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Matthew Crossin

@MattCrossin

2 years

Hello to my new followers, here are some things that I’ve written or worked on:

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Matthew Crossin

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3 years

The Israel Builders Association said Palestinian workers had observed the strike, with only 150 of the 65,000 Palestinian construction workers coming to work in Israel. This paralyzed building sites, causing losses estimated at..nearly $40 million..”We cannot build without them”:

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General strike highlights Israel's dependency on Palestinian workers

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Important to stress what a tiny minority these kids are in - unlike what we see in much of the rest of the world the youth in Israel are not only not left-leaning, they’re insanely far-right.

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Now: Israeli youth burn their enlistment orders at the anti occupation block during the mass demonstration in Tel Aviv

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@jk_rowling left wing fascism isn't a thing

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Matthew Crossin

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Listening to the Jacobin podcast and they're talking about being terrified of people drawing anarchist conclusions from the string of electoral/state failures we've now witnessed across the world, the campaigns of which they credit with having 're-birthed the socialist movement'.

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@TheOmniLiberal Or you can just read Wikipedia, which is where 95% of this is from

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Matthew Crossin

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5 years

French workers in Lorraine disconnect 2000 meters to provide free electricity: “We are taking back control of our work tools in order to contribute to the defense of the general interest and to obtain the means necessary for a true public energy service in France”

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#greve3fevrier électricité gratuite en Lorraine ✊ La CGT déconnecte 2000 compteurs Linky👍

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Matthew Crossin

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5 years

people who get all their politics off of YouTube have soft boiled brains and can switch ideologies in 2 seconds. the “actually, slavery was better than capitalism” ‘anarchist’ everyone’s yelling at was a Nazi like 6 months ago. incredible.

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Matthew Crossin

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To be perfectly clear, I say this to praise their bravery, not dismiss them

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Matthew Crossin

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@arisroussinos pretty sure the movie implies American sabotage of joint international effort!

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Matthew Crossin

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A world is possible where all human needs are met with 3-4 hours of labour across 3-4 days, under conditions of our our choosing, with no relationship to the right to freely access what we need & want in life; food, shelter, etc. a world with no bosses, rent, politicians, poverty

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Matthew Crossin

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5 years

I wrote about Marxism, Anarchism, and the State; how they intersect and how they come into conflict:

Interpreting Marx's Theory of the State and Opposition to Anarchism (Revised Edition)

Though Marx intended to dedicate a volume of Capital to the question of 'the State', he died before he could even begin that work. We are, therefore, left to reconstruct the 'Marxist theory of the...

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Matthew Crossin

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5 years

For them anarchism is associated with experiences theyve had (seemingly as teens) hanging out with crust punks, etc. so it represents a 'retreat' from 'mass politics'; a term used to group electoral campaigns with workplace organising, which they can pose anarchists as opposed to

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Matthew Crossin

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10 months

Thinking of becoming a therapist who is actually honest and tells patients that the answer to most of their problems is communism

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Matthew Crossin

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OK, not sure what the delay was but this has actually turned out massive again! Many people still haven’t left the State Library! Awesome stuff from Melbourne! #FreePalestine

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Matthew Crossin

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3 years

@WesleySeaberg @murderxbryan people who already got it get 7 grand

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Matthew Crossin

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@virgiltexas arguing with Chomsky - essentially a democratic socialist at this point - about voting isn’t exactly a powerful critique of anarchism

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Matthew Crossin

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4 years

Pretty incredible that, as an anarchist very sympathetic to Marx, I’m expected to (& have) crawled through volumes of Marxs work, yet Marxists feel at ease confidently spouting absurd things about anarchism without having read much of anything (beyond Marxist misrepresentations).

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Matthew Crossin

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2 years

Anarchism is more consistently materialist than Marxism.

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Matthew Crossin

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4 years

Obviously what’s happening in Seattle is awesome, but hopefully we’ve learned the limitations of being able to collectively control space. A space for autonomy & mutual aid must either extend the struggle into the spheres of production & circulation or it will stall, if not die.

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Matthew Crossin

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6 months

@Srirachachau He probably genuinely needs a lot of care at this point - hopefully the rough turns are done with. Beautiful man. Pet Sounds and SMiLE alone secure his legacy forever.

