Several “violent incidents” involving groups of #juveniles reported in states like #California and #Washington

https://newstarget.com/2023-09-08-violent-incidents-involving-groups-juveniles-multiple-states.html

#violence #anarchy

"In a neighborhood where the walls are covered with anarchist posters, beautiful radical graffiti stands alongside all the usual tags, advertisements never stay up for long, the windows of luxury cars, banks, and gentrifying apartments or restaurants are never safe, and people hang out drinking and talking on the street corners and in the parks, our ideas will be seriously discussed outside our own narrow circles, and the state would need a major counterinsurgency operation to have just the hope of uprooting us."

'Whenever we can break their little laws with impunity, we show that the State is weak. When advertising is defaced and public space is liberated, we show that capitalism is not absolute."

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Graffiti #Vandalism #Capitalism #Liberation

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/a-g-schwarz-signals-of-disorder-sowing-anarchy-in-the-metropolis

Anarchists aren't causing chaos. Indeed, they are trying to install some sort of peace in the face of neoliberal disorder.
Indeed the neoliberal economy thrives on chaos:
Relaxed regulation of pollution laws
Fierce competition within and between nation states
Exploitation of labor and de-democracizing the workplace.
Debt bondage of developing nations
Tax policies that favor the wealthy
Police suppression of free speech
The war economy
I could go on, but I want to keep from getting too depressed this fine Sunday morning.
#saveweelauneeforest
#anarchy
#neoliberal

This looks really interesting!

#anarchy #IRtheory #apsr #anthropocene

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/anarchy-scarcity-nature-rousseaus-stag-hunt-and-the-arctic-walrus-hunt-compared/B7309BBFA565C1A398C899BA53965FA1#

Several “violent incidents” involving groups of #juveniles reported in states like #California and #Washington #violence #anarchy

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-09-08-violent-incidents-involving-groups-juveniles-multiple-states.html

Criticize capitalism around here and very soon you'll have replies arguing that your complaints may be accurate but the things you object to are somehow not intrinsic to capitalism. That capitalism can be reformed so there's no need to destroy it. All we need is better laws, all of these arguments go. Often Scandinavian countries get mentioned.

None of these arguments convince me, but the silliest one of all is that capitalism can exist without coercion, without organized state violence. It's an intrinsically contradictory position. If all we need are better laws to eliminate the flaws of capitalism well, then how will those laws be enforced if not through violence?

So, you know, tax billionaires at 99% and use the money for social programs and universal health care and basic income. Take laws protecting workers seriously, and limit the amount of money CEOs make to some small multiple of what workers make. Institute rent control and whatever social programs you want. More laws to eliminate the influence of money on politics. Make destroying the environment illegal, outlaw private jets and SUVs, and on and on and on.

But what if the billionaires won't pay? What if employers violate all the worker protections and landlords refuse to charge legal rents? What if the politicians take money under the table? What if the polluters keep polluting? How will you make them comply if not through courts and police? And if they won't comply with a judge's orders what will you do? At some point someone has to go to jail or your laws won't reform anything, and putting them in jail is intrinsically a violent process. It can't be done without violence.

Like I said, none of these reformist arguments convince me. Even if all these schemes were effective they still require violence to work, therefore it's still not possible to keep capitalism, no matter how reformed, without violence and the threat of violence. Violence is absolutely a necessary condition for the existence of capitalism.

P.s. This isn't the main reason capitalism requires violence. Mostly it requires violence because no one would allow themselves to be exploited by landlords and bosses if there weren't violent consequences for refusing, but arguing from that fact that capitalism requires violence doesn't leverage the opposition's own hypothesis against their argument.

#Capitalism #Anarchism #Anarchy #StateViolence

Today's #Thought

"#Pluralism.
#Democracy reigns in the country,
in society #Darwinism,
in the company #oligarchy,
in the consciousness #conformism,
in the subconscious #anarchy."

Rainer Kohlmayer

These last few days i have been watching some of the videos from #Socialism2023. Some of it was interesting, like the panel on carceral sanity. But most of it was trying to sell books. And then there was Naomi Klein, who in one sentence said she still believed in the Green New Deal and Bernie Sanders, in other words reformist or #greenwashing stuff, and in the next seemed to say that we need an insurrection!? Uhm. And oh, she was also selling her latest book (which i will read, it sounds quite relevant).

I am definitely not a socialist.

