You want a revolution to succeed, over the long term? Or to at least have a fighting chance?
Worry less about "voluntarism" or the proper moral context for sabotage, obstruction and strikes. Care not one wit about what actions will or will not anger the police, unless and only as a matter of tactics. Eschew the philosophy of the right historical moment. Abandon any hope of salvaging academia, or the liberal vanguard.
Get a hold of food. Good, healthy food. And learn how to store it, to move it, to get it to hungry people.
Strikes, sabotage, obstruction matter. Tactics matter. Surveying the landscape - economic and actual - matters. But it's all shit if you ain't got food you can count on.
And right now, the rest of us don't have any that's ours, that we can really count on. Do we?
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That's another thing that I don't get about common society. A man who steals to feed people isn't a thief; he's making a difficult decision for the greater good. In the long run, that loss of goods by the merchant is NOT worth the imprisonment of the man, or the possible starvation of those he would have fed, and when the merchant asks for vengeance from the state, we all lose for it.
ReplyDeleteI think property is like power, Soma. If you don't use it, defend it, teach it and perhaps most of all, prevent others from having it - it loses not only the value determined by exclusivity, but it's ability to grab hold of the minds of those without it.
ReplyDeleteI think power is like property, Jack. If you don't use it, defend it, teach it and perhaps most of all, prevent others from having it- it loses not only the value determined by exclusivity, but it's ability to grab hold of the minds of those without it.
ReplyDeleteBitchin'!
Property is power. As such, it corrupts.
ReplyDeleteFood not lawns!
ReplyDeleteI'll second that. The curb appeal fascists are trying to shut down my sheet composting operation.
ReplyDeleteFood, not cemeteries. Food, not golf courses, too.
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