New video Essay out:
youtu.be/rhAHKI2-3so?si…
In this video, I talk about anarchy & self-defense, and I touch on decolonization/debunk the notion of a nation-state being a tool for decolonization.
I feel like socialism isn’t a dirty word anymore because the ruling class has misconstrued it to mean capitalism with a social safety net, not the workers having control over the means of production.
“Socialist is not a dirty word anymore – that’s why they jumped to ‘communist,’” Jamaal Bowman said to @mehdirhasan.
“Democrats, listen up. Take some lessons – don’t get on your Ezra Klein nonsense. Don’t let Ezra Klein 'analyze' what happened here,” he added.
With
I’m realizing that a lot of people don’t want liberation they just want to jump to the next empire… the more benevolent boot to be under. Benevolent is even in question honestly
I just saw a TikTok “anarchist” say that they’re losing trust in democracy, and that’s when I realized that there’s virtually no anarchist presence on TikTok. The space is severely dominated by MLs only.
Mutual aid isn't supposed to have an exchange value 🤦🏽♂️ that's what leads to commodification, which leads to markets and capitalist exchange relations. The whole point of mutual aid is to shatter exchange value into pieces.
Bruh can we PLEASE for Christ sake purge these types of people from the left. If the authoritarian left is too scary to do it, anarchists need to start making these Nazbol red-brown assholes feel uncomfortable at every event
I need y'all “left-unity” anarchists to understand that this is what MLs think of y'all. ESPECIALLY Black anarchists.. And indigenous anarchists, too. White MLs like Madeline literally foam at the mouth at the idea of crushing something like cooperation Jackson.
A cease-fire is not the same, it's just a temporary truce not a treaty. And it was Ukraine that violated the majority of cease-fires, usually to attack other Ukrainians.
Google still says this is an antisemitic conspiracy theory even tho Jews literally bought all the major news outlets and control Tiktok, Instagram and Facebook
Insane levels of gaslighting we’ve been through our entire lives