Comments for anarchafairy http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com The tortured thoughts of a revolutionary anarchist Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:00:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Unite and its Class Collaboration by Notes on the Possibilities and Limitations of Anarcho-syndicalism – Errant Dispatch http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/unite-and-its-class-collaboration/#comment-1114 Notes on the Possibilities and Limitations of Anarcho-syndicalism – Errant Dispatch Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:00:59 +0000 http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/unite-and-its-class-collaboration/#comment-1114 [...] post on Unite and the ensuing discussion got me thinking about unions as a form of class organisation, and the possibilities they offer to a [...] [...] post on Unite and the ensuing discussion got me thinking about unions as a form of class organisation, and the possibilities they offer to a [...]

]]> Comment on Happy Valley and a Divergence in Strategy by Happy Valley and a (Partial) Convergence in Strategy – Errant Dispatch http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/happy-valley-and-a-divergence-in-strategy/#comment-1113 Happy Valley and a (Partial) Convergence in Strategy – Errant Dispatch Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:45:00 +0000 http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/happy-valley-and-a-divergence-in-strategy/#comment-1113 [...] any case, contrary to my previous post on Happy Valley, I am very excited about this chosen tactic: I only wish we had thought of it earlier! Not only is [...] [...] any case, contrary to my previous post on Happy Valley, I am very excited about this chosen tactic: I only wish we had thought of it earlier! Not only is [...]

]]> Comment on ANZAC Day Must Be Opposed by Wellington ANZAC Day Protest – Errant Dispatch http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/anzac-day-must-be-opposed/#comment-1112 Wellington ANZAC Day Protest – Errant Dispatch Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:30:06 +0000 http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/anzac-day-must-be-opposed/#comment-1112 [...] I’ve covered my objections to ANZAC Day already. I only want to add that the level of nationalism and patriotism present was far worse than I had expected, and the demographics of those present – young, families, clean, white and middle class – coupled with the huge growth in numbers from last year alone makes the ANZAC day trends all the more worrying. [...] [...] I’ve covered my objections to ANZAC Day already. I only want to add that the level of nationalism and patriotism present was far worse than I had expected, and the demographics of those present – young, families, clean, white and middle class – coupled with the huge growth in numbers from last year alone makes the ANZAC day trends all the more worrying. [...]

]]> Comment on Post-Anarchism and Social War by ankostis http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/post-anarchism-and-social-war/#comment-1111 ankostis Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:54:42 +0000 http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/post-anarchism-and-social-war/#comment-1111 There is a collective effort ongoing to translate your essay into Greek: http://www.sid.gr/translate/doku.php/postanarchism Having participated in this effort i can tell you that it is a rather strong text for providing a historical context to anarchism, for collecting various assumptions and generalizations of the anarchic project. I'm certain that there would be many good-willed objections to it. Mine is more of a suggestion: I would prefer that it included more practices and paradigms of the anarchism of the 2nd wave. I would love to see a more elaborate and never-ending collection of some forgotten or unseen alternatives. Best wishes There is a collective effort ongoing to translate your essay into Greek:
http://www.sid.gr/translate/doku.php/postanarchism

Having participated in this effort i can tell you that it is a rather strong text for providing a historical context to anarchism, for collecting various assumptions and generalizations of the anarchic project.
I’m certain that there would be many good-willed objections to it.

Mine is more of a suggestion:
I would prefer that it included more practices and paradigms of the anarchism of the 2nd wave.
I would love to see a more elaborate and never-ending collection of some forgotten or unseen alternatives.

Best wishes

]]> Comment on Post-Anarchism and Social War by orestis http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/post-anarchism-and-social-war/#comment-1110 orestis Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:55:57 +0000 http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/post-anarchism-and-social-war/#comment-1110 Very good and fresh. I found it more useful than Richard Day’s book, which was fine, but was a litle bit too long for what it was saying. This was the book that showed me the way to find this pdf though. So thanx to Richard too! I use to call the likeness of the classical anarchist and marxist project as the "conquer of (anti)/power" and this critic makes more accurate that which i was implying with that term. I participate in a project of solidarity economy (http://sporos.org/en) and there are various ways that what is written in here can find application, with tension of course. Your pdf is now hosted to our e-library. Very good and fresh. I found it more useful than Richard Day’s book, which was fine, but was a litle bit too long for what it was saying. This was the book that showed me the way to find this pdf though. So thanx to Richard too!
I use to call the likeness of the classical anarchist and marxist project as the “conquer of (anti)/power” and this critic makes more accurate that which i was implying with that term.
I participate in a project of solidarity economy (http://sporos.org/en) and there are various ways that what is written in here can find application, with tension of course. Your pdf is now hosted to our e-library.

