"In this unfolding nightmare, anarchists must recognize there are no saviors coming from above. Our only reliable allies are those already locked in existential struggle against the regime."

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You Were Warned: How Liberalism Paved the Road to Trump’s America—Again

"Trump didn’t build this momentum alone. He was handed a system hollowed out by decades of liberal compromise."
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When have you felt most in sync with a group of people? What made that possible?

New Essay - The Hidden Architecture of Power

This week, I go though the history of the study of coordination, highlight a few key theories, and explain what Coordination: the Fabric of Power is.

Please enjoy, and share with anyone you think might be interested.
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Over the next few years anarchist orgs are going to get a lot of new joiners.

I recommend developing analytical frameworks to inspect all new ideas and projects being proposed in order to be sure that crypto-authoritarianism and crypto-fascism aren't embedded in the language and ideas

funny how it took literal Tyranny for Liberal America to realize that the enforcement of the balance of powers between the judiciary, the executive, and the legislative essentially amounts to... *checks notes* "we trust each other to do things we tell each other to do"

The tragedy is not that domination exists. The tragedy is that we do not recognize it as our own power turned against us.

Capitalism is little more than a façade. It is a holographic projection of the underlying mode of power. What we see in the hologram is a system of competitive market exchange regulated by state agencies and legislators.

Liberalism as an ideology is built on support for two of the most violent and oppressive institutions in human history: capitalism and the modern nation state. So if you're a liberal who genuinely believes in peace and non-violence, then I suggest you find a new political belief system.

A lot of people focus on equitable distribution of wealth. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here just repeating, if we change our approach, wealth can be a thing of the past, and everyone can just get what they need when they need it.

We can support 10billion people at 1960's US standards of living.

All power is just an emergent phenomenon of different configurations of coordination. How you coordinate determines the type of power that emerges.

"gotcha" discourse is so damn boring

I won't claim to know much about much, but I know that attributing single causes to complex phenomena is usually going to be fallacious

It is so important that we make the distinction between the different kinds of power. Otherwise, people will fear claiming their own power. They will fear that it might corrupt them, and when they don't claim it, it will be usurped by others and wielded over them.

I am now 1 month away from being unemployed (by choice) so that I can focus on my writing and looking after my doggo.

It's terrifying, but I'm sick of renting my labor out to capitalism for peanuts.

So I guess I get to see if what I have to say is worthy of support. At least enough to survive on.

Until people realize that the state of capital is functionally about sabotaging and enclosing access to all of the fundamental resources required for existence, we will perpetually resist it along incorrect lines, and our resistance will simply be absorbed, sabotaged, and enclosed.

Experimenting with new socials is always a little weird to start with.

This time I'm going to actively work on curating the space to reflect my ideas and values, rather than as a random conglomeration of semi-related voices that say things similar to my ideas and values.