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hey Torch, assuming this interests you and isn't just pissing you off...

the absence of a "grand plan" is sort of a strange criticism for contemporary anarchists because almost none of them fuck with that shit? those that have bothered to think it through are explicitly rejecting anything beyond a very small scale, often literally just the personal level. this is standard post-left stuff, a deliberate departure from the historic defeat of the working class and the worst failings of marxism, blah blah blah...

adam curtis is one of my favorite contemporary theorists who points out that this MAY be the greatest weakness of whatever counter cultural forces still exist today. mark fisher argued that it's a sort of mental prison for all of us, the lack of any imagination or ability to conceive of an alternative. i think there's some valid insight there.

not sure that's the whole of it tho. i prefer to do more of a materialist analysis of like, military capacity (or total lackthereof?) and be like - that's why we don't need to bother imagining an alternative on any scale. it would be a ton of work, then we'd all get butchered and drown in our own blood anyway, barely having put up a real fight. *sad trombone*

BUUUT it's still an interesting topic tho! how meaningful can anyone's position be if all they're really talking about is like, social harm reduction within capitalism and basic survival? not very ambitious imo!