]]> Comment on imminent rebellion #9 out now by conatz http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/imminent-rebellion-9-out-now/#comment-1109 conatz Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:45:55 +0000 http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/?p=110#comment-1109 oh no, the world money strike dude.... anyway, cool blog, when I have more time, I'll have to go through some of the longer pieces on here. i linked you on http://athomehesaturista.wordpress.com/ oh no, the world money strike dude….

anyway, cool blog, when I have more time, I’ll have to go through some of the longer pieces on here. i linked you on http://athomehesaturista.wordpress.com/

]]> Comment on The Failure of the Anti-Civ Ideology by R. http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/the-failure-of-the-anti-civ-ideology/#comment-1108 R. Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:28:56 +0000 http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/the-failure-of-the-anti-civ-ideology/#comment-1108 I just wanted to point out that anti-civ as a classifying term is defined as a critique of civilization as a system. In general, the anti-civ critique finds most forms of oppression rising with the city-state. Primitivism, on the other hand, is a theory or method based on the anti-civ critique, for living outside of civilization. There are other groups that function under the premises of anti-civ critiques. The Anti-Civ critique argues that the following things exist with civilizations the collection of unsustainable populations into cities the forced domestication of classes of people and animals the inevitable importation of goods from outside its own sources the inevitable increase in demand for goods and depletion of sources for goods the standardization of life, from biodiversity to monoculture the necessity of hierarchical authority, the inevitable collapse of civilization, capitalism, communist, socialist, anarchist? (but would an anarchist society be a civilization or does civilization come from coercion and hierarchy?) The key argument is that it is a system that can not be sustained, a system that is founded on violence to begin with. This is what people debate. Is Civilization as a System Sustainable? Can it survive? This is drawn from history. The Mayan collapse. The collapse of the Roman Empire. City-states and their populations can not supply themselves with their own food. The food must be gotten from exploiting the land beyond the city-state. No amount of theory will change that necessary oppression. An unsustainable system can not be changed or rearranged. It will collapse! 10 billion left wing anarchist inhabiting the cities of the planet will need to exploit the planet beyond its capacity for survival and the system will collapse. I just wanted to point out that anti-civ as a classifying term is defined as a critique of civilization as a system. In general, the anti-civ critique finds most forms of oppression rising with the city-state. Primitivism, on the other hand, is a theory or method based on the anti-civ critique, for living outside of civilization. There are other groups that function under the premises of anti-civ critiques.

The Anti-Civ critique argues that the following things exist with civilizations

the collection of unsustainable populations into cities

the forced domestication of classes of people and animals

the inevitable importation of goods from outside its own sources

the inevitable increase in demand for goods and depletion of sources for goods

the standardization of life, from biodiversity to monoculture

the necessity of hierarchical authority,

the inevitable collapse of civilization, capitalism, communist, socialist, anarchist? (but would an anarchist society be a civilization or does civilization come from coercion and hierarchy?)

The key argument is that it is a system that can not be sustained, a system that is founded on violence to begin with. This is what people debate. Is Civilization as a System Sustainable? Can it survive? This is drawn from history. The Mayan collapse. The collapse of the Roman Empire.

City-states and their populations can not supply themselves with their own food. The food must be gotten from exploiting the land beyond the city-state. No amount of theory will change that necessary oppression. An unsustainable system can not be changed or rearranged. It will collapse!
10 billion left wing anarchist inhabiting the cities of the planet will need to exploit the planet beyond its capacity for survival and the system will collapse.

]]> Comment on The Failure of the Anti-Civ Ideology by vera http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/the-failure-of-the-anti-civ-ideology/#comment-1107 vera Sat, 09 May 2009 18:55:35 +0000 http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/the-failure-of-the-anti-civ-ideology/#comment-1107 "They seem to be very much trapped in the American individualist tradition and quite out of touch with popular struggles in North America" Oh, yeah. I am in Colorado, and the most popular North American struggle is all around me. It's called denial! Forget about labels. Civ sucks. “They seem to be very much trapped in the American individualist tradition and quite out of touch with popular struggles in North America”

Oh, yeah. I am in Colorado, and the most popular North American struggle is all around me. It’s called denial!

Forget about labels. Civ sucks.

]]> Comment on ANZAC Day Must Be Opposed by fuckyou http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/anzac-day-must-be-opposed/#comment-1105 fuckyou Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:10:22 +0000 http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/anzac-day-must-be-opposed/#comment-1105 Fuckyou man, fuck you fuck you fuck you. Several of my uncles died in WW2 fighting for the freedom from the Tyrant of the German Warmachine. And you - you wortless piece of shit, sit here in the comfort of a free country and say we shouldn't remember it. Well FUCK YOU. Go and die, go live in an opressed country, and fucking die you worthless piece of shit. For your own safety I hope we never meet face to face. Fuckyou man, fuck you fuck you fuck you.

Several of my uncles died in WW2 fighting for the freedom from the Tyrant of the German Warmachine.

And you – you wortless piece of shit, sit here in the comfort of a free country and say we shouldn’t remember it.

Well FUCK YOU. Go and die, go live in an opressed country, and fucking die you worthless piece of shit.
For your own safety I hope we never meet face to face.

]]> Comment on Post-Anarchism and Social War by V http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/post-anarchism-and-social-war/#comment-1104 V Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:40:06 +0000 http://anarchafairy.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/post-anarchism-and-social-war/#comment-1104 Great paper, I've been working on an article on anarchism and power for our local publication here, and your take on post-structuralist analyses has been super helpful. Thanks! Great paper, I’ve been working on an article on anarchism and power for our local publication here, and your take on post-structuralist analyses has been super helpful.

Thanks!

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