Rebellion sparks fire in the hearts of those who rise up, and this fire calls for relationships that burn: loves, friendships, and, yes, even hatreds that reflect the intensity of rebellion. The greatest insult we can give another human being is to merely tolerate them, so let us pursue friendships with the same intensity with which we pursue love, blurring the boundaries between them, creating our own fierce and beautiful ways of relating free of that logic of submission to mediocrity imposed by the state and capital.
Being stuck in a room with this person for any amount of time would be agonizing.
evoking the intense passions of the strong-willed.
There’s that “willpower” again, which is hilariously a protestant Christian myth used to justify hierarchical systems of oppression by assigning willpower to middle class strivers and denying willpower to the dirty morally bankrupt working poor. This person is a fascist.
It finds passion dangerous and destructive since such intensity of feeling is, after all, opposed to the cold logic of power and profit.
If this person really wanted to understand what they’re fetishizing they’re more than welcome to take my bipolar disorder on a test drive for a month.
There is no place in this society for passionate reason or the reasonable focusing of passion.
What does this even mean? I really want to know what they feel they’re being kept from doing. Do they really really want to start a rock band? Are they extremely intense about birding?
The next paragraph kinda-sorta identifies structural racism and patriarchy as systems of oppression but does so in a largely anti-materialist way that’s pretty useless for either analysis or action.
All this rhetoric is so empty. It’s completely vibe based and the vibe is “I don’t wanna!” in the most childish sense.
The circuses that we are offered with our bread present us with spectacles like none ever seen before. Exotic places, strange creatures with magical powers, fantastic explosions, battles and miracles, all these are offered for our entertainment, keeping us glued to the spectator’s seat, our activity limited to occasionally flicking a button — not unlike the primary activity in increasing numbers of jobs. So “the impossible” this society offers us is nothing more than spectacular special effects on a screen, the drug of virtuality numbing us to the misery of the reality that surrounds us, in which possibilities for really living are closing down.
I thought they were going to start talking about the “Spectacle” of the Situationists but this is just whining about MCU slop. Which, don’t get me wrong, I love whining about MCU slop.
If we are to escape this miserable existence, our revolt must be precisely against social reality in its totality. Realism within this context becomes acceptance. Today when one speaks sincerely of revolution — of striving to overturn the present reality in order to open the possibility of concrete, self-determined human activity and individual freedom — one is being unrealistic, even utopian. But can anything less put an end to the present misery?
I really don’t understand what “individual freedom” they feel the lack but I suspect if they ever tried to define it it’d end up being something incredibly banal and vibes based. What does “against social reality in it’s totality” even mean? They’re really not identifying any existing structures or systems that so upsets them.
This is not the declaration of a strong individuality making itself the center of a revolt against the world of domination and alienation, but rather an admission of resignation, a retreat into merely tending one’s own garden as the monster lumbers on.
No shit. Most leftists don’t want to be part of a fascist death cult.
They not only fail to threaten the world of capital and the state; they actually ease the pressure on those in power by providing voluntary social services under the guise of creating “counter-institutions”.
Fascistic contempt for weakness again. Calling yourself an anarchist then ranting about mutual aid is a choice.
A more activist form of realism also exists. It is found in a perspective that ignores the totality of the present reality, choosing instead to see only its parts. Thus, the reality of alienation, domination and exploitation is broken down into categories of oppression which are viewed separately such as racism, sexism, environmental destruction and so on.
Oh yeah here we go. More empty head idealistic tosh.
This person is really screaming at liberals in a way that is completely incomprehensible to liberals and marks them out as a huge threat and wrecker to anyone who actually does stuff.
Rather than starting from the world as it is, one may choose to start from the will to grasp her life as his own.
Fascist hero cult. Take a drink.
Thus, it is an obstruction to an attempt to freely determine how one will live and relate. Nonetheless, up to now, men have been granted more leeway in asserting their will within these roles than women, a reasonable explanation for why more anarchists, revolutionaries and outlaws have been men than women. Women who have been strong, rebellious individuals have been so precisely because they have moved beyond their femininity.
Half right. The author fails to consider that most women would recognize the kind of will to power go fast and break things fascist “revolutionary” they idolize to be a threat.
Since male domination is not adequately explored as an aspect of total domination, even by anarcha-feminists, the rhetoric of radical feminism frequently takes on a style similar to that of national liberation struggles.
I would love to know what this person’s education has been like. Like, what material did they read to come up with this?
