RD

Aspiring anarchist. (he/him)
Anti-Capitalist but not opposed to Title Case.
No tankies, campists or ancaps tolerated.

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2024-09-24 23:56:26

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@npub1ugh…92hc
Capital is an extremely powerful god! And so much more so now.

2024-07-18 16:33:14

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@npub1vdk…msh2
This is where Rule of Law is taking all of us sooner or later.
You can have "rights" or you can have freedom, but you can't have both.

2024-06-15 14:49:10

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@npub1c9j…meul
Capital is the true god of this world, with autonomous authority and power over all (even billionaires are ultimately subject to its demands).

2024-05-18 14:22:48

There are reasons it's called #capitalism not "privatism".
Dictionaries are not free of propaganda.

2024-04-25 14:26:38

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@npub19fc…ay3c
I'm not the Vonnegut fan that I once was, but this is a good quote:
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

2024-03-20 19:23:07

I'm still amazed when I think back to the early days of the pandemic, shortly after the first round of vaccinations, when we had the now extinct phrase "breakthrough infections" and we were told they were so rare that there was no point in even tracking them any more.
Wow.

2024-03-17 14:35:52

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@npub14ka…um78 @npub1sjc…ryvd
No serious anarchist says "anarchy is nice", this is your flaccid go-to strawman.
Anarchism is about freedom *AND* consequences.
What you advocate are rights and responsibilities. Rights have to be granted by an authority and can be revoked at any time and for no good reason. Rights come with responsibilities, like "civility" which is really subjugation. This is not freedom.
Civility precludes the proper response to fascists. "Democracy" as a state institution is no barrier to fascism, and the power that you insist others must have over us is left wide open for the taking by fascists.
You're living in a world of fantastical ideals that have clearly never worked out in favor of those of us in the 99% and were never really intended to.
#anarchism #freedom

2024-03-12 13:25:53

"Long COVID is the faulty, load-bearing beam in the rickety pandemic denial superstructure. Were the public to grasp how common and how severe it is, the entire post-pandemic facade would come crumbling down."
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/disabled-peoples-exclusion-from-indoor
#covid

2024-02-16 15:18:31

"The entire point of the American political system is to make it nearly impossible to change the political and economic status quo."
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/111937420227447350

2024-02-10 15:35:59

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@npub1z5d…n68a @npub15th…6nvx
If capitalism is human nature, why did it always and everywhere have to be forced on people through immense violence and coercion? Why didn't it arise everywhere spontaneously instead of being imposed by a particular minority of people from a particular region at a particular time?
#capitalism

2024-02-09 22:59:52

I think this is going to be my go-to response to "what is your aLtErNaTiVe sYsTeM?!" from now on.
from @npub1se6…cmph
#compost #anarchism #MutualAid #ClimateCrisis #capitalism
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/903/970/087/413/358/original/7cfde20e28436549.png

2024-02-06 14:58:49

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@npub1erh…w6xs @npub1d7j…u8xc @npub1lej…vl5l @npub15th…6nvx
>>So, there is a lot of common ground, if we put aside the definition of the words.<<
Not really. Ancaps use ridiculous definitions that make it appear superficially to be some common ground but when one scratches the surface a bit one sees this common ground is a mirage.
Our opposition to state comes from different places. I don't trust anything about ancap motivations.

2024-02-05 15:58:38

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@npub1erh…w6xs @npub15th…6nvx @npub1lej…vl5l
You can keep your tools. But if you're an asshole about it, there will probably be consequences.

2024-02-05 15:23:45

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@npub1erh…w6xs @npub15th…6nvx
>>...not theft, coercion, violence, kidnapping and murder, like (I presume!) you are advocating in form of Socialism/Communism.<<
Why would you presume this? If you had just taken a quick look at the profile of the person you're replying to you would see information that contradicts this presumption. It may or may not make sense to you but it should be a clue to lead you to questions, maybe about some of your own assumptions and adopted narratives.
I mean right there in their pinned toot it explains that they believe in "rejection of both state authority and class distinctions" and "a stateless, classless society where the means of production are collectively owned and managed by the community through direct democracy, voluntary association, and decentralized decision-making."
Maybe don't be so quick to presume, at least if you're actually engaging in good faith.
@npub1lej…vl5l

