Turn yourself in, it’s only a matter of time.”
This is where we’re at: Feds detain immigrants in basements, and now they’re crowdsourcing the public like it’s America’s Most Wanted, all while ignoring the civil rights violations that sparked the unrest in the first place.
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I recently had a bunch of people respond to my video about voting telling me how voting matters because Biden keeps trans people safe and then only a few days later Biden promotes a right-wing narrative to cover up the murder of a young trans person.
In memory of Nex, we must all recommit to our work to end discrimination and address the suicide crisis impacting too many nonbinary and transgender children.
ALT Jill and I are heartbroken by the recent loss of Nex Benedict. Every young person deserves to have the fundamental right and freedom to be who they are, and feel safe and supported at school and in their communities. Nex Benedict, a kid who just wanted to be accepted, should still be here with us today. Nonbinary and transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know. But nobody should have to be brave just to be themselves. In memory of Nex, we must all recommit to our work to end discrimination and address the suicide crisis impacting too many nonbinary and transgender children. Bullying is hurtful and cruel, and no one should face the bullying that Nex did. Parents and schools must take reports of bullying seriously. My prayers are with Nex’s family, friends, and all who loved them – and to all LGBTQI+ Americans for whom this tragedy feels so personal, know this: I will always have your back...
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Remember when the left was calling for the abolition of ICE and liberals responded with gaslighting and pearl-clutching?
Well now ICE is more than the gestapo for immigrants, it is the gestapo for American citizens. This is what we mean when we say that LIBERALS ENABLE FASCISTS
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I suspect this was the same message sent to other anarchist outlets like @Thinc_Exworkers. Aaron's message was not rambling, nor did his words suggest desperation and despair. He was slightly cryptic, but very sober. I believe he committed this act of completely sound mind.
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They told you that anarchy was disorder because they want you to believe that a society without your oppressors will be chaos.
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Conspiracy theories are becoming popular because people recognize that something is very very wrong deep at the center of society, but they don't understand what. Conspiracy theories offer plausible, but false explanations that distract from the real systemic problems.
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It is not a smear for news articles to be calling Aaron Bushnell an anarchist. He factually was an anarchist. And that is good. Anarchism is a liberatory ideology predicated on opposition to all hierarchical power structures and their replacement by a horizontal society.
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The fear of firearms and defense training among leftists is nothing more than a hold-over of liberalism and we need to jettison it immediately. Every contingent that is not armed will soon be vulnerable to fascist violence. It is irresponsible to keep pushing non-violence.
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Aaron Bushnell went to great lengths to make sure that the livestream footage of his self-immolation was distributed widely. He absolutely would not have wanted his image to be blurred in photos of the incident.
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I want to see this kind of behavior normalized. Vandalizing fascist symbols is good and necessary.
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It's so funny how older generations still think that young people are going to become more conservative as they grow older. Generations only grow conservative as they grow older because the system bribes them with financial comforts. But you all pulled up the ladder behind you.
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I swear to god, if I see another person call for a general strike, I'm going to have an aneurysm. You can't just call for a general strike and BOOM, magically people just strike. You need very high rates of unionization and confederations of unions before it will even be feasible
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Charlie Kirk contributed enormously toward creating a violent, hateful society and now he has reaped his reward.
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We need organizers to move away from cyclic protests and lists of demands and to move towards identifying and targeting key bottlenecks in the power structure, then assessing which direct actions would stress or break those bottlenecks.
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Here are a few patterns that the police follow to set up kettles. Do not trust that protest "leaders" are savvy to these facts. Watch out for warning signs and be willing to adapt, to retreat and regroup.
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So I went to Seattle just before CHAZ/CHOP was dismantled to speak with organizers there and to see the project with my own two eyes. I have said before that I do not criticize tactics publicly, but now that the zone has been dismantled, I feel we can have a discussion about it.
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The next mass shooter is currently commenting "antifa are the real fascists" under an Andy Ngo tweet
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Conservatives are incapable of producing good art because they lack empathy, which means they are incapable of creating anything which communicates to a larger audience. When they try to produce art, they only end up producing clumsy in-group signaling.
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Literally no reason to mourn for Ted Kaczynski. His theory was reactionary and his praxis was ineffective. Be wary of anyone trying to eulogize him.
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Every generation that analyzes fascism independently arrives at the realization that fascists are deeply sexually insecure and that this insecurity lies surprisingly deep at the root of their politics. This generation we just get to witness them admitting it.
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See this is a perfect example of how they will pivot. Thank you for proving my point.