So those of us who want an expansive existence, life lived to the full, are moved to take action, to attack the institutions that compel us to live such petty lives.
Please stop writing and go throw yourself heroically at the swords of your oppressors this is getting really boring.
Moved to take back our lives and make them wellsprings of the marvelous, we inevitably encounter repression. Everyday, hidden mechanisms of repression operate to prevent revolt, to guarantee the submission that maintains the social order. The necessities of survival, the underlying awareness of always being watched, the barrage of prohibitions that meet the eyes on signs or in the person of a cop, the very structure of the social environments in which we move, these are enough to keep most people in line, eyes to the ground, minds empty of all except the petty worries of the day. But when one has had enough of this impoverished existence and decides that there must be more, that she cannot tolerate another day in which life is diminished even more, the repression ceases to be so subtle. The spark of revolt has to be suppressed; the maintenance of the social order requires it.
This person is clearly aware of a lot of core Left ideas and theories, but somehow interprets them from the position of a GTA protagonist. Like they’re describing the panoptican, self-surveillance, chilling effect, all this pretty basic Leftist theory, but it’s all “me me me” whining.
I have always considered the question of security a simple one, a matter of practical intelligence that anyone should be capable of figuring out.
This is rubbish. Security culture is incredibly difficult to understand and hugely disruptive to actually apply in one’s life. Most people flat out do not understand how state police and intelligence services gather information.
By developing relations of affinity, on decides with whom one can act. There is no need to say a word about an action to anyone who is not involved in it. This is basic and should go without saying for anyone who decides to action against domination. But such practical intelligence has no need to enshroud itself in an atmosphere of suspicion and secretiveness where every word and every thought must be watched, in which even the words of defiance are considered too great a risk. If our practice takes us there, we have already lost.
The author is a cop. Affinity groups are fine for small ad-hoc actions. If you’re going to throw the French out of Algeria or the British out of Ireland you need air-tight, iron-clad hierarchical cell-structure units that allow coordinated action but can survive the annihilation of entire branches of the structure. Affinity groups are fine for spray painting and throwing bricks at bank windows. It’s not sufficient for direct combat against military and paramilitary forces and never has been. Idk how the fuck the author thinks anyone would trust them with high explosives or anti-aircraft missiles.
If our practice takes us there, we have already lost.
That’s cause you’re advocating for a fascist death cult, not a revolution. The author cares more about being the main character than they do about winning.
In the context of illegal activity, security is essential. But even in this context, it is not the top priority.
The author is, again, a cop. The cops could not ask for a better agent, spy, wrecker, or assassin than someone who believes these things and lives accordingly.
It is obvious that one shouldn’t leave evidence or speak to the police, that one should take the due precautions to avoid arrest — a situation that would certainly not enhance one’s struggle for a full free life.
It is not at all, in any way, obvious and people with a great deal of training and experience fuck up and get their entire cell exterminated all the time. That’s a huge part of why security is so important; When someone inevitably gets drunk at a bar and starts talking, or trusts their partner and discusses trauma not knowing their partner is a cop, the cell needs to be compartmentalized so it can be cut free before the entire system is mapped and annihilated.
As an example of why this is absurd on it’s face go refresh yourself on how the Metropolitan Police completely infiltrated the London activist scene and had cops in significant places, including in fake relationships with activists, for decades.
The caution necessary to avoid arrest does not reflect the sort of life and relationships we want to build.
It’s very telling that this person is concerned with arrest. Not torture, not extermination. Not your children being thrown in to the foster system, your elderly parents dying on the street, your allies being taken down when you narc on them because you’re a twit.. Mere arrest. That’s the scope of state violence that they see as a threat.
When anarchists begin to see security as their top priority — as a “culture” that they must develop — paranoia comes to dominate relationships. Anarchist conferences are set up with levels of bureaucracy and (let’s call things what they are) policing that too closely parallels what we are trying to destroy. Suspicion replaces comradeship and solidarity. If someone doesn’t look or dress right, he finds herself ostracized, excluded from involvement. Something vital has been lost here — the reason for our struggle. It has vanished behind the hard armor of militancy, and we have come to be the mirror image of our enemy.
