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Potkea wrote (edited )

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mystique wrote

Robert Helms lol

Bey journeyed to places your pixel addled brain couldn't even dream of. Close Libcom, open Pirate Utopias, and sail away with a spiritual anarchist

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Potkea wrote

Just because I criticize Beys personal vices doesn’t mean that I’m against everything that he wrote.

“We follow ideas, not men.” — Malatesta

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bn0tafraid wrote

Spiritual anarchism is when you show critical support for NAMBLA.

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temporarial wrote

Didn’t take you long did it? The man wrote hundreds of thousands of pages in his life, yet you highlight this as somehow emblematic. I’m not even necessarily problematizing it but more problematizing you for obsessing over his minor controversies and throwing them in the faces of anyone who would be irked by them, as they have their right to, but it’s disingenuous to pretend like this is a big part of his writing or that other writers or revolutionaries are without fault or controversy. Landsteicher also has “boy love” references in his work. As does John Henry Mackay. Paul Z Simons defended Wilson, and actually offensively from my perspective, defended indiscriminate terrorism, always not clearly defined of course. Bakunin has anti semitic things he wrote. Perhaps everything ever referencing Bakunin should highlight that as if it’s a critically important part of his thought and character? And of course ask these writers ought to be purged from the publishers still distributing them, right?

The internet has afforded us the ability to more easily than ever search through everyone’s writings and permanently catalog their controversies in a way that was unthinkable prior to its ubiquity.

I remember people doing just terrible things in my local scene and six months later people are like “well whatever that was a while ago and i don’t even remember the details.” Imagine if you could just look at their Wikipedia page and see all the details immortalized forever and of course if you remove such things it will be labeled censorship. As much as it annoyed me at the time, I prefer to live in that world than this one.

Count yourself lucky that not being a public figure you don’t have to permanently face the same kind of scrutiny for every little thing you ever wrote or did. And also, content wise, maybe at least partially recognize that anarchists historically have tried to rattle every cage they could find, real or imagined, to try and see what would result and whether new oppressions or freedoms would be discovered. That spirit of experimentation with different ways of thinking and trying out different positions from the mainstream is something that overall should be celebrated in the anarchist tradition.

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bn0tafraid wrote

He's a blight and it's great that he's gone.

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autonomyzone wrote

Celebrating the death of an anarchist...

The "solidarity" we're always talking about really doesn't reach very far, does it? With friends like these, who needs enemies.

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