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Nagarjuna [he/him]

@ Nagarjuna @hexbear.net

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We have a duty to fight for our freedom. We have a duty to win.

  • Are you being antisemetic?

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  • Yeah, there have. I saw one person get up voted for saying that decolonizing Palestine required ethnic cleansing. I saw another say that Jews need to "pack up and leave" Israel. Both upvoted. It's not the mainstream but it's out there.

    More common though is vague language that probably applies to settlers / likud or whoever but could reasonably be interpreted to mean "jews" by someone not on the same page as the hexbear mainstream.

  • Anarchism and Indigenous Peoples reading list

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  • There's some bangers in here.

    “Why is it impossible [for Italy to leave Libya], when the voyage from Libya back to Italy takes only a few hours?’

    --Malatesta

  • WELCOME / CELEBRATIONS / FEEDBACK & BUGS THREAD

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  • It never feels like a win when anarchists are vindicated

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  • There's lots of Marxists in the American tradition who might be less scary I'm roads and will hit on more familiar themes for an anarchist.

    Willima Z. Foster and George Jackson might be good in-roads.

  • capitalist pigs: "socialism doesn't work irl because muh hooman nature". actual human nature:

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  • I remember being a kid and going to a simulated work field trip and when they were asking who wanted to be CEO I was the only one who raised their hand because it sounded boring.

    I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do, except that I could get loans and that I wouldn't really have to pay them back since it was a one day trip. So I got a few loans, bought everyone pizza and then left my business insolvent.

    I asserted to an adult that the simulation wasn't like real life and the adult was just like "well...."

  • politics @hexbear.net
    Nagarjuna [he/him] @hexbear.net

    A small manifesto on good organizing

  • [UPDATE] "I'm a high school student..."

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  • They are some of the most overworked and underpaid workers in developed nations

    Respectfully, we're overworke, but this job makes 20k more than the canvassing and retail I did in college. We're only underpaid compared to other workers with masters' degrees.

    You're on the money about garbage curriculum though.

    That said, that shouldn't excuse us any more than cops should be excused for doing their jobs.

    If you're Marxist about it, being a worker makes us powerful when we're fighting against our conditions as workers, not when we're laboring for the boss. Teaching is not progressive in the American school system.

  • Is the DPRK racist/homophobic?

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  • Discouraging criticism of AES because they're AES, even when they're being incredibly racist stifles discourse within our movements and makes them weaker as a result. OP was not saying "N. Korea is racist (they must be overthrown)" OP was saying "DPRK publishes racism in the state newspaper, what do we make of this?"

    That's a productive conversation and stifling it out of a habitual marcyism hurts our movements and our ability to analyze the world as it is.

  • Ukraine-Russia Megathread 5

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  • The folks over at /r/anarchism are mass upvoting a list of "marine tactics" that includes shit like poisoning wells as you retreat. Why couldn't they be mass upvoting the news about defection in the Russian military and Russian anti war protests? What happened to "No war between nations, no peace between classes?"

  • Clara Zetkin-General Megathread for the 5th of July 2021

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  • The very idea of a distinction between work and leisure is socially constructed and brings about untold misery.

    The realm of necessity could be colonized by the realm of freedom, that play could be born into work. And I had many dramatic examples of that. My mother who came was born in Russia had seen peasants harvesting and the way they did that was with a sense of joy. They brought vodka with them, they brought food with them and they turned harvesting into a picnic. This was an a pre-industrial Society and I wondered why couldn't we extend this whole phenomenon: ... the whole work experience! In other words turn work into something that is much more playful, much more joyous.

    --Murray Bookchin

    S. Diamond observed other free human beings who survived into our age, also in Africa. He could see that they did no work, but he couldn’t quite bring himself to say it in English. Instead, he said they made no distinction between work and play. Does Diamond mean that the activity of the free people can be seen as work one moment, as play another, depending on how the anthropologist feels? Does he mean that they didn’t know if their activity was work or play? Does he mean we, you and I, Diamond’s armored contemporaries, cannot distinguish their work from their play?

    If the !Kung visited our offices and factories, they might think we’re playing. Why else would we be there?

    I think Diamond meant to say something more profound. A time-and-motion engineer watching a bear near a berry patch would not know when to punch his clock. Does the bear start working when he walks to the berry patch, when he picks the berry, when he opens his jaws? If the engineer has half a brain he might say the bear makes no distinction between work and play. If the engineer has an imagination he might say that the bear experiences joy from the moment the berries turn deep red, and that none of the bear’s motions are work.

    --Fredy Perlman, Against History, Against Leviathan

  • Your MFA is a psyop

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  • Putting essays in novels gets them to people who might not otherwise read them. For example, I don't read a lot of fiction, and Donna Haraway tricked me into reading speculative fiction by burying it in Staying with the Trouble

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  • Modern anarchism is deeply indebted to left communism, especially communization. The Invisible Committee drew heavily on that tendency, and The Coming Insurrection is incredibly influential on modern anarchist practice. Discounting left communism is pretty counter-productive, engage with it sincerely, it's already left its mark.