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i get so tired of. so many things, every fucking day i log in here, because i'm reminded your average leftist on tumblr is either a tankie or a limp-wristed "socialist" who's only one step above a liberal. and every day i just get more tired of them because inevitably i end up having to watch some twit 15-something quoting half-remembered ML shit and pulling the good ol 'all states that oppose the US are my friend because the enemy of my enemy is my friend schtick.
handy reminder that all states are bad, yes even your precious little blorbo state that totally never did anything wrong, that wasnt a massacre it was a counter-counter-revolutionary preemptive strike, it wasn't an intentional famine, they weren't secret police they were --"
gag me. i don't care. your state is bad, hypothetical person i made up in my head, and the fact that you're carrying water for the bastards when they did nothing for you says you can't be trusted by anyone who values actual liberty and anarchy. you don't get a reward for being a good little bootlicker and spouting free propaganda just because your genocidal authoritarian war machine isn't the USA. there is in fact more to this world than the pissing match between dying superpowers trying to prove their relevance in a world that has outgrown the need for governments. enjoy your wooden medal and the thicker soles on your neck, you earned them.
but for me? i curse your idols -- death to your king, to your prime minister, to your general secretary, to your president. there is no exception to the rule -- death to all states. long may anarchy reign.
#anarchism#anarchism without adjectives#firing more undertagged discourse into the aether just to get it all out
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My idea for the hood design for my unity jacket! 3 layers, black cat head, would put one on each side.
#anarchism#anarchy#market anarchism#agora#agorism#diy#punk diy#diy punk#synthesis anarchism#anarchism without adjectives
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anarchocommunism or just anarchism?
im an "anarchism without adjectives" type gal but in the sense of like taking good ideas from all across the more specific anarchist ideas and my own ideas and applying that myself, i feel like trying to label my ideology much more specifically doesnt rly help understanding it either
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Emma Goldman addressing a rally at Union Square, New York, 1916. Read our essay on her unique brand of anarchism: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-goldmans-anarchism-without-adjectives #MayDay
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So what can we say about the general outlines of a stateless society? First, it will emerge as a result of the ongoing exhaustion, hollowing out and retreat of large hierarchical institutions like state, corporation, large bureaucratic university, etc. It will generally be based on some kind of horizontalism (prefigured by movements like the arab spring, m15 and occupy) combined with self-managed local institutions.
Second, its building blocks will be the counter-institutions cropping up everywhere even now to fill the void left as state and corporation erode: community gardens, permaculture, squats, hackerspaces, alternative currency systems, commons-based peer production, the sharing economy, and in general all forms of social organization based on voluntary cooperation and new ultra-efficient technologies of small-scale production.
And third, to the extent that it reflects any common ideology at all, it will be an attachment to values like personal autonomy, freedom, cooperation and social solidarity. But the specifics will be worked out in a thousand particular ways, far too diverse to be encompassed by any verbal model like “communism” or “markets” (in the sense of the cash nexus)
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Any post-state society will include both individuals and communities adhering to many conflicting ideas of just what “freedom,” “autonomy” and “rights” entail.
Whatever “law code” communities operate by will be worked out, not as obvious logical deductions from axioms, but through constant interaction between individuals and groups asserting their different understandings of what rights and freedom entail. And it will be worked out after the fact of such conflicts, through the practical negotiations of the mediating and adjudicating bodies within
communities.
In other words, we need to spend less time like Thomas More drafting out all the details of a future libertarian utopia, right down to the food and architecture, and spend more time talking to our neighbors and figuring out ways of cooperating and getting along without the state telling us what to do.
Kevin Carson, Anarchism without Adjectives, 02/02/2015
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do you think an anarchism without adjectives girl and a communism without adjectives girl can really fall in love? do you promise?
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"anarchist without adjectives?" no, anarchism as an adjective only
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You're very insistent about your strange view of the world aren't you.
Wow! my first ask that isnt a porn bot or an onlyfans advertisement!
But yes, I am. Libertarian socialism, anarchist communism in particular, is something im very fond of. Freedom without compromise!
I am also fairly religious, and that of course plays into my politics (and vice versa). My advocacy for christian anarchism has earned me much derision from traditionalist denominations and atheist anarchists alike.
