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[conspiciouslytransgender]

On the Nature of Society and Crime

The nature of civilization and society is the belief that there are extenuating circumstances and that one commits crimes not because they want to hurt others, but rather because they want to help themselves. The mandate of societies everywhere since the dawn of humanity is to address systemic societal problems and meet the needs of its citizens. People need more mental healthcare, they need better wages, they need equal distribution of wealth. There needs to be harm reduction, we need to quit throwing addicts in jails and put them in psychiatric care. We need to decriminalize drugs immediately. We need to decriminalize prostitution. We need to get rid of mandatory minimums. We need to address that while white people commit crimes at the same rate as black people, blacks are disproportionately more likely to be arrested for crimes. We need to stop throwing petty thieves into jail and start asking ourselves why they stole in the first place. As long as there are millionaires and billionaires in the US, people to gain by keeping the lower class in jail and submissive to the economic and bureaucratic gears of this country, there will be needy, have-nots people, and there will be crimes. The insane wealth inequality, the harsh sentencing laws, and the criminalization of certain actions or substances, all of it contributes massively towards crimes of wants and needs. Labor is entitled to all it creates. By distributing the spoils equally, we all have the world to gain and nothing to lose.

[amali-us]

nada brillante y todo retorcido

[ummmlife]

we listen and we don't judge but it's about nanami

[afuturefossilfuel]

Personally I love getting rejected from academic jobs

[werehouse]

True! But not nothing. The changes to the atmosphere, the grammar, the horizon, the possible are real and matter. The nature of the response matters. Fuck an idol, but the action has had material effects that mean something *for* "organizing."

[hanban371213]

hello again and again Hannah nation

finaly we're at the 12th grade books, which are packed with essencial content for the exam and is a pain to write. book 7 is probably the biggest, split into 5 parts. once again, context in the first post, check through the first tag

Book 7 - Crisis, Ideological clashes and cultural mutations in the first half of the 20th century

Part 1 - The transformation in the first decades of the 20th century.

After the end of the First World War, there were many changes across all aspects of life, society, and the world. The geopolitical landscape of Europe was severely altered. Empires fell(German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires), democracies triumphed and spread all over Europe, new states were born(such as Finland, Czechoslovakia and Poland), borders were expanded(Alcase-Lorraine returned to France, German colonies annexed by the UK, France and Japan), and a new international organism responsible for solving international conflicts, the League of Nations, was born.

In the Russian Empire, the economic consequences of the Russian participation in the First World War, alongside previously existin problems, such as the unexpected Russian loss in the Russo-Japanese war, that kickstarted the anti-tsar movement, and the various issues and demands across all classes(farmers want land, workers want better conditions, bourgeoisie wants liberal policies), all led to the February Revolution of 1917. This revolution led to the abdication of the Tsar Nicolaus II, and a new Provisional Government, led by the bourgeoisie, was created. Alongside it, Soviets(localy elected councils made up of farmers, workers, soldiers and sailors) proliferated across the country, creating a very unstable dual-power dynamic, with both the Provisional Government and the Soviets ruling the country.

In October 1917, ANOTHER revolution takes place, this time led by the Bolsheviks, who take down the Provisional Government and give all power to the Council of Comissars of the People, and publishes the Revolutionary Decrees. The Decree over Peace(Russia signs a disastrous peace treaty with Germany, losing a lot of land, resources and population), the Decree over the Land(land is taken from the big landowners and given to the farmers), the Decree over Worker Control(workers are given control over the factories and companies), and the Decree over Nacionalities(all peoples of the old Russian Empire recieve equal rights, and the right to self-determination).

This inicial period right after the Revolution is known as "soviet democracy".

These decrees were very unpopular with the kulaks(rich landowners) and with businessmen, and with the bad living conditions of the Russian people, the Bolsheviks end up losing the elections, ending up in second place with only 25% of the votes. However, they refuse to leave the government, and with the existing resistence against Bolshevism, a civil war breaks out, between the Whites, oposition to the Bolsheviks and suported by France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, and the Reds, composed of the very disciplined and cohesive Red Army, organized by Leon Trotsky.

With this climate of civil war, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat happens in a very violent matter. Requisition of part of the agricultural production for the army, nationalizations, forced labour from 16 to 50 year olds, alongside increased working hours, mass education of the illiterate masses, and the Red Terror, with the creation of a political police, the Tcheka.

This period of repression during the civil war became known as "war communism".

Before the First World War the Russian economy was way behind the rest of Europe. After the First World War and the civil war, it was left in complete run. Not wanting to build Socialism atop rotten foundation, Vladimir Lenin decided to strategicaly take a step back into Capitalism, in a very limited and controled way, as means of developing the country.

The repressive measures of war communism were lessened, such as the abolishment of obligatory work; The colectivization process was suspended, farmers were allowed to sell their surpluss products, and small businesses were privatized.

These measures led to a slow modernization and revitalization of the Russian economy, but it also placed the Bolshevik's communist values at risk, with the rise of the kulaks(rich farmers) and the nepmen(rich merchants).

These measures were known as the New Economic Program, NEP.

The mass brutality and death caused by the First World War created a large feeling of pessimism and doubt across ALL previous social norms and beliefs, acelerating the already going on changes. Most notably was with Feminism, in two different ways. One relating to social norms. Women began going out, wearing looser and shorter clothing, participating in sports, and cutting their hair. The other way is the fight for equal rights, specificaly the right to own property, acess to education, right to work, and right to vote.

