Notices by Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)

@wim_v12e wish I had one of those! They don't even import those in my country! Not government, not commercial

Know that the police knows legality is bullshit. If they want to hurt you, they will. Court dates are very far away when you're in a cell and can be delayed for bullshit reasons. Counter-suing is difficult and expensive. That isn't to say we should do nothing.

When you're going to do something, like on 11/30, please be cognizant of the risk. Peaceful protests and pragmatic pacifism will not protect you from the police if they really wanted to beat you up, arrest you, and torture you. That trauma stays with you forever.

Again, this isn't to say you should stay home. But those encouraging people to march on 11/30 (I included) have a responsibility to tell people of this risk, that legality means nothing to the state, always hasn't. Do not be mystified by what the bourgeois tells about itself.

@DebbieDoomer I'm not american at all. I wouldn't know.

The idea that if democracy wasn't bourgeois, liberal, colonized, settler, white, etc, etc, it would be good is kinda noble-savage coded. That there exists a pure democracy under the snow of capitalism is a myth.

I read once in an essay about repression against anti-genocide protesters for Gaza: “We live in a class dictatorship thinly disguised as a democracy.” But democracy has always been class dictatorship. There was never a democracy that wasn't. Same with the noble-savage trope.

I feel like a lot of people have a “noble savage” view of democracy tbh.

Hear me out, CLIMATE POSADISM.

@DebbieDoomer 100% agree yeah. Part of my current concerns. Can you link the piece?

Why is it that insurrectos in Indonesia felt like they had no choice but to self-pacify? Why was it that in Nepal, the insurrectos had to submit to the military's demand for a discord election? Answering these are key for what comes ahead.

Sure. It makes it easier to pronounce stuff. Words with different pronunciations have are spelled the same.

English should have diacritics too. It's hard for learners to figure out the difference between read and read and lead and lead.

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Trauma from the financial and carceral system, betrayal from watching the left become the left wing of Dutertismo, disillusionment with working in government (long march through institutions? Ha!), autism, and books. https://ngl.link/abolisyonista

Not sure if I'd learn anything particularly useful from r/ultraleft tbh.

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As long as it isn't a hierarchical, patriarchal, misogynist, or domineering, I'm not really sure I should care? At any rate, it's better than Catholicism or Christianity.

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Ken Fuller trilogy
Kerkvliet on the PKP-1930
To Suffer Thy Comrades (Garcia)
The Communist Party of the Philippines, 1968–1993: A story of its theory and practice (Weekley)
Primed and Purposeful (Santos & Santos)

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Material limits to an insurrection, or something, idk!

The clearest questions that ought be asked from the insurrections in Indonesia and Nepal is not “why didn't they do that?” but rather, “how could they not?” What restricted the choices of insurrectos that prevents them from overcoming the limits to insurrection?

What's with same-sex attraction and dressing flamboyantly? I came to terms with it and then started dressing dandyly but didn't make the link until a friend mentioned a guy he liked must be fruity because they dressed well???

is this an MRA holiday?

> Claims to be a free-thinking Marxist
> Relies too much on quotes and words of dead men who aren't even big Marx himself

> Claims to be the party of oppose book worship.

> Worships books.

@rechelon Congrats!