Viand is a Filipinism and a natural part of Philippine English, just like blockmate, inutil, or barbeque. Just because its pretentious and purple in other English dialects doesn't mean it is in PH English. Be proud of your language, kahit sa PH English, decolonization yun.
@joyfulcarla the anarchy of the cracks or the anarchy of the margins is one of the things I constantly think about these days. Thanks for bringing it up. What if I want the whole world and I want that for everyone?
People on twitter will really be like “you believe in firebombing the police? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy—organizing” and then not do organizing.
instead of, you know, ragebaiting and starting pointless definitional arguments on twitter.
a note on terrorism: individual terrorism, like self-directed subsistence struggles, are inevitable features of class struggle that emerge spontaneously regardless of pro-revolutionary intervention.
the tragedy of political theory is—as i see it—is precisely the key link between politics and anti-politics. anarchy and communism precisely needs anti-political rupture, insurrection, and social revolution. but how are we to “build” or rather forement mass anti-politics with political forms?
Tarot reading last night: Ruin, disillusion, rebirth, choice, hope.
Today: Mayo Uno ended at 10am at FEU. March too weak to overcome the barricade, saw marching in place and pragmatic pacifism. Insurrectionary energy of September was not sustained.
i hadn't realized i've been reading jasper bernes for years already. looking at his bibliography, i remember enjoying some of these essays. the heatwave essay was excellent, yes. haven't read planning and anarchy, will read. i found dauve important for anti-work and self-abolition.
Quite fascinating reconstruction of the discourses and narratives between right-socal-democracy, left-socia-democracy (what would later become bolshevism and 3I communism) and anarchism. Wreak havoc on Lassallean-Kautskyists. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/william-whitham-lenin-the-anarchist
from CIA weaponizing aswang myths to terrorize peasants & communists in the philippines, to an actual masonic deep state in Italy (see propaganda due/p2), real af. but like, cia funding insurrections in nepal, indonesia, mendiola... get out of here.
@makepost sure, but my point here is more the permanent undermining of Manibela and Piston, the drivers' associations/unions. Of course new unions and associations would emerge to defend economistic interests among new workers.
See the way the state can conjure buses to undermine transport strikes is similar to scabbing is easysauce critique. Once we question why transpo strikes can't be indefinite bc of a threat of a shift to a permanent scabbing state-funded public transportation (among other reasons), we see how the isolation and peripheralization of strikes under normalcy inherently has these material and ideological limits, of reaffirming ourselves as specific kinds of workers. We can't forget, of course, the elevator worker's strike in New York, which was defeated by a regime of permanent scabbing via the automatic elevator. Similarly, the implementation of a state-subsidized waged-worked transport sector to replace semi-proletarian jeepney drivers is a real risk here as a way of permanently undermining Manibela and Piston.
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 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.