Envisioning a Post-Western World
The idea of a humanity living largely in harmony with nature, in communities founded on mutual aid and cooperation, is not an idle daydream but a real possibility.
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Que Se Vayan Todos
The New “Outlaw” Proletariat
They are forcing us to be criminals in order to survive. They have cut off forms of subsistence and legal access to reproduction so drastically that it is no longer possible to survive without falling into illegality.
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The Hidden Private Wealth Behind Everything that Sucks
Investigators may not even be able to find the root of all of this.
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“In our mouths, words become crimes.”
The laws have changed their names, but they are still laws of exception, and they still have the same consequences for dissidents: persecution, criminalization, repression, and imprisonment. Freedom of expression exists only for those who think the way they do.
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We Are More Than Them
Stop! Take the time to think it through. Who’s holding power? Who can give you what you need in the campaign that you’re trying to win? How much power do you have to bring to bear to win the fight?
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Critique and Panic
Patience and self-irony are prerequisites to being able to acknowledge arguments against activist rituals and the atrophy of debate.
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For a Resurgence of Insurgent Dignity
People grabbing history by the scruff of the neck and attempting to exercise their own political agency is incredibly inspiring. How can it not be, when we live in a culture which insists that we do not have the right to control our own lives?
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Don’t Let Nazis Have Nice Things
It behooves people who are in contested cultural terrain to, well, contest it.
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Surviving the Siege
“Leonid Ilyich, no one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten. But it has so happened that I, a survivor of the Siege of Leningrad, awarded the medal For the Defense of Leningrad, and my husband, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, have to huddle with our daughter in a sixteen-square-meter room on Lublin Alley.”
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Tyranny: Consent and Resistance
We have to be braced, both in the sense that history gives us a framework for seeing what’s possible, but also in realizing that some of what’s possible is terrifying.
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