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Matthew Crossin

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2 years

“We had seen the [other strikes] on TikTok[…]& it inspired us to strike. [We] started spreading the idea of a walkout through word of mouth[…]By 1pm we had over 300 people[…]At the beginning, we had no help with the strikes from any trade unions. We organised it all ourselves”

Notes from Below

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NEW on our website: an Amazon worker in Coventry speaks of how the wildcat strikes spread to their warehouse.

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Matthew Crossin

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5 years

Godspeed to all moving past reactionary politics to something better, but youd think any serious reflection would make you consider “maybe I, who recently based my politics on a cartoon frog telling me to do genocide, shouldnt be so confident, particularly on issues around race?”

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Matthew Crossin

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3 years

@HenryKrinkIe will never not be funny that the guys most mad about teeny bopper hits choose 80s hair metal, prog songs about dragons, or Queen or whatever as their examples of ‘serious music for adults made by geniuses’

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Matthew Crossin

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2 years

@JoshuaPotash A revolutionary workers movement is missing from the picture though

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Matthew Crossin

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1 year

This from @cushbomb on Star Wars: Andor is pretty much exactly how I feel about Gerwig’s new ‘subversive’ Barbie movie

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Matthew Crossin

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2 years

@Maxibon020 Youth voting patterns and self identification is far to the right of older generations in Israel - the reverse of the trend seen in even places like Australia. Then add the context of what identifying with the right actually means in Israel.

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Matthew Crossin

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2 years

visited the CNT bookshop in Barcelona and was cursing that I can’t read Spanish. Insane amount of stuff not available in English.

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Matthew Crossin

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7 years

every few weeks ill get RTd into tankie twitter where ill get called 'whitey' by some white guy named 'Bolshevik jeff', who wishes gaddafi was alive and also their dad

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Matthew Crossin

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2 years

Fucking hell. @Primavera_Sound feels sold way over-capacity. Just had a dangerous situation down at the main stage where nobody could move and were pressed together - had to jump the gate to the VIP section to get out!

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Matthew Crossin

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Recommendation of Michael Parenti is an automatic tell someone doesn’t know what they’re talking about

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Matthew Crossin

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8 years

@nickincandenza @freddiedeboer @ZacEndter vox: sorry aBROlitionists, the radical republicans plan to end slavery doesn't add up, here's why:

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Matthew Crossin

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@getfiscal @BRRN_Fed @CanadaFP sweating furiously at the thought of being recognised as a ‘government’ 😰

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Matthew Crossin

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@Papapishu i mean, i don’t think it’s bad but what the fuck do they think there is to say about it? it’s all right there. looks like she has her dragons wings. cool

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Matthew Crossin

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4 years

thinking of all those articles that insisted bernie created the current moment by dismissing, downplaying, or outright memory-holing all self-organisation of the past few decades, most of all ‘BLM’ & associated uprisings. But sure, elections are ‘meeting people where they’re at’.

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Matthew Crossin

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3 years

Paresh Chattopadhyay is a very rare kind of Marxist: one who has actually read anarchists and written about the tradition in good faith. Doing that bare minimum means he necessarily has to dismiss the lazy critiques of his fellow Marxists.

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Matthew Crossin

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3 years

telling anti-vaxers to fuck off in Melbourne

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Matthew Crossin

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@JoshuaPotash Important to note this is also crucial to understanding fascism, as fascism was an emergency measure in response to the threat of social revolution: in Italy, in Germany, in Spain. ‘Dictatorship against the left amidst popular enthusiasm’, as the scholar Robert Paxton defines it.

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Matthew Crossin

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8 years

@niltiac @jk_rowling a dictionary is not exactly what I'd consider a world class source when it comes to terms of political science

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Matthew Crossin

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@donaldp1917 It was super popular to mock anyone who shrugged at her election on here. Wonder if any lessons will be learnt by the people who keep jumping on the ‘this election is different’ train year after year

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Matthew Crossin

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2 years

Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group is out in solidarity on Invasion Day saying: Abolish the Date, Abolish the State!