2024-02-02 18:31:56

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@npub1wcu…9j6s @npub1qg4…augv
You clearly do support the murder of innocents and children when you defend the state of Israel's genocidal actions. Your objection that these actions are not intentionally genocidal is absurd as so many of Israel's ruling elite have spoken plainly about those intentions, and the tactics being used by Israel are obviously genocidal both in intent and results.
You have to hide behind spurious accusations rather than face the truth of what Israel is doing. You leave yourself in the ridiculous position of having to believe that anyone who thinks genocide is occurring in Gaza is anti-Semitic and a supporter of jihad. You probably don't even buy this lie yourself but you still feel compelled to use it because you really have nothing else to support your genocide denial.

2024-02-02 16:35:39

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@npub1wcu…9j6s @npub1qg4…augv
Meanwhile you're doing a very good job of establishing your reputation as a Zionist troll and genocide apologist.

2024-01-18 15:51:58

The protestant work ethic is not a good thing either, just sayin'.

2024-01-16 17:35:19

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@npub19fc…ay3c
I happened to read your post just after reading this piece:
"...because we are not separate from the rest of life on this planet. From our microbiome to our mental health, from our climate to the food we eat and air we breathe, we are in a state of inter-being with the rest of this planet. Whether you take a superficial mechanistic perspective (“we depend on healthy ecology for survival”), or perceive the deeper truth that separation itself is an illusion — that we are part of the whole — the outcome is the same.
As we destroy the planet, first we lose our quality of life, health, and well-being (we’re already quite far down this road), and then we lose our ability to survive."
https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/the-climate-movement-is-making-a

2024-01-03 15:24:30

I was asked in a private message about my use of the term "tankie", and what "campist" and "ancap" mean. I thought I'd answer publicly in case it's helpful to anyone else, and so others can chime in to correct, clarify or enhance.
When I say tankie I refer to those who identify as leftists but are authoritarian; those who would use the violence and coercion of state to implement their idea of communism or socialism. Fans and apologists of so-called communist or socialist states like the USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Venezuela, etc. Those who identify as communist but believe in state and the idea of a vanguard party (those who think they know better telling the rest of us what to do).
Campists, aka "anti-imperialists" or multipolarists, are supporters and apologists for horrible regimes and dictators that happen to oppose the US (in their eyes anyway). They have a cartoonish view of the world where the US is the only villain worth opposing and enemies of this enemy are their friends. They imagine that most other states have no agency; they are all either pawns of the US or they are heroes of resistance. They will apologize for the most atrocious actors like Putin, Assad, N. Korea, Iran, Hamas, Houthis, etc.
Here is a good piece on campism:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230207011756/https://fightback.org.nz/2022/12/08/for-a-new-internationalism/
Ancap is short for anarcho-capitalist, which is an utterly absurd and incoherent position. Ancaps claim to be anarchist because they are against state, but they believe in private property and capitalism and think these are good things that can somehow exist without state (they cannot). They all seem to want to be leaders of little feudal kingdoms of their own. They imagine themselves as factory owners and everyone will be willing to work for them on a strictly voluntary basis. Short version: most of their incoherence comes from a ridiculously inadequate understanding of what capitalism actually is in the real world as opposed to their cartoonish idea of it.
For the long version, here is a detailed and historical deep dive into the subject:
https://c4ss.org/content/56712
Hope this helps!

2023-12-24 16:03:07

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@npub1gp3…efzc @npub15th…6nvx @npub167e…6xnc
It always comes down to this. Either one believes that human beings can work things out together without being coerced, or one believes that some humans need to be managed like cattle by other more sophisticated humans.

2023-12-04 22:41:58

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@npub1vz5…qdta @npub10nf…0km0 @npub1hu8…39su
Not at all, not for any solid meaningful definitions of those words. In fact I think it emphasizes the meaningful distinctions between those concepts.
Socialism is the workers controlling the means of production. Welfare states are not socialism. State owned or "public" is not socialism. Authoritarian states are not socialism. China is not "communist" just because the US has called it that (communism is a classless *stateless* society), the DPRK is not democratic just because it calls itself that.