The anarchist struggle slips into this joyless, paranoid rigidity when it is not carried out as an attempt to create life differently, joyfully, intensely, but is rather treated as a cause to which one is to sacrifice oneself. One’s struggle then becomes moral, not a question of desire, but of right and wrong, good and evil, conceived as absolute and knowable. Here is the source of much of the rigidity, much of the paranoia and much of the unwarranted sense of self-importance that one finds much too often in anarchist circles. We are the righteous warriors surrounded on all sides by the forces of evil. We must protect ourselves from any possibility of contamination. And the character armor hardens undermining the joyful spirit that provides the courage necessary for the destruction of the world of domination.
I cannot stress this enough; The author is a cop
This is why our projects of attack must originate in and be carried out with joy and an expansive generosity of spirit.
I have read Sun Tzu cover to cover many times and I assure you that “joy and an expansive generosity of spirit” is not ever discussed as a relevant factor in combined arms warfare.
This reason is absolutely serious in its desire to destroy all that diminishes life, confining it to that which can be measured. And because it is so serious, it laughs.
It’s very hard to laugh when a police sniper has turned your lungs inside out and you’re choking to death on your own blood.
the situationist idea that revolution would be therapeutic
Oh they do know about the Situationists.
It seems clear to me that the situationists were pointing out that a real revolutionary rupture would break down the social constraints which underlie so much of what is considered “mental illness” and “emotional disturbance”
People who put mental illness in scare quotes are not comrades.
And many so-called revolutionaries, in conformity to such a practice, tend to become the emotionally crippled neurotics that they assume they are, searching for a revolutionary healing that will never come, because this assumed role is inherently self-perpetuating and, thus perpetuates the society that produces it.
The fascist hates mentally ill people. Water wet, Sky blue.
By accepting the idea (promoted heavily by progressive education and publicity) that the structures of oppression are essentially mindsets inside of ourselves, we become focused on our own presumed weakness, on how crippled we supposedly are.
Again, this person is yelling at liberals in a language liberals cannot understand.
Because the first two give very real and clear expression of the difference between psychoanalysis and social analysis, between the approach of therapy and that of revolt, I will examine them briefly.
Lol this person thinks that Freudian psychotherapy is representative of mental health care. This explains so much.
Viewing racism and sexism as essentially unconscious mindsets and the behavior these produce, the nature of which we are not always aware, we are drawn onto a practice of constant self-examination, constant self-doubt, which effectively disables us, particularly in our ability to interact with the other.
Oh yeah this makes so much sense they’re not just yelling at libs, they’re yelling at Freud. Fuck me.
If one has the bad fortune of being “white” and “male” (even if one consciously rejects all the social constraints and definitions behind such labels), then he is required to accept the judgment of “non-whites” and “females” about the significance, the “real” unconscious motivations of his actions.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA No bro I’m not enmeshed in the patriarchy bro I’m the main character I’m special I consciously reject all the social constraints and definitions behind such labels by… being a violent, anti-social, untrustworthy menace who acts without consideration for the needs, wellbeing, and personhood of others in ways that are dangerous to everyone around me.
It’s lovely to see people tell on themselves like this. DAE woke Dei idpol removed leftists?
If, on the other hand, we view racism and sexism as expressions of the social ideological constructs of race and gender which have specific institutional foundations, a very different approach applies. The concept of race as it is currently understood here in North America has its origins in the institutions of black slavery and the genocide against the indigenous people of this continent. Once established by these institutions, it became rooted into all of the power structures on one level or another due to its usefulness to the ruling class, and was trickled down to the exploited classes as a means of separating them and keeping them fighting among themselves. Sexism has its origins in the institutions of property, marriage and the family. It is here that patriarchy and male dominance have their seat. Within this framework, gender is created as a social construct, and as with race, it is the continuing usefulness of this construct to the ruling class that has kept it in place in spite of the increasingly obvious absurdity of the institutions that are its basis. Thus, the destruction of racism and sexism must start with the explicitly revolutionary project of destroying the institutional frameworks which are the current basis for the constructs of race and gender. Such a project is not one of therapy, but of revolt. It will not be accomplished by shy, tiptoeing mice — nor by inquisitors — but by self-confident, indomitable rebels.
This is incredible. This person has gone to great lengths to extol the virtues of violent masculinity, then whines about how woke DEI feminists don’t trust them because they’re too stupid to see that akshually the problem is structural you silly women and minorities.
Thus, there can be no obligations, no debts, only choices of how to act.
Again, this person is a danger to everyone around them.
? Basing itself in the idea that we are crippled rather than chained, inherently weak rather than held down, it imposes an obligatory interdependence, a mutuality of incapacity, rather than a sharing of strengths and capabilities.
