The brutality of the State of Israel is a brutality endemic to settler-colonialism as a whole, and reinforced by the authoritarian dimensions of the nation-state model.

The State of Israel, the United States, and *all* other states must be transcended for this brutality to end…
The ethnic nation-statism, white supremacy, theocracy, and capitalist relations that define these projects have something in common:

Hierarchy.

Only a global movement against hierarchies, and for radical/direct democracy + cooperation, can confront authoritarianism and fascism.
Now let’s be more concrete:

See the thread below for introductory ideas/methods around how we can relate to one another democratically at the intersection of the social, economic, and political.

And here, you can learn more about the specific institutions for cooperation mentioned in the tweet below:

blacksocialists.us/our-strategy

Please hit the hyperlinks and look up terms you may not know; a solidarity/survival economy is made up of many components.

We are in the process of working on interactive digital resources that spell all of these things out much more clearly (and visually).

Soon come.

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May 5
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-…
Read 5 tweets
Mar 2
Bandcamp has skated by with the “reputation” of being “for indie artists” on the outside while running an exploitative business model on the inside for years.

Why them selling out to Tencent makes sense…

Meanwhile, @resonatecoop – a real ethical, indie alternative – struggles.
Now is the perfect time to help make sure indie artists not only have a platform that ensures fair pay for creative labor, but that also gives them the chance to take ownership in (and control of) the distribution of their art to the world.

Show support!

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

Not cooperative or communal.

Read 4 tweets
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.

Read 12 tweets
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.

Read 10 tweets
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…
Read 7 tweets
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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