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A good time to bring these texts to the table:
Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! by David Graeber
Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos
if it helps, i very genuinely believe an anarchist future is possible and i believe people have already started building it
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Made 2 new lino cuts. The fabric here isn't the best for stamping it seems but it's enough to show off.
#anarchism#anarchy#market anarchism#agorism#agora#diy#punk diy#diy punk#black market#fuck the state#linoprint#linocut#linocarving#linoleum#anticopyright#anti copyright#fuck copyright#copyleft#copyright#no kings#anarchist#agorist#market anarchy#market anarchist#black market anarchism#free market#grey market#violate their ip#ip#intellectual property
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leftism, communism, socialism & anarchism need a major brand & PR re-haul in the West, mainly America.
too many people think we're white, cringey, and sanctimonious assholes who preach about North Korea & the USSR (you're scaring away the maidens & being weird). they gotta be stylish, funny, and know how to speak to people. that whole litmus test for leftists is played out. you need to be populist, central, & not weird.
#call me now for a free pr consultation#public relations#marketing#leftist politics#leftism#communism#communist theory#socialism#socialist theory#anarchism#anarchist theory#my thoughts
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What kind of material thing would you like rn? I would love a lobter dinner 🦞
#apparently lobster didnt used to be so expensive. it was only until rich people started marketing it that way the prices skyrocketed#fuck racism and class oppression THIS MADE ME ANARCHIST
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tidbits from a really good gale article about capitalism and free stores
while here do your daily clicks for palestine 🇵🇸
Under the logic of capitalism, you only deserve to "make a living" if you sell yourself and your labor power to a capitalist. At a free store, the criteria for participating is simply being alive.
People who benefit from the current system—landlords, police, politicians and bosses—rely on mass media and our schooling systems to deceive and dull the population into believing capitalism is the most efficient way, or the only viable way of producing and distributing resources.
But what currently exists is one way of organizing a society of many, and it isn't serving most of us. An ability to imagine and create non-hierarchical alternatives threatens the authority of people benefiting from the current system. At a free store, we can begin to glimpse a world where everything is free and built on voluntary exchange of labor, resources and knowledge.
More recently, anarchists started organizing "Really Really Free Markets" (RRFMs) throughout the 2000s, which tend to be pop-up events, across the United States. These markets never completely dwindled but, if media coverage is to be an accurate benchmark of organizing efforts, there seems to have been an uptick in RRFMs over the past couple years. Collectives are organizing them in cities large and small, from Louisville, Kentucky; Corvallis, Oregon; Avon, North Carolina; Ypsilanti, Michigan; Tempe, Arizona; New Paltz, New York; Athens, Georgia; Jersey City, New Jersey; and in many other locations.
Sohal also emphasized the collective's desire to facilitate connections and relationships in the neighborhood. "People can come in with their kids and sit down or sit outside and rest and chat. We've been talking about having a really big, comfy seating area, and sitting options outside," she said. "We know the power of talking to your neighbors, and we're hoping that having a physical free store will allow conversations between neighbors so that people are letting people around them know that this resource exists. Maybe neighbors will pick up groceries for each other."
"There's a really high rate of poverty in Pulaski County, and in a lot of Southwest Virginia and its really common for a lot of places that do offer help to do a lot of means testing and put other barriers in-between people and help," Hazel Wines, an organizer involved in the free store told VPM News. "And we wanted to remove as those barriers and just be a place where people could help each other. It's not just food, it's not just clothes.… Everyone deserves to live a life of dignity and we want to help provide that."
#punk#anarchist#anti capitalist#gale articles#free stores#fuck capitalism#end capitalism#anti capitalism#rights#really really free markets#RRFMs#end poverty#anarchy#revolution#liberation#leftism
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The secret rule of who gets a plus one to my wedding is how happy I am that you're in a relationship. Cousin who's dragged a different weeb into every family photo for a decade? Nah, this weeb isn't drinking on my dime. Friend who finally found a genuinely nice boy after dating a string of abusive Maoists? Hell, invite his mom, too.
#OK only one of the abusers was a maoist. The other one was a homeless anarchist crustie.#Every day I pray for my bi friend to start dating women again. She's too good with power tools to date men.#I'd let her bring a woman if it was a 2nd date.#If my aunt finally left her shitty husband I'd let her bring a whole harem of new men.#She's a total cougar she'd clean up on the singles market ngl#Gurl you already dress like a divorcee looking for attention (/affectionate)#post o' mine#Wedding planning#clearing out the drafts
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I wonder
I am kind of curious about the history of the Stock Market. My Anarcho-Syndicalist instinct is that there is some horribleness attached to the Stock Market's history. After all, we are talking about Capitalism. Do any socialists, communists, or anarchists have sources on the history of the Stock Market?
