Abolisyonista
@abolisyonista.bsky.social
Writing on limits to insurrection. Archivist on Philippine anarchism & socialism, reader of ultraleft communism, degrowth, social ecology, police+prison abolition, & Southeast Asian anarchisms. For the self-abolition of the proletariat. He/They.
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My essay on learning anarchist lessons from CPP-NPA-NDF is out now. I situate the people's war and mamundok in the context of a uniquely Philippine tradition of remontar and then put it in dialogue with Black anarchism, insurrectionary anarchism, and communization.
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"Calling violent people psychopaths isn't ableist, it's just that they're wearing a mask of sanity"
Fucking hell
Fucking hell
... leading to dysfunctional dynamics, ethical failures, and harmful behaviors, often masked by superficial charm or "the mask of sanity," especially in leadership roles where individuals (or industries) exploit systems for personal gain, creating toxic environments.
January 24, 2026 at 3:28 AM
"Calling violent people psychopaths isn't ableist, it's just that they're wearing a mask of sanity"
Fucking hell
Fucking hell
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Demands for a new Nuremberg seriously lack ambition. The original prosecutions included fewer than 200 defendants, even if you count the post-IMT trials. Only 37 people were executed. Pretty much EVERYONE in the Nazi Party walked, and many remained in power.
January 24, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Demands for a new Nuremberg seriously lack ambition. The original prosecutions included fewer than 200 defendants, even if you count the post-IMT trials. Only 37 people were executed. Pretty much EVERYONE in the Nazi Party walked, and many remained in power.
I legitimately hate your country. I don't hate China, I hate the PRC, like I hate all governments. Countries are not their governments. But your country, I hate. Stop assuming I'm American.
Your felon literally isn't my president. The PRC literally sent lethal aid to fund a genocide in my country.
January 24, 2026 at 3:07 AM
I legitimately hate your country. I don't hate China, I hate the PRC, like I hate all governments. Countries are not their governments. But your country, I hate. Stop assuming I'm American.
Money isn't real, states are illegitimate, so what? We still have to use money and follow laws. Questioning ontological basis is insufficient. How then do we transcend and overcome these ideological and material limits?
January 24, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Money isn't real, states are illegitimate, so what? We still have to use money and follow laws. Questioning ontological basis is insufficient. How then do we transcend and overcome these ideological and material limits?
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True feedback loop between domestic violence and state violence, they co-construct each other
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Watching these videos of ICE attacking children, I can’t help but think about how many of these men first practiced their violence in their own homes.
Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.
Domestic violence teaches our oppressors to dehumanize the most vulnerable among us.
January 23, 2026 at 10:13 PM
True feedback loop between domestic violence and state violence, they co-construct each other
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
January 22, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
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I have never ever seen anything like this. I have seen communities organize around natural disasters in a somewhat similar way but obv that wasn’t 80% SECRET.
January 22, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I have never ever seen anything like this. I have seen communities organize around natural disasters in a somewhat similar way but obv that wasn’t 80% SECRET.
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Girl the panopticon!!
January 23, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Girl the panopticon!!
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We can't forget Spark Space: internet & electricity are an URGENT lifeline for families to connect to remote jobs. This isn't trivial. It means income...to EAT. With aid at a critical low, this is a real way to help dozens of families.
Keep the lights on: chuffed.org/project/spar...
Keep the lights on: chuffed.org/project/spar...
🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!
In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…
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January 22, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
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In 1910, a white mob did a pogrom against people of South Asian ancestry in the Portland, Oregon, suburb of St. Johns.
January 22, 2026 at 7:30 PM
In 1910, a white mob did a pogrom against people of South Asian ancestry in the Portland, Oregon, suburb of St. Johns.
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Every prison is a concentration camp
Every Cop Enforces the border
Working on getting back into making flyers/stickers to see out in the world. If either of these speak to you hit me up for the PDF for easier printing (or rip em yourself).