Fascist hero cult again. Contempt for weakness, which they have coded as being feminine and minority, exultation of heroism which they have identified with masculinity and whiteness.
It is the nature of weakness to submit. If we all assume our own weakness, our perpetual internal infection by these various social diseases, then we will continue to nurture a submissive way of interacting with the world, ever ready to admit guilt, to apologize, to back down from what we’ve said or done.
Oh look they just verbatim fucking said it for me. Fuck me. Also, note “social diseases”, which isn’t an inherently fascist expression but is very heavily tied to fascism and capitalism middle class moralism.
The rise of the civilization we live in with its institutions of domination is based on the division of labor, the process by which the activities necessary for living are transformed into specialized roles for the reproduction of society. Such specialization serves to undermine autonomy and reinforce authority because it takes certain tools — certain aspects of a complete individual — from the vast majority and places them in the hands of a few so-called experts.
I bet you five whole dollars this person could not produce an iron hammer from start to finish all by themselves. This is a bizarre thing to complain about. Specialization of labor is awesome. I can make an astonishing variety of useful shit and it sucks. Making everything you need to live by yourself is ruinously time consuming and leads to a miserable hardscrabble life.
One of the most fundamental specializations is that which created the role of the intellectual, the specialist in the use of intelligence.
Oh come the fuck on. This is Fascist manifesto. Hero cult, contempt for women, contempt for weakness, and now ranting about intellectuals? They’re gonna name drop Judeo-Bolshevism I just know it.
The specialization that creates the intellectual is in fact part of the process of stupefaction that the ruling order imposes on those who are ruled. For the intellectual, knowledge is not the qualitative capacity to understand, analyze and reason about one’s own experience or to make use of the strivings of others to achieve such an understanding. The knowledge of intellectuals is completely disconnected from wisdom, which is considered a quaint anachronism. Rather, it is the capacity for remembering unconnected facts, bits of information, that has come to be seen as “knowledge”. Only such a degradation of the conception of intelligence could allow people to talk of the possibility of “artificial intelligence” in relation to those information storage and retrieval units that we call computers.
Fascist shit. Disdaining “intellectual” knowledge, you know science and the accumulation of learning and shit, in favor of “wisdom”, which is to say the intuition of a bold heroic ubermensch.
If we understand that intellectualism is the degradation of intelligence, then we can recognize that the struggle against intellectualism does not consist of the refusal of the capacities of the mind, but rather of the refusal of a deforming specialization. Historically, radical movements have given many examples of this struggle in practice. Renzo Novatore was the son of a peasant who only attended school for six months. Yet he studied the works of Nietzsche, Stirner, Marx, Hegel, ancient philosophers, historians and poets, all of the anarchists writers and those involved in the various newly arising art and literature movements of his time. He was an active participant in anarchist debates on theory and practice as well as debates in radical art movements. And he did all of this in the context of an intense, active insurrectional practice. In a similar vein, Bartolemeo Vanzetti, who started working as an apprentice in early adolescence often for long hours, describes in his brief autobiography how he would spend a good part of his nights reading philosophy, history, radical theory and so on, in order to grasp these tools that the ruling class would deny to him. It was this thirst to grasp the tools of the mind that brought him to his anarchist perspective. In the late 19th century in Florida, cigar-makers forced their bosses to hire readers to read to them as they worked. These readers read the works of Bakunin, Marx and other radical theorists to the workers who would then discuss what was read. And in the early 20th century, radical hoboes and their friends would set up “hobo colleges” where a wide variety of speakers would give talks on social questions, philosophy, revolutionary theory and practice, even science or history, and the hoboes would discuss the questions. In each of these instances, we see the refusal of the exploited to let the tools of intelligence to be taken away from them. And as I see it, this is precisely the nature of a real struggle against intellectualism. It is not a glorification of ignorance, but a defiant refusal to be dispossessed of one’s capacity to learn, think and understand.
This is incoherent. Of course people can self-educate. What does this person think “intellecuals” are if not people who read a whole lot and then talk about what they’ve learned?
The inability of post-modern theorists to comprehend any totality can easily be traced to this deformation of intelligence.
Whining about post-modernism. It’s not quite shrieking about Judeo-Bolshevism but I’ll take it.