But. The conference had a state of the art #COVID19-policy. And comparing this to some recent anarchist conferences and festivals made me despair yet again.

It has to be stated again and again, the #anarchist scene has glamorously failed and keeps failing during the ongoing pandemic and is therefore not the scene to be involved in as we enter the age of the pandemics.

Yes, COVID is not the last pandemic, far from it. In fact, COVID has even weakened our immune systems in such a fundamental way, that it opened the door even wider for future pandemics.

The ableist even eugenic turn i had to witness and even experience among people claiming to believe in #anarchy has been the biggest disappointment in my life. So far.

Get a fucking grip.
Let us build robust and radical communal care structures.
Mutual aid needs to be a praxis or fuck off.
Abolish the family.

#anarchy #sabotage #postleft #acab #fuckthepolice #killallcops #satan #satanism

Navigating #Anarchy: 5th Century China to Modern Syria, | anarchistnews.org https://anarchistnews.org/content/navigating-anarchy-5th-century-china-modern-syria

Love it when they snuggle. #dogsofmastodon #catsofmastodon #anarchy

Bonus... #QuoteoftheDay also by #JimDodge this one is about the fundamental nature of #anarchy and freedom.

INSAMLINGEN ÄR AVSLUTAD - TACK FÖR HJÄLPEN! På 3 månader har ni skänkt tillräckligt med pengar så vi nu kan fortsätta arbetet med att ta fram den första anarkistiska barnboken på svenska. 🏴 #Anarchism #Solidarity #YouthAutonomy 🖤

THE FUNDRAISE IS FINISHED - THANKS FOR YOUR HELP! In 3 months, you have donated enough money, so that we can continue the work of making the first anarchist children's book in Swedish. 🏴
#AbolishAdultSupremacy #anarchy #DirectAction 🖤

#anarchy vs #anarchism

Una gran parte del debate sobre la abolición de la policía se refiere a las respuestas no policiales a la delincuencia violenta, pero la mayor parte del trabajo policial no está relacionado con la delincuencia violenta. La mayor parte, tal vez todo, es de naturaleza económica – diseñado para evitar que los trabajadores utilicen la propiedad productiva para satisfacer sus propias necesidades directamente – para mantener los bienes comunes cerrados. Este trabajo significa que la policía está inextricablemente integrada en la economía de maneras sorprendentes que en gran medida no se discuten en el contexto de la abolición, lo que desencadenaría cambios monumentales, casi inimaginables en la forma en que nosotros, como sociedad, satisfacemos nuestras necesidades humanas a través del trabajo. Es probable que el fin de la policía signifique el fin del capitalismo, lo que sugiere que no será fácil de conseguir dada la magnitud de lo que está en juego.

#Anarchism #Anarchy #Abolition #PoliceAbolition #Anarquismo #Abolición

https://www.federacionanarquista.net/el-fin-de-la-policia-significa-el-fin-del-capitalismo-algunos-efectos-economicos-de-la-abolicion-probables-pero-poco-discutidos-2023-adrian-riskin/

Mit unseren Nachbarn aus den Niederlanden haben wir in St. Imier auch ein kurzes Interview geführt. Jetzt auf YouTube anschauen -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpcCgQRhC-s

#Anarchismus #Anarchie #Sozialismus #Kommunismus #Anarchism #Anarchy #Netherlands

I AM THE MEME OF FREE PANTS!

I TELL THE WORLD ABOUT FREE PANTS!

I am relentless in my desire to spread the meme of free pants.

morning, day and night. Free pants.

Free pants in, on and around the dumpster.

free pants in King Soopers.

Free pants by the park.

Free pants on the bus.

Free pants inside Target.

Free pants under the overpass.
#anarchy of #pants!

The fediverse goes insane. It's literally gonna revolutionize how we use the internet, no longer will power and knowledge be centralized in the hands of a few capitalist corporations. I really think we're in a current internet revolution, as power is being restored to the people. Yalls thoughts and takes?

#Anarchism #queer #fediverse #Anarchy #internet #Capitalism

to #colfax! #solarPunk #anarchy

bojkotuj wybory

#EmmaGoldman #anarchism #socialactivism
#politicalchange #quoteoftheday #cytat #cytaty
#cytatdnia #wybory #bojkotwyborow #anarchizm
#anarchy #anarchia #antifa #antyfaszyzm