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Hey y’all!

This is the megathread for the reading group of the book An Anarchist FAQ. Here I will be updating the post body with links to each new post of the reading group. Keep an eye on it as everytime a new post is made progressing further into the book, a link should be added here. Also the title will be updated each week, to denote the week we're in.

Links to An Anarchist FAQ reading posts:

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

Happy reading!

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I would reverse image search this myself but that doesn't work with the tor browser apparently.

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Gonna drop this here. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Sections E.5-E.6 of AFAQ this week which are about whether ethical consumerism can stop the ecological crisis and what is the population myth! These are the last sections of section E:)

Happy reading!

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/68538332

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

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Saying that “humans” are responsible for ecological devastation is a continuation of colonial racism, and it is an insult to the peoples who have fought against obliteration to preserve their way of life and their relationship with their territory. It is also an insult to the many people who, despite growing up in a culture totally infused with the values of capitalism, have risked their lives and freedom to defend the land and halt destructive development projects. And it is an insult to the hundreds of millions who are subjected to extreme poverty or absolute precarity by the very same economic order that profits from ecocide, who have to worry about their personal survival and that of their family and community, and do not have the luxury of choosing between different job opportunities and consumer products based on how “ecological” they might be.

As Kathryn Yusoff argues in A Billion Black Anthropocenes, the framework of the Anthropocene is racist, and it also serves to obscure our view, to hide the actual system at the heart of the problem.95 People in the Global South—people dehumanized by Western slavery, colonialism, and racism—finally get included in the category “human,” just in time to share the blame for the devastation caused by a social system that has ravaged them far more than they have profited from it.

-- Peter Gelderloos

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New crimethinc article just dropped

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All this does is alienate anarcho-curious liberals.

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I posted this to Mastodon a while back, but I'm realizing I should probably drop this here too.

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Hey y'all! Here we are reading and discussing Section E.2 of AFAQ this week which is about what eco-anarchists propose instead of capitalism! You may notice we went back a few section this time, cuz we accidentally skipped this one, oops:)

Happy reading!

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/68163491

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

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