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why is it possible for anarchism to seemingly be congruous with both capitalism and communism?
Anarchism is the philosophy of radical critique and some people's critique is stupid
The black flag has been flown in many contexts but usually to evoke an idea of a radical "outside". In Islam the black flag has represented the Mahdi and the end of the world, at sea it has been a symbol of pirate crews who fly it to signal death both for their enemies and for themselves, Louise Michel started wearing all black and flying the black flag in the Paris commune in memory of the war dead, because she saw the absolute baseline as a need for the end to the mass slaughter.
We live in hyperindividualist capitalism, and so the black flag pairs with the red very well. Ideologically, a championing of collectivism and common struggle is a meaningful critique that slots neatly in with the core concepts of anarchism. I say all this to say that usually people just say "anarchist capitalism isn't anarchism" and that is true, but if you want to understand why capitalist "libertarians" come about as a phenomenon, it is important to understand that these people are gesturing at anarchist concepts of freedom, at least emotionally, it's just that they're only considering their own freedoms, and so their analysis is just dogshit
When you embrace this you can see that some American and European socialists who have been socially educated in a legacy of McCarthyism think of themselves as anarchists not because they have meaningful critiques of non-anarchist communism, but because the ideology of Neoliberalism, like an artificial reef in the ocean of their mind is shaping their thoughts and therefore shaping their conception of what freedom actually means. Then you talk to these people and they turn out to be liberals in their actual politics or socdems at best. There is, in other words, a failure of critique in some anticapitalist anarchists as well. It's not equal to the wrong headedness of "anarchist capitalists" but it is still there. Anarchism is the philosophy of radical critique and some people's critique is stupid
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our fucking water got shut off
#lol. Lmao even.#i dont personal post on here much but do you ever get stark reminders of the fact that capitalism is a prison#i don't know how anyone could live through not one but two recessions within the span of a decade and a half#and not be radicalized into an anticapitalist#this hasn't happened since 2009! (back then it was the power)#we were just in the dark for a while and as a kid i didn't really get why#we're fiiine [redacted] just forgot to pay bills on time but#Hey why is it legal to deprive people of necessities because they don't have money#saturn speaks#this is what i imagine my future is going to be. forgetting things as always except instead of school when the punishment was a bad grade#this time the punishment is the government saying fuck you. Die
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#radicalization#let this radicalize you#mutual aid#ausgov#politas#auspol#tasgov#taspol#australia#fuck neoliberals#neoliberal capitalism#anthony albanese#albanese government#eat the rich#eat the fucking rich#anti capitalism#antinazi#anticapitalista#anti capitalist love notes#anticapitalistically#anticapitalist memes#class war#poverty#homeless#exploitation#exploitative#late stage capitalism#fuck capitalism#capitalist hell#end capitalism
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Hey US friends! Ok, so obviously the voting discourse on here is vile. We don't know who's a psyop, who's a bot etc. Also people are legitimately pissed at the failures of the system to actually represent us in any meaningful way, and livid about the myriad ongoing genocides being committed with our money, in our name.
So, I'm not going to tell you what to do in November.
Before November, after November, NOW, for the love of God, please fucking organize at your jobs. That is probably the only place you can actually exercise real, direct power.
Voting is one very very small way to exercise indirect power. It's saying, "ok I am giving power to you, other person/people, now please do what you said you would that enticed me to give you this power in the first place."
Direct power is saying "Fuck you, no. We're doing this." and then doing that.
Organizing is hard and it takes time and you have to learn how to do it well, or it doesn't work. But when it works it works really fucking well. And when we organize a lot of us, we can win everything.
Y'all know I'm in the IWW. Right now the union is struggling with some administrative bs, same old story it's always been a messy organization. Doesn't matter. Branches and Unions in the IWW are autonomous to organize how they want to. It's a structure you can use if you want, to organize well. That's the route I'm taking because I trust and respect the people in my local, and I desperately want to help build worker power in my city and I'll do anything to help that.
