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1. Ah nice, thanks for finding this.

   Comment by Juicy — October 21, 2010 @ 4:31 pm

2. Yes -- great find! I will be reposting at ladypoverty.

   The spirit of this blog is first rate. Thanks for articulating who you are.

   Comment by JRB — October 22, 2010 @ 5:40 am

3. I think you they are good quotes. I Just happened to stumble across your site when searching for more work from this author. I can relate to both. I think there are elements of what he describes in most anarchist movements around the world. I've been lucky to experience a few of them, and each has it's particular problems. The is no grand narrative of shitness - i totally agree with your comment around the predictable anarcho/lefty tone.

   It's the kind of tone which turns people away, the unhealthy - deflating kind of tone.

   A realisation that people are motivated for different reasons and become politicised through vastly different means is something that i think he needs to work on. For some, it's a sudden realisation that their place within the class structure leaves them - and those they grew up with - at a particular disadvantage, for others - it's the thought that a world where the eradication capitalist constraints on production could lead to the liberation of all scientific knowledge. This in turn would divert those efforts devoted to the construction of useless shit that fat people would want to buy - to a concentration on things such as - sustainable farming - finding a cure for aids - or just building cheap ass fucking water filtration which can be quickly distributed globally (some are also see a world where space travel is possible - hey what's wrong with dreaming? - life would be fucking boring without it). Either one - you present as different people - with different life trajectories - each holding in your head the fucked up shit you've learnt and reproduce. We have to accept fault in people and focus on the real enemy - develop methods of combating informal hierarchical structures from forming while appreciation that not everyone walks into a movement with a working fucking knowledge of Marx, Bakunin, Prudon and so forth and so on. (besides which they are fucking boring anyways)

   The point is that there is no point setting up a situation where you're just antagonistic - esp in situation like he has written about.

   That cop - is a dog - (Woof woof) - and reading that he would be laughing his ass off. I don't want to entirely discount it. Cos he raises some valid points. The anarcho scene does overly focuses on identity politics and struggles as a result to try and define itself.

   We can collectively put forward a set of rules (written or not) - and without expressly or actually exclude anyone - just establish your rules - publish them (or develop them unofficially) and people will exclude themselves. Including cops!

   Peace

   Comment by James Joyce — November 6, 2010 @ 6:52 am

4. As an anarcho-lefty person who cares deeply about both, I don't like your suggestion that anarcho-lefty people don't care about the environment or not exploiting animals. Read Murray Bookchin.

   Comment by Private Beach — November 26, 2010 @ 4:28 am

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   Comment by kinkyartgirl — December 2, 2010 @ 6:07 pm

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