i look at it like this: we all share the same end goal we just have different methodologies and timeframes on how to get there and there’s not enough of us to bother arguing over what will likely be a weird hybrid synthesis of things we can’t even predict yet.
anyone that builds their entire identity around sectarianism just wants to have a sub-culture to hang out in
100% this. I first started reading about anarchism and then stumbling across the chapo podcast and then the subreddit I was exposed to lots of Marx and Lenin quotes that really hit hard. I read capital and state and revolution first and that brought me to the immortal science of Marxist-Leninism. I don’t want to discourage other comrades from learning more and will always have the anarchist spirit I wish people that claim to be anarchists would stop whining about stupid shit online and go help their local Food Not Bombs or equivalent and shut the fuck up already.
We don’t have TIME for this and if we are serious about our cause we know we can’t sit around fighting over petty sectarian grievances and get our shit together because these fuckers are committing ecocide to power a chatbot that hallucinates.
Yeah I agree with this. While I choose to spend my online time in some generally lefty spaces, I find that a lot of the folks that I share those spaces with are chronically online and seem to stay online. I rarely encounter them in the real world in real lefty spaces.
As a rule, I don’t discuss my real-life action on the internet, but I can say that real, successful organizing takes a coalition of people of all persuasions from all walks of life. If you’re doing it right, you should find yourself alongside people you might otherwise loathe.
Without saying too much, I’m currently working alongside some absolute fascist sympathizers, but we are united against a common capitalist adversary. We are stronger together than we are apart, and quibbling over bullshit is how the capitalists win.
We can play sectarian games when there’s time to play sectarian games.
Edit: Don’t want to come off like I think I’m some mega skilled organizer or that I’m somehow righteous for doing what I do or that I’m the Gnome Gods gift to hexbear. Just pointing out the importance of the “collective” part of “collective action”. Anyways, I’m just a schmuckin’ gnome at the end of the day, so probably best not pay me much mind.
yeah this may be the last shot we are going to have to take with and roll with the synthesis that results from it, doing our best to direct it. there may be no vanguard party, or there may be dozens of small ones. libertarian socialism may take root in the ruins of a collapsed lawless nation. left populism may spring up everywhere, both voted in and through coups or revolts. fascism may have already run it’s course when this goes down, in a sort of inverse of the typical immune reaction.
in fact, WE may end up being the immune reaction but of human survival not capitalist preservation
there won’t be any time to argue about what works besides some unity of action and taking advantage of the moment (but i dunno)
Marx didn’t predict the collapse of the biosphere he was projecting the Victorian age assumption that there would be millennia of stable human civilization and resource extraction ahead
i look at it like this: we all share the same end goal we just have different methodologies and timeframes on how to get there and there’s not enough of us to bother arguing over what will likely be a weird hybrid synthesis of things we can’t even predict yet.
anyone that builds their entire identity around sectarianism just wants to have a sub-culture to hang out in
100% this. I first started reading about anarchism and then stumbling across the chapo podcast and then the subreddit I was exposed to lots of Marx and Lenin quotes that really hit hard. I read capital and state and revolution first and that brought me to the immortal science of Marxist-Leninism. I don’t want to discourage other comrades from learning more and will always have the anarchist spirit I wish people that claim to be anarchists would stop whining about stupid shit online and go help their local Food Not Bombs or equivalent and shut the fuck up already.
We don’t have TIME for this and if we are serious about our cause we know we can’t sit around fighting over petty sectarian grievances and get our shit together because these fuckers are committing ecocide to power a chatbot that hallucinates.
Yeah I agree with this. While I choose to spend my online time in some generally lefty spaces, I find that a lot of the folks that I share those spaces with are chronically online and seem to stay online. I rarely encounter them in the real world in real lefty spaces.
As a rule, I don’t discuss my real-life action on the internet, but I can say that real, successful organizing takes a coalition of people of all persuasions from all walks of life. If you’re doing it right, you should find yourself alongside people you might otherwise loathe.
Without saying too much, I’m currently working alongside some absolute fascist sympathizers, but we are united against a common capitalist adversary. We are stronger together than we are apart, and quibbling over bullshit is how the capitalists win.
We can play sectarian games when there’s time to play sectarian games.
Edit: Don’t want to come off like I think I’m some mega skilled organizer or that I’m somehow righteous for doing what I do or that I’m the Gnome Gods gift to hexbear. Just pointing out the importance of the “collective” part of “collective action”. Anyways, I’m just a schmuckin’ gnome at the end of the day, so probably best not pay me much mind.
yeah this may be the last shot we are going to have to take with and roll with the synthesis that results from it, doing our best to direct it. there may be no vanguard party, or there may be dozens of small ones. libertarian socialism may take root in the ruins of a collapsed lawless nation. left populism may spring up everywhere, both voted in and through coups or revolts. fascism may have already run it’s course when this goes down, in a sort of inverse of the typical immune reaction.
in fact, WE may end up being the immune reaction but of human survival not capitalist preservation
there won’t be any time to argue about what works besides some unity of action and taking advantage of the moment (but i dunno)
Marx didn’t predict the collapse of the biosphere he was projecting the Victorian age assumption that there would be millennia of stable human civilization and resource extraction ahead