2023-12-03 18:50:34

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@npub1802…5ky5 @npub1d7j…u8xc
We can quibble about whether things are "tweaks" or more drastic sorts of changes, but the problem I see is that you have not called for the elimination of Capital, nor of states and the rule of law. So the more drastic the changes you propose, the less likely they are to be enacted by the power that rules the world: Capital.
As long as the concept of Capital exists and as long as states and the rule of law exist, you're working with means that I do not recognize as justified.

2023-12-03 18:32:29

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@npub1802…5ky5 @npub1d7j…u8xc
>>What you are advocating is a societal collapse not seen since 1,200 B.C.E.<<
You're clearly referring to some specific place and time, I don't know off hand what it is but I do know that there was no global society to collapse at that time, no universal market society, so whatever you're referring to doesn't seem likely to be relevant to what we're talking about.
Anyway, I think we are in the midst of societal collapse right now. It just is, I don't have to advocate it. Best I've been able to figure out to do is try to help people understand why so much of what we've been taught about states, rule of law, capitalism, etc are just wrong.
>>Work to modify the system...<<
Been there, done that. It isn't working, and like you said: there is not enough time.
But more importantly, I've come to the conclusion that the ends do not justify the means; that in fact the means *are* the ends. So I cannot endorse the tweaking of means that I do not believe are justified.

2023-12-03 18:10:40

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@npub1802…5ky5 @npub1d7j…u8xc
If you insist on painting everything as "the economy" then you're stuck with the violence and coercion.
"The economy" is a ghost employed by states to keep us in line. Let it collapse. Let it be replaced by networks of mutual aid and people being people.

2023-12-03 18:05:59

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@npub1802…5ky5 @npub1d7j…u8xc
And my original answer was to abandon countries altogether. This is not a platitude. I do not believe in the religion of "the economy" and I believe all states are our enemies.
I do not oppose markets, I oppose what has been called "market society" where all aspects of life are subsumed by market exchange, such that we are slaves to the market rather than it being a tool to serve us. I posted a link to an excellent thread about that if you need further clarification:
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110182089285428195

2023-12-03 17:56:44

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@npub1802…5ky5 @npub1d7j…u8xc
Great, I'll take anarchy then 👍

2023-12-03 17:54:25

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@npub1802…5ky5 @npub1d7j…u8xc
"Need" it for what? To make the countries ritual numbers look good compared to other countries game scores??
The people living their lives and exchanging with one another don't need that.

2023-12-03 17:30:34

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@npub1802…5ky5 @npub1d7j…u8xc
How does a country the size of the US maintain its national economy using a market economy?
With violence and coercion. By enforcing a class society. By separating people and pitting them against each other. With borders. With gangs of thugs. By denying people access to resources they need to survive. By mandatory indoctrination and conditioning. By preaching "competition" for thee but control and sabotage for me.
JFC, nobody seriously talks about central planning anymore, are you serious with that?
Authoritarianism with a socialist paint-job is not socialism.
about Market Society:
https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/110182089285428195

2023-11-29 23:22:00

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@npub19fc…ay3c
I tend to be sympathetic to a sort of panpsychist perspective, so I would be inclined to say that perhaps consciousness is fundamental to the universe, at the most basic level, but that there is no survival past death of any individual person as such.
At the same time, if there is a perspective beyond time, our individual stories might be eternal.

2023-11-28 15:48:56

When we suggest that capitalism must be eliminated, someone always wants to know:
"What will you replace it with?"
If you have a cancerous tumor removed, do you think you need to replace it with something?
If you have a parasite sucking your life away, you remove it. You don't replace it with something else.
If you are a slave, you need freedom, not a new master.
Someone always asks:
"What is *your* solution?"
As if it's up to *me*. Like they can't imagine a world where people work things out together instead of following some leader's proprietary "solution". As if there has to be *one* solution for everyone. As if there even has to be "a solution".
As if capitalism was ever a solution to anything.
Solution to what?
The "problem" of being human beings?
#capitalism #anarchism

2023-11-22 16:18:48

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@npub1ccn…czwu @npub1jw3…h3v8 @npub1lvu…3ua2
>>The people own the law...<<
I strongly disagree. States do not represent their populations, they control and exploit them.
The Conspiracy of Law:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/howard-zinn-the-conspiracy-of-law

2023-11-21 21:23:57

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@npub19fc…ay3c
I'm guessing the next track:
Hotel California!