You don't have to join an org, but please take a training on organizing and start organizing. The IWW has an intensive, 16 hour training that is free called the OT101. We feed you 4 meals and teach you how to organize to win. The training is even fun!
If there are unions in your area, or a labor council, reach out to them too, they regularly have organizing trainings! Theirs are more geared to getting contract negotiations, which in my opinion isn't the main goal, but training is always good and helpful.
But please please please, you have to organize your jobs. That's where we have them by the balls. They need us to run this shit, everything runs because we make it run.
Yes, they can fire you if you organize or get uppity. Yeah, right now that's illegal but probably won't be for long. Guess what, they have to hire someone to replace you! If that worker is also organizing, the bosses are fucked and we win!
The other thing is everyone can organize! My ass is disabled, decrepit, a major depressive and I can do it! You can too! You're not alone! That's the whole point! We can't do shit alone, we need each other and when we have each others' backs we can get shit done.
We all can see with our own eyes that shit is bad, it's been bad forever and it's going to get worse before it gets better and the only way it gets better is us making it better.
If you're in Milwaukee, or Wisconsin, or fuck generally the Midwest feel free to reach out to me and I will personally get you set up in an OT101 here. Get yourself here and we'll put you up somewhere, feed you, train you, get your connected to people in your area who are also organizing and build through from there.
Solidarity is where we have power, so let's use it.
#union#iww#us politics#jesus for the love of all that is good just vote for biden ok?#I would rather organize jobs under his ass than trump who literally said he will imprison leftists en masse#trump has basically promised to imprison all his political opponents#I have been an elected officer of an anticapitalist radical union#he is sending my ass to prison and guess what I don't want to go there#I used to be in IWOC#I know that prison sucks so much
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Super helpful comic by @deannazandt
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#self care#self soothing#communalism#community care#structural care#radical means getting to the roots#fundamentally changing things#that’s what we need to create a just and peaceful world#mutual aid#comic#infographic#anarchocommunism#anti capitalism#anticapitalism#anticapitalist#anti capitalist
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Like it's no wonder media literacy is dog shit in so many young people we are being written TV that spoonfeeds all of the information to us and leaves no room for subtlety or creative world building and we keep saying that this is good and it's not! And if we all keep watching bad TV and saying that it's good then all TV is going to become badly written contrived crap that thinks it's being deep and annoying libs on Tumblr are going to keep saying that omg this episode was so brave it literally said eat the rich!!
#people keep saying that things are radical and queer and antiracist and anticapitalist and so clever and fun#and its just shit!#you can just do some race blind casting and say arent trust fund kids shitty and annoying#and people will be worshiping you as the king of wokeness and a communist daddy#like can we be so for real#none of you are fucking radical if you think that a disney show has your socialist eat the rich hashtag acab messaging#do you see what im saying???#does anyone fucking hear me right now????#blah blah good representation blah blah fanfiction trope blah blah boo capitalism#consumer media funded by disney is not anticapitalist!!!!#boring bad shows with racially diverse casts and a bland gay romance are not changing the world#al is talking
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being a pretentious fuck is embarassing sometimes. bc if someone asks me what video games i play im like "yeah i only play story based indie games about depression and guilt" like omfg shut UP
#i should play a game involving shooting or cars#having a great taste in story based indie games is so hard actually. im so sexy and everyone wants me#i do think a lot of it is my pretentious english double major tendencies like a lot of these games ARE just literature u can interact with#something like omori is actually such a well written narrative like some of the lines and scenes execution scenes still get me#LIKE THE THEMES AND MOTIFS GOT TO ME#also undertale is kinda ugly. but god is the writing so tight... asriel boss battle literally is my favorite final boss in any game IDC!!!!#like i rly think undertale is so brilliant bc the visuals aren't SPECTACULAR and that's not temmie's fault that's toby's for rejecting#the good designs because they'd be 'too good' but so many hard hitting scenes are just. dialogue. and descriptions. and music.#it's actually insane how well written it is that you don't see anything happening but someone talks about it and you cry#rn im playing isat... deserves a place on this list#im also playing mother 3 which is suprirsingly like... the most radical game i've played? i mean that it's genuinely anticapitalist?#love to see communist propaganda and drag queens in video games
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kill the government rn…..
