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

“Climate Stalin” seems to me as millenarianism, a dream of the impotent, a desire to experience second-hand the agency of the climate Stalin to smite their enemies with righteous ruthlessness. Against the carceral ecology of Climate Stalin, we need an abolitionist ecology.

Looks like the probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth fell from 3.1% to 1.5%.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/

Fun fact, the Philippines is the only country in the world where "Ateneo" refers to a school. Everywhere else in the world, they're like libraries and social centers for learning. In the Hispanophone world, ateneos were crucial for the promotion of anarchist propaganda.

Pleasant surprise, apparently a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist ateneo translated my article on the history of Philippine anarchism last year.

https://www.solidaridadobrera.org/ateneo_nacho/libros/Simoun%20Magsalin%20-%20Los%20anarquismos%20filipinos.pdf

It was thought provoking at first, but with every passing year he is proven more and more right.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180218105522/https://www.twitter.com/leslieleeiii/status/964697251372257281

@luminaverdis Haraway is great!

I am not for "identity politics" because outside of reactionary tendencies for cisheteropatriarchal, racial, ethnic, national, and religious chauvinism, there is no "left" or "socialist" identity politics. It does not exist. Liberal identity politics may exist, but not socialist or anarchist identity politics. Working people who are engendered, racialized, or otherwise excluded or subalternized may be oppressed on the basis of identity, but we do not fight for common dignity and liberation on the basis of identity, but on the basis of *affinity*, on the basis of *solidarity*. This is the opposite of identity politics; this is the basis of liberatory and intersectional politics.

In this sense, intersectionality is not "identity politics" but rather the tool by which common affinities are constructed. My liberation is totally tied up with the liberation of trans people, of women, of Indigenous people, of Palestine, etc. Intersectionality shows us how different but interrelated systems of domination intersect, and therefore shows how the liberation of one is tied to the liberation of all—the basis of affinity and solidarity.

Socialist- or anarcha-feminism, for example, unite people of diverse gender and sexual identities on the basis of common affinity against cisheteropatriarchy. They may have identities, but the basis of unity is still affinity for common liberation. Hence this is why socialist- and anarcha-feminism are trans-inclusive while the identity politics of second-wave feminism is transphobic and gender essentialist.

Queers for Palestine, for example, may initially present itself as identity-based, but such a reading tells more about how right-wing commentators perceive identity politics, since the chauvinism of the right wing has always been based on identity. Rather, queers for Palestine is very much unity on the common basis of affinity, that being the liberation of Palestine as part-and-parcel to a common basis of liberation.

I am, however, against the anti-idpol because they are the enemy of unity and solidarity on the basis of common affinity for liberation. Through deliberate erasure of intersectional oppression in favor of simplistic class reduction, the anti-idpol thereby erases the basis of affinity by which liberatory politics is grounded upon. If you erase or obscure, for example, transphobia or indigeneity, you break down your affinity by which trans people or Indigenous people fight for common liberation alongside their class.

If you want to read more, Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" is instructive in this regard.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/donna-haraway-a-cyborg-manifesto

It really is that either democracy has never existed or what we have now has always been democracy. Either one has to be a democrat in a world that has never seen democracy or one must condemn democracy altogether.

@big_louse Yeah mass migration to the United States would only begin after the invasion and colonization. First as agricultural workers and servants, then as students. While there were Filipinos in the United States before the invasion of the Philippines, many of these have perhaps assimilated into Mexican or creole life rather than as Filipinos. Others in the Spanish period did study in the United States like José Rizal, but if they agitated for independence, we would have known about it.

@big_louse Actually, scholarship on the early diaspora and their intellectuals and radicals is a bit of a cottage industry among Filipino historians. If this Filipino Junta in America existed, I'm pretty sure we'd know. Even the Philippine government funds this kind of history.

@big_louse I'm not aware of any Filipino Americans working on Philippine solidarity that early. Filipino America hadn't even been constituted yet as far as I know.

Apparently Emma Goldman advocated for Philippine independence from both Spain and the United States. She mentioned here she worked with a “junta” to secure Philippine independence. I'm more inclined to believe she is referring to the Cuban Junta active in the United States rather than the Hong Kong Junta, which had no presence in the United States. While it would have been cool to see Emma Goldman work with Filipino nationalists, I highly doubt she met with representatives of Aguinaldo…

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-living-my-life

This one is probably the only coherent critique of abolition communism I've ever seen.

@ThatWeltschmerz Small world

I love going to Liberal Party rallies. We all hold hands and chant “better things aren't possible” with all the candidates.

Popular Front has a new podcast on the NPA. I didn't learn anything particularly new about it, and also I found it sus the guest avoided talking about the deaths of the Tiamzons, but otherwise it's a good refresher on the endurance of the CPP and NPA.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-philippines-maoist-guerrillas-are-making-a-comeback/id1364539980?i=1000692201744

This has got to be the most brainworms critique of abolition communism.

Where do these losers come from?

What's funny about Greek fascists preferring “Constantinople” over “Istanbul” is that Daesh (so-called “Islamic State”) would agree. Their Turkish propaganda outlet was named “Konstantinyye.”

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My intention behind the Bulatlatan archive is to show that opportunism is not a natural feature of National Democracy, contrary to some claims. Opportunism can be struggled against by rank and file in two-line struggle. I'm happy to see it debated by young NatDems.

https://www.marxists.org/history/philippines/bulatlatan/index.htm

@nev thanks. Didn't know about this