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A thing to remember:

Even tho the public opinion across the whole world is against Empire's actions vis-a-vis Genocidal Entity, it did not matter. It wont matter aswell.

That's how power operates.

If we want to dismantle power — dismantle concentrated power, just having soft power is completely insufficient.

None of our ruling classes have fear of peasants. If there is fear, its flows from above to below i.e fear of peasants from what ruling class would do to them. We call this farce so called "Democracy".

So long as we need to rely upon the goodwill of political class (that controls state goons & all the political power) to do the right thing, it wont ever be enough.

If we want the society to change, one need to have both hard & soft power. Ruling class only grants something to you, only if they fear far worse will happen if they dont grant you that. Else, they can go on committing crimes against everyone — those inside borders & outside borders — as they please.

Unless we have hard power i.e large mobilizations that can grind the economy to halt or fear in them that society accepts the moral position that if they harm large number of people, them being harmed is a just thing i.e they fear for their physical safety — if they continue to commit crimes & others hard power tactics, unless peasants have that power or the ecosystem that accepts that logic, ruling class wont give a damn — no matter how correct you are (or) no matter how just your demand is.

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ICL-CIT: **CNT strike stops production! Hundreds join the picket lines!**

"Litera Meat is one of the largest meat processing plants in Spain and possibly in Western Europe. It is located in the town of Binefar, in the Northern province of Huesca, and it is one of the main centres of economic activity in the region. The sprawling complex employs a workforce 1800 strong. CNT called […]"

iclcit.org/cnt-strike-stops-pr

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
-- Henry David Thoreau

How to distract state goons
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This gives good real world demonstration of what I was talking a while back distracting state goons when someone is at a protest.

When an issue is not addressed by ruling class & peasants want to escalate the public therapy session to next level i.e lil more confrontations, those protesters who take low risk during protests ("non-violent") needs to give cover for those other protesters who do take high risk (so called "violent") by distracting state goons.

The guy who is being pied is the new CEO of Enron. Enron is that corporation that leeched off so many customers, cooked books, scammed everyone before filing for bankruptcy.

You see one guy distracting the hired goons he is hanging around with so the other person can finish the job.

Thats one tactic people can use against State goons during protests when we know some other co-protesters are taking serious action.

@palestine @lebanon @iran @israel @syria #israel #palestine #gaza #lebanon #iran #syria #anarchy #anarchism

That settles it then.

Looks like moderators of mastodon.social (my guess is those moderators are from OG Nazi regime that has aided & have been aiding Zionists in the extermination of Palestinians), who have been shilling for that Genocidal Zionist regime for long time have decided that I am anti-semite then, based on bullshit definitions Zionists & their sympathizers handed them out.

I called out their boss Eugen Rochko in the past & called him a Zionist shit who have come up with farcical theories about what constitutes unjust discrimination. Also, questioned why he is allowed to exercise power over that many people, on why others should be bound by his subjective biases as to what constitutes unjust discrimination vis-a-vis Zionists. Asked others to call him & his moderators out publicly who have been enforcing policies at the behest of Zionists. He in the past literally shilled for Facebook (integration with its Trojan horse i.e Threads), which is a virulent Zionist platform

Does anyone know if mastodon.social/Eugen gets funding from public funds of OG Nazi regime?

I also called out Western Left for carrying water for Zionism. They are only proving me right.

What definitions of Antisemitism?

Zionist scum & the collaborators of Zionist scum have defined as unjust discrimination.

And for calling out Zionism to be nothing more than a flavor of European settler-colonial ethno-supremacist (flavor of white-supremacy) Nazi ideology.

Predicting future is hard.

But if past is anything to go by, in few years, they will be called racists & Zionist-collaborators by those who still remember what they did during ongoing Zionist genocide.

These "respectable" moderator segments have converted Zionism into a protected class, that should be handled with delicacy. God forbid, anyone make them uncomfortable by calling them names, while they unleash more than a century long white-supremacy, taking it to its natural end i.e genocide against its victims.

PS: I dont know for a fact this to be the case as I did not speak to the moderator. I am only making inference based on what they did to others who had strong anti-Zionist views before & based on what I did at my end. Such actions will have more than one cause, but I suspect it had more to do with my calling out their Zionist-apologetic boss. When someone wants to take you down, all they need is an excuse to put people in their place.

