Once again, effective harm reduction is not possible through the Democrat Party; you have to organize outside of them and assume they are hostile actors, including your "progressive" darlings who are just as guilty for the revolving villain ploy in their refusal to call for primaries against them.

Plenty of Christmas traditions can find their origins in related pagan practices for saturnalia or yule, but surprisingly the Christmas tree isn't one of them. Purely Lutheran creation.

I'm reflecting on an interaction I had a yesterday with someone polite enough but defensive of Stalin's USSR. They rattled off the usual defenses of authority, so I sent them a message for private chat. However, after accepting, they immediately backed out, saying we are "too far apart."

On this day in 1842, Peter Kropotkin was born. "British industry is the work of the British nation — nay, of Europe and India taken together — not of separate individuals."

The thing about the "just asking questions" crowd is they are ironically the most incurious people in the world. They are JUST asking questions because they don't care about answers. Their "questions" are merely meant to imply what they actually believe without going to the effort of demonstration.

Remembering when this defamatory hate group called me an antisemite, using a photo of me getting arrested for protesting Nazi terrorists after the Tree of Life massacre.

A funny thing about the "biblically accurate angel" meme is that it is biblically inaccurate. The beings described with hundreds of eyes are never called angels. When angels are described, they are frequently mixed up with regular people.

I saw someone on reddit inviting people to a reading group for Capital. I joined in, but noticed after it was put together by some guy in the ACP. I was able to argue and defend a better reading of Marx which they liked and complimented until they realized I was an Anarchist and got kicked lol

For both Marx and Lenin, socialism/communism has abolished the bourgeoisie even in its first phase. No country has yet achieved this. There is no "Actually Existing Socialism."

The ruling class has fumbled its reins on the propaganda war and now recognizes it's being outclassed by simple pictures and videos of things actually happening in real life, presented in real-time by real people experiencing it. Without spin, the real world simply cannot be allowed to exist.

The stories of Jesus' birth is interesting because it is both fictional AND good proof that Jesus actually existed. Matthew and Luke contradict and awkwardly explain how Jesus of Nazareth was really born in Bethlehem, suggesting there was a real Jesus known to be from Nazareth already.

MLs frequently mix up the dictatorship of the proletariat (dotp) with the first phase of communism. Marx and Lenin disagree. The first phase of communism (or socialism for Lenin) is entirely classless. The bourgeoisie were abolished in the DotP and we are in the new mode of production: communism.

"An"caps often argue that communists can exist under "an"capism, but that the reverse is not true. What they actually mean by this is, if they have the capital, workers could legally start a co-op. But by the same logic, "an"caps could work their own plot of land without hiring any wage laborers.

Been a bit since I highlighted any errors in my Capital reading but noticed this... Not an error, but a difference between the Penguin edition and the Marxists.org version. Is it £80 million or £180 million? Is this hypothetical or historical?

Kropotkin's analysis of women's domestic labour remains relevant over a century later.

The best parts of Christianity are undermined by the other parts. Ideally it encourages deep reflection, teaching repentance with a call to do and be better. The classic "Know thyself." Against that are original sin (guilt without reflection) and instant forgiveness (without doing/being better).

One of the propertarian arguments I've only touched on is Rothbard's absurd trilemma. He argues there are three possible answers to who owns things (1) his Lockean system, (2) some race based hierarchy, or (3) a "communist" equal ownership. We just disprove this by listing any other options.

I wrote this paper previously to debunk another argument, the "non-aggression principle." Since then, I've heard more variations of this argument, but none that actually get around this fundamental issue. judgesabo.substack.com/p/no-one-bel...

What abolishing the state meant to anarchists in the past.

To dunk on the Austrian School more, Hoppe's argumentation ethics is especially silly. Even other Austrians like Bob Murphy have given pretty solid critiques of it. philpapers.org/rec/CALHHA

Carl Menger, the founder of "Austrian" econ, argued property comes from scarcity, with whatever goods we have to meet our needs which we economize are being our property. But this is a far way removed from any Lockean idea and fits closer to Proudhon's idea of possessions, not property.

