TOTW: Who wants to be the victim?
Finally, after decades of struggle, it seems that a big number of people in our society are recognizing the victims of the fucking capitalist system and the racist State.
Finally, after decades of struggle, it seems that a big number of people in our society are recognizing the victims of the fucking capitalist system and the racist State.
In response to having one of his essays arrive in the All-Time Top Ten at Immediatism.com (episode 726 "All People"), Sir Josephine Deathscythe has produced four new essays which have been read on Immediatism podcast. These essays are short, to the point, and very opinionated, in the style of editorials. "Housing, etc.," while ostensibly addressing the housing crisis in Deathscythe's country, asks a larger question -- What is our obligation in opposing the state, as anarchists? We oppose the state but does that mean refusing everything it shoves our way?
from Rhyd Wildermuth
For any anti-capitalist and anti-state leftist who has been in this thing for longer than a decade, the last few days of social media has been kind of a trip. In only my short self-imposed allotment of weekly social media time (90 minutes, up from a fasting diet of only 30 minutes a week), I’ve encountered more apparent insanity than I think I had in the last six months, all of it about the “terrorists” and “fascist threat” of the idiots who interrupted congress last week.
from Center for a Stateless Society
In the first year of constant quarantine, rocked by worldwide social unrest, extreme tropical weather, and widespread government ineptitude, the complete inability and unwillingness of the ruling classes to make any substantive changes is clear. There will not be any relief and there is no reckoning. Commoditizing living animals has created the perfect conditions for zoonotic diseases to mutate and spread, but harm reduction measures to deal with the pandemic have obfuscated this risk, instead touting the animal agriculture industry as a “vital industry” necessary to the economic interests of the capitalist class. Forget sacrificing your ethics, the time has come to put yourself on the altar and pray you make the perfect gift to the market — or at least that shell of a market reflected in financial exchanges.
from ROAR
Repatriating Indigenous land and organizing anti-state Indigenous-Black-POC Power alternatives is better than pouring resources into the liberal-progressive vote.