Rough idea made on a whim. Constructive and critical feedback welcome. Better memes depicting the idea even more welcome.
Image: A gloved hand peeling an Anarchy sticker off Malarchy.
Text: Malarchy masquerades as Anarchy, to look good, and make Anarchy look bad.
For one real world example among many, to consider stop falling for: Those palates of bricks that big money conveniently deliver to bank/capitalism protests.
Heh, I wonder how "over the target" this is, and gets heavily downvoted by agents and unwitting assets not liking the reveal or invite to scrutiny. ;)
[Edit: Since "Malarchy"'s not nearly as well known or as immediately understood as I imagined,
Mal-Archy, is a bit of a portmanteau made of:
mal
- Evil; disease.
- A prefix of Latin origin, through French (equivalent to dys- or caco- of Greek origin), meaning ‘bad,’ and implying usually imperfection or deficiency, and often simply a negative, as in malodor, a bad odor, malfeasance, bad- or wrong-doing, malformation, imperfect shape, maladroit, not adroit, malcontent, not content, etc. The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such.
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archy
- A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch.
Archy, ruled by.
Mal, bad.
And it's like "Malarkey", deceptive foolishness too. But with more dominating unjust power overtones.
Malarchy. ]
PS, While I'm at it... Some relevant quotes:
"Governments have always used the pretext of ‘public safety’ to suppress dissent. They create the very chaos they claim to fight, so they can pose as saviors." -- Errico Malatesta
"The history of the State is the history of violence, but it is also the history of lies—lies told to the people to make them accept their own enslavement." -- Peter Kropotkin
"Every act of government violence is wrapped in the flag and sold as patriotism. The State’s greatest trick is making people believe that their oppressors are their protectors." -- Emma Goldman
"States don’t just respond to crises—they need crises. They need enemies, real or invented, to justify their existence. The ‘war on terror’ is just the latest version of a very old game." -- David Graeber
"The first revolutionist is the State itself. It revolts against its own principles, against its own lies, to better enslave us under new disguises." -- Mikhail Bakunin
"The most effective way to neutralize a radical idea is to take its symbols, drain them of meaning, and sell them back to the people as a commodity." -- David Graeber
"The worst enemies of anarchy are not its open opponents, but those who pretend to be anarchists while serving the interests of the powerful." -- Errico Malatesta
"Beware those who wrap themselves in the red flag to hide their betrayal." -- Gustave Lefrançais
"They fear our ideas, so they steal our symbols." -- Anonymous
"The State’s favorite anarchist is a fake one."
"Real anarchy threatens power. Fake anarchy is power."
"They wear our symbols like costumes… but their script is written by the State
"The State is nothing but a vast machine for the oppression of the masses, a machine that lives on lies and thrives on the ignorance of the people." -- Mikhail Bakunin
"Fascism and capitalism are not opposites—they are partners in the same crime. One gives the orders, the other provides the guns. Both rely on your fear, your confusion, and your obedience. Do not believe their lies. Do not obey their commands. Think for yourself, act for yourself, and trust only in solidarity." -- Errico Malatesta
[Edit: oh... I already added this to the end too... Why was that other responder requesting... "You can post 10000 quotes but not just tell us what you mean with “Malarchy”? "Oh... their intention was on the "just"... as in to rid the quotes... no wait, but why did they also say I can add 10,000 quotes... I'm very confused... their answer was already there... why were they~ ugh, never mind. Well, it's now added above as well as beneath the anarchists' quotes depicting malarchy; power/archy's deceitfulness. Surely there wont be a third responder asking what's malarchy now, since that's been well covered here at least 3 or 4 times now. Unless they're just up to more malarchy.]
mal noun
Evil; disease. A prefix of Latin origin, through French (equivalent to dys- or caco- of Greek origin), meaning ‘bad,’ and implying usually imperfection or deficiency, and often simply a negative, as in malodor, a bad odor, malfeasance, bad- or wrong-doing, malformation, imperfect shape, maladroit, not adroit, malcontent, not content, etc. The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such. (Oh, I did not know that… “The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such.” Interesting. And I dare say, fitting, what with all the revolutionary spirit in France.)
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archy adjective
Arched. archy brows A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch. Archy, ruled by.
Mal, bad.
