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19 Nov, 12 tweets, 5 min read
Even if Rittenhouse had been found guilty, what would that have done? Proven the system “works”?

For those saying they’d rather just see him “pay” via the “justice” system, isn’t that just reinforcing what emboldened him to begin with?

Maybe it’s time to think outside the box…
Those saying “vote” or discussing political parties in response to this are thinking “cart before the horse.”

The political is shaped by capital as power.

Until we organize via our labor and build new, directly democratic power, it’s rinse and repeat.

“Abolition” has become a buzzword in these last few years, but abolition isn’t happening without an alternative. We now have to speak to the imagination if we wish to transcend these oppressive systems, and we have to organize + BUILD on that imagination.

Black / New Afrikan Anarchist Black Panther Party veterans have been speaking to this for decades.

We must realize our own potentialities and match utopian visions with reason and logic in service to a world without carceral systems and/or nation-states.

We must be imaginative and bold enough to attempt to live as though we are already free, reflecting the values of the world that we want to live in in the practice of serving each other, and creating the space for + institutions of a superseding society.

We must build #DualPower with the understanding that the levees are going to break, and the understanding that we are going to need aqueducts in place before they do as a means to channel the waters towards freedom.

For us, freedom is the “equality of unequals” and the maximization of individual liberty/autonomy under governance systems directly and democratically determined by the collective.

We can’t find this under the logic of capital and the ruling-class gov't.

We have to stop looking up – at celebrities, religious figures, politicians, governments, nation-states, the ruling class, etc. – and begin looking to our sides at those who are around us…

And we have to begin building with those around us in new ways…

This is the deep digging.

It won’t be easy or straightforward.

It will take struggle. Even compromise at different junctures.

But it will be a whole lot better than us sitting and taking fash boots on our necks as systems continue to crumble around us.

You can find much more below.

Please hit the links.

#DualPower

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17 Aug
Your entire understanding of the world and what we’re up against as a species changes radically once you realize how hierarchy operates.
An introductory thread on this point (please watch the video).

It is a very, very dense read.

But it is worth everyone’s time.

Please check it out.

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray…
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12 Aug
Some of us squander so many opportunities for good-faith discourse and education on here because we’re more concerned with looking smart for followers or going viral than appealing to the humanity of others.

Don’t be a “Leftist” absorbed by the neoliberal logic of this platform.
Also, here’s a Wiki primer on groupthink:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

Some of us really, really need to read this.
Anyone with a conscience should be using everything at their disposal – which includes social media and technology more broadly – for problem-solving right now, with the urgency of someone trapped in a burning building with everyone else on here and in need of an escape plan.
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26 Jul
The fact that both Russia and China have invaded various territories aside:

To speak on nation-states in this manner disregards how capital (and, subsequently, imperialism) works globally.

Russian, Chinese, and American Capitalists are all doing great business with one another.
The sentiments espoused in the clip above are steeped in a dangerous, neoliberal logic of competitive, industrial expansionism, as opposed to a social logic of cooperation for ecologically sustainable democratization of productive forces for the commons.

Nothing “Left” about it.
Please see the clip below for a quick introduction to how/why the sentiments expressed in the clip featured at the top of this thread are an issue.

Also consider looking into the concepts of “hard” and “soft” power – very crucial for this specific topic.

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23 Jul
Anarchists (Libertarian Socialists) are perceived as a threat and attacked by all sides of the political spectrum (if you will) because what all other sides have in common (Left or Right) is an acceptance of top-down hierarchy and coercive authority (even if some try to hide it).
Anarchists understand Capitalism as not only a system of exploitation, but a system of domination as well, and they understand that domination (in some form or another) has essentially existed since human beings have been around (well before Capitalism even had a name).
Anarchists believe production must be controlled by the people themselves in service to the commons, just as most self-described Socialists/Communists do.

But they have never believed that production must first pass through the hands of some bureaucratic body for this to happen.
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12 Jul
The pot calling the kettle black doesn’t make the kettle not black.

And both the pot and the kettle are there to boil, even if the pot is bigger.

The U.S. uses whatever it can to push an imperialist agenda, but in conflicts between nation-states, all of us are treated as pawns.
We condemn U.S. imperialism everywhere.

We also express solidarity with the people of Cuba (especially Black people) in honoring their agency, and their ability to determine their future.

No, these two things are not mutually exclusive, and yes, we want a future without states.
Both U.S. and Cuban bureaucrats accustomed to top-down rule are to blame for what we’re witnessing here, in addition to the global ruling class.

Thus, the ultimate solution is not for us to run to and defend these oppressive powers, but to run to each other and defend ourselves.
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6 Jun
@__proseccopapi Re: Mussolini and Lenin:

Read “Role and Functions of the Trade Unions Under the New Economic Policy” by Lenin (here: marxists.org/archive/lenin/…), Lenin on State Capitalism (here: socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2019/10/lenin-…), then “On the Corporate State” by Mussolini (here: arplan.org/2020/02/21/mus…). ImageImageImageImage
@__proseccopapi Mussolini considered himself the “Lenin of Italy” at one point in time (see page 284 here: books.google.com/books?id=ut-Os…) and genuinely admired him (see page 96 here: archive.org/details/mussol…). ImageImage
@__proseccopapi Lenin apparently addressed a delegation of Italian Socialists in Moscow (after Mussolini's 1922 March on Rome) and stated:

“What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy.”

Source on page 15:

archive.org/details/thirdw… Image
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