Every Cop Enforces the border
Working on getting back into making flyers/stickers to see out in the world. If either of these speak to you hit me up for the PDF for easier printing (or rip em yourself).
January 22, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Every prison is a concentration camp
Every Cop Enforces the border
Working on getting back into making flyers/stickers to see out in the world. If either of these speak to you hit me up for the PDF for easier printing (or rip em yourself).
Every Cop Enforces the border
Working on getting back into making flyers/stickers to see out in the world. If either of these speak to you hit me up for the PDF for easier printing (or rip em yourself).
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I fucking can't with the news out of Rojava today.
Şehîd namirin, Bijî Rojava 💔
Şehîd namirin, Bijî Rojava 💔
January 19, 2026 at 12:48 AM
I fucking can't with the news out of Rojava today.
Şehîd namirin, Bijî Rojava 💔
Şehîd namirin, Bijî Rojava 💔
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Sorry chat, I’m in my “I hate the US government” era (I’ve always been there and will never leave)
January 17, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Sorry chat, I’m in my “I hate the US government” era (I’ve always been there and will never leave)
Campism is not “blind allegiance” to whatever state except for the most vulgar. It's always easy to dunk on vulgarists. Rather, we need to rebut campism on how it raises pragmatism and realpolitik on the level of principle through ideologization or revisionism.
January 22, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Campism is not “blind allegiance” to whatever state except for the most vulgar. It's always easy to dunk on vulgarists. Rather, we need to rebut campism on how it raises pragmatism and realpolitik on the level of principle through ideologization or revisionism.
I use microblogging to articulate and verbalize problems I'm working on, and a lot of my thinking in the past year is Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Mendiola. Black scare, party of order, party of anarchy, normalcy, legitimacy, coherence, peripheries, ideology, limits…
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January 21, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I use microblogging to articulate and verbalize problems I'm working on, and a lot of my thinking in the past year is Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Mendiola. Black scare, party of order, party of anarchy, normalcy, legitimacy, coherence, peripheries, ideology, limits…
ngl.link/abolisyonista/
ngl.link/abolisyonista/
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I guess I just don't take what people living in other countries say about the U.S. personally. I live in the heart of empire. There's a lot to be pissed off at the U.S. about. I understand their anger.
January 21, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I guess I just don't take what people living in other countries say about the U.S. personally. I live in the heart of empire. There's a lot to be pissed off at the U.S. about. I understand their anger.
to declare all authority is illegitimate is problematic because declaration of illegitimacy presupposes some legitimate authority to delegitimize, especially if that authority is the self. if the self can delegitmize, then the self can legitimize, then the many selves can legitimize new authority.
January 21, 2026 at 3:47 PM
to declare all authority is illegitimate is problematic because declaration of illegitimacy presupposes some legitimate authority to delegitimize, especially if that authority is the self. if the self can delegitmize, then the self can legitimize, then the many selves can legitimize new authority.
When we speak of “illegitimate authority” it must imply a “legitimate authority.” This is how insurrectos can burn down their government but find it necessary and urgent to reconstitute it in another form, like over Discord in Nepal. Increasingly, the notion of legitimacy itself must be abolished.
January 21, 2026 at 1:48 PM
When we speak of “illegitimate authority” it must imply a “legitimate authority.” This is how insurrectos can burn down their government but find it necessary and urgent to reconstitute it in another form, like over Discord in Nepal. Increasingly, the notion of legitimacy itself must be abolished.
If you think about it, Botswana, one of the few third world democracies to do capitalist development well, was practically a quasi benevolent dictatorship or philosopher king situation under a liberal-democratic regime, thus getting the best of both worlds.
It's true also that dictatorships are good for capitalist development. Inverse examples are aplenty but can still be rationally explained within the model. It anything, it's an argument for anti-capitalism, not dictatorship.
You may laugh but there are some who make such claims that capitalist dictatorships from Fransisco Franco to Pinochet to Fujimori to the KMT (Taiwan) were necessary for capitalist development. (Ferdinand Marcos is a frequent exception, noted as a bad dictator.)
