southerntofu

southerntofu wrote

So last night i was reading a long article in french about the link(s) between islamophobia and antisemitism (as paradoxal as it may sound). I fell asleep so i can't say anything about the conclusion but it was good so far.

Today i was reading an article that tries to break the "primitivism"/"progress" binary. That's an interesting perspective, but there's some universalist perspectives i don't agree with.

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southerntofu wrote

Yeah i can definitely recommend that one. Here's the 7 goals of the Anarchist program:

  • 1: Abolition of private property
  • 2: Abolition of all governments and forms of coercion
  • 3: Self-organization as the foundation of social organizing
  • 4: Guaranteeing life and comfort for all those who can't do it themselves
  • 5: War against all blind faiths, be it religions or pretend-science ; highest scientific instruction for all
  • 6: Abolition of all borders and solidarity between all peoples
  • 7: Reconstruction of the family as the product of love, not constraint

The rest of the document (maybe 10 pages) is really cool and not hard to read.

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southerntofu wrote

I tried to present the encounter somewhat neutrally

I appreciate that, thanks. However as i pointed out i feel like you invisibilized the power balance between the two claiming they were on an equal setting. And you clearly spent more time talking about the fact they talked at all, than about what they disagreed on, or how this disagreement manifested itself. Famously, Kropotkin boycotted any kind of state support from the bolshevik (despite many offers), because he wanted good social conditions for everyone and refused to be acknowledged a personal privilege.

By the way, you haven't exactly replied to this... Have you read Emma Goldman? I'm sure you would find some interesting stuff in there ;)

Please don't take my feedback as an attack. I genuinely appreciate your videos doing popular education on complex topics, and i hope we can learn together from history to develop better understanding of society :)

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southerntofu wrote

Reply to comment by zoom_zip in landlords are parasites by zoom_zip

didn't know how to do that but i'll figure it out

GIMP may be a way to reduce the size of images directly in the source. Otherwise, you may consider using a static site generator which deals with image manipulation like zola. Both tools work on Windows.

i'll look at replacing them with hosted fonts.

let me know if you need some help, with that or any anarchist-related web/sysadmin stuff :)

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southerntofu wrote

Reply to comment by zoom_zip in landlords are parasites by zoom_zip

windows :(

You may consider using a free, not-for-profit operating system like Debian or a Tails USB stick. Struggling for self-organized free-software development is interesting in itself, but if you're posting to anarchist forums (which may be a criminal offense depending on where you reside) you may be more confident using free, privacy-friendly tools.

Notably, you may have heard of the Tor Browser which enables to conceal your location from the websites you connect to, and to conceal from your ISP which websites you connect to. While it's not entirely foolproof (a nationwide attacker may still try to disanonymize you, though that will be costly), it may help to protect you from daily concerns of surveillance and other security issues.

Tor Browser is bundle within the Tails system (intended to be setup on a USB stick), but if you really want to stay on Windows to publish (i would never recommend this to anyone, but the choice is up to you), then using Tor Browser on Windows is an option, so your personal IP address will not appears in the raddle.me server logs.

Let me know if you need any help to setup any of that. There may also be Linux User Groups, or other free-software/community-networks/privacy-workshops collectives in your neighborhood. Don't hesitate to get in touch with those, you may meet interesting persons including quite a few fellow anarchists.

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southerntofu wrote

Reply to comment by zoom_zip in landlords are parasites by zoom_zip

i'll have to do some research to really support it with sources. i'm sure it's there, it's just a chunk of work i'll have to find the time to do.

Advertising the repository to contribute to the document could help! I'm happy to provide whatever links i have at hand :)

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southerntofu wrote

Reply to comment by southerntofu in landlords are parasites by zoom_zip

Some feedback:

  • the page is really heavy, with some images weighing several megabytes!!! the site will be just a good with lesser-quality images, and will not take 26MB (!!!) to load
  • i really love that you're not using JavaScript at all :)
  • fonts should probably be loaded from your own domain (or use locally-available fonts), not from google (if only, for privacy reasons)
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southerntofu wrote

hey thanks for the share that's pretty great what you did over there! i think it's pretty clear and i'd like to do french translation

if you consider acquiring a domain name, please do so without giving money to this fucked up industry. there's plenty of domains giving away subdomains (delegations) for free, like eu.org, netlib.re...

also i haven't got the beefiest server/network but if we're having french translation i'm happy to host the website on ~fr though i need to ask the comrades first :) (we have onion domains on there as well)

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southerntofu wrote (edited )

For a different view of Lenin's encounter with Kropotkin, see this article (has a few typos)

From the article...