#capitalism#politics#socialism#anarchism#communism#communist#socialist#anarchist#anarcho-syndicalist#horribleness#stock market#history#history of the stock market
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the way that i am now downloading stock market news apps......... and squinting at these crazy ass news articles and learning finance terms n shit.... trying to read these number and graphs........
i am morphing into a middle aged dad of 3 kids. 🧍♂️
#mine#its so joever for me guys.#it started with the boomer ellipses and now here we are#save yourselves gang.... SAVE YOURSELVES#to be clear yes i am still Anarchist and anticapitalist#but man. sometimes you get sick and tired of being sick and tired and if pretending to day trade along with finance bros#and laughing at their misfortunes when stock values plummet helps out my mental health? then babey. lemme get my trading apps open#to be clear also: i'm not trading stocks either. well not actively anyways#ive just become irrationally obsessed with this shit out of nowhere. but rn my broke ass cannot afford to gamble money#on the current volatile ass market#so i'm safely sticking to my bonds and my etfs for now#and watching the circus that the NYSE turns into every 3rd quarter or so#oh ye btw finance news: warren buffet sold half of his tech shares recently including apple stocks#so its looking like it is So Joever for ai and tech which is absolutely hilarious considering all these phone companies#are pushing ai SO HARD rn. but even investors arent buying it anymore#news articles are saying lots of investors are pulling out of risky investments rn. selling stocks. piling their money into bonds for now#but last 2 quarters of every finance year are like that so i'm not too concerned#the October Scare is real with these guys lol#more reasons why october is my absolute fave month LMAO
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its always really funny to me when leftists on this site try and claim that all other leftists on the Side They Disagree With are chauvanists and sheltered middle class babies
#running into sheltered middle class baby leftists on this site and twitter probably says more about the demographic of this site#(middle class white fujoshi website) than the alignment of any popular leftist movement#which is why you all constantly have bad takes about decolonization and the global south#mls on this site posting about communist stock market... anarchists on this site posting about comrade small businesses
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Tim Walz is not just a politician, he's a brown shirt.
#anarchism#anarchy#market anarchism#agorism#agora#voting#get out the vote#vote democrat#vote blue#please vote#vote kamala#vote trump#vote red#vote republican#anti voting#us politics#party politics#politics#tim walz#fuck the state#fuck the system#fuck cops#fuck the cops#fuck authority#fuck the patriarchy#fuck the police#anarchist
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my friend, we are anti-revisionist marxist-leninists. not only do we not support headmate markets - we don’t support markets at all lol. I just wanted to make my position (and Minty’s position) very clear on this.
Honestly thats fine with us, were eco-anarchist so we get where youre coming from -🎰
#asks#headmate economy#plural community#endo safe#did system#pluralgang#multiplicity#did osdd#headmate market#tw syscourse#syscourse#anti-revisionist#marxist-leninist#eco-anarchist
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am i perhaps THEE luckiest guy inthe world? sources point to Yes
#i was a'browing yelp as i do to try and locate Cool Shoppes And Such to visit in my new neighborhood#and guess. guess what i found. like without even Trying. guess.#(i'll just tell u)#(its an volunteer-run anarchist bookstore and cafe and its like. mere blocks from my apartment)#first of all. what a fucking DOPE concept. second. that's a foot in the door to the world of anarchist organizing in pgh#THIRD. i think i will be hanging out there All The Fucking Time#theres also a TRUE greasy-spoon type diner nearby too#also theres other fucking INCREDIBLE ameneties and such literally Right Next To My Building#like gas and groceries and pharmacies and ATMs and all kindsa esesntial shit like that#also there's a year-round indoor farmers market coop??? right There???#like bro. location is PRIMO#anyways. i am EXCITED#whatever the fuck
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#saw a very annoying post and took a walk#to listen to a podcast and vent how frustrated it made me#but I ended up out of it and wandering a bit and didn't listen to much of the podcast#I wish stuff didn't get under my skin as much as it does#I need to practice w/ managing panic and manic overthinking#anyways anarchists are the bane of my existence#literally some local weirdo I met shared a post from a 'libertarian think tank' that promotes 'free markets'#and its like astounding amazing who would have guessed#the economist major 'anarchist' would share a post about how people shouldn't romanticize socialism#under the guise of women's rights no less#gross gross gross
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it's really disappointing to me how of all the leon czolgosz fiction things i've read, leon has been a main character in only two of them. like i know that the market for these books isn't people interested in leon czolgosz as an individual but still
#...who is the market for them actually#i think they're aimed at people into historical crime thrillers#bc the protagonists are usually police investigating or trying to prevent the mckinley assassination#but that still leaves out the anarchist: a novel & the temple of music#hmmmmm#the anarchist#the temple of music#a gilded lady#the anarchist: a novel#assassin of shadows#the bradys and the anarchist queen#assassins musical#<-i think that's all of them
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Because this is such an excellent post I'm going to try to keep my infodump here brief but I can't pass it up:
Whether or not something that happens within a story is "realistic" is determined by an agreement made between the writer and the audience in the premise.
The writer establishes the rules of the world and promises not to break them as long as you, the audience, promise to believe anything that happens without breaking them is real even if they aren't plausible or possible (re: realistic) in real life.
This is where the term "suspension of disbelief" comes from. If the writer asks you to suspend your disbelief higher than they initially promised in the premise, that means they broke one of the rules, and something has happened that goes against what you agreed to believe is plausible or possible for the purposes of immersing yourself in the story. If a story asks you to suspend your disbelief too high from the outset, that means something about this story is just too implausible or impossible as a premise for you to immerse yourself in personally.
