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sophie-frm-mars · 8 months

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did you read "Desert" for the video? i was surprised when it didn't come up - it gets passed around in a lot of anti-civ circles and is one of the first left-wing doomer takes i saw on climate change

I did!

You ever read a text and it feels like two texts simultaneously?

I think that desert can be looked at from a "doomer" and anti-civ perspective, from which I find it to be quite like all other similar writing, unimaginative where it counts. I think it can also be looked at from an anarcho nihilist perspective, from which I think it's quite sensible and worth a read.

In essence I find its analysis of the impossibility of revolution to be flat, because a crucial feature of what I see as likely to emerge is a preponderance of post capitalist states of various kinds and probably some autonomous zones besides, and so in reality the anarchists in such a world will exist alongside a variety of other political orders. I personally believe that we will see emerging communist parties and governments through the collapse of American Imperialism and they will probably work together, and furthermore I think that due to the nature of precarity and salvage accumulation anarchists in such a world may find these governments to be quite different in character to authoritarian communist governments of the past. To unpack that a little, anarchist communities are likely to form in economic and sociopolitical spaces where climate change makes life, society and economic production more precarious. Anarchists are capable of dealing with precarity in a way that states aren't, but pragmatic anarchists are also capable of interfacing with society in ways that distances them from the state.

So where Desert talks about "global anarchist revolution" and then having ruled that out specifically, moves on from revolution as a concept, I think it could take a clearer-eyed view of the possibility of revolution that's less ideologically pure, still results in there being people here tomorrow, and presents a long term future for a potential better world. Was global anarchist revolution particularly likely before it was on the clock? None of this is me asking any anarchists to support any vanguardists, which would be silly, but just to recognise that a vanguardist could and probably will exist who you have better odds with than a neoliberal capitalist. Besides a big point I want to make in future work is that revolution in any place can have a multi faceted character and I think that eco feminist socialist revolution may well happen in many places, whether it puts the eco, the socialist or the feminist first, with varying results. Eg ecofeminists who want to save the planet and abolish the patriarchy must be materialists in order to get anywhere and would recognise the necessity of socialism to fight climate change.

Now it's prescriptions on the other hand, I quite like. I especially enjoyed "conservation is our government"

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flagwars · 7 months

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People’s Flag Wars: Round 1, Bracket 11

See the symbolism below.

Coptic Egypt is a flag by @arthurdrakoni.

Symbolism: “This is the flag of Coptic Egypt. It comes from a world where Islam was never founded. One of the many consequences of this was that the Byzantine Empire continued to prosper for a number of years. Eventually, however, tensions began to grow within the empire. Egypt began to feel that Constantinople was giving them the short end of the stick a bit too often. Egypt's main grievances were increased taxes and increased tensions between the Coptic and Orthodox churches. After a brief war, Egypt was granted its independence. Despite this, Egypt retains good relations with Byzantium. It also maintains good relations with fellow Oriental Orthodox nations Ethiopia and Armenia. Egypt has traditionally been a hub of trade, and following its independence work began on a canal in the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt established traditions ports in India and China. It also established colonies in Australia, which is known as New Egypt, as well as a few minor colonies in South America.

The wealth from its trade and colonies has made Egypt a very rich nation. People and goods from throughout the world can be found across Egypt's cities. Currently there is something of an architectural fad based around reinterpretations of Ancient Egyptian architecture. Egypt also has a reputation for having some of the best universities and centers of learning in the world. It is a nation which honors its past while keeping an eye towards the future.

The flag contains a Coptic Cross to represent Egypt's Coptic faith. The background represents the sands of Egypt, while the blue bands stands for the waters of the Nile River. The writing is in the Coptic Script and reads "Jesus Christ, Son of God".”

Forest City Flag is a flag by @forestcityflag.