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Matthew Crossin

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8 years

@RedRoomWriter @jk_rowling no he wasn't. I'm not interested in giving you a history lesson rn sorry.

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Matthew Crossin

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2 years

5 black officers killed Tyre Nichols because policing as an institution, as an armed wing of the capitalist state, is itself violent & racist (an inextricable product of policings function - to hold capitalist social relations together - & the kind of person who fills that role).

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Matthew Crossin

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5 years

@YALiberty hell yeah, social democracy won’t cut it, let’s abolish capitalist social relations baby!

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Matthew Crossin

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5 years

Already seeing extra importance being placed on the sanders campaign... even more rhetoric about a ‘last chance’ - ‘the only hope’. This is just disastrous thinking. Not only is it not true, what happens when all these ‘saviours from above’ lose? That’s the real road to inaction.

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Matthew Crossin

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2 years

@Srirachachau not that he’s actually going to finish, but would be unfortunate if he was put off doing the - clearly long intended - dany war crimes ending

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Matthew Crossin

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4 years

@AliceAvizandum uh

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Matthew Crossin

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8 years

@niltiac @jk_rowling how about serious literature on the topic of fascism by people who know what they're talking about?

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Matthew Crossin

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7 years

@jrhennessy ASSAD: I will defend my free country by bombing CIA funded children as I please. SH: right, ok, lets explore that. Because, to open this up a bit, suddenly I have, you know, on twitter, these...these fanatic ideologues, these leftist puritans, and now I'm suddenly a racist, so w

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Matthew Crossin

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6 years

@MaxBoot very impressive genocide apologetics going on here max, keep going, let’s see how far you can take it

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Matthew Crossin

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5 years

@IndustrialWrkr this is not what a serious organisation acts like, but whatever

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Matthew Crossin

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2 years

Critical Notes on Developments in the Anarchist Movement. Dual Power: Situation or Strategy First in a new series of articles I’m writing. I argue against the idea of ‘building dual power’ as a strategy in favour of revolutionary anarchist class struggle:

Anarchists and Dual Power: Situation or Strategy?

This is the first in a series of articles by Matt Crossin, ‘Critical Notes on Developments in the Anarchist Movement’. New articles in the series will be published in coming weeks. A st…

www.redblacknotes.com

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Matthew Crossin

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Sometimes people ask for good classic intro texts. This gives a mix of primary & secondary sources THEORY Method of Freedom - Malatesta (particularly Anarchy/Anarchist Program) Anarcho-syndicalism - Rocker What is communist anarchism? (now & after: ABC of anarchism) - Berkman

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Matthew Crossin

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2 years

Being able to live decently while unemployed is the kind of reform that sounds relatively simple, conceptually/logistically, but actually makes it so capitalist economies cant function properly. Thats why its always been such a tough concession to extract & impossible to maintain

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Matthew Crossin

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8 years

@niltiac @jk_rowling you can win arguments by citing serious evidence and not 'some dictionary'? You surprise me.

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Matthew Crossin

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The destruction of the climate can be stopped. Life can be something defined by free time: The ability to choose - really choose - how you will spend the one life you have; to actively participate in managing all cooperative projects. To never fear an inability to pay ever again.

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Matthew Crossin

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6 years

america absolutely needs; mandatory voter registration,compulsory voting, ranked choice voting, and proportional representation if the left is ever going to get as powerful as it is in urhhh Australia(?)

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Matthew Crossin

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Absolutely insane to have any opinion other than Stalin was a monster, overseeing a monstrous system totally antithetical to anything related to socialism. Very simple.

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Matthew Crossin

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New little article from me on @redblacknotes arguing against the tactic of building specifically anarchist unions and neglecting political organisation amongst ourselves as anarchists.

Anarcho-Syndicalism and Dual Organisation

How should anarchists, concerned with rebuilding a fighting movement of the working class, organise today? As anarchists, we recognise that our fight against the bosses isn’t made through elections…

www.redblacknotes.com

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Matthew Crossin

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3 years

“A lot of the people we speak to are poor. So even if they’ve been symptomatic, they’ve kept working because they’ve needed to feed their families and feed themselves.”