When something "unrealistic" happens within a story, it very specifically refers to what shouldn't be plausible or possible within the story's universe -
It does not refer to what is implausible or impossible in real life.
This is why criticism of tragedies, horror, and musicals are often missing the point, and don't offer productive analysis. It doesn't matter if someone in real life would "wait a few minutes" to see if Juliet wakes up. It doesn't matter if losing cell service is "convenient." It doesn't matter if no one "bursts into song" in real life. None of these genres have the same rules as real life and they're not meant to.
If these genres are asking you to suspend your disbelief higher than you're able to, it's fair to not be a fan of them. It's not fair to insist all of these genres actually suck just because they don't conform to the specific height at which you personally prefer a story to suspend your disbelief.
This is a dangerous sentiment for me to express, as an editor who spends most of my working life telling writers to knock it off with the 45-word sentences and the adverbs and tortured metaphors, but I do think we're living through a period of weird pragmatic puritanism in mainstream literary taste.
e.g. I keep seeing people talk about 'purple prose' when they actually mean 'the writer uses vivid and/or metaphorical descriptive language'. I've seen people who present themselves as educators offer some of the best genre writing in western canon as examples of 'purple prose' because it engages strategically in prose-poetry to evoke mood and I guess that's sheer decadence when you could instead say "it was dark and scary outside". But that's not what purple prose means. Purple means the construction of the prose itself gets in the way of conveying meaning. mid-00s horse RPers know what I'm talking about. Cerulean orbs flash'd fire as they turn'd 'pon rollforth land, yonder horizonways. <= if I had to read this when I was 12, you don't get to call Ray Bradbury's prose 'purple'.
I griped on here recently about the prepossession with fictional characters in fictional narratives behaving 'rationally' and 'realistically' as if the sole purpose of a made-up story is to convince you it could have happened. No wonder the epistolary form is having a tumblr renaissance. One million billion arguments and thought experiments about The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas that almost all evade the point of the story: that you can't wriggle out of it. The narrator is telling you how it was, is and will be, and you must confront the dissonances it evokes and digest your discomfort. 'Realistic' begins on the author's terms, that's what gives them the power to reach into your brain and fiddle about until sparks happen. You kind of have to trust the process a little bit.
This ultra-orthodox attitude to writing shares a lot of common ground with the tight, tight commodification of art in online spaces. And I mean commodification in the truest sense - the reconstruction of the thing to maximise its capacity to interface with markets. Form and function are overwhelmingly privileged over cloudy ideas like meaning, intent and possibility, because you can apply a sliding value scale to the material aspects of a work. But you can't charge extra for 'more challenging conceptual response to the milieu' in a commission drive. So that shit becomes vestigial. It isn't valued, it isn't taught, so eventually it isn't sought out. At best it's mystified as part of a given writer/artist's 'talent', but either way it grows incumbent on the individual to care enough about that kind of skill to cultivate it.
And it's risky, because unmeasurables come with the possibility of rejection or failure. Drop in too many allegorical descriptions of the rose garden and someone will decide your prose is 'purple' and unserious. A lot of online audiences seem to be terrified of being considered pretentious in their tastes. That creates a real unwillingness to step out into discursive spaces where you 🫵 are expected to develop and explore a personal relationship with each element of a work. No guard rails, no right answers. Word of god is shit to us out here. But fear of getting that kind of analysis wrong makes people hove to work that slavishly explains itself on every page. And I'm left wondering, what's the point of art that leads every single participant to the same conclusion? See Spot run. Run, Spot, run. Down the rollforth land, yonder horizonways. I just want to read more weird stuff.
#critical analysis#reading is fundamental#media literacy crisis#OP I'm EATING.#Right now everyone on tumblr seems infinitely more concerned that the snobs have taken over#and they believe that wanting literature to be anything more than literal and straightforward sentences saying exactly what they mean#is the 'weird pragmatic puritanism' mentioned in this post.#Any time anyone dares to suggest that maybe booktok books aren't well-written they're accused of being pretentious and elitist.#Frankly at this point majority of posts I see related to writing seem to be written by people who don't actually believe writing is an art.#There's one post on this website I can't stand that I've tried to respond to multiple times but can't because it raises my fucking blood#pressure about how everyone who has a problem with booktok quality writing is essentially a fascist in favor of censorship and bookbanning#because they all have such a 'weird reverence' for a 'mass produced consumer good' and it's like ok sure we can be the#'be gay do crime eat the rich commie anarchist' site until someone thinks books are art huh? Then suddenly the free market is sacred.#I do think there's a balance that needs to be had and that there should be variety particularly from genre to genre#and I don't think books should *have* to be ~intellectual~ or literary or include elevated vocabulary or writing or whatever -#But come on. We used to make fun of 'the curtains were just blue' levels of analysis. That was a literal meme on this website.#And now suddenly you're a fascist if you suggest that actually maybe the curtains aren't just blue in some books or maybe#the curtains shouldn't have to be just blue in order for it to be good writing. Idk. Much to think about.
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