A central trick of "Austrian" economics sneaking in and naturalizing propertarian assumptions. Through stories of isolated "Robinson Crusoe" types, property is seen as existing pre-society. This then becomes fundamental from distinguishing "voluntary" contractual relations vs. "hegemonic" ones.

I cannot emphasize enough how many people are dead today who wouldn't be if any of these fucking journalists had done actual fucking journalism instead of serving the ruling class Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Vangaurd this vanguard that. “Vanguard” is a military analogy. Vanguards do not lead. They scout, they clash with the enemy first, they lay the groundwork for the main force to advance. The main force follows, not because of leadership, but because the vanguard opens the way.

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

A major part of conservative ideology is that society has a bias to the middle. If you are poor, it's easy to get established if you just try. If you are rich, it's easy to lose everything unless you're smart. Hence why these people "deserve" their positions. Reality is, of course, the opposite.

Of all the conservative hypocrisies I heard growing up, none angered me more than hearing people say "We need God to have a universal moral standard applying to all times and places" only to turn around and say "You can't judge this colonizer/slaver/etc because it was a different time and place."

I don't tend to be interested in Marxist critiques of moral realism which emphasizes that our ideas about morality arise out of our socio-economic base. They do arise out of that, of course, but so do literally all of our ideas, including math, science, etc.

Some people get upset studying philosophy because they feel it doesn't tell them approximately what position is 'correct' like you might get in science. They then dismiss it all as pointless. This misses the very real benefit of helping you avoid all the issues we are confident are very, very wrong.

somebody's been informed he's losing the case

Walmart has a habit of not vetting products submitted by individual vendors very well. Please give this a search and report them down, they're still up.

Even when I was right-wing growing up, I never bought the idea that someone being a "good businessman" would make them a good politician. The whole argument I heard for why the market was better was because of competition and market prices, not them being better or smarter people. Seemed silly.

"Communists" when they are asked if the workers should be in charge.

SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom. PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers

Today is Nestor Makhno's birthday! See my notes on his essays here judgesabo.substack.com/p/notes-on-m...

#OtD 6 Nov 1915 Spanish anarchist, and member of the Mujeres Libres, María Bruguera Pérez, was born. She fought fascists during the Spanish Civil War, was jailed for life in 1937 but released in 1945, and then joined the underground resistance stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1247...

He should go ahead and open up a canister on the witness stand and try saying that again without choking.

Rudolf Rocker is one of the few Anarchists I've seen who want to present Anarchism as a synthesis of liberalism and socialism. The more common (and I believe more accurate) view is that it is purely socialist and considers liberalism to be a false or mistaken attempt to achieve Enlightenment ideals.

The rotgut bastards are fucking terrified because they know all of us fucking hate them. Every sniveling fucking wretch posting Nazi propaganda from behind a keyboard, every Dodge groyper lanyard wearing dipshit, every two bit stormtrooper too scared to show their Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Apparently the jurors can’t stop laughing in the sandwich throwing case in court today.

There is no such thing as a true Biblical Literalist because the Bible, taken literally, contradicts itself a ton. There are only those who call themselves that because they have either not thought critically about it (if they've read it at all), and those leveraging the text for authority.

Amazing he survived

Who’s gonna endorse the next Democratic candidate for president now??

Dick is gone, Bush remains.

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Important thing to remember around prison abolition: Prisons do not exist for public safety. It's a punishment. Sentences aren't based on how long reform takes or until an abuser can be relocated away from their victim. We are just throwing people into the torture box.

Saw a video of some NYT guy explaining why we can't get rid of daylight saving because of real issues needing to go to school/work in the dark causing accidents and stuff. It's a fair enough point. But I think you get the wrong message if you think this means that changing things is impossible.

dude this is so embarrassing

It's still so weird to me that the Planter discourse is about the Nazi tattoo (bad) and not the fact that he was A MERCENARY FOR BLACKWATER DURING THE FIRST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION Moreover, ICE must be destroyed