@palestine @lebanon @iran @israel @syria #israel #palestine #gaza #lebanon #iran #syria #anarchy #anarchism

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> 19. The leftist is not typically the kind of person whose feelings of inferiority make him a braggart, an egotist, a bully, a self- promoter, a ruthless competitor. This kind of person has not wholly lost faith in himself. He has a deficit in his sense of power and self-worth, but he can still conceive of himself as having the capacity to be strong, and his efforts to make himself strong produce his unpleasant behavior. [1] But the leftist is too far gone for that. His feelings of inferiority are so ingrained that he cannot conceive of himself as individually strong and valuable. Hence the collectivism of the leftist. He can feel strong only as a member of a large organization or a mass movement with which he identifies himself.

Again wrong. If someone doesnt feel powerless in a system imposed thru organized violence of state, in the service of concentrated capital, they are either clueless (or) completely delusional (or) privileged enough to not to worry about it.

I care about individual autonomy as much as collective autonomy. One is not possible without the other. In Anarchy, our individual autonomy is a guarantee we give to each other, not imposed from above. We cannot respect collective autonomy if we cant respect individual autonomy & vice versa.

Besides, inorder to take down the existing organized structures of domination, none of us individually cannot do much. We need collectives that can fight against an organized collective such as State, Capital & ruling class. We can take individual/group actions, but they ultimately have to be aligned with the larger interests, so these actions tho isolated, existing in their silos (for good reason), still are geared towards that common ultimate goal — of autonomy & free of domination.

Continued thread

> Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others.

I dont know about others, but I reject generic pre-disposition explanations (Nazi-esque) not because there is no genetic variable at play in human evolution, but because we live in societies built on structural domination imposed thru violence by ruling class, built on hundreds to thousands of years of such domination.

In such a society, speaking about psuedo-scientific shit like race science (and similar shit like that) will only give a veneer of "scientific" legitimacy to existing systems of structural domination. Pushing those psuedo-scientific bullshit is intellectually dishonest, wrong & unjust.

But then again, fascism never failed not to misrepresent its enemies in a caricatured manner.

Luigi has given me enough motivation to read Unabomber manifesto, to know what it is.

While going over it I see that Unabomber has a lot of insults for us leftists & misrepresents of what left stands for & who a leftist (whatever that nebulous term means, it still has meaning which roughly translates to *politics of the oppressed*) is.

Altho the kind of leftist Unabomber was talking about exists, but his caricature of leftist is what mainstream Capitalist reactionaries define who a leftist as. Its silly, untrue, but then what can we expect from a force of rightwing reaction like Capitalism?

The undercurrent is: Leftists are weak, self-loathing losers.

For e.g this

> 15. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.

> 16. Words like “self-confidence,” “self-reliance,” “initiative,” “enterprise,” “optimism,” etc., play little role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve every one’s problems for them, satisfy everyone’s needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.

"Indigenous Mutual Aid organizing challenges "charity" models of organizing and relief support that historically have treated our communities as "victims" and only furthered dependency and stripped our autonomy from us. We organize counter to non-profit capitalists who maintain neo-colonial institutions and we reject the NGO-ization and non-profit commodification of mutual aid.

While solidarity means actively and meaningfully supporting each other, it also doesn't mean blind illusions of "unity" or that we must flatten out the diverse cultural and political ways and views that each of us maintains. There are some necessary tensions and factions in our communities and in radical Indigenous politics.

Some Indigenous non-profits such as the NDN "Collective" and Navajo and Hopi Families COVID-10 Relief Fund (NHFCRF) have made millions of dollars from relief efforts in response to this pandemic. Relief has become big business while root causes are reinforced and further entrenched. To illustrate the disconnect of analysis, the NHFCRF started distributing coal for Diné and Hopi families to burn to stay warm in the cold depths of winter. Others are proposing a "revolutionary Indigenous socialist" agenda in an academic vanguard charge to proletarianize Indigenous ways through redwashed Marxism.

This re-contextualizing of Marx and Engels' political reactions to European capitalism does nothing to forward Indigenous autonomy. The process inherently alienates diverse and complex Indigenous social compositions by compelling them to act as subjects of an authoritarian revolutionary framework based on class and industrial production. Indigenous collectivities and mutuality exists in ways that leftist political ideologues can't and refuse to imagine. As to do so would conflict with the primary architecture their world is built on, and no matter how it's re-visioned, the science of dialectical materialism isn't a science produced by Indigenous thinking. Colonial politics from both the left and the right are still colonial politics...

Indigenous Mutual Aid is not just about redistributing resources, it's about radical redistribution of power, to restore our lifeways, heal our communities, and the land."

- Klee Benally, "No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred", pages 309-311

I feel these vibes of #anarchism last few days on fedi and it's probably contagious.
I didn't create anything anarchist yet, except some cartoon punk character once. So now when I feel it, I did this.

:anarchoheart1:

What I feel (felt?) was like one strong spike of energy, light and hope in this dark dystopian reality. Difficult to describe it.