Symbolism: “The Forest City is a new flag for Cleveland, highlighting both our history and environment. The blue top half represents Lake Erie, our very own inland sea. The green bottom half represents the Forest City nickname and the Emerald Necklace of our Metroparks. The wavy chevron in the center represents the Cuyahoga River winding its way through downtown. The pattern is inspired by a design from Moses Cleaveland's coat of arms (he's the guy who invented Cleveland). At the same time, the upward facing arrow is reminiscent of the city's motto "Progress and Prosperity," pointing up towards the future.”

New Jersey Autonomous Zone is a flag by @lil-tachyon.

Symbolism: “The design is based on the original New Jersey flag but re-imagined in the context of some kind of anarcho-communist future. The buff field of the NJ flag is replaced by the bisected black/red used by anarcho-communists and syndicalists. The coat of arms has the godesses Liberty and Ceres replaced by workers wielding a sickle and hammer, the horse head replaced by the head of the Jersey Devil, a yellow Star backed by a slice of pork roll replacing the helmet, and tomatoes and cranberries flanking the star. The motto is changed from "Liberty and Prosperity" to "Trenton Makes, The World Takes," the words infamously featured on the Lower Trenton Bridge.”

#polls #flags #vexillology #people's flag wars

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basgevers · 1 year

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Desert Island Discs: Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette

Round about the same time I was being introduced to The Wedding Present by John Peel, one evening he played a track called “They’ve Got A Bomb” by delightful anarcho-punk band “Crass”.

He had a way of doing that you know, John Peel, taking you out of you comfort zone, hitting you with something completely unlistenable just when you were bopping along to the Undertones, or some Ukrainian folk music collective.

Now, I had been listening to a lot of punk at the time - the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Jam, The Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers etc and so on, but Crass, Jesus, they made Johnny Rotten look like Johnny Mathis.

Crass were everything I thought punk stood for: politics, action, revolution and change in a way that the sort of stuff I had been listening to just didn’t. “London’s Burning” is all very well, but no one I was listening to sang about the things that Crass did on Do They Owe Us a Living: “At school they give you shit / drop you in the pit / You try, you try, you try to get out / but you can’t because they’ve fucked you about”. And even now, thirty years later, listening to “Asylum” still gives me the shivers.

Listening to Crass in the early 80’s in Britain made me stop and think about the world around me. I was only about fourteen at the time, but seeing the striking miners on the news every night as they struggled to keep their jobs and their communities together in the face of the brutal onslaught of the monetarist economic policies unleashed by Thatcher at the height of her powers, I knew that the world was not a fair place.

Punk was supposed to be a catalyst of revolution, but somehow it had failed to materialise. In bands like Crass, and to some extent Angelic Upstarts, I realised that safety pins and fashionable boutiques along the Kings Road selling swastika t-shirts are not the answer. I mean, I still listened to Prefab Sprout, but at the same time I began to look more critically at was was going on.

Having asked my dad what segment of the political spectrum Thatcher represented, I vowed that whatever she believed in, I would believe the complete opposite. So, one evening in the Central Library in Aberdeen, I picked up a copy of the Communist Manifesto and slowly worked my way through that. It was hard going, but I understood the general thrust of what Marx was saying.

A bit later on I picked up Animal Farm, 1984 and A Brave New World to reinforce my fundamental belief that the world was basically a dysfunctional place, led by a corrupt elite that had only their own selfish interests at heart and would stop at nothing to keep the status quo.

Throughout all this period, during which I must have been insufferable, I also picked up at the library a copy of “Workers Playtime” and “Talking with the Taxman About Poetry” by Billy Bragg. I’d never heard of him, but I was initially attracted by the Workers Playtime album cover, with its flag waving communists proudly on show.

Figuring that this sort of artwork could only mean I’d found a political musical soul mate, I took the records home and played them pretty much non-stop. I loved Workers Playtime, there’s a lot of great tracks on there, but it was “Talking..” that really enthused me with it’s mix of politics (“Ideology”, “There Is Power In A Union”) and everyday life (“The Home Front” , “The Warmest Room”).

