Notices by Librarian socialist (syndikalista@anticapitalist.party)

Question , is there actually a book or blog out there of what emissions zero actually looks like ?

@GreenandBlack a description that is specific on how that shall look like and that does not bleed romanticism.

@anarchiv sounds Like a south park episode

Another point is that you need a mass movement behind you to update past concepts, visions, and imaginaries. Otherwise, you run into the same problems early socialists: build-in collapse of group projects because of unmet needs and easy intervention by state takeover.

What was interesting to me: there was a guy from Hungary who supported me on the instance with that with a few notes on how the communist regime killed revolutionaries in Hungary during the aftermath of WWII.
And that was a common theme: revolutionaries of past times, that survived the fascist regime got killed aftermath when wanting to participate in the rebuild of society. Dozens and dozens got killed throughout the sowjet hemisphere.

Yesterday someone was surprised that I called myself a (libertarian) socialist in public. A bit older than me, but born in the GDR that person came with a suspicion of socialism in all forms and was surprised that there are non-state organised versions too. He asked, why there are no current valiable alternatives around by anarchists or non-state socialists. I thought about that for a moment and said: Because these got killed, murdered and traditions cut off and hanged.

That was an insight. Yes, why are they not around? Because most people working on the alternative are not alive. And most people that came with the reemergent reclaim of anarchism in the 1970s had rarely interest in the survivors and dealt with the traumatized old movement.
And the material available today is a manifold more than in the last 30 years. Still we (as in I) only get glimpses of the "old movement" since there are hardly people around to ask.

So, what are your reading friends?

"Tsundoku (積ん読) is a beautiful Japanese word describing the habit of acquiring books but letting them pile up without reading them."

@edsu this was not uncommon for parts of Germany as well, where water related power structures even could overpower local authority.

This question is even more urgent in the expectation of a climate breakdown.

And sadly I do not know more than a few touching this question.

@GreenandBlack do you have something concrete to draw this foundation from?

@GreenandBlack I am unaware of Cheràn. Thx. will look it up.

or the neglect of its own history beyond the big bearded ones.

but whom I am talking to. A lot of people I am friends with see it as a problem too and from other people I do not have enough interaction to get into that talk anyway. so I mumble along.

Just for perspective:
"I was rather startled to find Leon Trotsky, major figure of the Russian Revolution and no friend of anarchism, saying, in 1937:
“From the first day of the revolution, thanks to its specific weight in the economy of that country, and to its political and cultural level, (the Spanish proletariat) has been, not below, but above the level of the Russian proletariat at the beginning of 1917.”"

Despite all the factors (international, political, military) working for their demise, the Spanish working class and parts of the peasantry in the Republican zones arrived at the closest approximation of a self-managed society, sustained in different forms over two and a half years, ever achieved in history.

For many modern anarchists, “Spain” is a historical reference (more often symbolic than seriously studied and absorbed) in the way that “Russia” has been such a reference for many Marxists.

the question, raised by Abad de Santillan and generally ignored by most of the contemporary radical left still is: how to prepare today, programmatically and practically, for a takeover of a modern capitalist economy where, in contrast to Spain in 1936, shutting down a large swath of socially useless and socially noxious activity will be a top priority from day one.