PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

Anarchist, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regretter. If you got a brick of text, don’t be alarmed; that’s normal.

No, I’m not interested in voting for your candidate.

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  • NOT Riots, peaceful protests

    Absolutely should not matter if the event was peaceful or not. From Vicky Osterweil’s book In Defense of Looting:

    "Rioters Hurt the Media Coverage, They Make Us/Our Concerns Look Bad”

    No matter how peaceful and “well-behaved” a protest is, the dominant media will always push the police talking points and the white supremacist agenda. Although it can sometimes be leveraged strategically, the mass media is the enemy of liberation, and when we shape our actions to conform to its opinions or perspectives, we will always lose. If we riot, they will slander us. If we behave politely, peacefully, legally, they will simply return to ignoring us.

    And in my view, this line in the sand that we see moderates draw for protests vs. riots is another example of capitulating to right-wing frameworks. Never ever give the right a single inch because they will always take a mile. The people who really are against the violence of capitalism will eventually understand that riots are the language of the oppressed. The rest will never be convinced no matter how hard you try until a better world becomes inescapable.






  • Raddle is very post-left. For example:

    Anarchists are not leftists, we side with neither monarchy nor republic, dictatorship nor democracy, free market capitalism nor state capitalism. We stand for anarchy. The absolute negation of all authority, including both wings of government.

    Like I would argue that the items to the left of the bolded text make anarchists leftists, in the sense that we claim to support (and do support) non-hierarchical modes of living as the classical Left claims to do as well. Of course any serious left-wing anarchists do not want to replicate the left wing of the State. But making that critique and rejecting left unity where it conflicts with our anarchist values does not mean that we’re not leftists and that there’s nothing to be learned from classical Left literature.

    So I would assume that the bias is towards the classical Left. Which…I think that the original FAQ is pretty critical of the classical Left? But a shorter FAQ for outsiders or classical-Left-averse people is still incredibly useful IMO.