Those last two track in particular still invoke a particular sentiment nearly 30 years later, a nostalgia for an era I never knew, an era that comedian Stewart Lee would call “the post-war socialist utopia, contract with the people, Call The Midwife etc”.

But the song that stands out for me is the opening track - “Greetings To The New Brunette”. On an album that’s got some heavy moments on it, lyrically, “Greetings To The New Brunette” is like a breath of fresh air. Think of it as a Ringo Starr number, like “Octopuses Garden” just turning up in the middle of Abbey Road, and you’re like “what the hell… ”. That kind of thing.

So “Greetings” (only real fans get to call it that) is really about politics and sex. The former was a big issue for me back in 1986 when it was released; the latter less so, but not for the lack of hoping. Put it this way, it was easier to get my hands on a copy of the collected works of Chairman Mao than it was getting my hands on Yvonne Mintie from the 5th form who lived on the end of our street and for whom I had “a thing”, as was the parlance of the day.

Interesting trivia - being a political song, I always thought the Shirley referred to was Shirley Williams, the former Labour and Liberal Democrat grandee. Tehee.

So this song is important because it happened to me at that point in time when my burgeoning social conscience met plain old crude puberty. A tense meeting of minds, as seen in a mixtape I made at the time, where “Suspect Device” is followed by Dire Straits’ “Romeo and Juliet”.

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#billy bragg #music #80s music #80s #culture #pop culture #crass #john peel #angelic upstarts

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cabbagemerchantofficial · 4 years

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i wish one day my blog will be big enough so that i get loads of asks and reblogs and validation, but not big enough to attract heterosexuals. gotta keep it niche

#keep it secret keept it gay #fr tho cishets who are Like That pls dont interact #no homophobes #no nazis #no racists #no bootlickets #and no business students pls #also this is an anarcho communist zone #a gays only event

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quatregats · 2 years

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I haven't read the Dawn of everything but I've been reading books about Prehistory as of late. Would you recommend it? 🤠

(I'm answering publicly because someone else was also wondering)

Okay so this book is definitely trying to do A Lot, and there's some things I really like about it and some things I REALLY don't.

PROS: Okay, well this book definitely has an ideological line that it's pushing but it happens to be one that I very much agree with (mostly just that at least one of the authors is a staunch anarcho-communist). So it's sort of looking at why traditional takes on government might be very, very wrong—specifically it takes a lot of much-deserved beef with Hobbes and Rousseau. I thought that the deconstruction of a lot of these ideas and how rampant they are in most academic thinking, as well as the damage that does, was very interesting, and I really appreciated that. The intellectual ideas behind the book are very juicy and there's a lot to sit with in them; I think this is where most of the book's strength lies. The authors kind of say that at the beginning, too—they want it to be a paradigm-shifting work, not something that goes into depth about their personal research interest.

CONS: When I say that the strength is in the ideas, the strength is literally ONLY in the ideas. It's a very ambitious work, and the authors are very clearly stepping outside of their comfort zone. As a linguistics person, I read a lot of the things that they said about languages and was just like ???? that's blatantly false but okay???? which sort of made me unsure how much of their other evidence I wanted to trust. The other big critique/problem I have with it is their obsession with the indigenous people of the Americas. There's a couple of problems I have with this. The first, and most glaringly Bad, is that they seem to rely exclusively on non-Native accounts of Native Americans, especially 19th-20th century anthropological works. I'm really not sure why it never occurred to them to double check any of this against the work of actual Native scholars??? but I really feel like that undermines what they're trying to say (the whole literature that they're drawing is very Eurocentric for a book that's trying not to be, to be quite honest). Sometimes I just wish they would talk to people from the cultures they're so clearly obsessed with and maybe they'd actually get some good evidence from that??? but whatever. The second problem I have with relying so much on the Americas is that it really starts feeling Othering and like we're falling into the trap of the ~Noble Savage~ that Rousseau was falling into, which they criticize a lot but don't seem to have the self-awareness to break away from. If they couldn't talk about the indigenous peoples of the Americas without doing that, there were definitely other arguments they could have followed; I've found a lot of more universal, non-culturally-specific lines of logic that lead to the exact same conclusions, let alone ones in cultures I'm personally more familiar with. I think this would be less of a problem if they fixed the first thing, though, and actually cited/were writing in conversation with Native scholars. Either way, that's my biggest problem with it, but I think that if you're in it for the ideas, you can kind of handwave those sections and still get the main conclusions.