Because I sincerely want to end all domination and exploitation and to begin opening the possibilities for creating a world where there are neither exploited or exploiters, slaves or masters, I choose to grasp all of my intelligence passionately, using every mental weapon — along with the physical ones — to attack the present social order. I make no apologies for this, nor will I cater to those who out of laziness or ideological conception of the intellectual limits of the exploited classes refuse to use their intelligence. It is not just a revolutionary anarchist project that is at stake in this struggle; it is my completeness as an individual and the fullness of life that I desire.
Reddit ass incoherent dogshit.
The logic of submission imposes itself on the level of daily life offering thousands of reasons for resigning oneself to the domination of survival over life.
Cult of the Hero, contempt for weakness
the occupation of abandoned spaces, the sharing of free food, the publication of a bimonthly anarchist periodical, sabotage, pirate radio stations, demonstrations, attacks against the institutions of domination
Oh god they finally actually said something concrete and it is the most tepid fucking shit oh my god this is hilarious who the fuck thinks about pirate radio anymore? Bimonthly anarchist periodicals? Jesus christ fuck off you goddamn loser.
But the road of political ideology and programs is no more useful to the project of subversion. Because this project is the transformation of existence in a way that destroys all domination and exploitation, it is inherently anti-political.
Yeah, because fascists hate politics and what you’re advocating for is a fascist death cult. That… broadcasts pirate radio? Utterly incoherent.
eep and ever increasing knowledge of the other — a knowledge of their ideas, their aspirations, their desires, their capacities, their inclinations. It is a knowledge of similarities, yes, but more significantly, it is a knowledge of differences, because it is at the point of difference that real practical knowledge begins, the knowledge of whether and how one can carry out projects and create life with another. It is for this reason that among ourselves — as in our relationship to that which we are struggling against — it is necessary to avoid the practice of compromise and the constant search for common ground.
This is exactly why every anarchist org I’ve worked in has struggled to function at any level. Enough people always wanted to stick to their own bull-headed idea of the right way to do things and wouldn’t bend an inch or cede authority in any matter to anyone and as a result we couldn’t even arrange for coffee and fucking donuts at the meetings, let alone get anything done.
This is a fascist manifesto and the author is a cop. I have no further analysis.
It is fucking hilarious that this asshole goes on and on and on and on lionizing indidivual heroism and violence and contempt for society and everyone in it and then at the end they're like "uh, yeah, so live your revolution by making a zine".
Jesus fucking christ at least kill someone before writing this incredible drek. The whole time I thought they were going to end it with a call to go shoot up thr financial district or something and at the end it's like "You should revolutionarily share the donuts you dumpster-dived for in a revolutionary fashion that embodies the totality of revolution". Fucking christ. "Deeply unserious" is not sufficient we need, like, "Mariana Trenchily unserious for this".
Okay actually a little bit more analysis
The reason this person is a cop is that they have totally, utterly internalized the ideals of totally, utterly atomized hyper-individualism, severed from all community, culture, and context, that modern capitalism demands of us. This person has made themselves in to the perfect capitalist singleton, the perfect consumer. They exist only as an indvidual organism that eats and shits, having no relationships of any kind with anyone. The only things they are capable of are labor, consumption, and death. The perfect capitalist robot clothed in the language of anarchism fascism.
Thank you for such a comprehensive takedown, god knows how obvious this shit is once you point it out. It's also worth noting that the figure mentioned, Renzo Novatore, was literally a futurist lmfao.
The reason this person is a cop is that they have totally, utterly internalized the ideals of totally, utterly atomized hyper-individualism, severed from all community, culture, and context, that modern capitalism demands of us. This person has made themselves in to the perfect capitalist singleton, the perfect consumer. They exist only as an indvidual organism that eats and shits, having no relationships of any kind with anyone. The only things they are capable of are labor, consumption, and death. The perfect capitalist robot clothed in the language of anarchism fascism.
It's what happens when all you know is liberalism, and then you try and create an alternative political ideology which (usually unknowingly) uses the same building blocks as liberalism hoping that you'll find The One True Ideology To Overthrow Capitalism, but then - oh no - at the end of the process, you just have a slightly different form of liberalism. We should solve climate change by... purchasing - from the capitalists who are causing climate change - devices for our homes that have "organic" or "sustainable" or "net-zero" or whatever on the label. We should solve alienation by... rejecting the "weak" (which, by my classification, makes up most of society!) and only connecting with those who are also passionate and fiery and want things to change.
