Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Section C.10 of AFAQ this week which is about whether "free market" capitalism is the best way to reduce poverty (you can probably figure out the answer haha)! ...
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The Epstein emails did not merely reveal the depravity of one man; they pulled back the curtain on an entire elite culture trained to dismiss human suffering while profiting from it. What emerges is not an aberration but a pattern—an insulated ruling class that exploits labor, mocks ordinary people, and shields itself from ...
So, ive been thinking about how my trauma effects my politics. This may shock some of you, but a lot of my radicalizing experiences were pretty fucking traumatizing. Resistance is part of how i cope, how i keep from killing myself, how i get up in the morning after all the shit I've survived. I am under no illusions that I am ...
Even in conversation with other leftists I hear people talk about how so and so doesn't have good leadership skills or want someone to be a better leader. It's getting to me in a way I probably shouldn't allow it to, but I feel like that mentality is antithetical to the goal of communism and will only delay its arrival. How do ...
Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Section C.9 of AFAQ the following 2(!) weeks, which is about whether laissez-faire policies reduce unemployment, as supporters of "free market" capitalism claim?! I will update the title each week and I will re-ping you here each week. ...
I strongly disagree with the text. I understand it as the author doesn't want the people of Iran to liberate themselves from tyranny, because then they would be controlled by US which is also tyrannic. But not supporting people liberating themselves because one feels like they know better than the people seems just like the ...
Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Section C.8 of AFAQ the following 2(!) weeks, which is about fs state control of money is the cause of the business cycle! I will update the title each week and I will re-ping you here each week. ...
First of all, I have no intention of taking or promoting any side here, because I'm not well informed enough about what has happened since 2022... however, before getting burned out of the internet somewhen by the end of the last decade, I used to follow a lot of anarchist collectives. I was on Riseup and Autistici mailing ...
An Anarchist FAQ Reading Group - Megathread - Week #27
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An Anarchist FAQ Reading Group - Section C.10 - Week #27
Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Section C.10 of AFAQ this week which is about whether "free market" capitalism is the best way to reduce poverty (you can probably figure out the answer haha)! ...
[Discussion] How many of you have encountered Zionist apologia from Feddit or its users ( pastebin.com )
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Consensus reality is bourgeois.
Wouldn't catch Me believing in that rich people stuff
Epstein Emails Expose How America’s Elites Really See the Rest of Us ( open.substack.com )
The Epstein emails did not merely reveal the depravity of one man; they pulled back the curtain on an entire elite culture trained to dismiss human suffering while profiting from it. What emerges is not an aberration but a pattern—an insulated ruling class that exploits labor, mocks ordinary people, and shields itself from ...
Why Conservatives Hate the Government But Love the Cops ( www.youtube.com )
Channel: Current Affairs
The pathology of compliance.
So, ive been thinking about how my trauma effects my politics. This may shock some of you, but a lot of my radicalizing experiences were pretty fucking traumatizing. Resistance is part of how i cope, how i keep from killing myself, how i get up in the morning after all the shit I've survived. I am under no illusions that I am ...
What's the best way to combat people's obsession with having good leaders and with leadership in general?
Even in conversation with other leftists I hear people talk about how so and so doesn't have good leadership skills or want someone to be a better leader. It's getting to me in a way I probably shouldn't allow it to, but I feel like that mentality is antithetical to the goal of communism and will only delay its arrival. How do ...
An Anarchist FAQ Reading Group - Section C.9 - Week #25, Week #26
Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Section C.9 of AFAQ the following 2(!) weeks, which is about whether laissez-faire policies reduce unemployment, as supporters of "free market" capitalism claim?! I will update the title each week and I will re-ping you here each week. ...
Autonomy in Practice: Permanent Vigil’s and Sacred Fires ( www.wewillfreeus.org )
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How Teachers, Students, and Parents are Organizing to Keep ICE Out of Durham Schools ( www.blackrosefed.org )
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Workers’ Councils Forming in Iran - Class Autonomy ( classautonomy.info )
Any thought on this? ( www.anarchistfederation.net )
I strongly disagree with the text. I understand it as the author doesn't want the people of Iran to liberate themselves from tyranny, because then they would be controlled by US which is also tyrannic. But not supporting people liberating themselves because one feels like they know better than the people seems just like the ...
TotW: Meaningful OpSec ( www.anarchistnews.org )
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In my experience, social/organized anarchists and individualist anarchist often talk shit about each other and do not actively cooperate. But do you know of positive examples of such cooperation?
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I found a stack of sticker labels, what can type on them?
I found these small labels that I want to type stuff on and stick them around town. ...
The Minneapolis Mass Strike Shows the Way – Let’s Go Further ( www.blackrosefed.org )
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An Anarchist FAQ Reading Group - Section C.8 - Week #23, Week #24
Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Section C.8 of AFAQ the following 2(!) weeks, which is about fs state control of money is the cause of the business cycle! I will update the title each week and I will re-ping you here each week. ...
Nobody Wants To Be Working Class ( youtu.be )
An Ex-Gang Member Showed Us The Real Violence In Chicago ( youtu.be )
Includes a very interesting section in the middle how community organizing is very efficient at stopping violence and how they do it.
Two Forgotten Historians of American Anarchism ( www.anarchistnews.org )
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Were you following the Ukrainian anarchists in 2014?
First of all, I have no intention of taking or promoting any side here, because I'm not well informed enough about what has happened since 2022... however, before getting burned out of the internet somewhen by the end of the last decade, I used to follow a lot of anarchist collectives. I was on Riseup and Autistici mailing ...
Good modern anarchist books that aren't bookchin, that fucker gelderloos, or graeber?
I enjoy books more than internet essays. Sue me. ...
The Political Repression and Resistance of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Oaxaca ( www.anarchistnews.org )
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Iranian anarchists: Uprising is “genuine self-organisation by ordinary people” ( www.anarchistnews.org )
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