Phil Glover

Liberty™ - now with militarized cops!

This is a fairly universally applicable criticism to all ideologies.

RE: https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/116064378371973762

Anarchism by any means! Thinking about this kind of stuff a lot recently.

You cannot be an anti-authoritarian internationalist and ignore or downplay the colonialism and imperialism committed by the state you live under. Real internationalism demands you address state harms.

Anarchism™ - new and improved, now with cops to keep everyone in line!

Dems always say shit like "when we're in power, we promise to use the tools of fascism more responsibly" then blame everyone else when their flawless strategy doesn't get them elected.

This is so depressing in its accuracy.

Because it is useful to propagandize anarchy as chaos. If people understood that anarchism is simply working toward self-organization instead of being subject to broken governments, the vast majority of people would support it.

We clutch to pearls of order not recognizing them as our chains.

In major rebuke, federal judge blocks key parts of Trump’s anti-voting order “Our Constitution does not allow the President to impose unilateral changes to federal election procedures,” the judge wrote.

BREAKING: A federal court permanently blocks two provisions of Trump’s anti-voting executive order seeking to impose new citizenship verification requirements to register to vote.

The judge said the Constitution assigns “no role at all to the President” to change federal election administration.

Heptagons and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Two Cheers For Anarchism

James Scott taught us what’s wrong with seeing like a state. Now the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy. pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

I really hope white leftists aren't so arrogant with white supremacy that they think some Europeans invented leftism. The darker people of the globe were practicing these ways, & Europe's capitalism came along & fucked it up for everybody.

Not every word, and that is what makes the lies even more dangerous. But even their truths are part of a lie. They are conmen. Truth is nothing but a tool for manipulating others to their ends.

The federal government is terrorising communities, brutalising anyone they chose, immigrant or not, breaking its own constitution and killing its own citizens.

It is doing this to distract from their flagrant illegality & corruption, and to protect powerful paedophiles.

The USA is a failed state.

I would actually argue it is harder to have capitalism without a state than socialism without a state.

Freed market socialism is actually quite coherent and demonstrates how choice and autonomy can be maximized by removing the privileges of wealth enforced by state power (see Tucker's Big Four).

"an effective LVT of 1.1% would generate revenues of 80 trillion won, enough to fund an annual UBI of 3.6 million won ($2,600) per household (5% of current incomes). They found it would lower house prices, raise the net income of 85% of all households, and reduce every measure of income inequality."

writing "bitcoin" on every dead drive i dispose of to give a stranger hope

So what's an anarchist to do when surrounded by so much nationalistic fervor for demagogues?

I get why you're feeling that today, but a vanguard can always be corrupted and co-opted, and then it's just another instrument of power ready to be abused.

"Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools.
He uses them only when he has no choice.
Peace and quiet are dear to his heart.
And victory no cause for rejoicing."

www.wussu.com/laotzu/laotz...

impressive how much these puff pieces for AI still make the people involved sound like sociopaths

"the great object of law and of government has been and is, to establish and protect a violation of that natural right of property they are described in theory as being intended to guarantee"

- Thomas Hodgskin

Maybe if the Stalinists didn't subvert the revolution in 1937, it would have gone differently. It's almost like the pursuit of power was more important than what they were fighting for - how human.

If both the socialists and anarchists were aligned against the communist dictatorship, doesn't that point out that maybe it wasn't so glorious of a revolutionary administration?

That they were so desperate to remove it from power as to side with liberals and moderates isn't a win for communism.

Debating with a Marxist on political economy felt eerily like debating a Baptist about morality. They already know the "truth" wrapped up in their self-referential ideology.

But hey, I learned something. Thanks bluesky.

No, I'm not accepting the authority of Marx as the only economist who understood how legal systems of power result in privilege and wealth for the few.

I'm pointing out that you're playing games with definitions to avoid my point that communism doesn't actually rid us of the need for commodities.

You're not making a point by asking what do we do when they start dropping bombs on us.

What did Vietnam do? What is Rojava doing? They're fighting. They're fighting and resisting. Of course you fucking resist empire when it goes on the offensive.

It's authoritarian to disregard the state apparatus that enforces the privileges required to accumulate mass wealth?

You're still producing commodities if you're producing things that are the same regardless of where they're produced. You can try to tell yourself otherwise, but at that point you're just playing semantics because papa Marx defined it as such.