In essence: we must solve and overcome capitalism and liberalism's actual real-world manifestation, warts and all, by buying into the pleasant myths of capitalism and liberalism and bring those myths into reality. It's just that simple! No more crony capitalism - just idyllic free-market competition! And to accomplish this, we have to use the same philosophies and ideas that went on to create that crony capitalism. The problems are bad, but the causes are good! I feel like most capital-L Liberals have a viewpoint that can be summarized as "I was taught the propaganda about the system we live under in school, but now that I'm an adult, I see that the reality of the system is very different. The only solution is to make the propaganda real, and we do that by [insert flawed method here]." The most sheltered/delusional Liberals - usually the ones that want to achieve some level of political/economic office or power - instead think "Actually, the propaganda is real!"
You see the above Nietzchean bullshit so many times in manifestos by mass shooters and other "radicals" that it's just rather boring at this point. Oh, yet another alienated 20-40 year old white guy who believes that we have to rise up and act like hyperindividualist passionate revolutionaries to overthrow the weak woke/feminist/Jewish/Islamic/Chinese/etc capitalist regime that we all willingly tolerate and live under like emaciated brainwashed sheep? Wow, what's next, are you gonna say that all authority is inherently tyrannical but single out those "dictators" that the US State Department specifically hates? I can't wait to hear your opinion on cryptocurrency.
There are some (initially) uncomfortable truths in Marxism that liberals either have to digest or reject, but it provably produces an ideology which has generated revolutions against liberalism and capitalism, around the world and in many different situations.
I forget the quote and who said it, but there's a line out there about how merely declaring that you or your comrades are now free in a revolutionary way is totally meaningless, i.e "acting revolutionary-ly" - the material conditions must be changed in order for you to achieve actual freedom.
Or something similar? It might be a good idea to talk about the original poster and their motivation behind sharing this and whether any action needs to be taken.
Being stuck in a room with this person for any amount of time would be agonizing.
There’s that “willpower” again, which is hilariously a protestant Christian myth used to justify hierarchical systems of oppression by assigning willpower to middle class strivers and denying willpower to the dirty morally bankrupt working poor. This person is a fascist.
If this person really wanted to understand what they’re fetishizing they’re more than welcome to take my bipolar disorder on a test drive for a month.
What does this even mean? I really want to know what they feel they’re being kept from doing. Do they really really want to start a rock band? Are they extremely intense about birding?
The next paragraph kinda-sorta identifies structural racism and patriarchy as systems of oppression but does so in a largely anti-materialist way that’s pretty useless for either analysis or action.
All this rhetoric is so empty. It’s completely vibe based and the vibe is “I don’t wanna!” in the most childish sense.
I thought they were going to start talking about the “Spectacle” of the Situationists but this is just whining about MCU slop. Which, don’t get me wrong, I love whining about MCU slop.
I really don’t understand what “individual freedom” they feel the lack but I suspect if they ever tried to define it it’d end up being something incredibly banal and vibes based. What does “against social reality in it’s totality” even mean? They’re really not identifying any existing structures or systems that so upsets them.
No shit. Most leftists don’t want to be part of a fascist death cult.
Fascistic contempt for weakness again. Calling yourself an anarchist then ranting about mutual aid is a choice.
Oh yeah here we go. More empty head idealistic tosh.
This person is really screaming at liberals in a way that is completely incomprehensible to liberals and marks them out as a huge threat and wrecker to anyone who actually does stuff.
Fascist hero cult. Take a drink.
Half right. The author fails to consider that most women would recognize the kind of will to power go fast and break things fascist “revolutionary” they idolize to be a threat.
I would love to know what this person’s education has been like. Like, what material did they read to come up with this?
Please stop writing and go throw yourself heroically at the swords of your oppressors this is getting really boring.
This person is clearly aware of a lot of core Left ideas and theories, but somehow interprets them from the position of a GTA protagonist. Like they’re describing the panoptican, self-surveillance, chilling effect, all this pretty basic Leftist theory, but it’s all “me me me” whining.
This is rubbish. Security culture is incredibly difficult to understand and hugely disruptive to actually apply in one’s life. Most people flat out do not understand how state police and intelligence services gather information.
