February 2012
43 posts
D&G "What makes fascism dangerous is its molecular...
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However, it is important to recognise that the potentialities recognised by Deleuze, and Guattari also have a malignant side. One of the salutary aspects of these authors’ work is that they take seriously the possibility of a postmodern fascism, in which the very communicational and nomadic capacities so rich in anti-capitalist possibilities are recuperated in appallingly destructive form....
Columbia University Revolt april 1968
ShareThe Columbia Student Uprising-40 Years Later-1/5iwantdemocracynowMon, Apr 28 2008 11:38:55ShareThe 1968 Columbia University Occupation seems to have been a key turning point towards Violent Direct ActionOakland Jasper Mon, Feb 20 2012 13:41:01ReplyRetweetShareOne group of Columbia students, the “Praxis Axis”, advocated more organizing & nonviolence. The...
A historian of the sixties explains how 68-69...
Todd Gitlin, former president of SDS writes in the Nation http://www.thenation.com/article/166142/will-occupy-embrace-nonviolence
The authorities in Chicago, Tampa and Charlotte hope to scare Occupiers away. They’ve thrown down their gauntlets. These are flagrant insults. And very likely some who show up to stand for economic justice and decency will react not only with indignation and mockery...
from Weatherman Manifesto ‘You Don’t Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows’ 1969 http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCkQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rrpec.org%2Fdocuments%2Fweather%255B1%255D.pdf&ei=oJFCT6KjDIeOigL-47CRBA&usg=AFQjCNE2giXncAZYlKJZx7JsSoW9H3P6Jg&sig2=JHtSPG5-wLIrTge2Oi1_OA
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Andrew Yeoman & the Bay Area National Anarchists
I spent the morning researching the ‘New Right’ and National Anarchism. I still have 10 tabs open in my browser, and I listened to two different radio shows. The whole thing leaves me feeling ill. The phenomenon is complex but important. Let me summarize a few points:
National Anarchism is a fusion of white separatist beliefs with anarchist ideas. It seems to be strongest in the...
A New Right Anarcho-Fascist explains what...
Jasper sez ‘Jasper did not write this. Jasper does not endorse this post. It is reposted from the fascist site Stormfront. Jasper is reproducing it to give you an insider’s view’
This post is reproduced from http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t732945/#post8412300 Andrew can of course give a good account of what BANA is about, but he would surely admit he has some natural biases on...
1985 San Francisco sectarian violence from...
form ‘Liste Anarchist!’ by Chaz Bufe
http://www.seesharppress.com/listen.html
As unethical as the Fifth Estate’s actions have been, however, the Fifth Estate staff have not physically assaulted those with whom they disagree. Others have. Over the last two years a relentless campaign of verbal abuse, physical harassment and violent attacks has been carried out against Processed...
Anarchism is not amoral egotism by Chaz Bufe (2002). As does any avant garde social movement, anarchism attracts more than its share of flakes, parasites, and outright sociopaths, persons simply looking for a glamorous label to cover their often-pathological selfishness, their disregard for the rights and dignity of others, and their pathetic desire to be the center of attention. These individuals...
Zerzan on the Decolonize Oakland vote
And we’re also seeing at the same time, and it seems like so many things are moving so fast… after what happened up at Scottsdale last week, on this past Sunday in Oakland, the Occupy Oakland considered the proposal to change the name Occupy Oakland to De-Occupy Oakland, or De-Colonize Oakland. And this is a direct challenge, I believe, from what was accomplished in Scottsdale, this kind of...
Insider account: Zerzan the Green Anarchist versus...
Like the idea that the black bloc hates the Zapitistas. That primitivist author John Zerzan (who has not been in vogue among anarchists for a decade) is the primary ideologue of the black bloc. That the black bloc is made up of people who oppose all organization. Or that those who are in the black bloc cease to become human beings but instead become beasts.
I don’t know whether Chris Hedges is...
Jasper sez ‘Anarcho-primitivist reaction to Hedges. The anarchist have unified. Listen to Zerzans radio show for a look inside the culture’
from http://undustrialism.com/2012/02/12/the-hedge-row-continues/
What a week. The fallout of Chris Hedges’ rantings continues to spread, uniting the anarchist world in a ways we haven’t seen in decades. The constant flow of replies to...
Anti Union Zerzan Quote
For unions there was never a question of either evolution or revolution, still less of socialism. Unions go no further than attempting to obtain, for the exploited worker, conditions of labor which are less intolerable and less humiliating, but also, as time has demonstrated, more profitable for capital.
- Unions Against Revolution, G. Munnis & J. Zerzan
'Disillusioned young people make up the bulk of...
Fortnight, 2001
‘Disillusioned young people make up the bulk of Zerzan’s core support in the US and he is widely hailed as the philosophical leader of the burgeoning so-called Black Bloc anarchist movement based loosely in Zerzan’s hometown of Eugene in Oregon. Eugene Anarchists were widely reported to be the Black-Masked protesters who thrashed downtown Seattle during the...