The Guardian

@guardian

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What it’s like as a contact tracer to tell someone they have Covid – and what happens next | Anonymous

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Talking about ‘leftism’ rather than socialism/communism is a big tell. Seems to mostly be a way for social democrats to pretend they’re opposed to liberalism. Left Unity crowd also use it to artificially inflate the no. of supposedly ‘like minded socialists’, which is their focus

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Matthew Crossin

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@shane_burley1 @tomorrowsashes @areidross So his personal view of how to defeat Holocaust denial (contest it’s arguments, assuming you think it’s a live issue of rising significance) is what renders you incapable of supporting him against clear attempts to imply he is personally a Holocaust Denier/flirts with denialism?

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Matthew Crossin

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@lozy_xx @jk_rowling "regressive left" is a bullshit propaganda term invented by people that want to justify killing millions in the MidEast

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1 year

Anti-anarchists responding as though this means Malatesta, & anarchists in general, oppose using violence to achieve freedom are demonstrating they can’t even read a short article provided to them, let alone bother to take the time to study anarchist ideas before dismissing them.

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@RedRoomWriter @jk_rowling well if they call themselves that it must be true.

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I have been extremely impressed by Owen Jones through all of this. Could have been a coward and hedged to protect his media connections and job opportunities, but hasn’t done it

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Here's why we need to talk about genocide. - A senior UN official has resigned, warning of genocide in Gaza. - Multiple UN Special Rapporteurs have warned of genocide. - Hundreds of genocide scholars have warned about genocide. - Israeli leaders are using genocidal language.

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This is not a serious critique. ‘Some of our lifeworlds consist of metaphysical realities’? Come on.

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When white people start talking about “reality” in their critiques of religion it’s a sign for me to bail. Some of our lifeworlds consist of metaphysical realities beyond the material and it doesn’t make us any less committed to materialism or anti-capitalism.

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@Srirachachau Sometimes he’s way closer to trump than he ever was with his actual SNL impression

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@jrhennessy @Bro_Pair Hard for them to not feel an affinity for a country known for its longstanding, bipartisan commitment to torturing refugees offshore until they commit suicide

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@AnarkYouTube @criticofpolecon Why do you think Marx made Engels his primary collaborator, contributed to his work, and published his articles if they diverged so sharply?

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Matthew Crossin

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When people outside australia learn how industrial relations and arbitration works here they usually can’t believe something so insanely restrictive and corporatist exists inside a liberal democracy. Which is the correct response.

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you guys know industrial action is illegal in australia under almost all circumstances, right? you have to be in a bargaining period which i think is when transiting saturn forms a cardinal angle to saturn in the horoscope of the signing date of the previous EBA

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Time to punish myself with Socialist Alternative’s latest offering…

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Anarchist/Left-Marxist: what if... socialism? Soc-Dem/Dem-Soc: what if socialism... but capitalist? Leninist/ML/MLM: what if socialism... but capitalist... and a big mass grave for everyone who doesn't like it Left Unity: these all sound great

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@Maxibon020 You’re misunderstanding me (though actually the far-left is minuscule in Israel it has to be said) - I’m saying these kids are doing this in a context of high levels of youth support for right wing (even far-right) politics. Do young Australians tend to vote Liberal & One Nation?

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@RedRoomWriter @jk_rowling yes it is, read a book

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@mattyglesias they’re hardly anti-electoralist (they actively campaign in elections) they’re just against voting for Biden

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Matthew Crossin

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I have published a revised edition of my essay, 'Interpreting Marx's Theory of the State and Opposition to Anarchism' on my Substack. It has been restructured, edited for clarity (or to slightly revise some statements), and has some additional material:

Interpreting Marx’s Theory of the State and Opposition to Anarchism

Revised Edition. The first draft of this essay was written in 2019 and then published in its original form through Red and Black Notes and Libcom in 2020.

anarchistworker.substack.com

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mask coming off

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very strange that the left thinks that, in the case of a Sanders presidency, its role is to criticize/push him rather than create and maintain institutions to protect him from literally every intervening force

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@jamie_elizabeth Could definitely do with more Marxists having a little anarchism (they can call it libertarian marxism if they like)

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really staggering how many smart politically engaged people arent willing to face that even if leftists were winning elections (they arent) & even if that would implement their programs (it doesnt) it still wouldnt get us where we need to be, particularly amidst all these crises.