2023-11-08 16:50:13

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@npub167e…6xnc @npub19fc…ay3c
"You'll get better results by calling it DiReCt dEmOcRaCy instead of that bad word anarchism!"

2023-10-19 15:14:11

It occurs to me that when someone says that #capitalism is just "human nature", they are actually saying that indigenous people all over the world are or were less than human.
Something that is an inevitable result of human nature should have arisen independently in many times and places, if all these peoples were human.
But what we see is that it arose from a relatively very small subset of people in a certain region at a particular time.
It had to be exported to the rest of the world and implemented *against great resistance*.
If capitalism is human nature this should not have been necessary. It would have been eagerly embraced. So obviously these other people must be more like domesticated animals that must be managed for their own good.

2023-10-05 14:21:02

"One in 10 people who catch Covid develop Long Covid and the risk increases with each infection. Covid-19 inflames the brain and decays neural synapses, leading to signs of early-onset dementia. The virus weakens and kills T cells, which are a type of white blood cell vital for fighting disease. This makes us more susceptible to other illnesses. Since the pandemic, heart attacks have surged, with a 30% spike among those aged 25-44 years old. A major study published in Nature found Covid increased the risk of diabetes by 66%. Another study, which involved autopsies of 44 people, found the virus had spread to every major organ, not just the respiratory system, and even entered the spinal cord. Children are affected too, and face a 78% higher chance of new-onset conditions after having Covid."
#COVID19
https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/03-10-2023/gambling-with-covid-repeat-infections-are-damaging-us

2023-10-03 16:28:38

Asymptomatic people with covid are contagious.
People who have covid but have tested negative (VERY COMMON!) are contagious.
People with covid who think they have a cold or allergies are contagious.
If you or someone you know caught a cold or flu, even if it *really was* the cold or flu, it could just as easily been covid (even easier to catch in fact).
Catching anything besides covid should be a deafening alarm of a wakeup call to you! It means you just dodged a deadly bullet. Are you then going to continue going about your life in the same way with the same critical hole in your defenses that allowed the cold or flu virus in?
Rapid tests are most effective on the fifth day of infection. Before that the chance of false negative result increases substantially the earlier you test.
https://mastodon.social/@Wikisteff/111143881014636118
There is a real possibility that SARS-COV-2 is NEVER FULLY CLEARED FROM OUR BODIES.
We really don't know yet the full ramifications of this disease.
https://johnsnowproject.org/insights/a-new-disease-paradigm/
None of this adds up to "back to normal"!
None of this means "mild"!
Nobody should feel comfortable without a mask!
This is far from over.
Please stay informed:
Pandemic Roundup: September 28, 2023
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-89962624
John Snow Project
https://johnsnowproject.org/
#COVID19

2023-10-03 02:51:54

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@npub1gmx…atcq
I agree with all but #5 because you don't want to regulate cancer, you want to get rid of it completely.
#capitalism

2023-09-01 22:50:23

Officers were in the parking lot on an unrelated call, suddenly decided to murder a pregnant Black woman.
#collapse #acab #racism #capitalism
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66690408

2023-08-30 15:44:48

Fuck yes, it finally paid off!
Wordle 802 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
#Wordle

2023-08-05 16:09:10

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@npub1qzc…yetl @npub1rv0…yhy3
It's not just Ukraine, she's campist across the board, an apologist for the worst tyrants like Assad.
Those of us who are anarchist do not like her because she has made her position on anarchists clear by insulting us and accusing us of being CIA or state dept stooges.
Sure she says some things that are correct, but her problems are very serious and disqualifying IMO and no way is the rest of her stuff special or valuable enough to be worth it, especially when there are so many other excellent sources to get the same messages from but with deeper understanding, more solid foundations and without the toxic campist baggage.
Caitoz is nothing but a self-promoting brand IMO.
BTW she was also adamant that the Jan 6 thing was a huge nothing, absolutely not a coup attempt, this was all just the empire blowing smoke up our asses.
I even went with that for a while myself, but the evidence that is emerging sure seems to paint a different picture.
She's a mess. I respect and appreciate you greatly @npub1qzc…yetl so I continue to follow and support you, but in many cases I will just block anyone boosting her.
I get that it can be hard to accept some of what I'm saying if you haven't seen it for yourself. I'm not on twitter anymore and can't find all this stuff to show you but these are things I experienced with her personally before she finally blocked me. I used to be a huge fan of hers also.