The author is a cop. Affinity groups are fine for small ad-hoc actions. If you’re going to throw the French out of Algeria or the British out of Ireland you need air-tight, iron-clad hierarchical cell-structure units that allow coordinated action but can survive the annihilation of entire branches of the structure. Affinity groups are fine for spray painting and throwing bricks at bank windows. It’s not sufficient for direct combat against military and paramilitary forces and never has been. Idk how the fuck the author thinks anyone would trust them with high explosives or anti-aircraft missiles.
That’s cause you’re advocating for a fascist death cult, not a revolution. The author cares more about being the main character than they do about winning.
The author is, again, a cop. The cops could not ask for a better agent, spy, wrecker, or assassin than someone who believes these things and lives accordingly.
It is not at all, in any way, obvious and people with a great deal of training and experience fuck up and get their entire cell exterminated all the time. That’s a huge part of why security is so important; When someone inevitably gets drunk at a bar and starts talking, or trusts their partner and discusses trauma not knowing their partner is a cop, the cell needs to be compartmentalized so it can be cut free before the entire system is mapped and annihilated.
As an example of why this is absurd on it’s face go refresh yourself on how the Metropolitan Police completely infiltrated the London activist scene and had cops in significant places, including in fake relationships with activists, for decades.
It’s very telling that this person is concerned with arrest. Not torture, not extermination. Not your children being thrown in to the foster system, your elderly parents dying on the street, your allies being taken down when you narc on them because you’re a twit.. Mere arrest. That’s the scope of state violence that they see as a threat.
I have read Sun Tzu cover to cover many times and I assure you that “joy and an expansive generosity of spirit” is not ever discussed as a relevant factor in combined arms warfare.
It’s very hard to laugh when a police sniper has turned your lungs inside out and you’re choking to death on your own blood.
Oh they do know about the Situationists.
People who put mental illness in scare quotes are not comrades.
The fascist hates mentally ill people. Water wet, Sky blue.
Again, this person is yelling at liberals in a language liberals cannot understand.
Lol this person thinks that Freudian psychotherapy is representative of mental health care. This explains so much.
Oh yeah this makes so much sense they’re not just yelling at libs, they’re yelling at Freud. Fuck me.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA No bro I’m not enmeshed in the patriarchy bro I’m the main character I’m special I consciously reject all the social constraints and definitions behind such labels by… being a violent, anti-social, untrustworthy menace who acts without consideration for the needs, wellbeing, and personhood of others in ways that are dangerous to everyone around me.
It’s lovely to see people tell on themselves like this. DAE woke Dei idpol removed leftists?
This is incredible. This person has gone to great lengths to extol the virtues of violent masculinity, then whines about how woke DEI feminists don’t trust them because they’re too stupid to see that akshually the problem is structural you silly women and minorities.
Again, this person is a danger to everyone around them.
Fascist hero cult again. Contempt for weakness, which they have coded as being feminine and minority, exultation of heroism which they have identified with masculinity and whiteness.
Oh look they just verbatim fucking said it for me. Fuck me. Also, note “social diseases”, which isn’t an inherently fascist expression but is very heavily tied to fascism and capitalism middle class moralism.
I bet you five whole dollars this person could not produce an iron hammer from start to finish all by themselves. This is a bizarre thing to complain about. Specialization of labor is awesome. I can make an astonishing variety of useful shit and it sucks. Making everything you need to live by yourself is ruinously time consuming and leads to a miserable hardscrabble life.
Oh come the fuck on. This is Fascist manifesto. Hero cult, contempt for women, contempt for weakness, and now ranting about intellectuals? They’re gonna name drop Judeo-Bolshevism I just know it.
Fascist shit. Disdaining “intellectual” knowledge, you know science and the accumulation of learning and shit, in favor of “wisdom”, which is to say the intuition of a bold heroic ubermensch.
This is incoherent. Of course people can self-educate. What does this person think “intellecuals” are if not people who read a whole lot and then talk about what they’ve learned?
Whining about post-modernism. It’s not quite shrieking about Judeo-Bolshevism but I’ll take it.
Reddit ass incoherent dogshit.
Cult of the Hero, contempt for weakness
Oh god they finally actually said something concrete and it is the most tepid fucking shit oh my god this is hilarious who the fuck thinks about pirate radio anymore? Bimonthly anarchist periodicals? Jesus christ fuck off you goddamn loser.
Yeah, because fascists hate politics and what you’re advocating for is a fascist death cult. That… broadcasts pirate radio? Utterly incoherent.
