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Dr. CBS [Charisse Burden-Stelly] @blackleftafThe interconnection of anticommunism and antiblackness is not about whether Black people like or dislike communism, but rather how anticommunism is a powerful technology of repression used to uphold white supremacy and Black subjection and, of course, racial capitalism.Dec. 9, 2020 In the power centers of the United States, specifically, it’s...Read the rest

Tumblr @feywildwestemployees should be allowed to steal, actually idk. yesterday was a slow day and at the end of it, I still stared into a cash drawer, one of three, that had more than my rent in it, even if you only count the 20s. I spent a lot of that day trying to calculate...Read the rest

“Revolution means, in the historical sense of the word, the radical reform of institutions, achieved rapidly by the violent insurrection of the people against existing power and privileges; and we are revolutionaries and insurrectionists because we do not just want to improve existing institutions but to destroy them completely, abolishing every form of domination by...Read the rest

This article by Lynda V. Mapes is a reminder of how any emphasis on consumerist veganism as a strategy, or shaming people for their diets, is ineffective and, considering the opportunity cost, actively counter-productive. It’s not enough to stop eating fish, to convince all of your friends and family to stop eating fish, to boycott...Read the rest

Reaction to Mitch Horowitz’s “Good, Clean Satanism,” a review of Anton LaVey’s “The Devil’s Notebook” It’s interesting that Mitch Horowitz found The Devil’s Notebook to be inspiring when it, along with Satan Speaks show Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey at his most obvious crankiness. A short version of late-stage LaVey can be be summed up...Read the rest

Fifty-one years ago today, Chicago police and FBI assassinated Fred Hampton and Mark Clark of the Black Panthers. If it happened in Central America, we’d call it “a right-wing death squad,” but it happened in the middle of Chicago, so today it would be called a “police-involved shooting.” FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had said...Read the rest

“What most pacifists do not seem to understand is that free speech does not empower us, and it does not equal freedom. … Free speech is only free as long as it is not a threat and does not come with the possibility of challenging the system. The most freedom of speech I have ever...Read the rest

No less alarming is the fact that we must drastically revise our traditional notions of what constitutes an environmental pollutant. A few decades ago it would have been absurd to describe carbon dioxide and heat as pollutants in the customary sense of the term. Yet both may well rank among the most serious sources of...Read the rest

“It is not merely humans that are the victims of State, capitalist, and – more generally – hierarchical destruction: the common victims of this complex of domination are ultimately all forms of life on Earth. Peter Kropotkin once said: “Equality in all things, the synonym of equity, this is anarchism in very deed.” It seems...Read the rest

How can we be good enough for our own ideals and still win? We want to do away with private ownership and authority, which is to say we are out to expropriate those who cling to the land and capital, and to overthrow government, and place society’s wealth at the disposal of everyone so that...Read the rest