Tequila_Wolf

Tequila_Wolf wrote

Have you read Indigenous Action Media's Voting is not Harm Reduction?

What's amazingly funny is that anti-vote optics for present institutions are so warped that they already perceive it to be a "Hitler vs Mussolini" election

I've never heard an anarchist who thinks this, so I think you are making some interpretive errors about this question in general.

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Tequila_Wolf wrote

It's not even hypocrisy, it's colonial counterinsurgency pure and simple.

Which is pretty much the case for North-South 'aid' in general.

The anti-terrorism clause that aid groups have to sign alone has slowly suffocated non-obeying Palestinians and their infrastructures while promoting obeying Palestinians' lives even before the overt high-intensity part of the genocidal colonialism.

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Tequila_Wolf OP wrote (edited )

Some other places I am interested in (and don't know much about except that people have told me these are places where Marxists took power) include:

  • Cuba since 1959
  • East European countries post-World War II
  • Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979)
  • Ethiopia under Mengistu Haile Mariam (Derg regime, 1974-1991)
  • North Korea under Kim Il Sung's Worker's Party of Korea
  • Angola's People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (1975-present)
  • Vietnam since Ho Chi Minh (1954/1975 - present)

And would be interested to hear about purging by Marxists even in circumstances where they don't have power yet. The Philippines is an example that comes to mind.

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Tequila_Wolf OP wrote

If the person downvoting this is some loser marxist, you are invited to try sell your snake oil here about how your ideology isn't purgeist.

But do it in your own words. Don't recommend we read a tome or hide behind pseudoscientific language. And don't waste our time repeating specific parts of the sacred texts while ignore others, like any other religious hypocrite.

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Tequila_Wolf wrote

Keith Breckenridge's Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. It was good.

Here's the abstract:

Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic, development in countries in Africa and Asia. In this ground-breaking book Keith Breckenridge traces how the origins of the systems being developed in places like India, Mexico, Nigeria and Ghana can be found in a century-long history of biomet- ric government in South Africa, with the South African experience of centralised fingerprint identification unparalleled in its chronological depth and demographic scope. He shows how empire, and particu- larly the triangular relationship between India, the Witwatersrand and Britain, established the special South African obsession with biomet- ric government, and shaped the international politics that developed around it for the length of the twentieth century. He also examines the political effects of biometric registration systems, revealing their con- sequences for the basic workings of the institutions of democracy and authoritarianism.

In particular, it's interesting for showing how the form of the state in Africa is of a different type to that of its colonial neighbours, and actually that its constructed in relation to biometrics, which is an alternative way of thinking about governance to the pre-existing ones, including Foucault's biopolitics or Scott's high modernism.

Super useful for thinking about how biometrics as an originally eugenic practice is coming to structure borderization in North-South relations more and more. Also for thinking about how these ugenic practices over a century came to be the backbone of South Africa's welfare system and increasingly global south cash transfer systems.

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Tequila_Wolf wrote

Reply to by Possum_Bride

There are direct actions that are low-risk. Like the ones which are not illegal and are thought to be helpful generally. Why not focus on those?

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Tequila_Wolf OP wrote

Seems to me it's only said that we are much more than our rational elements, and especially understanding rationality through the lens of the enlightenment. Here are the two lines with the term "rational" in them:

Abandoning the baggage of Enlightenment rationality, maximalism needs to recognise that human beings are first and foremost creatures of passion and irrationality, and only secondarily reasonable beings.

The rationalist discourse of Enlightenment political philosophy can only hope to address the rational faculties. For many people, these remain undeveloped, blocked or coded as off-limits, and thus communication at this level remains stymied and ineffectual.

I'd be curious to hear what issue you take with these words, since they seem reasonable enough to me.

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Tequila_Wolf OP wrote (edited )

First time coming by this text. I had heard of Bellamy Fitzpatrick mentioning this notion of Maximalism before at one stage but didn't know it came from Moore.

Moore is a very good writer here and in what else I remember reading of his. Clear and strong. If you have not read this, it's a few pages and worthwhile. I should be reading more of his stuff.

One thing that was unexpected was his favourable engagement with schizoanalysis, specifically Perez's book On An(archy) and Schizoanalysis. I didn't know that Moore had much exposure to that line of thinking emerging from Deleuze and Guattari. Pretty significant connection.

Another thing was that I had never heard of anarchist psychoanalyst Otto Gross before. Between Fanon, Mbembe, Gross, Rolnik, and Deleuze and Guattari, there seems to be some very interesting anti-colonial and insurrectionary psychological work worth coming to grips with.

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Tequila_Wolf wrote

Indigenous cosmologies are the fabric of indigenous societies, since there's no separation of the religious and the political and the social etc. in them.
Understanding them as a thing on their own is to take them out of their context (which they nowadays often are).
They are important to how anarchic groups cohere over time without states forming.

People here use witchcraft for all sorts of things. One thing its useful for anarchists is as a counter to techno-capitalist necessity, i.e. a set of values to stick with, to avoid subjecting yourself into a commodity or a instrument.

Another thing its useful for is opacity.

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Tequila_Wolf wrote

Reply to comment by MayShine in Bon Clay is the GOAT by MayShine

Yeah Bon Clay is awesome. It's interesting thinking about how Oda can depict queerphobia even in some of the main characters but also write such amazing queer characters, and have queer undercommon utopias in the world's harshest prison.

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Tequila_Wolf wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by lentils in Friday free talk by lentils

Yeah but the spices/oils/etc you use are really the key. What about those.

Also there are loads of different types of lentils.

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