Changes and advancements also occured in technology and science. More acessible cars, plane rides and the creation of the telephone united the world in many ways. Mass media such as the press or radio homogenized hobbies, values and behaviours. And there were many new scientific discoveries, such as the Theory of Relativity, quantum mechanics and even the way the human mind works(by the famous incest guy Freud)

Many changes occured in the arts too, with new vanguardist and modernist art styles being progressively created, that go against the traditional Realist art forms: Fauvism, that sees colour as more important that shape; Expressionism, that focuses on portraying emotions; Cubism, analytic cubism that focuses on decomposing shapes into gemoetric ones, and synthetic cubism that focuses on recreating shapes with random materials; Abstracionism, believes that shapes and colours have their own expressive meaning; Futurism, focus a lot on portraying speed and modernity; Dadaism, rejects art itself, creating "anti-art", in very absurdist ways; Surrealism, uses art as means to project the unconscious, heavily based on Freud's(famous incest guy) mind theories.

[catgirlforeskin]

Actually have you read maia nyancrimews essay on Anarchism? Because it seems like most anarchists haven’t commented on it all that much whilst other bloggers have been tearing into it relentlessly as “deeply unserious” and “should have just been a tumblr post” so I was wondering if there is any valid criticisms of the essay or is it just Jacobins reading it in bad faith.

Just read it now, nothing particularly groundbreaking or controversial so I’m surprised it’s riling up Jacobins on here so much, but I broadly agree with it. There’s a lot of armchair critics uninvolved in any material struggle who love to call anyone actually doing things beyond attending a flaccid party’s meetings “deeply unserious,” and they’re generally not worth paying mind. As for “should have just been a tumblr post” it was posted on a blog, and tumblr is a blogging platform, I don’t see why a personal blog has any more sanctity than the post being hosted here?

As far as the actual content of the essay (assuming this is about the one posted on November 14th), a lot of MLs get weirdly mad about anarchists emphasizing human relationships as crucial for political organizing and balk at the idea of “community,” and it’s why they seem fundamentally incapable of understanding what mutual aid is and just think it’s charity. When you’re subscribed to a vanguardist way of thinking and consider yourself the shepherd of unenlightened masses, this makes sense, because your political action is one-directional rather than going both ways and being, y’know, mutual.

But it’s still strange to me how hostile armchair Jacobins are to that sort of community building because it’s not something exclusively anarchist, the black panthers made use of it to great success, among other marxist historical examples.

[anxiousbugs]

highly important that the Central Committee and General Secretary have a tease/teased, brat/dom dynamic. otherwise it's not really vanguardist

[thatscarletflycatcher]

When other authors explore non-traditional structure, they are called vanguardists, but when I, Elizabeth Gaskell, choose narrative interpolation for effect, suddenly I'm "artless" and "amateurish"

[jeannie-youre-a-tragedy]

soviet space dogs are further proof that canines are all vanguardists.

[sylvia-on-the-run]

how are you gonna say "its not a mass movement so its not communist" buddy being vanguardist is what makes something communist

[aughwl]

If you're new to irl organising, it might be tempting to join or support any group that calls itself leftist under the ideal of 'leftist unity', but beware the lessons that have been learned over and over again about certain authoritarian tendencies

Red Flags is a zine about how to recognise when a leftist org cares more about putting itself into power than about liberation. It is a critique of a specific kind of authoritarian, vanguardist tendency that appears over and over again when social uprest occurs to hijack the movement towards unproductive and harmful ends.

These are lessons learned the hard way by decades and decades of organising.

When these groups succeed in dominating a movement, they endanger vulnerable groups, funnel people into fruitless endeavors, shelter abusers, and undermine the hard work of the grassroots activists they leach off of. Don't let yourself be fooled!

[benihana-circumcision]

The Vanguardist Barista

[dickotomia]

mutual 1: if i had a little turtle i would name it bureaucracy and shed be my friend and id take her everywhere in my pocket

mutual 2: lowkey the beatles were degenerate music. commie shit. but they dont want you to know this ig

mutual 3: got diagnosed today with being god's most perfect creation ever. and narcisomething too i wasnt paying attention.

mutual 4: save a lonesome horse ride a lonesome cowboy. wait it was lonesome ranger. he was a cowboy though. fuck.

mutual 5: i wanna get married and have children but not in a tradwife way more like in a. okay yes in a tradwife way.

mutual 6: look all im saying is a maoist-leninist-luxembourgist post-mariateguian anti-vanguardist revolution is like objectively the only way out of this. its so so so simple and nobody gets it but me.

mutual 7: if my sister had a little turtle i would KICKS IT i would KICKS IT so so hard >:3

[transgenderer]

i think im realizing i fundamentally dont "get" revolutionaries. like. if you want a revolution, you know you need to get most people to agree with you first. or at least like, idk, 40% of people? and i feel like if 30% of people agreed with you, well then electoral politics would shift a lot anyway. and like, if you got 40% of people to agree with you, and then it DIDNT shift, then yeah revolution would make sense. but like were not there yet. maybe they think 40% of people already agree with them? or theyre vanguardists?