A Note About Sourcing:
The vast majority of the writing I do here on Mastodon, can be described as one of two things; synthesizing existing left wing theory into more useful and modern adaptations, and analyzing cultural product (including news), current events, and propaganda in the Pig Empire. As you can imagine, this requires me to reference a tremendous amount of writing produced by other people; and therein lies our problem.
It may surprise you to learn this, but cultural product in a society completely controlled by reactionary capitalist oligarchs, is not really about introducing you to great people and ideas that will help you overthrow capitalism. Furthermore, you don't need to be an anarchist like I am, to understand that power tends to corrupt and as such you can't always trust people who're trying to claim power, authority, or leadership over you. So what's the problem? In a capitalist society, those folks are the ones we publish and write about; obviously this isn't a universal truth, but if you could probably be right at least 85% of the time by just assuming that anyone you've ever heard of *because* of the capitalist propaganda machine is definitely dogshit.
What this means for us here, is that I'm going to reference a whole bunch of people whose ideas I do not entirely agree with, whose history as human beings I do not want to endorse, and even some people I objectively recognize are our class enemies in a very open way. I am an anarcho-syndicalist, "No Gods, No Masters" isn't just a slogan to me. I am not endorsing any of these people, I am sharing information I think will be useful for you to develop your OWN praxis, stomp fascists, end capitalism, and save the human species. We are here to take what we can use, and discard the rest; and let me tell you, because capitalism tends to reward muppets who push reactionary capitalist ideology, we're going to be tossing away a LOT of absolute drek, to find the useful nuggets we can use to do revolution and save the people who matter; which is all the people who aren't rich or their fascist minions.
I'm not going to link you to folks pushing reaction, but if I'm not allowed to use any work by "reactionaries" that more or less eliminates all Pig Empire publishing; because we are in fact the High Church of Capitalism, and we do in fact sell reaction world wide through our media and cultural product - staying informed in the Pig Empire, means reading reactionaries and crap tier people; they're almost the only people this machine is willing to publish.
Finally on a personal level, I would just like to note that I am a 46 year old woman, with a strong background in academia, and I have absolutely never been one of the cool kids who is in the know about online communities and their politics. I am intimately familiar with who is, and isn't a crypto-fascist in the faculties of multiple American universities, but I wasn't here for all your online reindeer games the past fifteen years so I honestly don't know most of you out here, as people, at all. This means I'm going to screw up, and sometimes I'm going to retweet or share thoughts from someone out here you don't like. I request your patience, and I'm happy to listen to you explain why I shouldn't be sharing someone's work; but please be advised, I'm not here to PLAY those reindeer games now - I'm going to ask you to provide me with *some* kind of evidence before I put someone on the "never publicize" list. I am not wasting all my time out here on the Twitter whisper mill; I left that site for a reason.
Thanks for your patience and understanding in advance; this is how we move forward - I insist.