(though, it should be said that while i have gotten hostility from both groups, the atheist overwhelmingly are fine, with a few having had traumatic experiences while under christian institutions. Traditionalists on the other hand are overwhelmingly quite awful.) And of course many other aspects of my life, such as being a trans woman, affect my thoughts feelings and ideas about things. But this is the main set of adjectives id use to label my worldview, essentially.
Anti-authoritarian, libertarian, anarchist, christian, socialist, communist, syndicalist, leftist
for me, in my life, these all essentially mean the same thing. That is my view of the world. Have a lovely day!
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Intro/pinned post!
I'm Alex and this is a notepad for things that interest me. I've worked in a broad group of settings and my interests touch some diverse ponds, so I enjoy trying to integrate observations and feelings I've gotten from differing spaces. Interactions are welcome but not expected.
Subjects may include (but are not limited to)- philosophy, infrastructure and development issues in the US, queer theory and social/interpersonal dynamics, anarchism without adjectives, polyamory, magick/witchcraft, transhumanism, and organizing/direct action.
I will probably edit this over time as a clearer picture emerges.
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Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová in Daisies (Vera Chytilová, 1966)
Cast: Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karvanová, Julius Albert, Jan Klusák, Marie Cesková, Jirina Myskova, Marcela Brezinová, Oldrich Hora, Václav Chochola, Josef Konicek, Jaromir Vornácka. Screenplay: Vera Chytilová. Ester Krumbachová, Pavel Jurácek. Cinematography: Jaroslav Kucera. Production design: Karel Lier. Film editing: Miroslav Hájek. Music: Jirí Slitr, Jirí Sust.
Girls just wanna have fun. The adjective usually applied to Vera Chytilová's Daisies is "anarchic," but that doesn't quite apply to a film so cleverly staged, photographed, and edited. To be sure, the impish young women whose adventures the film chronicles are in some sense anarchists, in that they try to break all the rules they can find to break. And if you're looking for the conventional beginning-middle-end narrative structure you won't find one. But Daisies is not just Dadaist nose-thumbing. It's framed by images of the mass destruction of war, against which, the film seems to be saying, the sheer mad hedonism of its two uninhibited sprites should be viewed as trivial. Chytilová takes her cue not only from Dada but also from the Marx Brothers, whose antics would be appalling in real life but are liberating to the spirit when viewed in the context of a work of art. Daisies is akin in this sense to an apocalyptic comedy like Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, made only two years earlier, and its spirit and some of its techniques come from Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night, also from 1964. They reflect an era when youth thought it could change the world, only to be put down, as the Czech filmmakers like Chytilová would brutally be put down, by the establishment it so gleefully mocked. That Daisies can be grating as often as it is giddy suggests an awareness that the road of excess may lead to the palace of wisdom, but not without paying a price.
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voltairine de clayre, dyer lum, and lucy parsons
#dyer lum#voltairine de cleyre#lucy parsons#carolyn ashbaugh#racism#antiblackness#anarchism#anarchists#anatchist#anarchism without adjectives#emma goldman
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Seriously tho, what is anarchy and why is techno not another government?
Edit: I've moved blogs to @considermygenderminecrafted if u want more dsmp things
Heyo, I’ve seen some frustration about people not understanding anarchy when talking about techno’s actions, so i’m making this post so people can link to it to help explain some of anarchism and how that relates to dreamsmp.
I hope to make this a useful post to cover the Very Basics of “anarchism without adjectives’ (tho anti-capitalism and anti-state are assumed ancaps die mad about it <3)
DISCLAIMER IM NOT A POLITICAL SCHOLAR. Take everything with a grain of salt, sources will be listed in an hour or so after it’s got into the tags. Its also a bit of a long boy sorry lads
What is anarchy???
Anarchists are against coercive hierarchy. Anarchists believe that power corrupts, and that everyone should be treated equally.
Anarchism is Very hard to define, notoriously so. But it can *losely* defined as a social movement, that seeks liberation from oppressive systems of control including but not limited to the state, capitalism, racism, sexism, ableism, speciesism, and religion.
Anarchists advocate a self-managed, classless, stateless society without borders, bosses, or rulers where everyone takes collective responsibility for the health and prosperity of themselves and the environment. (1)
That’s basically a very long way to say anarchist oppose systems that give people power over each other. (we’ll circle back to this)
You might notice it’s defined in what it is opposed to, which leaves a lot of room for different interpretations of anarchy which is why it's hard to make this post (seroiusly if any anarchist read this and think i’ve oversimplified summit please beare with me leftist don’t argee on anything we are very hard to research).
