Anarchism

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The Ulm 5 – who include two UK citizens, one Irish, one Spanish and one German – have been accused of breaking into the site of the German subsidiary of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, in Ulm, Southwest Germany, on 8th September 2025, and of damaging property.

Video of their action

"Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order (as it has so often been called), since, on principle, it rejects all absolute schemes and concepts. It does not believe in any absolute truth, or in any definite final goals for human development, but in an unlimited perfectibility of social patterns and human living conditions which are always straining after higher forms of expression, and to which, for this reason, one cannot assign any definite terminus nor set any fixed goal. The greatest evil of any form of power is just that it always tries to force the rich diversity of social life into definite forms and adjust it to particular norms."

-Rudolph Rocker

Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing the Sections G.0-G.1 of AFAQ the following 2(!) weeks, which are about whether individualist anarchism is capitalistic!

Happy reading!

• Section G.0: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionG.html#secg0
• Section G.1: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionG.html#secg1

There is also an EPUB version of AFAQ, courtesy of @irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com: here

If you'd like to join, please comment and we'll ping you next post.

Link to last week's read: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72498304

PS. Feedback request: How did you find last week's reading pace? Fast/Slow/OK/etc.?

Can someone drop a unblocked article link?

This last month I left the activist motorcycle affinity group I started last year, and wanted to share my analysis as to the failures that lead me to do that, so that others can avoid making the same mistakes. In this video I'll broadly explain the root causes for problems I experienced working with other groups, and how that lead to shifts in culture that convinced me I needed to make a change. Then I'll share several lessons I learned about behaviors and tendencies connected to white liberalism, so that you can push back against them in your own organizing.

Check out Prince's channel - youtube.com/channel/UCMMgrSHWLLU4U_FnJ1u10Ug

Learn about the Sudanese Resistance committees and their revolutionary charter.

Born out of the Korean diaspora in Manchuria escaping brutal Japanese colonial rule and in the power vacuum left in the wake of the assassination of the local warlord, the Korean Anarchist Federation existed against all odds.

The Korean Anarchist Federation would go on to merge with the Now People’s Government to form the Korean People’s Association in Manchuria which at it’s peak organized 2 million people according to the anarchist principals of collective farming, arms training, free education and mutual aid.

The experiment survived for 2 years in the face of attacks by the Japanese, the Soviets and Marxist-Leninist Korean factions.

Found this one at the wild

In April of 2009, representatives of the 28 member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) met in Strasbourg, France, and just across the border in Kehl, Germany. The largest military alliance on the planet had climate change on its agenda at a time when politicians in most member states were at best inactive and at worst actively denying the reality of the situation. What solution did they propose to climate change? Increasing “border security” as well as biometric IDs and more surveillance for their domestic populations, and reemphasizing their goal of normalizing the domestic use of military forces in urban environments by 2020. A strategy paper released in advance of the summit said plainly that “Security challenges are predominantly socio-economic, not military-technical, in character.”88 The paper goes on to make clear that “socio-economic” threats are those posed by poor people, climate refugees, and others angered or harmed by the current state of affairs, and as such, member states should continue to integrate police and military action and be prepared to deploy the military in their home territories.89 Anyone who is shocked by this response, or sees it as some kind of non sequitur, has failed to appreciate the true nature or scope of the ecological crisis. World governments, particularly those in the Global North, understand the crisis as a security issue. They know the problem is real, and they know growing deserts and rising sea levels will force hundreds of millions of people from their homes in search of their very survival. Their solution is to further militarize the borders— those borders of Fortress Europe and the American southwest that are most definitely “designed to kill”—so that people fleeing for their lives will be dissuaded by the very real possibility of dying in their journey.90 To put it simply, the major militaries of the world, already among the greatest producers of toxic waste and greenhouse gases, propose killing even more people to shield themselves from the consequences of the crisis they are in large part responsible for. And they also propose increasing the repression against their own citizens, fully aware that the lower classes everywhere will bear the brunt of the crisis, and rebellions are to be expected in the North as well as in the South.

excert from "the solutions are already here" by peter gelderloos

Full text here

Funny how "Actually Existing Socialist" China has taken Taylorism to its most extreme levels (37:00)