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Part of me wants to expand this into an article advocating for anarchist communist organizations and production but if I do I'm going to have to spend like 15 years arguing with market anarchists about the definition of markets, different kinds of

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value, the reality of social labor, the role of power in market share, the cash nexus, 1,500 different ethnographies of non-state market societies, and the forms of oppression in those societies and I just don't have the patience for that.

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I do want to make 1 thing clear, my opposition to market anarchism is not because I am unaware of their arguments. I have read Tucker, I have read Carson, I have read Voltairine de Cleyre, I have read Markers not Capitalism, I have even read

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Rothbard. I have read non-market anarchist accounts of non-state markets in Graeber, Scott and Gelderloos, I have read Indigenous accounts of non-capitalist markets from people like Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui so PLEASE stop telling me to read things

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And it's not even like I'm unsympathetic to their arguments, hell I came up in crypto-anarchist circles reading @doctorow and all of those people were market anarchists. But my critique of market anarchism is different than my one of state

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socialism and capitalism and it takes longer to explain because I have to spend hours arguing about what a market is and how it developed in different social contexts with people who assume I haven't heard their arguments before

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Ok this is my last post about the "Sudan was a CIA regime change op" people. One thing I've said before about the current crop of people who call themselves anti-imperialists is that they have no idea how economics works, their analysis of any

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given situation is entirely geopolitical. Thus, and this is a MASSIVE change from the anti-globalization movement, they think that the American empire is a political project and not an economic one and focus on the CIA, not the IMF, as the core

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of the American empire. This of course completely bites them in the ass when they're trying to understand Sudan because THE EMPIRE HAD ALREADY FUCKING WON THERE. Omar al-Bashir was implementing IMF structural adjustments. That was what the empire

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1. On the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Seattle a lot of people are focusing on the role unions played in the movement that basically stopped the WTO in its tracks. This is almost pure revisionism, the WTO wasn't defeated by organized labor,

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2. it was defeated by leftist direct action campaigns and a wave of revolutions. The crucial part of this story, and the part that the unions don't want to talk about because they essentially weren't involved, was what happened after Seattle.

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3. A Zapatista-founded international network called Peoples' Global Action, which had been heavily involved in the Seattle protests (summit hopping was actually the Zapatistas' idea in the first place), began to get involved in a series of other

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I think the real Zoomer Millennial divide is whether or not you remember when revolutions died

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Something I don't think a lot of the people younger than me understand is that for a moment it really looked like we were going to win, that Arab revolutionaries, Greek Occupiers and Brazilian insurrectionaries were going to walk into the future

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arm in arm, with the regime and the bankers crushed beneath our feet. That was the moment they brought out the machine guns. The psychological blow of watching the what was probably the first time the left could conceivably have won in almost

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