Anarchism

Ayyy! This marks a year since we started this reading group!! This is wild:)

Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing the Section G.3 of AFAQ this week, which is about whether "anarcho"-capitalism a new form of individualist anarchism!

Happy reading!

• Section G.3: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionG.html#secg3

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

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Link to last week's read: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73642091

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The world is burning. Imperial governments are bombing, destroying, colonising, and genociding entire peoples and countries. Billionaires extend their networks of AI and authoritarian control, all while the planet gets hotter. We are heading straight into dystopia, and every day it is becoming more apparent that society is broken. So, what's the solution? My proposal is a network of new systems, built off the movement of mutual aid and grassroots organising, which build direct democracy, dismantle hierarchies, and prioritise voluntary association, autonomy, and the meeting of human needs and desires. This is commonly called anarchism (or anarcho-communism).

The family is a powerful and time-honoured institution in both contemporary and historical societies, but it isn't without its issues. Let's explore the development and impact of the modern nuclear family and how we can create and cast a more expansive web of kinship.

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In Marx workers are free, free in the specific sense that they can sell their labour power to any capitalist they choose. Moreover, workers are separate from the means of production.

Neither of these priors apply in a plantation context. The slave is a slave. That is to say, the slave cannot choose who s/he sells her labour power to. And the slave is not separate from the means of production. On the plantation, the slave IS the commodity! Not only is s/he the commodity, s/he is also the means of production. Had Marx seen this, my guess is that he would have theorised racial differentiation as something constitutive of capital and not an add on. Race would not have been a superstructural element.

Cedric Robinson makes it clear that Marx inherited a racialised European civilisational framework. Accordingly, he was conditioned to see the European proletariat as the historical subject. Black, Brown and other non-white people were seen as pre-political, a backdrop, objects rather than the agents of world history. Racial capitalism is capitalism’s actual form. He argues that Marx misread this. A plantation-centred starting point would have produced Robinson’s conclusion as the premise.

Marx ignored an important feature in historical sequencing because he didn’t see plantation slaves because in his analysis slave labour on the plantation was subordinate to the primary revolutionary agent – the proletariat.

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The factory as the centre of Marx’s model is powerful. An entire theory of exploitation in the European industrial core follows. But what about the rest of the world in which the plantation predominated? What happened to the rest of us? What happened to the global majority? I think the answer is a simple one, the proletariat were the primary revolutionary agents. Everyone else was secondary. Primacy was assumed to be in the western core. That’s what a Eurocentric lens does – it limits, it distorts.

We are in the midst of a mass death. Not solely of people—though genocide continues to stain our history and present—but of biocultural diversity itself. A sixth mass extinction of species is underway, this time driven by human activity. Thousands of languages are now the “talking dead.” Entire cultures have been erased or assimilated into a select few monocultures. And while all of this is happening, we face a political backlash against “DEI”, or diversity, equity, and inclusion. Everything from demographic shifts through immigration to representation in the media has faced increasing ire. And as a consequence, reactionary attitudes have seemingly gained prominence.

Hello compañeros, I need help to find this book. It is a biography of Luigi Fabbri written by his daughter, Luce Fabbri. I have searched in Annas and Zlibrary, if anyone knows where I can get the file, I'd really appreciate it😁

Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing the Section G.2 of AFAQ this week, which is about why do individualist anarchists reject social anarchism!

Happy reading!

• Section G.2: https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/sectionG.html#secg2

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/72887340

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Dmitry Kuznetsov, a Russian anti-war activist, was found hanged in a disciplinary isolation cell in Russia on April 17. He had previously begun a hunger strike and warned of the risk of being killed in detention. In February 2025, he had been sentenced to three years in prison for anti-war statements.

Before his imprisonment, he had been arrested following a lone anti-war protest in Voronezh, during which he held a sign reading ” No to War.” He had also left behind farewell videos in which he warned that he risked being killed in prison. After his death, these recordings were released by his friends.

In 2024, another anarchist, Roman Shvedov, was found dead. In the past month, five political prisoners have been reported dead in Russia. Deaths in custody remain a systemic problem.

Life on Earth is in a planetary emergency driven by escalating human pressures and the crossing of multiple planetary boundaries. Climate change, bio- diversity loss, pollution, land degradation, and re- source depletion are intensifying and placing increas- ing strain on the natural systems that support life. These pressures are already affecting food, water, health, and economic stability in many parts of the world, most severely for those who contributed least to causing them. Many of the actions needed to ad- dress this emergency would also improve daily life for billions of people. Reducing fossil fuel use, restor- ing ecosystems, cutting pollution, and expanding ac- cess to basic services can lead to cleaner air and water, healthier populations, and more secure food and energy systems. We identify six broad areas where major transformations are needed, including a rapid shift away from fossil fuels, increased pro- tection and restoration of nature, aligning economic systems with planetary limits, reduced overconsump- tion in wealthy societies, transitions to sustainable food systems, and greater social and gender equity through improved access to education, healthcare, and basic services. Progress in all of these areas will depend on just and effective governance, renewed international cooperation, and shifts in societal val- ues and norms that support more sustainable rela- tionships with each other and with nature. Human- ity has the knowledge, tools, and resources needed to rapidly reduce environmental pressures while im- proving human well-being.

I’m writing you from the haze of a 35 degree day (95F) after a muggy night with two hours of sleep. We don’t have any A/C units, but it didn’t help that our fans slowed down and dehumidifier shut off because of the brownouts. Why were there brownouts? Given the heatwave, a lot of homes and businesses had their A/C on full blast and the grid couldn’t handle it. Across the Midwest, the Mississippi Valley, Appalachia, and along much of the East Coast, government agencies issued extreme heat warnings and power grids went down.

Clearly, it’s a sign that global warming is unfolding faster than the major scientific agencies predicted, which also means the overall impacts of the ecological crisis will be worse than they claim.

Hopefully, the implication is just as clear: in North America as in Europe, where a recent heat wave killed thousands, governments do not have the infrastructure to deal with even the early, relatively easy stage of the ecological crisis. And that’s in two of the richest regions on the planet.

We can be even clearer: those in power and those with access to the media and to significant funding have absolutely no feasible plan for getting us through the ecological crisis that they helped cause.

Cross-posted from "She Defied Neo-Nazi Violence; Now Her U.S. Passport Has Been Revoked" by @TRAHR@sh.itjust.works in !usa@quokk.au

The Needle has concluded that the State Department is likely asserting the power to deem U.S. citizens who they determine to be ideologically "far-left", and who seem to be especially active in transgender advocacy, as "national security" risks, and consequently revoking their passports.

https://ulm5.info/en/

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