But in terms of Dreamsmp, this manifests as an (obviously) absolute opposition to government* (see everything techno has ever said about government) but it also manifests as a deliberate decision to write non-hierarchy into the syndicate manifesto (Think techno saying everything would be done by discussion, he would seek out recruits but only with the approval of the pre-existing members.) (3) and non-coercion into the manifesto
Power (the bit we’re circling to):
There seem to be some misconceptions about what power is in terms of anarchism. Techno having the capacity to be violent effectively is not the same as coercive hierarchies.
Violence (I have post im going to paraphrase from another post i’ve made that ill link later) (4)
Power has various meanings and they're all based on context. When anarchists talk about "abolishing power" they are talking about abolishing hierarchy, which is a relationship built on coercion where one party forces the other to obey through implicit or explicit threats and can and will carry out those threats.
Techno explicitly talks about how ‘no one shall be compelled to act if they chose not to’(3) if they are a part of the syndicate, this is a deliberate decision to dismantle power because it is the refusal to engage in implicit or explicit threats.
I think the misunderstanding of power and violence is what leads to a lot of calling techno hypocritical for how he acts. The capacity to commit violence is neither a) equal to power or b) any different than anyone else who has engaged with politics. Power would be using that capacity to force political friends (non enemies) to act against their will.
In an anarchist understanding of politics, arguing for non-violence is impossible, because politics is the distribution of the power to commit violence against people. Violence in this case can take the form of police, boarder enforcement (exile), legal enforcement (house arrest), deprivation of food or health care or even the death penalty (the execution). Politics is deciding who gets to exert control over whom.
In anarchism, the political enemy (the person who violence can be committed against) is anyone who upholds and reinforces hierarchies. Because the political enemy is based off of how people act, and not who they are, people can denounce their previous beliefs and stop acting in the ways they were, and anarchist will leave them alone. They will no longer be the political enemy.
What is interesting is that techno has power because people fear him, and he’s going to have to *actively* work on reassuring people so he does not accidentally wield power against people. However, people being scared of techno is not something techno has much control over so it’s still not equivalent to systematic, governmental power.
Direct action, *doing* politics:
Anarchism as a social movement is also very concerned with praxis/direct action (doing), focusing more on action than theory compared to a lot of other leftist ideologies (2).
In dreamsmp, it looks like in techno focusing on actively taking down governments using non-legal means but also setting up his retirement using mutualist principles (when he said he want to establish mutually beneficial trade agreements with his villagers *cough tho minecraft mechanics said no*) and setting up the syndicate (this can be thought of like a direct action group).
Direction can be defined as a political action aimed at achieving a specific goal or objective, which is carried out directly by and individual or group.
Irl this covers a lot of different things, ranging from banner drops to prison breaks to mutual aid organisations. (5)
But is the syndicate not just a government, and is it not just techno being the ruler?
Nope!
The syndicate is actively non-hierarchical and doesn’t exert power over its members, its only their shared goal that unites them. Governments have a central person or persons which makes rules and distribute resources to its people, the syndicate is explicitly decentralised in its power. Techno is not a ruler, nor does he actively have more power than other people. Others might be scared of him, but unless he’s threatening the people in the syndicate to make them do things they don’t want to do, he isn’t exerting power in the same way he’s rallying against.
A few more definitions that are relevant and i sometimes see people confuse:
Tyrannt:
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person who governs oppressively, unjustly, and arbitrarily; despot (6)
Government:
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the exercise of political authority over the actions, affairs, etc, of a political unit, people, etc, as well as the performance of certain functions for this unit or body; the action of governing; political rule and administration
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the system or form by which a community, etc, is ruled: tyrannical government. (7)
A few final words! I made this post with the hope people can link to it as an introduction to what sort of thing might be motivating techno’s politics as of right now, and also to help keep the conversation about characters interesting and fresh. It is a VERY surface level look at anarchy, and how it specifically relates to the dreamsmp, not everything in this post applies to all anarchist, in fact there are bits of this I, as someone who is interested in anarchist politcs, don’t fully agree with, or think require more nuance. I’m going to reblog this post in a few hours with a list of sources and some additional resources for those who are interested.