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Liberals see themselves as rational because they compare themselves to conservatives, who live in a made-up fantasy land. Meanwhile leftists are constantly proved right, yet are considered impractical because their analysis is systemic and thus requires systemic transformation.
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TERFs went in on transphobia so hard that they reinforced the very gender norms they *supposedly* wanted to dismantle. They have normalized harassing butch and/or conventionally unattractive women, accusing them of being secret trans women for not abiding by patriarchal standards
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When capitalism is dead, there will be no doubt to any sober-minded historian why we killed it.
MADE OF MONEY?
Russian artist and billionaire makes $1 mln. throne
#AlexeiSergiyenko
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Milei winning presidency has completely demolished the claims that "anarcho"-capitalists are anti-state. It is blatantly obvious that you all just want a corporate controlled state which has no recourse for the masses.
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So to summarize: one of the cops in Georgia accidentally fired a gun at another cop. This caused all the cops to freak out. Then they proceeded to murder a protester in their frenzy of cowardice.
Yeah, this sounds about par for the course.
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Milei winning the presidency in Argentina has completely demolished the claim that "anarcho"-capitalists are anti-state. It is blatantly obvious that they all just want a corporate controlled state which has no recourse for the masses.
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Yeah, the difference is that the children crossing with their parents are in a family arrangement they chose and are being torn apart.
The nuclear family is just an arbitrary conservative trope that they want to force on everyone else.
But yeah, distinctions are hard.
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I am utterly horrified when leftists act like capitalism is just going to wither up and die as a natural cycle. That is wholesale fantasy. Unless we do the titanic work of moving toward socialism, capitalism will turn straight into fascism and take us with it.
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Right wing memes are short and sweet because they ask you to appeal to kneejerk assumptions which have already been deeply coded into your mind by social propaganda. By contrast, leftist memes are tasked with breaking your social brainwashing, which requires complexity and nuance
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The state knows that if it loses the fight for Cop City it will embolden a national and possibly international anti-police movement. They know the importance of the battle and they are employing state terror to intimidate all organizations and individuals who support it.
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Anarchism does not mean chaos, disorganization, and isolation. There are indeed anarchists who believe in those things, but they are a minority. The majority of the historic movement has been about positive freedom, solidarity of the oppressed, and equality of structural power.
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“Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.”
David Graeber
Several children were caught breaking into one of the many Baltimore City pools that remain closed with their gates chained. The break-in was caught on Monday. Footage details the children breaking in, setting up "camp", and entering the water along with a scooter.
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She didn't boost down-ticket candidates Patton. That's in the article. She funneled all that money back to her campaign through HVF.
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I think turning anarchism into a youth sub-culture based around the aesthetics of radicalism with no desire to catalyze radicalism in the masses, was one of the most dire strategic mistakes in the last 200 years and we are STILL trying to dig ourselves out of the rut caused by it
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Militant anti-fascism has a long and credible history of slowing, and even stopping, the rise of reactionary movements. When the right wing tries to defame antifa, know that it is because they recognize antifa as an effective deterrent to their side's militant mobilization.
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I love having literally studied particle physics in college and then being told that I don't understand the "science" of "Marxist"-Leninism. Maybe...and just hear me out, you guys are not scientists, but you are instead in an ahistorical cult?
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When you are first radicalized, outrage drives you. It is a very powerful fuel and its combustion brings catharsis. However, it cannot persist forever. In time, that energy dwindles and many burn out.
It is love, not outrage, that pushes one to fight until death.
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"This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal" is a line that will go down in history.
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How can anyone who saw the Obama years genuinely believe that electing Biden will stop the rise of fascism? The "progressive" Obama gave us 24/7 digital surveillance, the ability to suspend Habeus Corpus, an empowered ICE, the global drone murder program, and 7 imperialist wars..
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Any of those superheroes could go upend the entire world system which is causing climate change on a whim. Why do they need signs? You guys should write stories where they destroy capitalism and the state. That would be way cooler.
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You are not supposed to pop anyone else's balloon. He broke the rules because he's a transphobe and the other women were so disgusted with him that almost all of them popped their balloon immediately.
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The conservative talking point that "once you get a taste of the real world, you'll become a right winger" is mindblowingly myopic given that, experiencing the "real world" under capitalism is precisely what has radicalized me further and further left every year I have been alive
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American families are whatever they want to be. YOU are the ones that want to force them to be mom, dad, and two kids. Families should decide what they want and how they want to be structured, not dictated by paternalistic conservative ideologues.