tl;dr - I think that the book's deconstruction of Rousseau and Hobbes and how much their ideas have permeated our interpretation of the past is very interesting. I also think that I would not trust any of their re-constrcutions after that deconstruction, or super dive into any of their evidence. They decided to take on the whole of human history, so obviously there's only so much they can know; I would, however, be interested in reading how this framework can be applied by other scholars to their own fields of interest. In other words, it's interesting, but you have to be willing to put in a lot of intellectual work on your own part to make it work.

#hope that sort of answers the question #i think it's interesting but i want to read other things now to see how they contrast #since it's very flawed as well #but i think that if you're a good reader you can read flawed things and still get things from them #idk if other people want to add other things feel free to #asks

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therainbowwillow · 3 years

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Welcome everyone! As this blog is my little internet cave, I’d like to lay out some quick rules (which I have rewritten as of August 2021):

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-Don’t be afraid to (politely) criticize me when I mess up. Constructive criticism is welcome when it comes to my actions online. As for critiquing my writing: my non-fanfiction writings are always open to critique. I value growing as a writer. As for fanfics, you can criticize, but I may or may not take it into account as writing fanfiction is only a hobby and I don’t take it very seriously.

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-I’m TheRainbowWillow! You can call me Dianthus. I’m genderqueer and I use she/they pronouns.

-I’m a highschooler in the United States in the Pacific Time Zone.

-I have a dog, Blaze, he is a pitbull-husky who enjoys playing tug-of-war.

-I enjoy writing poetry and fictional works (fandom-wise I’ve written for Hadestown, Hamlet, Les Mis, Macbeth, Dead Poets Society, etc.), as well as reading the aforementioned genres (plus classical literature, especially Shakespeare! I’m always up to discuss Shakespeare. I’ve read Macbeth, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo & Juliet.) I’m also interested in mythology, collecting bones, gardening and identifying plants/taxonomical botany.

-I am queer (because I’m too lazy to try to find a suitable label for my sexuality)

-I’m agnostic atheist and very much interested in religious debate when it’s asked of me! However, I don’t appreciate conversion attempts.

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Since the internet often has problems with discrimination in self-proclaimed “safe spaces”, I’m going to lay this out very clearly: THIS IS A GENUINE SAFE SPACE.

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punkofsunshine · 3 years

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The (Informal) Miniature Anarcho-Solarpunk Manifesto

The integration of communalism into a classless system away from the main caste-esque system of hierarchy around the world is very costly when viewed from a consumer lens, but is essential in the degradation of the overbearing hierarchy that the main populace is subjected to and thusly become numb to the pressures placed upon them from an early age, spiral into endlessly consuming for a sense of being in a world that doesn’t care if you’re alive, to them you’re just a replaceable cog in the profit machine. The goal of the communalist, socialist, solarpunk, etc. should not be to live in their own bubble, but to expand their influence exponentially through participation with the outside world, turn a commune into a city as it were. Less people in a place that has dictated control by the state and the consumers within, the less control the state and capital have over people. A migration of people increases quality of life and food consumption, luckily food growth can be optimized to accommodate many people when given according to need as opposed to given to whomever has the money to afford produce. One must also keep in mind, the debt accrued is now a community responsibility, so the members will do everything in their power to keep people functioning in the community, that must include people paying off debts. Who are you if you let a fellow worker suffer on their own? Who are you to let a human such as yourself be subjected to the violence of the state in its many forms? Pushing back against such oppression is why we ascribe to this ideology, so we can taste freedom and save the earth from ourselves.