January 21, 2026 at 12:03 PM
If you think about it, Botswana, one of the few third world democracies to do capitalist development well, was practically a quasi benevolent dictatorship or philosopher king situation under a liberal-democratic regime, thus getting the best of both worlds.
It's true also that dictatorships are good for capitalist development. Inverse examples are aplenty but can still be rationally explained within the model. It anything, it's an argument for anti-capitalism, not dictatorship.
You may laugh but there are some who make such claims that capitalist dictatorships from Fransisco Franco to Pinochet to Fujimori to the KMT (Taiwan) were necessary for capitalist development. (Ferdinand Marcos is a frequent exception, noted as a bad dictator.)
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ideologically-consistent tankies would tell Korean anarchists that "comrade Park Chung-hee's Five-Year Economic Plan industrialized your peasant ethnostate!"
ideologically-consistent tankies would tell Korean anarchists that "comrade Park Chung-hee's Five-Year Economic Plan industrialized your peasant ethnostate!"
January 21, 2026 at 11:22 AM
It's true also that dictatorships are good for capitalist development. Inverse examples are aplenty but can still be rationally explained within the model. It anything, it's an argument for anti-capitalism, not dictatorship.
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URGENT HELP NEEDED
Cmon yall let’s help a baby girl stay housed this month.
We have THREE days. Help a family of eight keep their life-preserving shelter, including Seraj’s VERY sick baby sister.
339/475 already. Fam vetted by Palestine Asdiqa. tiny.cc/serajrent
We have THREE days. Help a family of eight keep their life-preserving shelter, including Seraj’s VERY sick baby sister.
339/475 already. Fam vetted by Palestine Asdiqa. tiny.cc/serajrent
January 21, 2026 at 10:51 AM
URGENT HELP NEEDED
You may laugh but there are some who make such claims that capitalist dictatorships from Fransisco Franco to Pinochet to Fujimori to the KMT (Taiwan) were necessary for capitalist development. (Ferdinand Marcos is a frequent exception, noted as a bad dictator.)
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ideologically-consistent tankies would tell Korean anarchists that "comrade Park Chung-hee's Five-Year Economic Plan industrialized your peasant ethnostate!"
ideologically-consistent tankies would tell Korean anarchists that "comrade Park Chung-hee's Five-Year Economic Plan industrialized your peasant ethnostate!"
If you want to do national industrialization, then do that. But a lot of people mystify it as “socialism” when it is not. Indeed, it is consistently anti-ecological and anti-Indigenous.
January 21, 2026 at 11:12 AM
You may laugh but there are some who make such claims that capitalist dictatorships from Fransisco Franco to Pinochet to Fujimori to the KMT (Taiwan) were necessary for capitalist development. (Ferdinand Marcos is a frequent exception, noted as a bad dictator.)
i know there ain't a song 'fuck the fire department' but also i personally have pictures (and i'm sure many others have such evidence all around the world) of firefighters and fire department equipment used for policing and surveillance, particularly in rallies and crowd control.
What environment are these firefighters trying to blend into, you may ask?
An environment of militarization and securitization.
An environment of militarization and securitization.
January 21, 2026 at 7:11 AM
i know there ain't a song 'fuck the fire department' but also i personally have pictures (and i'm sure many others have such evidence all around the world) of firefighters and fire department equipment used for policing and surveillance, particularly in rallies and crowd control.
Who are we trying to convince by exposing hypocrisy and corruption perpetuated by the party of order? The partisans and the false critics of the party of order know the truth. Our comrades and kasamas know the truth. The general public aren't gullible naïve sheep. No: exposure is not or key task.
January 21, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Who are we trying to convince by exposing hypocrisy and corruption perpetuated by the party of order? The partisans and the false critics of the party of order know the truth. Our comrades and kasamas know the truth. The general public aren't gullible naïve sheep. No: exposure is not or key task.