Do not use this as an excuse to be cruel to each other or get upset if people still don’t understand anarchism, it's a complicated topic and hard to get your head around (especailly considering how its usually portrayed in media) People are allowed to just hold opinions without proper reason, as long as they keep it tagged properly and don’t expect everyone to agree. At the end of the day its minecraft RP.
#technoblade#dreamsmp#philza#Anarchist syndicate#zablr#anarchy#not hc#long#SOURCES TO BE ADDED#spent a few days on this post so feel free to save it and use it n link it and share it#EZPECIALLY AFTER A FEW HOURS WHEN IM GONNA ADD SOURCES
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1997/GUITAR HEROES
Guitar Heroes Opening Special
SUGIZO/hide/Imai Hisashi
Photography: Hideo Canno
Text: Kou Imazu
Conversation: SUGIZO (Luna Sea) hide (X japan) Imai Hisashi (Buck-tick)
Brilliant, radical, aesthetic, shocking, liberating, fascinating. How many more adjectives like these can be used to describe these 3 men.
the opening for "Guitar Heroes" issue is a dream conversation between Luna Sea's SUGIZO, X-JAPAN's hide, and BUCK-TICK's Hisashi Imai.
Living in this chaos-filled era, what is the world view of these charismatic guitarists?
---First, I would like to ask you for your impressions of each other.
Hide: Imai-kun is amazing, still making underground-sounding music while being signed to a major label. Also, as a guitar player, I feel like he has a strange sense for music, which is disregarding any level of being "crazy" or "correct".
As for SUGIZO-kun, he looks very cool preforming live and in interviews, so at first, I thought he was a show-off (laughs). But, in reality he has a lot of consideration for being part of a band.
Imai: I first learned about hide-kun from N's video. After seeing it, I was filled with thoughts. Not just from the way he sounds, but from the way he acted, too. I felt like he had parts to him that are in common with me.
SUGIZO gave me an impression of someone who dislikes those sorts of things…
Hide: "why are you playing so sloppy? Why is there guitar howling in this part?" things like that.
Imai: yeah, yeah (laughs)
SUGIZO: so, Imai-san. Imai-san always seemed very strict to me. Maybe its due to his musical roots and approach to music which are very far from my own, but also thinking about "a cool performance" always make me think of BUCK-TICK first (laughs). To an ordinary person, it would seem very strange, but for me, it makes me feel very comfortable too look at.
---By the way, Imai-kun plays guitar left-handed even though he is right-handed.
Hide: what?! You are not left-handed?!
Imai: yeah. When I first started on the guitar, I just held it like that without knowing anything about playing. It just felt right, so I kept playing it like that the whole time.
SUGIZO: when a Shorinji fighter¹ becomes a boxer, his stance is reversed, as if he is doing a southpaw² stance. But in Imai's and mine cases, it might be our blood. I have a lot of left-handed relatives (laughs)
SUGIZO: Anyways, I find That both Imai-san's and hide-san's are cool. It is not just the way they play, but the constant anarchic approach to music that I find especially cool. It's very different to Eric Clapton, who hasn't changed his way of playing in decades (laughs). When it comes to playing guitar, the orthodox style is more comfortable to me.
Hide: My guitar… when I started, I played the koto³, I liked playing the oriental style. I'd play one chord and go "whew!!" (laughs). You can only really play with an orchestra with that one (laughs). However, with that type of guitar it's hard to play in a group, that is not an ornate-sounding band.
SUGIZO: That, if you ask me, reminds me of YMO⁴, the cover they did for "Day tripper" and some of Makoto Ayukawa's⁵ ultra-orthodox guitars were used in a very techno sounding bands.
---Imai-kun, You are influenced by YMO, aren't you?
Imai: yeah. Maybe that's why whenever I'm composing a song, it's not the guitar I hear in my mind, but the sound of the synths.
SUGIZO: When I first heard BUCK-TICK's "M.A.D.", I was very impressed. At the time, I didn't know that Imai-san liked YMO, and thought "wow, this sounds very cool and techno-ish." Later, I learned that the working title for the song was "techno" (laughs).
Hide: I have a hard time listening to techno, especially the newest type, unless its while being in a club or something like that. Because there's a lot of repetition, and it sounds like environmental music. I'd rather listen to industrial music and things like that over techno.
SUGIZO: I like that type of music as well. I've been a fan since the days of Neubauten⁶.
