starting to think na settler colonialism is a double genocide: first obviously of the native, and secondly a cultural genocide of the settler to destroy their relationships to their culture and their homelands in order to assimilate them into whiteness and citizenship.
i was watching FINAL FANTASY THE SPIRITS WITHIN with my partner yesterday, their first time seeing it, and like, i kept thinking was like holy sh–, it's the world-f**-spirit!!! the weltgeist!!!
so much hitler particles and duterte particles on filipino social media. cia this, duterte that—common enough explanations. cia didn't need to do shit tbh. they did, of course, do some things. but largely the work of ideology is greater than any one government, a totalizing logic imposed by normalcy.
The repression of the party of anarchy, the mediation and management of the party of anarchy, and the third is the reimposition of normalcy and the triumph of tamang proseso
finished my article on the black scare and the party of anarchy that I started two days after the crushed insurrections last September. The most important insight I figured out only yesterday, being the three levels of black scare as repressive, mediative, and reimpositive.
@tsvga frustrating to see how Malm mobilizes resisting despite futilities to the Holocaust for like... reformist engagement with the very system that he (perhaps rightfully) analogizes to the Holocaust.
@adamgreenfield thanks. I'll keep an eye out for your book though verso books are rare in this country. Yeah his deployment of Holocaust resistance in PIPELINE rubs me the wrong way unlike in FLAME.
Great, Malm is going BLESSED IS THE FLAME in HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE but instead of striking against the world that is killing us unconditionally, Malm argues for it in the context of reform and engagement with the state. Even repeated the Holocaust resistance stories. 🙄🙄🙄
The revolution will not “solve” anything. Communism will not “eliminate” oppression. Capitalism is a structure built of our alienated collective agency. Revolution and communization is OUR agency—WE will have to solve the problems, because WE will be the revolution.
It isn't that the oppression of women could persist after the revolution, BUT THAT REVOLUTIONARY DEGENERATION IS INEVITABLE if we don't solve problems and overcome the material and ideological limits of insurrection, revolution, and communization.
Thinking about the abolitionist hymn JOHN BROWN'S BODY and its transformation into THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC mobilized to abolish slavery, eventually sung by the invaders to kill my countrymen half a world away. The long arc of history seems to be recuperation.
I read stuff on ultraleft communism, anarchy, ecology, police+prison abolition. Aspie, he\him. Scribe.Librarian at The Anarchist Library and the Southeast Asian Anarchist Library. Archivist for Philippine socialism and the Tagalog section at the Marxists Internet Archive. Climate justice worker.Build militancy not membership. For the self-abolition of the proletariat and the anti-prole prole club. The revolution will be proletarian by those who make it and anti-proletarian in its content.