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May 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
That fiat is gone.

We need to organize to win a parallel social, economic, and political system ourselves that isn’t reliant upon the richest guys or the gov't.

Let’s use our limited time, energy, and resources to build our own domains instead of just fighting deeper in theirs.
This whole machine needs to stop if we want a future on this planet.

That means now is the time to fundamentally question where we are deciding to struggle and why.

Should more in the confines of an exploitive MACHINE and logic that has us facing extinction be our priority now?
An extremely relevant and important text that we won’t stop sharing.

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-…
An important and necessary thread that carries this discussion forward.

Please soak in the entire thing (top to bottom, readings included).

#DualPower

Folks should consider the implications…

In a moment where people are leaving their jobs en masse, do we propose they instead get back to work, and struggle with their overlords for more crumbs?

Or can more build elsewhere and struggle from the outside?

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We call it the “traditional,” capitalist mode of production.

Not cooperative or communal.

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Nov 19, 2021
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.

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Nov 13, 2021
Manipulation of fiat currencies – self-sovereign, fed-regulated, etc. – embedded in proprietary logics focused on mere accumulation can’t define social relations that’d determine systems change.

The most it can be leveraged for are prefigurative world-building projects and tech.
Ironically, “grassroots + non-hierarchical” is nearly synonymous with “decentralized + autonomous,” and we have centuries of history showing advantages of this organization.

The issue in these times is largely related to culture + fragmentation (which new tech can help address).
Our challenge is less around “leadership,” and more around our capacity to put everyone in a position to lead themselves via directly democratic decision-making processes (governance before government).

Nostalgia (+ tradition) is indeed an enemy, though.

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Aug 17, 2021
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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Aug 12, 2021
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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Jul 26, 2021
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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