This is exactly why every anarchist org I’ve worked in has struggled to function at any level. Enough people always wanted to stick to their own bull-headed idea of the right way to do things and wouldn’t bend an inch or cede authority in any matter to anyone and as a result we couldn’t even arrange for coffee and fucking donuts at the meetings, let alone get anything done.
This is a fascist manifesto and the author is a cop. I have no further analysis.
Okay I do have further analysis
It is fucking hilarious that this asshole goes on and on and on and on lionizing indidivual heroism and violence and contempt for society and everyone in it and then at the end they're like "uh, yeah, so live your revolution by making a zine".
Jesus fucking christ at least kill someone before writing this incredible drek. The whole time I thought they were going to end it with a call to go shoot up thr financial district or something and at the end it's like "You should revolutionarily share the donuts you dumpster-dived for in a revolutionary fashion that embodies the totality of revolution". Fucking christ. "Deeply unserious" is not sufficient we need, like, "Mariana Trenchily unserious for this".
Okay actually a little bit more analysis
The reason this person is a cop is that they have totally, utterly internalized the ideals of totally, utterly atomized hyper-individualism, severed from all community, culture, and context, that modern capitalism demands of us. This person has made themselves in to the perfect capitalist singleton, the perfect consumer. They exist only as an indvidual organism that eats and shits, having no relationships of any kind with anyone. The only things they are capable of are labor, consumption, and death. The perfect capitalist robot clothed in the language of
anarchismfascism.Thank you for such a comprehensive takedown, god knows how obvious this shit is once you point it out. It's also worth noting that the figure mentioned, Renzo Novatore, was literally a futurist lmfao.
It's what happens when all you know is liberalism, and then you try and create an alternative political ideology which (usually unknowingly) uses the same building blocks as liberalism hoping that you'll find The One True Ideology To Overthrow Capitalism, but then - oh no - at the end of the process, you just have a slightly different form of liberalism. We should solve climate change by... purchasing - from the capitalists who are causing climate change - devices for our homes that have "organic" or "sustainable" or "net-zero" or whatever on the label. We should solve alienation by... rejecting the "weak" (which, by my classification, makes up most of society!) and only connecting with those who are also passionate and fiery and want things to change.
In essence: we must solve and overcome capitalism and liberalism's actual real-world manifestation, warts and all, by buying into the pleasant myths of capitalism and liberalism and bring those myths into reality. It's just that simple! No more crony capitalism - just idyllic free-market competition! And to accomplish this, we have to use the same philosophies and ideas that went on to create that crony capitalism. The problems are bad, but the causes are good! I feel like most capital-L Liberals have a viewpoint that can be summarized as "I was taught the propaganda about the system we live under in school, but now that I'm an adult, I see that the reality of the system is very different. The only solution is to make the propaganda real, and we do that by [insert flawed method here]." The most sheltered/delusional Liberals - usually the ones that want to achieve some level of political/economic office or power - instead think "Actually, the propaganda is real!"
You see the above Nietzchean bullshit so many times in manifestos by mass shooters and other "radicals" that it's just rather boring at this point. Oh, yet another alienated 20-40 year old white guy who believes that we have to rise up and act like hyperindividualist passionate revolutionaries to overthrow the weak woke/feminist/Jewish/Islamic/Chinese/etc capitalist regime that we all willingly tolerate and live under like emaciated brainwashed sheep? Wow, what's next, are you gonna say that all authority is inherently tyrannical but single out those "dictators" that the US State Department specifically hates? I can't wait to hear your opinion on cryptocurrency.
There are some (initially) uncomfortable truths in Marxism that liberals either have to digest or reject, but it provably produces an ideology which has generated revolutions against liberalism and capitalism, around the world and in many different situations.
I forget the quote and who said it, but there's a line out there about how merely declaring that you or your comrades are now free in a revolutionary way is totally meaningless, i.e "acting revolutionary-ly" - the material conditions must be changed in order for you to achieve actual freedom.
I would want to report this post for being Fascist shit, but now I don't because of your fantastic response.
Does Hexbear have an equivalent to The People's Court?
Or something similar? It might be a good idea to talk about the original poster and their motivation behind sharing this and whether any action needs to be taken.
I reported it but Franks response should be glorified in the annals of Hexbear history regardless.
Fuck that show fascists the door
I reported it
Having these guys running around is harmful bc it lets them spread their ideas and creates an unsafe environment for our marginalized comrades
Fucking glorious write up of this fascist dredge. A+.
This is literally just a fascist text. Thank you for the write up, comrade