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"[C]apital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons which is mediated through things.

[..] In capital, as in money, certain specific social relations of production between people appear as relations of things to people, or else certain social relations appear as the natural properties of things in society."

–Karl Marx, "Capital vol. I" (1867)

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"The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation between people that is mediated by images."

–Guy Debord, "Society of the Spectacle" (1967)

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"Freedom is not a possession or a property; it is a relation. It is not a matter of being protected from the outside world, but of intersecting in a way that maximizes the possibilities."

–CrimethInc., "To Change Everything: Start by Reconciling the Individual and the Whole" (2016)

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"Hence, in every epoch, man must seek his freedom not at the beginning but at the end of history.

[..] I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. It is the slavery of other men that sets up a barrier to my freedom, or what amounts to the same thing, it is their bestiality which is the negation of my humanity. For my dignity as a man, my human right which consists of refusing to obey any other man, and to determine my own acts in conformity with my convictions is reflected by the equally free conscience of all and confirmed by the consent of all humanity. My personal freedom, confirmed by the liberty of all, extends to infinity."

–Mikhail Bakunin, "Man, Society, and Freedom" (1871)

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“If you have come to help me, I don’t need your help. But if you have come because your liberation is tied to mine, come let us work together.”

–Lilla Watson

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Quick Message from a friend of mine:

Hello. My name is Colt and I'm currently living with my grandmother to take care of her in her advanced age. I'm between jobs right now ad I'm 900 dollars short of rent. If I don't make this payment my landlord may kick us out, and while for me that is't the biggest deal since I could probably couch surf or something, for my aging grandmother it's a different story.

You can donate to me here via Paypal:

Donate to Colt Lynds

Help support Colt Lynds by donating or sharing with your friends.

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Please help them if you can.

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Quick Message from a friend of mine:

You can donate to me here via Paypal:

Donate to Colt Lynds

Help support Colt Lynds by donating or sharing with your friends.

paypal.com

Please help them if you can.

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mell-150 asked:

why so statist? – the anarchblr

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Anonymous asked:

The hopeless dream of being. Not seeming to be, but being. Conscious and awake at every moment. At the same time, the chasm between what you are to others and what you are to yourself. The feeling of vertigo, and the constant hunger to be unmasked once and for all. To be seen through, cut down… perhaps even annihilated. Every tone of voice a lie, every gesture a falsehood, every smile a grimace. Commit suicide? No, too nasty. One doesn’t do things like that. But you can refuse to move or talk. Then at least you’re not lying. You can cut yourself off, close yourself in. Then you needn’t play any roles, wear any masks, make any false gestures. So you might think… but reality plays nasty tricks on you. Your hiding place isn’t watertight enough. Life oozes in from all sides. You’re forced to react.

Nah

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Israel Conflict Spreads to 16 Nations as Biden Admin Says There’s No War

Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel highlight an America-led regional war spanning Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and others.

The Intercept

THE REGIONAL WAR in the Middle East now involves at least 16 different countries and includes the first strikes from Iranian territory on Israel, but the United States continues to insist that there is no broader war, hiding the extent of American military involvement. And yet in response to Iran’s drone and missile attacks Saturday, the U.S. flew aircraft and launched air defense missiles from at least eight countries, while Iran and its proxies fired weapons from Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.

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While the world has been focused on — and the Pentagon has been stressing — the comings and goings of aircraft carriers and fighter jets to serve as a “deterrent” against Iran, the U.S. has quietly built a network of air defenses to fight its regional war. “At my direction, to support the defense of Israel, the U.S. military moved aircraft and ballistic missile defense destroyers to the region over the course of the past week,” President Joe Biden said in a statement Saturday. “Thanks to these deployments and the extraordinary skill of our servicemembers, we helped Israel take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles.” As part of that network, Army long-range Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense surface-to-air missile batteries have been deployed in Iraq, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and at the secretive Site 512 base in Israel. These assets — plus American aircraft based in Kuwait, Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia — are knitted together in order to communicate and cooperate with each other to provide a dome over Israel (and its own regional bases). The United Kingdom is also intimately tied into the regional war network, while additional countries such as Bahrain have purchased Patriot missiles to be part of the network. Despite this unambiguous regional network, and even after Israel’s attack on Iran’s embassy in Syria earlier this month, the Biden administration has consistently denied that the Hamas war has spread beyond Gaza. It is a policy stance — and a deception — that has held since Hamas’s October 7 attack. “The Middle East region is quieter than it has been in two decades,” Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in an ill-timed remark eight days before October 7. “We don’t see this conflict widening as it still remains contained to Gaza,” deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh said the day after three U.S. troops were killed by a kamikaze drone launched by an Iran-backed militia at a U.S. base in Jordan. Since then (and even before this weekend), the fighting has spread to Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Yemen.

