Notices by livinghell (livinghell@kolektiva.social)

@michaelgemar @LillyHerself @petealexharris @jeffowski Autonomy is not a mathematical concept. That is to say, it does not necessarily exclude its opposite. Vaccines for example, getting forced vaccines make you immune so more able to make your own decisions with your body in the long term. Letting someone cage themselves inside a mural would also be technically autonomy. it depends on how you conceptualize the absolute, rather than a logically demanded gradualist framework.

@michaelgemar @LillyHerself @petealexharris @jeffowski Paternalistic here is used in the sense that we are looking at the person in question from a position of authority. Like a parent does. But parents often over step their boundaries and we are not this person's parent. These are all well and very true. But it does not preclude the possibility that when someone rejects vaccination, and when we scientifically know the vaccine in question and its side effects, we are in actuality at a position of authority in relation to this person. Explaining and educating people would make the field equal. But when it's not possible, making a decision either way is equally paternalistic, because you are responsible for what you know about this person's health, no matter what they do or do not, or dont want to know. This is a clear cut justified use of knowledge. Frontal lobotomy is not. It's clearly on the other side of that line, if it needs to be mentioned. Or much anything parents do with regards to their teenage kids (cause they don't have the authority of science to speak on how to live in general, no one does.)

secular turks and islamists try to make peace for "social accord", while i am planning revolution tribunals for crimes of both groups.

as deleuze and guattari wrote, politics precede being. which is to say, existence precedes essence.

there is no such thing as family values. family is a fact. values are normative. If being a family is normative, then there is no such thing as a traditional family, the same way there is no such thing as "traditional morality".

those in political and economic ruling classes and cadres are not just morally wrong. descriptively speaking, they are building up and defending literal shit.

recognizing sex work as work would help demystify sex as such. aesthetics as such as well.

Today, the dividing line is between those who side with the progressive forces of Taylorism and Adolt Hitler.

taylor swift is the only hope for the working class revolution.

@anarchopunk_girl i do agree that we can reject this notion without much problem most people would think come with such act. however, being inventive about repayment methods (and meaning of debt) has a very deep anthropological meaning. determining the relation of individual to society has always being paradoxal and not stritly speaking logical and never economical.

@anarchopunk_girl Having a debt to society doesn't necessarily imlpy having agreed to the price mentioned in the captain's argument. You can recognize your debt without agreeing to its content, if you aren't talking about simple property rights. Ravachol bombing parliament would probably not be recognized as him paying his debt, that society had another kind of renumeration in head, but he would probably phrase it like that. You owing society somethings doesnt give society power over determining what those are. That was Kropotkin's argument againt private renumeration by labour vouchers. Trying to count so would be absurd and arbitrary, accrding to him.

@goatsarah @TheGoodSpace Actually i dont mind Beckys. Lib-bashing is a thing but it is disingenious to claim that the origin of opposition to liberalism is mere joy of trolling. Biden literally broke a strike in favor of "economy", and Sanders is still supporting him.

@goatsarah @TheGoodSpace First Socialist International was came together in 1864. In the preamble it was written that workers liberation will be the work of the workers themselves. We never wanted to have better policies, we wanted a new world. It appears that this is a more realistic response to our current global situation, both geopolitical and ecological.

@TheGoodSpace Liberals blocking anarchist servers for having a liberal view of "free speech" is funny.

@anarchopunk_girl @FinalOverdrive I mean, this way of thinking about social structures comes from contemplation, as opposed to real struggle. So, you may think this is in some sense better for making models later to be tested out and "to make it work" as if building a machine. But "social structue" or market for that matter, are metaphors. If we are gonna do something, real people are gonna do it. For example, i wouldn't put my life at risk trusting in any kind of ethical trade principle will "work out" or any inherent rationality of arbitrary remuneration. I can trust people, i can't trust rules i know are going to be cheated. I don't see anybody trusting any kind of remuneration without a man in uniform putting a gun to their heads. Including individualist anarchists. Except those that are gullible enough to be scammed by crypto. Only really existing currency is built on violence and manipulation, rest is hypothetical. People putting their lives at risk for their belief in equality is not hypothetical.

ethnic violence and pogroms occasionally occur in countries like Israel/Palestine, Turkey, Saudi Arabia/Yemen and India. And no one treats these places as international danger zones.

and by "go those places", i have never seen any benefits in membership in any such political parties. Intraparty politics overwhelms any actual good you are supposed to do. Actual anarchist organisations should not have any legal framework to stay within. You can do more as an individual, rather than distributing pamphlets for a candidate or a local election, by some chance, maybe coming out a little more to the left than it would be otherwise. Vote if you like, but that's not real politics.

so in france, there is an "anarcho-syndicalist" organisation that ties itself with and within a Trotskyst/Lambertists fraction, which itself is a part of france insoumise. What is the point of such "organisation" if it will be positioned inside a legal political party? Like that Libsoc caucus within DSA. Go those places if you like, but leave anarchism at the door step. You will need to retake it when leaving.