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daggers wrote

Finally, here's a purist anarchist explaining the feeling of moving down the levels:

Just finished reading Atassa. Has anyone else had a chance to read it? I thought it was extremely fascinating, especially the essay "Apostles and Heretics". Even though there are obvious similarities between ITS and EE and other nihlists like Conspiracies of Cells of Fire, something about EE and Atassa just feels like such a drastic shift in the discourse and reminds me of the importance with which individuals read and shared Desert.

lol wat? How is this individual 'moving down the levels'? Do you mean to say that because their reaction to reading Atassa wasn't 'OMG THIS IS EVIL' (I notice you use the word very evil often in your writing, Ishkah) they've somehow become an eco-extremist?

You'd have made a good Stasi agent, comrade. If someone isn't crying enough/cheering enough then they must be one of THEM.

Anyway, keep fighting the good fight, soldier, and happy purging!

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Ishkah OP wrote

Them buying into another ideology with almost opposite prescriptions to the first big exciting break in Desert just because it feels like a new exciting direction showed it was likely never about the actual ideology. And then it was confirmed later by them saying that they mostly agree with who they have chosen as targets, and shaping all their future writing by the eco-extremist ideological structure and worldview.

This is where imagining yourself post-ideological gets you, unable to see an irrational ideological infatuation when it's hitting you over the head. See Zizek's critique of Chomsky for another example.

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daggers wrote

Them buying into another ideology with almost opposite prescriptions to the first big exciting break in Desert...

Desert is the most famous nihilist text to come out of the anarchist milieu in living memory. Have you actually read any of these texts that you keep namedropping?

Again, how does the above quote from Reddit or wherever in the fuck show someone 'buying into another ideology'? The person says they found the booklet Atassa 'fascinating'. That's it. I find your one man moral crusade against eco-extremism (five years too late) and Ted K (twenty years too late) fascinating. Doesn't mean I'm about to join your workers co-op or subscribe to your Patreon.

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