Jesus Fucking Christ (not verified) Sat, 10/08/2022 - 14:49
I think that this whole "anti fascist" paradigm just allows people to bludgeon anarchists and our fellow travelers. See how its swirling waves have crammed everyone onto the DNC lifeboat, in North America. Then it is just a matter of pushing us off, "into the sea".
You don't need to be "antifascist" to attack fascism. In fact, you might just have to part ways with such a framework, in order to attack the real extant power structures which are drowning us. It is not just fascism which is of concern to people like us, unfortunately, and it is not going to be this vertically defined "antifascism" which buoys us to safety either. And I say this as someone who is clearly marked for death by the fascists of every era.
Anyway, this endless bickering of who is or isn't a fascist, is or isn't anarchist, is or isn't legitimate or whatever, is just focusing on status. I have no time for this, nor should any of you. It doesn't matter what status or label someone can or can't claim, because just because some is part of one of these groups or not, does not define how we should interact with them. Rather, it is what people do and embody, which is actually relevant, and that is an ever-changing thing. Jousting like this is just a feudal revival; leave such for the feud-alists.
That said, I think it is entirely evident which people and groups are levying the kind of divisive rhetoric which benefits feud-alism and, in the course of its consequences, the deep state which lines their pockets.
Control over the anarchist niche, is essential to it continuing to be niche overall. Meanwhile, the potential of our words and actions reverberates with the echoes felt in a culture that is daily becoming more caustic to exploiters and abusers of all kinds. The days of reckoning approach, sooner than we will expect it to. It is the consequence of our affinity that we do not even believe it possible. Such is the reason for the stoking of feuds in our spaces, by people with obvious connections to the fragile system of policing. To them: Beware our coming!
My thoughts...
I think that this whole "anti fascist" paradigm just allows people to bludgeon anarchists and our fellow travelers. See how its swirling waves have crammed everyone onto the DNC lifeboat, in North America. Then it is just a matter of pushing us off, "into the sea".
You don't need to be "antifascist" to attack fascism. In fact, you might just have to part ways with such a framework, in order to attack the real extant power structures which are drowning us. It is not just fascism which is of concern to people like us, unfortunately, and it is not going to be this vertically defined "antifascism" which buoys us to safety either. And I say this as someone who is clearly marked for death by the fascists of every era.
Anyway, this endless bickering of who is or isn't a fascist, is or isn't anarchist, is or isn't legitimate or whatever, is just focusing on status. I have no time for this, nor should any of you. It doesn't matter what status or label someone can or can't claim, because just because some is part of one of these groups or not, does not define how we should interact with them. Rather, it is what people do and embody, which is actually relevant, and that is an ever-changing thing. Jousting like this is just a feudal revival; leave such for the feud-alists.
That said, I think it is entirely evident which people and groups are levying the kind of divisive rhetoric which benefits feud-alism and, in the course of its consequences, the deep state which lines their pockets.
Control over the anarchist niche, is essential to it continuing to be niche overall. Meanwhile, the potential of our words and actions reverberates with the echoes felt in a culture that is daily becoming more caustic to exploiters and abusers of all kinds. The days of reckoning approach, sooner than we will expect it to. It is the consequence of our affinity that we do not even believe it possible. Such is the reason for the stoking of feuds in our spaces, by people with obvious connections to the fragile system of policing. To them: Beware our coming!