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Really insane we live in a world where everyone thinks it’s normal that nearly everyone has some level of anxiety and depression now

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‘Workers’ Committees, Communes, & Councils’ is a document I put together to compliment @outsidadgitator ’s series of talks/discussions for @redmayseattle , which is primarily based on Marxist texts. It provides a brief overview of anarchist interest in, & influence on, these forms.

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Standing in the way is a class claiming the right (guaranteed by the State) to own & control the economy; who run things based on the need to accumulate money. We can deny that ‘right’, take over production, & produce to meet needs & wants - not buy, sell, & enrich a small group.

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Great tour with @Civil_War_Spain - particularly enjoyed his amazing collection of items from the revolution which we got to pass around. Highly recommended for anyone visiting Barcelona!

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@donaldp1917 it just adds to the evidence that elections aren’t how we build power. the point is that people saw her election as representing a step toward socialism. This was already pretty silly given she is clearly a liberal, but its also just a misunderstanding of how social change occurs

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@AsFarce Don't normally listen - it's even worse than the magazine/website, which I find at least occasionally worthwhile. But I'm very interested in hearing how different sections of the left are reacting to recent events.

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Matthew Crossin

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@daisycvo she has seemed pretty happy to be alongside Chomsky in the past.

Radical Futures: Noam Chomsky and Angela Davis

In early December 2012, Critical Resistance joined The City School and Black and Pink in presenting Angela Y. Davis and Noam Chomsky in conversation for the first…

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@briangresko @bpreynolds01 That’s workers fucking power

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@Srirachachau My friends and I have always loved haders reference point for yoda being that he’s ‘from attack of the clones’

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@cushbomb We have been missing your voice, sir

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When confronted with organisational dualism, Marxists often say ‘this is just Leninism!’ — forgetting that it was Bakunin who first advocated it, and that Lenin was frequently accused of Bakuninism by the Marxist Social Democrats for sounding so similar to anarchists.

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This crisis is so clearly demonstrating the anarchist view of social change - that it manifests itself in response to a) the needs of capital in shifting conditions, b) popular self-organisation & activity. Electoral efforts, certainly policy, simply reflect conditions produced.

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Glad to see people talking about the futility of electoral politics - but that analysis will remain fundamentally hollow so long as there is the belief that this is only due to an inability to win power. The real problem with electoralism is that it fails even when it ‘succeeds’.

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@AntifaPill Anarchists should be clear that we are both for Palestinian liberation from apartheid (which, absent social revolution, means full civil rights) but also that we oppose all states, and the very notion that any group of people can achieve full human emancipation through the state.

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Matthew Crossin

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Self-organise, expropriate, and communise social relations. That’s what anarchist communism looks like in action.

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I’ve gone to four different sites around the Twin Cites. There are three things happening: feeding, cleaning and community. In front of the Midtown Global Market, tables line the perimeter stacked with groceries. Some started singing, others joined in.

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“I want to tell you about Anarchism... I want to tell you about it in such plain and simple language that there will be no misunderstanding it. Big words and high sounding phrases serve only to confuse. Straight thinking means plain speaking.” @libcomorg

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just amber frost and Matt taibbi being insufferable liberals for an hour, defending cops not only as individuals, but as an institution, along with prisons. Not only coming out against abolition, but even ‘defund’ demands, which amber calls a Reason Magazine talking point. Dreck.

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@willmenaker Volunteering to write the daily anarchist communist column in celebration of intellectual diversity

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@nickwestes @vijayprashad @The_Red_Nation For people who want the real history…

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@EoinHiggins_ And we don’t need to wait to do it either. Communise social relations.

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French workers in Lorraine disconnect 2000 meters to provide free electricity: “We are taking back control of our work tools in order to contribute to the defense of the general interest and to obtain the means necessary for a true public energy service in France”

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@AsFarce @NialElkim @mike_hugs there is no universe in which this is not the work of a 60 year old small business owner

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