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Nuktuk wrote

Unlike the party, union or revolutionary federation, the affinity group is the organizational model of criminal, conspirator, street protestor, FAI saboteur and ELF midnight gardener alike, and this overlap makes it a natural choice for the basic unit of revolutionary action. In fact, it’s probably the most natural form of class resistance, in addition to being the type least conducive to co-optation, the democratic model quickest to act, the least likely to become bogged down in procedure and the most likely to create the kind of broad, sweeping destruction that a modern social revolution would require. All that’s lacking for “anti-organizational”/insurrectionist anarchists is a genuine recognition of the central role of white supremacy in America and a commitment to attack it. Where are the ELF attacks against environmental racism? The ELF is listed as public enemy number one by the FBI, and yet its existence goes largely unnoticed by poor communities of color because for them it is largely irrelevant. The burden is on the ELF to bridge that gap. The only paradigm within which most environmentalists are able to conceive people of color is the imperialist one. They have no critique of race within the American context. That is, the only space environmentalists have for them is as indigenous people struggling in far off places against forces largely beyond anyone’s (re: white people’s) control (at the extreme end, appropriate actions include boycotts or informative leafleting to help raise awareness for more concerted non-violent action). If you do not fit that definition, you may as well not exist for the environmental movement. Similarly, American insurrectionists cannot expect to simply transfer wholesale the writings and ideas of the great Italian insurrectionists without seriously considering the role that white supremacy plays in the maintenance of the American State. To do so is to create a fantasy world just as illusory as that of the environmentalists.

I haven't finished reading but this paragraph has stood out to me so far. Really speaks to the disconnect between vegans/environmentalist and poc that u/Galdra was talking about the other day. Hopefully more vegans will decide to develop a proper critique of whiteness in the future, rather than reinforce it like most currently do.

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heckthepolice2 wrote

I kinda get what you're saying, but I also think it's dangeous to imagine we can just seperate anti-racist struggles from environmental struggles like that. Like, a lot has been said about how PoC tend to be excluded from the "outdoors" and I mean obviously the ELF/green anarchists generally are not interested in the commodified idea of "the outdoors" that they sell us in commercials and travel brochures but I think it still raises a valid point about the overwhelming disparity in access to natural spaces that I don't think anarchists always do a great job of addressing. Not to mention the ways that climate change/ecological collapse already have and will continue to disproportionately affect PoC. Like, there's this really big intersection between racism and environmental destruction that I don't really think we've done enough to address. And just the general idea that any "single interest" struggle can really be meaningfully anarchist is kinda worrying. We can't just try and attack one facet of power at a time, that's not really gonna get us anywhere (for the extreme example of this problem, see the brocialist "wait till after the revolution" bullshit)

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