myrmidex @myrmidex@mastodon.nogods.be

Praxis

So you've heard about these "anarchist jurisdictions", and you know it is a joke, meaningless usage of the word Anarchism as a pejorative much the same way these TV dictators froth at the mouth at the mere mention of Communism.

Many people who assume it to be synonymous with chaos and mindless acts of destruction, or maybe just a general air of anti-authoritarianism will skim past this headline and ones like it in the future, but Anarchism is not these things, it is a different way of looking at the world entirely.

If you're curious about what anarchism actually is, consider reading this FAQ to get started with the general principles and some history: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-editorial-collective-an-anarchist-faq-02-17

Share this around with your friends in case they are similarly unfamiliar and are also a bit curious what all this fear-mongering fuss is about!

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Uranus School 👾👩‍🏫

Like so many old songs, it is impossible to know exactly what story the lyrics tell. We know that "the Vengabus is coming", but as to whether people would welcome or dread it's arrival, we can only guess. It's inhabitants "like to party", yet we may never know their true nature.

"yes the Soviet Union was authoritarian, but the measures it took were neccesary to prevent counterrevolution!!"

the measures taken:
- banning homosexuality
- forcibly relocating minorities
- launching a dog into space

So the company that owns the databases I don't use and the language I avoid now owns the social platform I never bothered joining.

That fits.

In fact, communism is the foundation of all human sociability. It is what makes society possible.
-- David Graeber

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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
-- Oscar Wilde

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sometimes the dog shits on a neighbors yard who’s not a cop and i’ll just pick it up and dump it in the cops yard

For us, everything that seeks to destroy economic and political oppression, all that which serves to raise the moral and intellectual level of human beings, to give them the consciousness of their rights and of their forces and to persuade them to do their business by themselves, all that provokes hatred against oppression and love between people, brings us closer to our aim.
-- Errico Malatesta

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Good morning left side

Absolutely devastating, I'm completely shocked. David Graeber was one of the best leftist/anarchist public intellectuals of our time.

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https://fosdem.org/2021/news/2020-09-01-dates-fosdem-2021/

Next FOSDEM: 6 & 7 February 2021, online

FOSDEM 2021 will take place on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 February 2021 as an online event.

Please bear with us while we work out the specifics. Further details and calls for participation will be announced in the coming weeks.