No individual is solely responsible for the pollution and poverty. Multiple corporations and their figureheads are. Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Bernard Arnault, Qin Yinglin & family, Michael Bloomberg, The Koch family, Jim Simons, Alaian & Gerard Wertheimer, Mark Zuckerburg, Amancio Ortega, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett, the Walton Family, Steve Ballmer, Carlos Slim Helu & family, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Francoise Bittencourt Meyers & family, Jack Ma, Ma Huateng, Mukesh Ambani, Mackenzie Scott, Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr., David Thomson & family, Phil Knight & family, Lee Shau Kee, François Pinault & family. Sheldon Alelson, The Mars family, Elon Musk, Giovanni Ferrero, Michael Dell, Hui Ka Yan, Li Ka-Shing, He Xiangjian, Yang Huiyan & family, Joseph Safra, Dieter Schwarz, Vladimir Potanin, Tadashi Yanai & family, Vladamir Lisin, Ray Dalio, Takemitsu Takizaki, Leonid Mikhelson, etc. (Forbes) The list could go on, but I’m not about to list four-hundred people, the people have to change what the ruling class refuses to, hijacking corporate manufacturing and removing police of their power is essential. The police are targets due to the fact they protect corporate interests and stunt progressive growth, all of the people listed above refuse to let power be taken from them, there are too few people willing to make attempts to go after them because what would happen to their favourite source of consumption if that happened? What would happen to convenience? It would disappear, they don’t want to have to make things themselves, such is the first world’s entitlement. Doing without the convenience to save the environment should be a priority, things aren’t going to just get better on their own just because you installed solar panels and an eco-friendly water filtration system. The extent of the work that needs to be done is tremendous and must be organized efficiently and with regard to equivalency of power.

The world is in the process of ending due to all the turmoil we put it through, but the fact we’re more worried about comfort and convenience is very telling of what kind of culture western society has, instead of trying to fight those who destroy the environment and oppress us, we’re eager to mimic them. Why? Because they have and we have not. Such is the downfall of the consumerist mind. A majority of Americans think like consumers, not citizens, which is very telling because the anti-communist culture moted it be after the second world war. (Vox) There’s no telling where the zeitgeist is headed, but there’s political radicalization on both sides of the spectrum, sadly the other side of the spectrum is what we fought against, fascism, nazism, and authoritarianism. 2016 through 2020 were the worst years in terms of hate crimes committed on minority groups since the 60’s which is really saying something, neo-nazi groups sprung up and made themselves the focus, where there are fascists, there will always be anti-fascists or to be informal, antifa. I, the author am a background informant for the loose collective known as antifa, our job is simply to let people know where rallies are going down, we use pseudonyms and VPNs so we cannot be tracked. So why am I telling you this? Isn’t this supposed to be about what we can do to rebel against the systems that oppress us? Yes, and I’m getting there. There’s a reason I’m talking about fascism, and that is the fact fascism and capitalism are linked together.

Fascism/imperialism has been described as “capitalism in decay” by Vladimir Lenin due to the fact that neoliberalism is capitalism functioning as normal, communism post-capitalism, and fascism is capitalism going away slowly. It is an unjust and evil way of looking at the world, but once capitalists sense danger to their power, they fund fascism just so they can keep their power for longer. Anti-fascist action is also anti-capitalist action, for every nazi destroyed, we are one step closer to freedom. For every capitalist institution raided and demolished, we are one step closer to freedom. The city isn’t made of buildings that you can buy from, it’s made of the people who live there, so when the BLM protests occurred and stores were “looted” and burned, that was a form of praxis that hasn’t happened in years it was truly inspiring to see the people of Oregon (among other places) fight the police, fight back the alt-right, give capitalists the middle finger, create autonomous zones, and keep people from getting evicted during the pandemic. That is what communalism is partly about, supporting each other in the face of adversity no matter the cost of personal wellbeing, it’s the pinnacle of mutual aid.

