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

@ruakueqche no Chuang is a collective that does writing

@passenger Pretty much

@beadsland That's one way to look at it.

@hakan_geijer Indeed.

@hakan_geijer Idk kas, would you clap and cheer if we saw Emma Goldman, Kropotkin, Malatesta, Makhno or so and so on screen?

Liberal regimes like that of President Noynoy Aquino or of Obama are unique in that their specific dictatorship is the dictatorship of doing fuck all. Their moderation, their occupation of the seats of power, and then doing nothing good with it, is the point.

The MCU brainrot, Ready Player One, & the recent Minecraft movie choke-full of memetic references makes me wonder: Why are we so excited over memetic representation? What does it give us? This isn't like trans or POC visibility. What gives? Any post-situs out there that might know?

Load-bearing tweets.

@ruakueqche A lot of my thinking on it was actually revised when I read Richard Snyder's essay, “The Human Dimension of Comparative Research” in Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics. There, Snyder argued against “professional amnesia” where natural scientists have to forget old and outdated theories. But professional amnesia is only really necessary in the natural sciences. We don't need to read Nicholas Flamel to understand chemistry, but we need to know what previous authors said on what constitutes power because social science is a dialogue with the past.

Also, I think Gilles Dauvé, Endnotes, Chuang, Patricio Abinales, and Filemon Lagman are pretty good things to read when it comes to scientific inquiry in the left.

@ruakueqche I didn't think people were still reading this! Thanks.

@kworker thanks

@kworker Oh that's unfortunate on the academic stuff. I tried to make it accessible.

Revisions for my Rebel Peripheries zine is coming to a close. My draft is quite mature already. Projected publish date is likely May 1. Let me know if you still want to read and provide comments! Below is an outline that I provide in the introduction.

To build up to this thesis of mamundok-in-place, I first start with a discussion of the anarchy of the peripheries, a condition by which State power cannot cohere and territorialize in the internal peripheries of a country. I touch here on the question of why Marxist guerrillas, rather than anarchists, are often found in anarchic peripheries. These anarchic peripheries act as refugia for political projects. Then I move to the second section on desertion and marronage which sees peoples and rebels move to peripheries out of the politics of escape and how this can transform into the politics of rebellion, as with the case of the maroons. I also discuss the notions of dragons and hydras in terms of organizational form as developed by Russell Maroon Shoatz. In the third section, I situate concepts of the politics of escape and the politics of rebellion in the Philippines with concepts such as remontar and mamundok. It is in this tradition that I contextualize the New Peoples Army and the communist insurgency. I move on to the fourth section to return to Shoatz’s dragon and hydra analogies to apply these to the Philippine experience. This is necessary to make an anarchist appraisal of the second communist insurgency which feeds onto a broader political project of appraising Maoism and its use of rebel peripheries. I extend this discussion of Maoism in the fifth section to critique the Marxist project using Shoatz’s analysis. Through this, I develop a notion of “post-Maoism” that learns from the mistakes and defeats in the Marxist and Maoist projects. I return to rebel peripheries in the sixth section in order to problematize rebel peripheries in the context of the revolutionary and insurrectionary project. Rebel peripheries are ultimately projects that suffer from problems of isolation and marginalization. This isolation clashes with the revolutionary project of wanting the whole world. In the seventh section and building upon these problems in the previous section, I unpack rebel peripheries to make sense of what aspects of rebel peripheries are pertinent for anarchists and revolutionaries today. It is here that we can begin to see the contours for the development of autonomous projects in the Twenty-First Century that learns from the deficiencies of rebel peripheries while also affirming the politics of care that the Black radical tradition affirms. It is here that mamundok-in-place begins to make sense. In the penultimate section, I return again to the Philippines and the rebel peripheries of the Maoists to make sense of what is being subverted. The contours of mamundok-in-place are outlined in precisely what is not being subverted and what could be subverted in its place: organized abandonment and proletarianization. In the final section, I further sketch the contours of what mamundok-in-place could be, understanding that lines of desertion are found everywhere and that the insurrectionary project can find its reality when we see the whole world is our mountain.

@inquiline Someone corrected me on this, that chaos and collapse isn't degrowth, because degrowth is intentional, while chaos and collapse aren't. What I've come to say instead is that the end of growth is inevitable, but it will be our choice if this will be degrowth or collapse.

Ang Bayan confirms this is a legit op run by the KM.

https://philippinerevolution.nu/angbayan/mga-estudyante-ng-dlsu-hinimok-ng-km-na-lumahok-sa-digmang-bayan/

@mima I'm sure there are levels and priorities to these things. Likely this is a mostly autonomous cell that doesn't feel the need to spend a lot, maybe because it is a small KM cell.

@mima What signs do you think that indicate it was planted? I tend toward it being real.

Images of the pamphlets. This chapter seems to be named KM-Guiller Cadano. NPA@56 refers to the 56th anniversary of the New People's Army.

Fascinating developments. Kabataang Makabayan (KM) pamphlets found in De La Salle University (DLSU) bathrooms. KM is the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines. As far as unis go, DLSU is one of the posh “bourgeois” ones.

@dansinker I'm just here for the substack hate. I hate substack spam. RETVRN TO TRADITION. GET A DAMN BLOG!!!!!!