Source: theintercept.com

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>theoretical approach which completely fails to make sense of the historical material

>"historical materialism"

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sensitiveplant

somehow my gf just. got a job at the hotel she's been staying at. and now it's less expensive but i still only have $1 after paying for another day -_-

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(april 11) Hi i'm in the negative and need at least $53/day or $290/week to keep my gf housed while she's waiting on a paycheck that might not even cover a week 👍 hotel receipts available upon request

$aspenadams / ven @/pisshet / pal

please don't click that it's for goods or services, especially if i'm not physically sending you anything. it charges me a fee no matter what

venmo lets you send less than a dollar. also this is really time sensitive because she has to renew her day in like two hours yada yada. yayyyyy

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to top everything off i'm the hospital now two days later

could really use some help

sensitiveplant

this kinda exploded in notes but i've only gotten two donations since updating, and we're nowhere near able to pay for shelter

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bluelivesaintshit

*gets drunk* lets burn down a police station

gendernihilistanarchocommunist

*gets sober* y’know what I changed my mind…let’s burn down a police station

youralana

This is how my uncle got 99years in prison…

fiightingdreamers

solidarity with this guys cool uncle

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-Pyotr Kropotkin. The Conquest of Bead (1892).

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“One other thing that we must do, and is something which tactically separates us Anarchists from the Marxist-Leninists, is that we use our studies of the authoritarian personality to help us organise against fascist recruitment. All the M-L’s ‘United Fronts’ care about is a strict political approach to defeat fascism and prevent them from attaining state power, while being able to usher the Communist party in instead. They organise liberals and others into mass coalitions just to seize power, and then crush all radical and liberal ideological opponents after they get done with the fascists. That is why the Stalinist ‘Communist’ states resemble fascist police states so much in refusing to allow ideological plurality – they are both totalitarian. For that matter, how much difference was there really between Stalin and Hitler? So, I say that merely physically beating back the fascists is not the issue. We need to study what accounts for the mass psychology of fascism and then defeat it ideologically, going to the core of the deep seated racist beliefs, emotions, and authoritarian conditioning of those workers who support fascism and all police state authority.”

-Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, “Anarchism and the Black Revolution”

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puppygirldick

Homeless trans girl

My housemates are expecting me to leave by tonight Im basically so I'm forced to live in my car

Thank you for any help

Venmo@Leah-Esther-Rose

PayPal.me/androgynophore

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"Indeed:

Who says anarchy says negation of the government;
Who says negation of the government, says affirmation of the people;
Who says affirmation of the people, says individual freedom;
Who says individual freedom, says sovereignty of each;
Who says everyone's sovereignty says equality;
Who says equality, says solidarity or fraternity;
Who says fraternity, says social order;
So who says anarchy, says social order.

On the contrary:

Who says government says negation of the people;
Who says negation of the people, says affirmation of political authority;
Who says affirmation of political authority, says individual dependence;
Who says individual dependence, says caste supremacy;
Who says caste supremacy says inequality;
Who says inequality, says antagonism;
Who says antagonism, says civil war;
So who says government, says civil war."

–Anselme Bellegarigue, "Anarchist Manifesto" (1850)

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"JOUIR"

–Anselme Bellegarigue, Manifeste de l’Anarchie (1850)

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"Everyone is selfish [un égoïste]; whoever ceases to be one turns into an object [chose]. Anyone who pretends that you shouldn't be is a crook [filou].

Ah! yes, I see. The word sounds bad; you have hitherto applied it to those who were not satisfied with their own, to those drawn to the goods of others; but these people are in the human order, it is you who are not there. By complaining about their rapacity, do you know what you are doing? You become aware of your imbecility. You believed to this day that there were tyrants! Well you have been mistaken, there are only slaves: where no one obeys, no one commands."

–Anselme Bellegarigue, "Anarchist Manifesto" (1850)

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"What have I to say about government or the party [l'opposition] except that one is tyranny in excess and the other in the making?

What use is to me to despise this champion less than the other when both are only concerned with edifying their pleasures and fortunes upon my sorrows and ruin?"

–Anselme Bellegarigue, "Anarchist Manifesto" (1850)