2023-08-04 14:13:57

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@npub1zh4…7v99
"What we have now isn't capitalism"
"Capitalism isn't the problem, it's lack of legislated personal responsibility"
"Capitalism is problematic, but here's my proprietary version of capitalism that solves all it's problems"
"Capitalism is the natural, inevitable result of human evolution, it's hierarchies all the way down"
"We just need democratic capitalism"
"If we can just replace fossil fuels with renewables we can keep doing capitalism"
"Just tax the rich to make capitalism fair"
"Just change the rules so corporations can't accumulate capital"
"What would you replace it with?"
"It's better than CeNtRaL pLaNnInG"
"You're just lazy, you want everything for free"
🤦‍♂️
Did I miss any?
#capitalism

2023-08-03 14:14:25

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@npub1484…8nrr
I urge you to read up on the myths of capitalist economics:
https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionC.html
@npub1qzc…yetl @npub18fs…2lq0

2023-07-09 15:57:24

#freedom #capitalism
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/110/684/940/875/305/011/original/f92c61cc74e3b63f.jpg

2023-07-04 16:44:07

Huh, go figure...
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-economic-inequality-individual-bad-choices.html

2023-06-08 16:04:05

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 @npub14qn…m4sh
https://kolektiva.social/@RD4Anarchy/110357349860939196
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2023-06-08 15:42:50

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 @npub1y57…jrt2 @npub1zj7…mdl2
Probably true for most, but I'm not giving them all a pass for sincerely believing that shit, John Locke for instance. This hasn't all been an innocent mistake based on good intentions. Someone at some point knew they were making shit up and playing on people's existing beliefs (which were likely implanted by some previous huckster).
But I do agree that for the most part it's a self-perpetuating system of beliefs that most accept without thinking, questioning or examining, and that's part of why it's been so successful at conquering the world.
I've often made the case myself that #capitalism does not require secret conspiracies because everyone is on the same page with Capital's demands and coordinating out in the open. The logic of Capital allows people to wash their hands of horrendous things, all the time. It is quite effective in that regard.

2023-06-08 14:39:32

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 @npub1y57…jrt2 @npub1zj7…mdl2
No, not hidden as in secret, but hidden as in cloaked with a false narrative camouflaging the true contours of what's underneath.

2023-06-08 14:32:08

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 @npub1y57…jrt2 @npub1zj7…mdl2
Well... it kinda was...
https://kolektiva.social/@RD4Anarchy/110357308454696097
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/110/509/078/008/481/363/original/7dd940468f601c82.png

2023-05-15 15:30:20

When I was a little kid in the early-mid 60's I kept encountering this idea that "in the future, everything will be made of plastic".
My young, literal (possibly not neurotypical?) mind took this to mean *everything*, including trees, lawns, houses, mountains, clouds, etc. I did not understand why people thought this was so or how the transformation would come about.
Later on I laughed at my silly misunderstanding.
But then...
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-disturbing-remote-island-plastic.html
#capitalism #environment #plastic #pollution