In the first years after the Bolshevik coup d’etat, many Americans, and a few Europeans as well, confused Bolshevism with anarchism. In 1917, Lenin had preached the complete destruction of bourgeois state forms and the establishment of a workers’ and peasants’ republic based on local soviets, similar to the local communes of which the anarchists had dreamed.

By this time, the Bolsheviks had brutally suppressed the Constituent Assembly, elected by universal suffrage with a clear majority for the Socialist Revolutionaries and only 25 percent for the Bolsheviks. The red terror, which preceded and followed the dissolution of the Assembly, had erupted into the horror of the Civil War.

Kropotkin:

This opinion is no longer held even by kings; the rulers of countries where monarchy still exists have abandoned long ago the means of defense now introduced into Russia with the seizure of hostages. How can you, Vladimir Ilyich, you who want to be the apostle of new truths and the builder of a new state, give your consent to the use of such repulsive conduct, of such unacceptable methods?

The well-known Russian publicist, Katherine Kuskova, met Kropotkin often in those days, and she has commented that Kropotkin’s “stupid advice” consisted largely of (a) vigorous criticism of the terror, which he said “debases the revolution and will lead to reactionary dictatorship,” and (b) appeals to Lenin to find six or seven able non-Bolsheviks who would work with his administration in a determined effort to restore normal conditions of living.

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southerntofu wrote

I agree we need to be more open to conversation. But i don't agree we can ignore the fact that some people on the left are dangerous power-hungry sociopaths.

I mean, you presented this encounter between Lenin and Kropotkin as the proof we can talk peacefully. However as @ziq pointed out Lenin was a fanboy of Kropotkin's so he certainly had to show respect to his master, granting Kropotkin room to disagree. The said cannot be said about the thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of anarchists Lenin and Trotsky had murdered during the great terror and political repression of 1917-1925. These people didn't have the privilege to be respected enough by their tyrant to be able to disagree...

I mean it's just like with the boss. If you're really irreplaceable for the boss and provide incredible value for the company, you have the privilege to disagree. The same cannot be said of all workers, and that's why the boss isn't invited to union meetings.

If you're interested in political repression in Russia in those times you'll probably enjoy reading Emma Goldman's accounts (maybe you already have?). She was also close to the bolsheviks when she was deported from the USA to Russia (for opposing World War I) and explains in great lengths the pains and sorrows she went through deconstructing her glorious image of Lenin and his fellow heads of government. She literally recalls in her autobiography a scene: she was arguing with anarchist comrades that every one should be out in the streets shouting the greatness of anarchism, not hiding in basements to hold secret meetings. To which a comrade replied something along the lines "We'd love that. But if we do it, the political police will shoot us on sight"

Thanks for the video take care <3

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southerntofu wrote

Reply to by kac666

I'm sorry that happened to you, but just breathe and relax. There's very little chances anyone's coming to your house. Just in case it would happen, don't let expropriated goods hang around the house :)

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southerntofu wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted27649 in by !deleted13038

I guess they are so general and meandering that they function like a rorschach test.

There is definitely something like that to appellist litterature. It's very poetic romance that can be appealing to a lot of folks, without centering discourse on what is oppression and privilege, mostly due to being written by a bunch of higher-classes white men.

Its shocking to me that this is the practical application you'd come up with from reading

Yes, that is sad. But to be honest i believe it's less a problem with the book and more a problem with the imaginary party not being so imaginary after all.. and having very concrete strategies for entryism in social struggles with a concealed agenda. Already before the evictions, the appellists on the ZAD had constituted a very secret group called CMDO to seize control of various collective infrastructure (including meetings), and they insisted for quite some time this group did not exist if my memory does well.

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southerntofu OP wrote

Coucou, oui on parle des porcs pour parler de la police. Les flics, les condés, les schmidts... Pour continuer avec les animaux on dit aussi les poulets, ou les vaches (mais ça c'est très vieux comme expression).

c'est difficile quand ton pays ne l'enseigne pas en école

C'est quoi que tu as pas appris à l'école? Le français ou l'anarchisme? ;)

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