"What did happen, felt a lot like a riot; even if but for a few city blocks. The tension of everyday life under the regime of Capital was released because the cops were off somewhere else, or were simply overwhelmed by the force of protestors on Sunday."
"What did happen, felt a lot like a riot; even if but for a few city blocks. The tension of everyday life under the regime of Capital was released because the cops were off somewhere else, or were simply overwhelmed by the force of protestors on Sunday."
The need to label something as fascist in order to be able to reject it is weird. I think, at best, it runs cover for liberalism, conservatism, state socialism, and whatever other authoritarian political configuration you can think of. But it is also most of the time just importing euro
April 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The need to label something as fascist in order to be able to reject it is weird. I think, at best, it runs cover for liberalism, conservatism, state socialism, and whatever other authoritarian political configuration you can think of. But it is also most of the time just importing euro
I think the problem is less about technical language and more about actual structural inaccessibility like locking education behind exorbitant tuition fees and a world of work that steals time away from you that could otherwise be spent learning
The failure of academia to explain things in layperson terms (up until some efforts recently) is one of the reasons for anti-intellectualism.
When you make science inaccessible, people will opt for those who sell easier solutions.
February 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I think the problem is less about technical language and more about actual structural inaccessibility like locking education behind exorbitant tuition fees and a world of work that steals time away from you that could otherwise be spent learning
It is very irritating to see how quickly radicals will attempt to erase the centrality of race from the structures of violence they claim to oppose—especially when it turns out that they themselves reinforce those racial structures of violence—and go total class reductionism
February 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
It is very irritating to see how quickly radicals will attempt to erase the centrality of race from the structures of violence they claim to oppose—especially when it turns out that they themselves reinforce those racial structures of violence—and go total class reductionism
It is actually fine for things to have precise definitions that distinguishing them from other things which are different and also have precise definitions
February 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
It is actually fine for things to have precise definitions that distinguishing them from other things which are different and also have precise definitions
Someone who’s really about it doesn’t even have the notion that giving to those in need is “charity” that’s distinct from what’s legit as mutual aid. You see need & you give to it because you believe we all must survive. No theory on mutual aid contradicts that. @161bklyn.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Doing things to help people regardless of its title doesn’t mean that mutual aid is indistinct from charity.
The problem is that it’s not the people who are maintaining separate definitions for separate things, but that you and others are attempting to change existing definitions in order to muddy the waters so that one thing (charity) can be done as what it’s not (mutual aid)
Right? Like what difference does it make whether it's called mutual aid or charity? Are you giving to help another human in need because empathy and we are all so damn connected, or are you giving to get something in return?
February 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
The problem is that it’s not the people who are maintaining separate definitions for separate things, but that you and others are attempting to change existing definitions in order to muddy the waters so that one thing (charity) can be done as what it’s not (mutual aid)
This might be even funnier. The justice system is one of the most abhorrently violent creations in existence, but you somehow think all the millions of lives it has destroyed is somehow better than killing someone who gets rich off of denying life saving health care.
We’ve got a justice system for a reason, and it’s because it’s significantly better than the alternative of vigilantism
February 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This might be even funnier. The justice system is one of the most abhorrently violent creations in existence, but you somehow think all the millions of lives it has destroyed is somehow better than killing someone who gets rich off of denying life saving health care.
All of the people cheering on Luigi and saying that he did nothing wrong when he executed a premeditated murder make me really uncomfortable. Once you say that he’s justified, I can’t trust that you aren’t going to say political violence against more people is justified, and that’s a real bad path.
February 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Political violence against more people is justified.
I think that the *mutual* part of mutual aid getting ignored actually changes the whole concept and makes it no longer mutual aid but something different. But that's just me
February 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I think that the *mutual* part of mutual aid getting ignored actually changes the whole concept and makes it no longer mutual aid but something different. But that's just me