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to be honest, i hate the distinction between "radical" and "liberal" feminism. part of it is bc the american 2 party disaster has resulted in a perception of only two options: liberal (good) or conservative (bad). obviously these are not accurate definitions, but american politics are incredibly polarized and antithetical to nuance, so bear with me. as a result, i don't really like talking about "libfems" or "liberals," bc it seems to come with an implication that disagreeing with liberal feminism makes radfems conservative. i wish there were a way to more eloquently articulate that radical feminism, far from being a rightwing tradwife sect, is in fact further left than liberal feminism, which relies on rigidly conservative gender roles to reinforce gender ideology.
#berry talks#not to mention that most radfems are anticapitalist which is its own discussion altogether#radical feminism#radblr#radfem safe#radfems do touch#radfems do interact#radical feminists do interact#feminism#radfem#gender critical
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I said I support ppl with uterus' rights to ab*rt WHENEVER they seem fit, even if it's not a risky pregnancy or the fruit of a rape, and my brother thinks I'm joking. Joking.
Do I look like I fuck around human rights? Do I? Something's wrong.
#mira.jpeg#it's hard being the far-left radicalized anticapitalist in this house but somebody's gotta do it i gueeeeess 🥲#i will r*dically support my ppl's right to do what the fuck they want to do with their uteruses yeah#and mind you i didn't even begin on commenting which biological dynamics a pregnancy on the human body resembles...#the “pregnancy is a miracle and joyous and sanctified event” club wouldn't be happy if i did (not that i care)
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May 10, 2024 - Hundreds of radical environmentalists and anticapitalists have broken through police lines and fences and stormed the terrain of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg. They are attempting to stop the planned expansion of the factory, which would mean the destruction of surrounding forest and farmland. The factory also uses immense amounts of water, and all to sell shitty electric cars to give people the idea that personal consumption choices can save the environment from destruction, and make fascist Elon Musk even richer than he already is. The actions in the past days have forced Tesla to temporarily shut down production at the factory. [video]
#environmentalism#anticapitalism#black bloc#direct action#love#romance#germany#tesla#elon musk#factory#2024#video#development#berlin#brandenburg#water rights#water protectors#electric cars#forest protectors#gigafactory berlin-brandenburg
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Live your politics
#Live your politics#161#1312#class war#antifa#memes#meme#facts#radical politics#ausgov#politas#earth#antifascist#antifaschistische aktion#anti capitalism#antinazi#antiauthoritarian#anarchism#anarchist#anarchocommunism#anarchopunk#anarcho syndicalism#anarchofeminism#eat the rich#eat the fucking rich#anticapitalista#anti capitalist love notes#anticapitalistically#auspol#tasgov
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Pride banned Jews?!?
So it's that time of year again that I see people circulating stuff that is completely fabricated about what they imagine happened at Chicago Dyke March in 2017.
First, Dyke March is not Pride. It is not meant to be apolitical or single-issue. It is explicitly anti-imperialist, anticapitalist, and, yes, antizionist. It's not the big mainstream pride Parade that has corporate sponsors (and ads for gay tourism in Israel), it's a small radical grassroots demonstration.
Ok now that that's out of the way, they did not "ban Jews". I was there. They did not "ban Jewish symbols". They did not ask anyone to leave because of their Jewish pride flag.
What actually happened was three women who turned out to be employed by Israeli pinkwashing operation A Wider Bridge participated in the march with a rainbow flag that featured a blue star of david in the center. I remember seeing it and disliking it bc it gave me Zionist vibes but neither I nor anyone else bothered them about it.