Revolutionary action is one-hundred percent essential in securing future freedoms for not only generation Y, but generation Z and subsequent generations. As a member of generation Z, I feel fear, anger, and dread when it comes to climate change and the fact our generation will have to clean up the messes of the former generations when it comes to pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, unsustainable farming practices, soil health degradation, deforestation, the melting of polar habitats, natural disasters, etc. The weight of the world falls upon our shoulders and we realize this as a truth or we reject reality and follow in our parent’s footsteps and do nothing about it, it’s up to us, the most depressed and angry generation in the U.S.’s rather short history to right the wrongs made by former generations when most of us can’t even find motivation to get out of bed in the morning. I am writing this manifesto in my bed as I have been for the past week when I remember to write it down. It’s not enough to just write a theory however, put practice in it and it becomes more than just a talking point. It becomes a movement, how far you want to take it depends on you, but I do not condone violence against any of the people in the list above for strictly legal reasons. It is not absurd to think that we don’t have a snowball's chance in hell to stop the impending climate disaster that is about to fall onto us, because that assumption is correct. The best we can do is rebuild afterwards then hope and pray the next generation continues our work to restore the planet and maybe move outside our solar system, god willing.

I’ve tried writing a short solarpunk novel, I realized that the fiction may be important for outreach, but I was trying to add personal political theory to a narrative that’s supposed to be about a character’s internal conflicts as opposed to what I’m doing now, informal political theory, which is why I’m addressing you, the reader. I’ve read and listened to political theory in the past, and it’s incredibly dry and hard to pay attention to, don’t get me wrong, it’s important when you’re a part of various movements such as eco-socialism, communalist-anarchism, and anarcho-solarpunk, but I think it’s more important to connect with a reader or listener to make sure they understand the message before saying “do some praxis.” That is the goal here, not to be the leftist, humane version Ayne Rand, but instead instill in people a hope for the future that learns to do without mass manufacturing, that learns to make their own food sustainably, that learns that we all have a right to food, clean water, housing, medical treatment, and clean air without having to pay for all of those things. I may not be a part of the bottom percentage of people, but if I were my point would still stand strong, the notion that you have to work to get basic necessities is immoral on many levels, but in “free market” economies that’s the standard and I was as blind to it as most people before I found solarpunk, it started out by liking the aesthetic, but I started thinking about what we do to our planet and realized this isn’t just a bunch of pretty pictures, this is an idea for a utopian future entrenched in equality, sustainability, environmentalism, and anti-corpocracy.

Many people say that socialism has never worked, they give reasoning such as “Income inequality expands under socialism.” Which is just capitalist projection, during the 2020 pandemic, which is still ongoing at the time or writing, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. “. . . in the months since the virus reached the United States, many of the nation’s wealthiest citizens have actually profited handsomely. Over a roughly seven-month period starting in mid-March – a week after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency – America’s 614 billionaires grew their net worth by a collective $931 billion.” (USA Today) The middle class, which skyrocketed post-feudalism/post-monarchy has been getting erased by the ruling class, which is the goal of capitalism. Capitalism is rooted in the aristocracy or the bourgeoisie and was created to have control over the masses without having a direct economic power structure overhead. Things may have gotten better for the growing middle class and the poor marginally, then the industrial revolution kicked in and everything went downhill from there. Pollution began with burning coal, the car came along, now it’s coal and oil, and so on until today where we have access to truly world-altering technologies, but what’s holding us back are the people who continue to exploit non-renewable resources for profit and solely profit. The betterment of mankind isn’t on the mind of the capitalist, they can avoid global catastrophe, they aren’t the peasants, they’re the monarchs. Why do you think billionaires fund space travel and cryogenics research? It’s not to better the rest of the world, it’s to get the hell out of dodge after global warming takes its toll and they have no more workers willing to fill their pockets by letting their labor be exploited. As I said above, it’s up to my generation to fix the mess they made. Maybe we’ll learn a lesson, or maybe we’ll die in the process, either way the situation is dire and action needs to be taken.