Irish Anarchist talks about acceptance of Zerzan's...
Irish Anarchist Andrew Flood speaking in 2008
Q. And on the other side of the coin, did anything stand out and/or depress you about it?
The acceptance of primitivism as a legtimite part of the anarchist movement and even the left in general. I was amazed for instance to discover that some union locals had sponsored the speaking tour of Derick Jensen whose primitivist writings amount to an...
Excellent Socialist Worker critique of David...
Jasper sez “Socialist intellectuals are getting involved in the Black Bloc debate with interesting results. They can’t be guilt tripped into silence, unlike the liberals.”
http://socialistworker.org/2012/02/15/building-a-stronger-occupy
There was a strong backlash against Hedges’ article, for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, many of the responses failed to focus on the...
The single biggest win for #occupy might the...
Jasper sez “this is a big win for #occupy in general and for #occupyOakland in particular. This shows that the rebel spirit of oakland is necessary for the movement, despite its excesses.’
“This is a victory for Occupy in their involvement in forcing negotiations. Make no mistake – the solidarity and organization between the Occupy Movement and the Longshoremen won this...
Socialist Worker critique of #Occupy Oakland...
The December 12 day of action for a West Coast Port Shutdown drew between 5,000 and 7,000 activists. On January 28, protests aimed at occupying a vacant building to create a new base camp for Occupy drew between 1,000 and 2,000.
The Occupy movement isn’t to blame for the smaller numbers, and history teaches us that every movement goes through ups and downs. But it’s obvious that the...
Occupy Berkeley peep describes the serious social...
Jasper sez
‘#Occupy camps drew a lot of lumpen problems. The civil society of camps were not capable of solving the problems of hate and assault that the lumpen brought. I visited Occupy Berkeley a few times, including its last days. It had devolved into Lord of The Flies. Berkeley occupier Maxina Ventura has helpfully written about this phenomenon. This is reproduced below.’...
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Lessons for #Occupy From Act Up -Naomi Wolf
‘Occupy – a movement I love and respect, and which represents our last best hope – also fills me with distress because of how difficult it is for a movement committed to “no spokespeople” to get their message out. Act Up, which was founded by a group that included people who worked in the media and in advertising, were not so self-hobbled: they created a memorable...
luigivampa asks:
What do you think about the lack of cooperation between the American centred Occupy movement and the European/global Take The Square and Democracia Real Ya networks? (As exemplified by the recent OWS plan for a ‘global strike’ on the 1st May despite TTS’ plan for the same action on the 15th May). Do you think the message of “real democracy now” of...
Are Protesters Addicted To Rioting? A...
By: Ryan Harvey - September 24, 2009
After that incident I began a long reflective process, one that started in the blood-stained streets of Miami and hasn’t stopped yet, hopefully it never will. Something clicked when the blood poured out of this woman’s mouth; This is for real. I am really here and we are really getting the shit kicked out of us. What before seemed sort of fun, sort...
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@joanwalsh tried to warn the world that #Occupy...
First, let me lay out my bias: I have an absolute commitment to nonviolence in social movements, for moral, tactical, strategic and political reasons. And I include most forms of property destruction as violence (though there’s disagreement about that) because people get hurt, even killed, however inadvertently, when “revolutionaries” start breaking windows and torching the symbols of oppression....
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Black Bloc is the Bronchitis of #Occupy
by by Swaneagle Harijan
Since the WTO i felt DOT (diversity of tactics) was double speak for “hit and running” leaving others to bear the brunt of poorly thought out and unprincipled property destruction. I saw many seasoned activists dance around the term in an effort to be inclusive. As is the case with drug addicts in occupy, the presence of DOT was not clarified in clear terms...
Wow! the #blackBloc in Rome #occupy were divided...
In an interview with a Rome newspaper, one of the Blacks claimed that their action had been planned for a year, their weapons—clubs and cudgels and powerful paper bombs—were hidden in the city and that some of them were trained in urban warfare by “companions” in Greece. He revealed that they were divided into two major phalanxes of 500 men each, plus a group of 300 who remained with the Movement...
From http://www.pucklo.com/the-new-normal-this-militarized-empty-lot-called-home
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From the diffuse clouded sunlight, which looks and feels the same in January as it does in June, to the broken glass glinting on the sidewalks, downtown Oakland is as usual. The city barely skips a beat anymore during and after the now-normal political riots that clog otherwise empty, wide...
January 2012
45 posts
Must read: @affinistim explains origin of Italian...
@jaspergregory Perhaps a trivia point - but many don’t know the origin of “Fascism” (at least in the classic sense of the Italian Fascists). Mussolini started his political career as a hard-left revolution-oriented Marxist (Lenin considered him a leader of great potential). He remained in the Socialist Party fold, though at the militant-revolutionary end, until he rejected...
Zizek called Assange a terrorist, but in a good...
“You are a terrorist in the way that Gandhi was. In what sense was Gandhi a terrorist? He tried to stop the normal functioning of the British state in India. You are trying to stop the normal functioning of information circulation.”
