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'm tired of refuges, anarchy of the peripheries, seeds of communism, anarchy of the cracks, autonomy from the margins, feminist spaces. I want the whole world, and I want that for everyone.
HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE is kinda annoying me. So we need an armed movement, not so we can revolutionize the world (take power, abolish power, etc.) and save the climate, but... so that power can capitulate to the moderates??? Armed reformism.
@richpuchalsky there was also an anarchist cultural victory back then. Weakness of Marxism, even moderates and nationalists used PotD. A Serbian nationalist did just that to start WW1.
Direct-actionist suffragette movement were so wild. Yeah let's do terrorism so that... women can vote. Difficult to think that they were the moderates and were contemporaneous with anarchists like Emma Goldman and Voltairine de Cleyre, some of whom were propagandists-of-the-deed.
The progressive Christian argument that liberation theology is valuable for the Catholic Church—cited in CELAM, global south episcopal conferences, citations by Francis I, canonization of Oscar Romero—more proves its marginalization. Liberartion theologians are only valuable to the Church when dead, especially when the Church conspired to kill them.
MEDIA ADVISORY February 25, 2025 For Immediate Release
ALERT: PROGRESSIVE GROUPS HEADING TO EDSA40 COMMEMORATION BLOCKED FOR AN HOUR BY MANILA DISTRICT TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT UNIT (MDTEU). DEVELOPING STORY
Progressive groups from the Southern Tagalog region is currently getting blocked by agents of Manila District Traffic Enforcement Unit (MDTEU) from attending EDSA40 Commemoration today, February 25, at Pureza Extention, corner Mithi St., Sampaloc, Manila.
Led by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan - Southern Tagalog, civil society organizations organized a mobilisation in response of repressive policies.
@Quasit wish that would be the case but also that was never how worked. Not with the church in antiquity not with the ancient Muslims in late antiquity, and not with the revolutionaries in England and France. It's frustrating, and I honestly don't know what to do either.
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.