After the march there was a cookout in the park. The women were asked to leave by a Jewish member of the Dyke March Collective after several hours of hanging out at the cookout because they were harassing other marchgoers.
Immediately publications like Forward, Tablet, JTA, as well as more mainstream publications started running stories making wild untrue claims which you can still read if you Google it because none of these were ever corrected or retracted. It's clear that these AWB agents had press releases pre-written and ready to fire as soon as they managed to provoke any reaction that they could spin into a controversy.
The photos that ran along with these headlines were also misleading. One of them showed a photo of a rainbow flag with a white star in the center. The star on the flag I saw was blue, and the shade of the star has specific political connotations. Showing a different flag with the politically significant color removed is extremely misleading. The one that was carried in the march (and which, again, wasn't banned!) looked like this:
Another banner image, this one in a New York Times article, showed a young woman with dark curly hair holding a sign that says "this is who we are". She was clearly chosen to feature because of her stereotypically Jewish features. The article implies that she is one of the supposedly banned Jews. This is false. You know how I know? Bc that was the friend I was there with that day! She does not identify as Jewish, she looks like that bc she is Italian, and she had no idea she was being photographed!
I had a hat decorated with red and black stars of David, and the following year a bunch of us wore Workers Circle sashes with Yiddish text (which uses the Hebrew alphabet) as well. No one who wasn't employed by a Zionist organization was asked to leave or even questioned about anything related to Zionism or Jewish identity.
I'm resigning myself to the fact that this is going to get dug up and passed around every year and people will believe what they want to believe, but if you hear claims that some queer group "banned Jews" or something similar, please look at the source for the information and if possible try to talk to actual Jewish people who participate in the community events being discussed. And if you hear this about Chicago Dyke March in specific, please correct people. I feel like I'm going insane when this many people are insisting that what I saw and experienced wasn't real and pointing to the barrage of misleading articles as what I should believe over my own experiences.
#dyke march#antisemitism#jewish#pinkwashing#jews banned from pride#pride month#pride#lgbtq community#please reblog#gentiles please reblog#zionism#antizionism
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no, i do not believe this level of delusion about the pandemic being “over” is sustainable. i have noticed people behaving in ways they never would have before c19, like they know deep down that things are not OK and they’re scared. international travel, huge parties, etc. i don’t know. i guess i’ve been surprised and disappointed by mass human cruelty and indifference before but i really do believe there will be a tipping point. once activists can catch their fucking breath? maybe? it took 10 years of AIDS before ACT UP took to the streets. i don’t want to wait 10 years. i’ll push as hard as i fucking can but unfortunately i’m close to bed-bound by long covid at the moment. i do not want to die. c19 activism feels like a tipping point for climate change action, anticapitalist action, and abolition action. this can be a radicalizing moment. they made the US slightly more accessible for a MINUTE and then yanked it away but we *saw* it. we saw it!!!!!!!!!! efforts to squash c19 precautions go hand-in-hand with squashing anti-police protests: they know that the summer 2020 uprisings were able to happen because enough people, for a brief moment, were freer than they had ever been in this fucking evil country. when people are given resources, they give a shit. cops were the only maskless faces in the streets of minneapolis and that is not a coincidence. the old world is fucking scared and wants you to get sick and die. c19 deaths keep climbing, your yard is burning or flooding or bogged down by smoke, cops have killed more people each year since 2020. that’s the “normal” everybody is trying to convince you it’s sooooo fun to go back to. fuck off. fuck off. there will be a crack and we will kick it open
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Machete Labs (2023) - Brand Strategy Teaser | dirección creativa, diseño y coordinación programática
Machete Labs es un proyecto de Defend Puerto Rico que busca cortar con la resiliencia, poniendo a la disposición del movimiento a les comunicadores del mañana para honrar nuestra tradición de arte y comunicación política en un intento de rescate y homenaje.
#brand strategy#creative director#artivism#Machete Labs#Defend Puerto Rico#Puerto Rico#RadComms#Radical Communicator#anticapitalist-psd
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