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John Brown was a badass. It's not "crazy" to rally the oppressed to overthrow their masters. If only he had been more successful.
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Living in the US is living every day in a bizarre juxtaposition: between knowing you benefit from a system of domestic and global extraction and yet somehow no structure in your society seems to give a single shit about you.
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Right-wingers have an underdeveloped morality. They are perpetually stuck in stages 2-4 and never mature to adult moral standards.
This is why they are so easy to manipulate by power structures and also why they are so morally inconsistent.
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Literally .5% of the money raised went to down-ballot candidates. The rest of it was laundered through the Hillary Victory Fund.
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The time for protests and elections is over. If you want to keep vulnerable people safe, it is time to begin creating community defense committees, safe zones, anti-fascist intelligence networks, de-escalation trainings, medic workshops, and other forms of direct intervention.
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Yes read Malatesta, but also read Lorenzo Kom'Boa Ervin.
Yes read Kropotkin, but also read Ashanti Alston.
Yes read Bakunin, but also read Zoe Samudzi.
Yes read Bookchin, but also read Modibo Kadalie.
Yes read Rocker, but also read Kuwasi Balagoon.
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Probably because the video makes him sound like an articulate and well-reasoned politician fighting for the people.
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Kind of wish leftists weren't amplifying the "KPOP fans and Tik Tok teens sink Trump's Tulsa rally" line. It isn't even true. All it did was inflate the numbers of people expected, not prevent anyone from entering. It's a way better narrative to say people JUST DIDN'T SHOW UP.
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The modern left constantly overestimates its own strength and it leads to dead-end strategies and squandered energies. The historical left was not a protest movement, it was a militant union movement. If you want that leverage again, begin building a new base of power.
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Sometimes I have to remind myself that a lot of people's bad behavior is because they have no outlets, no community, and the world is falling apart around them. They are addicted to outrage and harassment because it is the only thing that makes them feel like they have any power.
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It's sort of funny, because when I read the first two sentences and looked at the picture, my reaction was like: "it's true. Madonna's life looks way more awesome." And then I kept reading and was like "oh...right. I forgot there are people who want to be Stepford Wives."
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Anarchism doesn't mean lack of formal organization. Anarchism means lack of hierarchical power structures.
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If you call China "communist," you never get to pretend to know anything about communism ever again.
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Right-wingers have been testing the bounds of protest violence with car rammings, brawls, and after-the-fact retaliation for years. The Rittenhouse verdict offers a framework for how to murder protesters and claim self-defense. They will study and mimic it
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The US is a terrifying mixture of hierarchical mentalities run wild, extraordinary exploitation, a completely shredded social fabric, and a constant, looming knowledge of the nigh-apocalyptic destruction that the machine we live within is causing to the planet.
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Legal? Yes. Corrupt. Without doubt. This essentially allowed her to rig the primary process so that the voters could not choose freely.
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Early on, the police began rounding up the homeless and dropping them off at the boundary of the zone. It was a sort of "fuck you" to CHOP. They thought the homeless would lead to huge problems. Ultimately, however, the response to this was one of the zone's biggest successes
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You have to be absolutely delusional to think classrooms are the source of radicalization among Millennials, Zoomers, and so on... The education provided by US school system is non-stop capitalist, nationalist apologia, all the way from Kindergarten to college.
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Conservatives falsely think that art is nothing more than in-group signaling, because they feel alienated by the features that typically constitute good art: exploration of new concepts, boundary breaking, an ability to reveal the inner lives of people who are not ourselves.
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Been re-reading Wretched of the Earth over the last couple of weeks and it occurs to me how hamfisted the discourse on the topic of Palestinian liberation is on the TL right now. People really owe this topic more care and attention than they are showing.
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Look how authoritarian leftists cheer at the possibility that the people have been defeated. It is a constant for the last century. They are the enemies of the masses, only happy when a small vanguard domineers the revolution.
The Zapatistas have announced they are dissolving their autonomous municipalities in Chiapas.
Anarchists and left-revisionists of socialism celebrated the EZLN for a moment, but when their fundamental theoretical position leads working-class power to collapse, they are silent.
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In the interim, she signed a contract which gave her complete control over the party and its messaging during a party primary.
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Power structures only concede to demands when they are afraid of the consequences for not doing so.
They are not afraid of more protests. They are not afraid of tweets. They are not afraid of voting harder.
They are afraid of militant mass organizations.
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Considering that his betrayal of the left, his capitulation to Wall Street, and his escalation of the American war machine are several of the particular events that radicalized me, I'm gonna have to give this one a solid "hell no."
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