2023-05-12 19:01:17

HOW DID WE GET HERE?
(a thread of threads, quotes, and links)
This is a collection of writings and research concerned with how we got where we are today, which is in fact the story of what has been done *to* us, and what has been *taken from us*.
By "us" we're talking about "the 99%", "workers", "wage slaves", all non-owners of private property, "the poor", unhoused people, indigenous people, even plenty of people who swear by capitalism and identify as "capitalist" yet have no capital of their own and no serious hope of ever having any worth speaking of. In other words almost everyone except for the very few who have had the power to exploit us and shape our lives to serve their agenda. We're going to examine institutions and concepts that have deeply altered our world at all levels, both our external and internal realities.
By "here" we are talking about climate crisis and myriad other environmental catastrophes resulting from hyper-excessive extraction, consumption and waste; a world of rampant inequality and exploitation, hunger and starvation; a world of fences, walls, tollbooths, prisons, police, bullshit jobs and criminalized poverty; a world overrun with cars and preventable diseases; a world of vanishing biodiversity and blooming fascism; a world where "democracy" results in being led by some of the worst of humanity; a world ruled by an imaginary but all-powerful and single-minded god: Capital.
Our inspiration and structural framework for this survey is this quote from "The Prehistory of Private Property", an important work from political philosopher Karl Widerquist and anthropologist Grant S. McCall:
"After hundreds of millennia in which all humans had direct access to the commons, it took only a few centuries for enclosure, colonialism, capitalism, and industrialization to cut off the vast majority of people on Earth from direct access to the means of economic production and therefore to rob them of the power to say no. It took only a few generations to convince most people that this situation was natural and inevitable. That false lesson needs to be unlearned."
https://widerquist.com/books-3/#2b
Also recommended: "Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy"
https://widerquist.com/books-3/#4b
#capitalism #colonialism #enclosure #PrivateProperty #state #police #inequality #anthropology #environment #ClimateCrisis #economics
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2022-11-03 22:12:37

#introduction
I'm retired, a bit early due to covid-19 and the desire to protect myself and especially my older partner. We are both still doing what we can to avoid catching this insidious virus even once.
Most of my life I've been apolitical, but while coming from various perspectives over the years I've always been intuitively anti-capitalist and highly critical of the US. I tended generally toward progressive, unconventional, and counter-culture in most contexts but lacked any solid political consciousness or analysis. I was a worker all my life, most of it in the natural food industry (which I felt relatively good about), mostly at retail level. I never wanted to be anyone's boss so I was never a manager and never climbed the corporate ladder. In the later years I was fortunate to have a position that was not involved with sales but rather with protecting and informing customers (internal auditing for weights & measures compliance) which I also felt relatively good about but it certainly wasn't lucrative, lol.
I only became seriously concerned with politics during Bernie Sanders' first presidential campaign when I got a fleeting glimpse of supposed possibility for real change. I began to explore socialist thought and thought of myself as a demsoc. I was focused on electoral reform at the time, thinking that was the problem. I shared info with friends, family and co-workers about various projects to reform electoral politics and I started an account at the bird site (@RD4Democracy) in 2017 to have someplace to direct them to for more info and updates.
Fortunately there I found some very helpful voices along with all the noise, but I didn't immediately understand how to differentiate between it all so I was still following some garbage accounts for a while. Nevertheless my political thought evolved rapidly and I found myself following more and more anarchists and starting to understand anarchist thought. I realized I needed to better understand private property and learned about that. I read Graeber's "Debt" and got an understanding of money. I did some research to better understand what capital is and developed an idea of it as a sort of "god" or artificial intelligence with capitalism as its religion.
One of the helpful voices I want to specifically appreciate and recommend is @npub1d7j…u8xc. With the help of HP and others I was able to successfully navigate the crossroads that many self-described socialists never seem to reach at all and where too many others take the wrong fork into the tankie world.
The pandemic and then the Russian invasion of Ukraine were extremely clarifying events that helped me finally see the nature of that fork in the road, as well as shining an intense light on all the shit accounts I was following and providing an opportunity for others I followed to show or decide their true colors. It has been very sad sometimes while very illuminating.
While I have adopted the anarchist position of opposition to all states, I do support the movement for an independent California. As a life-long resident (so far), short of achieving actual anarchy I think California as a nation state would be highly preferable to being part of the US. I also think it is within anarchist tradition to support creating conditions more conducive to advancing the anarchist project even if it is still in the context of a state.
And now here we are. I haven't left the bird site yet [edit 6March2023: I have now deactivated my twitter account] but I felt it important to participate in a non-corporate, decentralized and open source social project like this and the timing seemed significant. Let's see what we can do.
[Edited 29Nov2022 to update Heavenly Possum link]