Hide: Aren't Neubauten the ones who used to make music by beating metal objects together? That's all it sounded like to me. That's what makes the guitar different. A guitar can make a more violent sound when you put your mind into different picking.
SUGIZO: You're right. At first glance, it might look like you are playing wildly, but there is in fact a precise pressure on the fingers. In fact, it's a very petty instrument (laughs).
Imai: Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. (laughs)
SUGIZO: Sometimes when I get tired of it, I'd rather run into action instead of focusing playing the guitar (laughs).
Hide: Speaking of which, all three of us are from bands that uses two guitarists. So it's ok for us to not play from time to time (laughs)
SUGIZO: yeah. Imai-san writes his songs from the beginning in such a way so that he doesn't have to play them live on stage (laughs)
Imai: No, nothing like that… (laughs)
Well, if the song is written by someone else, it's harder to approach it freely like that, you know.
SUGIZO: Since you can't tell what the other members were thinking about when they wrote their songs, so it makes every member irreplaceable that way.
Hide: I'm the opposite of that. I enjoy being part of X, while being constrained to YOSHIKI's music compositions.
SUGIZO: We don't really do that in our group, so we keep having clashing ideas with each other (laughs). Ryuichi is amazing for singing so well with those conditions (laughs).
Imai: from a guitarist's point of view, it's like "well, you're the vocalist so you should sing well no matter what" (laughs). Lately I've been composing songs in such a way that makes the singer's voice feel the most comfortable.
---Well. I don't want to ruin the mood while you are having fun, But I'd like to end the chat soon. For the last question, I'd like to ask you about your "Guitar Hero".
SUGIZO: Those words bring nothing to mind.
Hide: Of course, the sound of the guitar is very important to us, but it's just one of the things used while a songs are being weaved together.
SUGIZO: Exactly!
Imai: I have never focused solely on the guitar, either. What other instruments could I play? I've always been fascinated by people who had cool forms, not because the were "cool" as people, but because they're using cool forms, like YMO or Hotei⁷…
Hide: I like Jimmy Paige, but it's more like I'm interested in his adventurous spirit and the way he combined various elements into one song.
SUGIZO: I understand. I feel honored being chosen as one of the three guitarists for this interview, but the guitar is just one part of my being. I think there's just more than one way of looking at it.
¹: Shorinji Kempo s a Japanese martial art considered to be a modified version of Shaolin Kung Fu.
²: a boxer who leads with the right hand and off the right foot as opposed to the orthodox style of leading with the left.
³: The koto (箏) is a Japanese stringed musical instrument and the national instrument of Japan. The most common type uses 13 strings strung over movable bridges used for tuning, different pieces possibly requiring different tuning.
⁴: Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978. The group is considered influential and innovative in the field of popular electronic music. They were pioneers in their use of synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, drum machines, computers, and digital recording technology.
⁵: Guitarist for rock band "Sheena & The Rokkets".
⁶:Einstürzende Neubauten is a German experimental music group, originally formed in West Berlin in 1980.
⁷: Hotei is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and actor. Hotei first rose to prominence in the 1980s as the guitarist for Boøwy, one of Japan's most popular rock bands, before starting a solo career.
#interview#translation#guitar heroes#hide#x-japan#buck-tick#imai hisashi#sugizo#luna sea#jrock#magazine
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I appeared on the Non Serviam Podcast to talk with my comrade Joel about anarchist communism, individualist anarchism, and anarchy without adjectives. We also explore the intersections of religion and politics, Max Stirner, and the process of folk music. This was a lot of fun to do, give it a listen and share it if you like it!
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do you have a favorite kind of anarchism, or do you prefer the "anarchism without adjectives" style more?
i sort of prefer anarchism without adjectives more because i feel like sometimes labels can be more divisive than productive if that makes sense?? especially in sort of the beginning stages of changing a society or system of beliefs, focusing on big changes first and then on the adjectives can be more helpful
i do think green anarchism is super interesting though! and pacifist anarchism is something that in theory i support but i don’t know necessarily how plausible it really is. also queer anarchism... amazing. but i think a lot of these can also overlap really well and work off of each other, which is why i really like anarchism without adjectives. i feel like it’s a good way to incorporate lots of different beliefs and values while not being restrictive
#thank you for asking!!#im also obviously not the Most Informed Person on this#and im still learning so my thoughts might change#but this is based off of the reseaech ive already done#cas answers#not mlm#emptyhandedwitch
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