Who will take action? Well, if you made it this far into the manifesto without falling asleep or getting angry at the things I have to say, it’s you, me, and everyone else who cares, is tired of selling their soul, and wants freedom. Freedom, not via the dollar, but via being human. It matters not your ethnicity, skin colour, religion (or lack thereof), sexuality, gender, or anything else; you matter, the world matters, and it takes all of us to save it.

-A manifesto by Aeron Fae Greenwood

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journeythroughbible · 3 years

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Right Wing Nazis

How many times have you heard this to describe the “right-wing” Republicans? How many buy into this analogy? If so do you understand what you are agreeing with?

First, what is the right-left spectrum? 100% left is total government control like communisms. Socialisms is government control of private enterprise. Nazi’s are Nationalistic Socialists. 100% right is Anarchy, or no government control what-so-ever. So right there in the proper “right-left” paradigm a Nazi is far LEFT and not right. What is the “middle”? The Constitutional Republic as our country was founded I contend is the “center” since a democracy tends to devolve to an anarchy, then eventually a communist country due to mob rule, since mobs can easily be manipulated.

Second, the “far right” Republicans are actually more left of center today than in previous decades. So our definition of far right is far from what is truly far right.

Finally, the above statements is really propaganda, since no one can justify the atrocities the Nazi’s performed it becomes a technique called “transfer” where just saying they are Nazi’s without any support or ever being questioned the ignorant just accept as true.

So, be diligent about propaganda in the news and general banter. Don’t accept false premises and question them. Don’t allow speech to be shut down by Godwin’s law!!

ON A SIDE NOTE - I know someone who is really confused politically. They identify as an Anarcho-communism and while it actually sounds logical, like most “ideological political concepts” it fails in many aspects, first being man’s desire for more. Also, how can the two extremes of the political spectrum co-exist.

As we saw in a micro-test of this in Seattle, the infamous Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ)**, failed miserably as harmony broke down to raw survival and desire for power. Hence why when all is revealed our nation WAS founded under the most brilliant aspect of constrained freedom, with the underlying basis of morality, is the best political system. Please America, don’t BLOW IT and make a USAZ!!

** CHAZ was later renamed CHOP or Capital Hill Occupied Protest.

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Antifa’s True Goals and Tactics Exposed: Andy Ngo

By Ella Kietlinska and Joshua Philipp

February 2, 2021 Updated: February 2, 2021

Antifa is both an ideology and a movement that uses intimidation and violence to oppose capitalism and anybody who disagrees with its far-left, anarchist political agenda, says journalist Andy Ngo, an expert on the anarcho-communist group.

In September 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray described Antifa as more of an ideological movement than an organization.

“Antifa is a real thing. It’s not a group or an organization. It’s a movement, or an ideology may be one way of thinking of it,” Wray said, acknowledging that Antifa does have “small groups,” or “nodes.”

But Ngo told The Epoch Times in an interview with the “Crossroads” program that Antifa is “more than an idea. It’s also a movement.” It has networks of organizations, and some of them are organized into formal groups, he said.

One of its groups is Rose City Antifa, “the oldest Antifa organization in the U.S.,” which is based in Portland, Oregon, the epicenter of the movement’s violent activity, Ngo said.

Ngo has also uncovered a lot of evidence showing that Antifa is a formal organization, which he presented in his upcoming book “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy”

Antifa is extremely well-organized into secret cells and meeting locations, he said. Its training curriculum mirrors a lot of what is included in the radicalization process that jihadists put Muslims through, he said. It launches some events that look like social gatherings, such as soccer leagues, to recruit people and disseminate its extremist literature and later carry out riots, Ngo said.

