"...it's not the training to be mean but the training to be kind that is used to keep us leashed best." ~ Black Dog Red

"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done

"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ

Nov 5, 2011

Food

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?

7 comments:

Soma said...

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.

Jack Crow said...

I 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.

Anonymous said...

I 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.

Bitchin'!

Lori said...

Property is power. As such, it corrupts.

zencomix said...

Food not lawns!

Lori said...

I'll second that. The curb appeal fascists are trying to shut down my sheet composting operation.

Jack Crow said...

Food, not cemeteries. Food, not golf courses, too.