Antifa has many chapters in different cities such as the Torch Network or Atlanta Antifa that “are formal groups,” he said.

Rose City Antifa states on its website that it works to oppose racial prejudice, bigotry, fascism, and fascist organizing.

Ngo said that Antifa doesn’t use the academic definition of fascism that refers to the national socialism of the Nazis or Italian Fascist Party. Antifa remade the definition of fascism for its own use by “describing it essentially as anything that is in opposition to the far-left political agenda,” Ngo said, adding that Antifa has always considered liberal democracy and capitalism as fascism.

For example, Antifa called both the Trump administration and the United States itself fascist, Ngo said.

The original Antifa was established during the interwar years in Germany as a “paramount tree of the German Communist Party,” Ngo said. In East Germany, Antifa’s ideology was institutionalized into the formal ideology of the German communist state; he noted that the Berlin Wall was officially called “the anti-fascist defense barrier.”

How Antifa Works

Antifa works together with socialist and communist groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) because they have a common enemy in the United States, its institutions, civil society, and free markets.

The DSA, America’s largest socialist organization, is in reality a communist organization, according to Trevor Loudon, an author and filmmaker who has been researching radical Marxist and terrorist groups and their covert influence on mainstream politics for more than 30 years.

Antifa and communist organizations have ultimately different agendas, but currently have enough in common to work together, Ngo said. It’s that same type of coalition that was built throughout 2020 between Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM)–a movement founded by militant communists, he said.

The communist goal to establish a totalitarian state is in contradiction to the anarchist aspect of Antifa’s agenda, but for now it has partnered “in calling for the end of American criminal justice system, demonizing free markets, demonizing property ownership,” Ngo said.

The ultimate agenda of Antifa is to abolish nation states all around the world and to create anarchist, communist communes, Ngo said.

“They believe that they can actually organize society without a government,” he said.

One principle shared by Antifa and communists is that nobody should own private property.

Although “it sounds like a big wild fantasy that [Antifa] will never achieve,” Ngo said, Antifa was actually able to claim territory in the United States in 2020 by establishing the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle.

Ngo, who spent some time there, said “it was a lawless area.” Homicides, arsons, shootings, and sexual assaults occurred in the zone. Warlords competed with each other, a hard border was created, and armed volunteers guarded it.

“They thought that they didn’t need capitalism to function,” Ngo said, but the zone was only able to sustain itself only because of donations from the United States as restaurants and people provided food and supplies.

Antifa uses the tactic of terrorizing its targets through a sustained onslaught of intimidation, which includes publicly releasing one’s personal information such as private addresses, place of employment, employer contact information, and phone numbers, a practice known as doxing, Ngo said.

The goal is to fill a person with dread that they can be attacked from anywhere, he said.

Ngo himself was physically attacked by Antifa in June 2019. Antifa members beat and robbed him, and hurled cups of cement mixed into milkshakes at him. As a result of this assault, Ngo suffered a brain injury and was hospitalized.

Ngo said that he’s had to undergo various therapies and treatments to address his injuries, but to this day he has not received any justice.

Antifa recently demanded that the largest independent bookstore in Portland remove Ngo’s new book from its shelves and online catalog, he said. The store agreed to pull the book from its shelves but resisted removing it from its catalog.

Ngo expressed sympathy for the store, a family-owned business, because he knows that Antifa is good at following through on its threats. It has a record of setting businesses on fire or initiating looting.

Despite these incidents and other threats, Ngo continues to expose Antifa because he wants to provide this information to a wider audience.

He said he hopes the information he provides helps “those in law enforcement to actually begin to seriously work on systematically dismantling these [Antifa] networks, and more importantly, also to challenge the ideology that they are polluting the minds of people with.”

Jack Phillips contributed to this report.

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