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  • Starbuck's Retrochasm: THE BEST KEPT SECRETS IN ROCK [2005?]
    "So to sum it up, don’t be a fucking idiot and bypass White Metal because you don’t like what they’re saying because guaran-damn-teed you will miss out on some critically great stuff due to blind ignorance and…fear."
    Sun 15 Nov 2020 06:39:17 PM MST * - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://web.archive.org/web/20071022075824/http://imperiumi.net/col_2.php?id=42
    christianity music
  • Loukanikos, the Greek anarchist dog, photo gallery
    Photographs of Loukanikos, "sausage", the legendary stray "riot dog" who was present at nearly every outbreak of mass class struggle and social disorder in Athens up until 2012, when he was adopted and retired outside the city. He died peacefully in his sleep in 2014, aged around 10.
    Wed 04 Nov 2020 08:33:24 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - http://libcom.org/gallery/loukanikos-greek-anarchist-dog
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    David Rovics - The Riot Dog - YouTube
    RIP Loukanikos (~2004-2014)
    Wed 04 Nov 2020 08:32:03 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_97V59LbE
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  • On Libertarian Socialism by David S. D’Amato | Libertarianism.org
    Very fair overview of [American] individualist anarchism on a libertarian website.
    Mon 02 Nov 2020 05:19:37 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/libertarian-socialism
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  • Frank Wilhoit Comment #26
    "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

    "There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
    Mon 02 Nov 2020 04:43:28 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288
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  • Albert Camus: The plague is the concern of all | The Anarchist Library
    A review by Kristian Williams.

    "Perhaps, then, Camus’ analogy may be borne out by reality: Perhaps the means of fighting pestilence will prove to be the same as those for fighting fascism."
    Mon 02 Nov 2020 01:04:40 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kristian-williams-albert-camus-the-plague-is-the-concern-of-all
    anarchism covid
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    Noam Chomsky - Bakunin’s Predictions - YouTube
    Bakunin was right.
    Mon 02 Nov 2020 12:31:30 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gS6g41m_NU
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  • On Voting by Elisée Reclus (1885)
    "To vote is to abdicate. To name one or several masters for a short or long period means renouncing one’s own sovereignty. Whether he becomes absolute monarch, constitutional prince or a simple elected representative bearing a small portion of royalty, the candidate you raise to the throne or the chair will be your superior. You name men who are above laws, since they write them and their mission is to make you obey."
    Mon 02 Nov 2020 09:46:39 AM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/elisee-reclus-on-voting
    anarchism politics
  • Left Rites by Bob Black (1982)
    Another good one from Bob Black. "If you’re not revolting against work, you’re working against revolt."
    Mon 02 Nov 2020 09:42:57 AM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - http://www.inspiracy.com/black/abolition/leftrites.html
    anarchism anti-work
  • Electing Not To Vote by Bob Black
    Black originally wrote this in 1982. It could have been written today.
    Mon 02 Nov 2020 09:35:07 AM MST - permalink -
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  • Voting for the End of the World by Joshua Clover
    "the immiserating orderings of society have never been voted away, but that electoralism—for all the plaintive promises that we can both rabble-rouse and ballot-box—has regularly served as a mechanism of capture for potentially transformative social movements."
    Sun 01 Nov 2020 01:56:52 PM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://popula.com/2018/10/21/voting-for-the-end-of-the-world/
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  • Advanced Abstention. Democracy, Anarchism and Anti-Vote Candidates | by Trent Portigal | Oct, 2020 | Epoché (ἐποχή)
    Some history on the anarchist tradition of abstention candidates

    "As to the anarchist position that universal suffrage did not legitimize authority, it is worth taking seriously. ... Even if we disagree that authority is never legitimate and Dewey’s self-aware public has been achieved, not all uses of authority — especially when it comes to state violence — can be justified by the vote. To do so would be to treat suffrage as a mythical unquestioned good rather than a reasonable choice."
    Sun 01 Nov 2020 10:19:46 AM MST - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://epochemagazine.org/advanced-abstention-democracy-anarchism-and-anti-vote-candidates-cd35343acb93
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  • In Defense of Small Business: On the Price Gouging/Looting Debate
    The only consistent market anarchist position: dynamic price signals coupled with looting.

    And really, the only way markets could ever even approximate their claims of efficient distribution in societies with poverty is if some people get things for free.
    Sun 18 Oct 2020 11:09:32 AM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://c4ss.org/content/52737
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  • What Is Anarchism? : 1A : NPR
    The 1A radio program on NPR gave anarchism a fair spot.

    On the whole I thought several of the questions and answers were good, and it was nice that they got actual anarchist writers to go on. Though I think I disagree with William C.'s first answer. He implies that revulsion to anarchism is based on a misconception that mistakes the anarchist terrorists from a hundred years ago as the entirety of anarchism. But I don't think there is any level of peacefulness that would make anarchism palatable to those who can't see beyond their present society. If the Galleanists had never set off any bombs, Trump would still be seeking to demonize anarchism, because it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a someone who is rich to enter an anarchist society.
    Sat 17 Oct 2020 07:50:00 PM MDT * - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.npr.org/2020/10/12/923014958/what-is-anarchism
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  • How QAnon uses religion to lure unsuspecting Christians - CNN
    The New Testament includes several passages that warn against false teachers and express frustration that the earliest Christian communities are so easily taken in by lies. That this has been an ongoing problem since the beginning, for almost 2,000 years, makes me almost suspect that the people who are attracted to Christianity tend to be people who are attracted to any old nonsense that makes them feel like they have been given privileged knowledge.
    Sat 17 Oct 2020 10:30:30 AM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/us/qanon-religion-churches/index.html
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  • American Mythology: The Presidency of Donald Trump
    This is an audio documentary series. I've listened to the first two episodes. It is well produced, and I understand Trump a tiny bit better now.
    Thu 15 Oct 2020 12:35:19 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://theintercept.com/series/american-mythology/
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  • The Coming Climaxin the Irrepressible Struggle for Emancipation by Euguen V. Debs
    Many inspiring quotations in this article (1907):

    "it is the very ones who declaim so unceasingly about “law and order” who are themselves the corrupters of the nation’s morals, the buyers of its legislatures, the polluters of its courts, the defilers of its elec-torate,  the  stealers  of  its  public  domain,  and  the  heartless  vampires  that suck the lifeblood of the people."

    "Treason  to  despotism  is  devotion  to  freedom.  “Law  and  order”  is  a phrase mouthed by hypocrites to command the obedience of cowards."

    "The capitalist class buys law, as it does labor, using the one to fleece the other, and what it means by “law and order” is cringing submission to slavery."

    "'Law and order' is the wand of the imposter, the mask of the robber. Beware of him who ceaselessly gabbles about the sanctity of the law."

    "John Brown,  were  he  living  today  and  saw  the  slaves  in  the  pits  and mills and their babes in the sweatshops, would again don the panoply of battle and swear death to wage-slavery. Were he living today he would be hated and persecuted as fiercely as he was by the chattel slave aristocracy half a century ago. But he is dead. And the ruling class against which he rebelled, the ruling class which put him to death and which he cannot now resist, seizes him as one of its own heroes and insults his memory by en-rolling his name in its calendar of saints."

    "the idle owners, by the mere fact of ownership, get most of what the miners produce. The workers have submitted to this exploitation long and patiently, but the limit has about been reached. Why should they have to deliver up to others the wealth they produce? Why not themselves enjoy the fruit of their own labor?"

    "Chattel  slavery  has  disappeared.  Wage-slavery has yet to be conquered. The struggle has already begun. There can be no compromise and no retreat"

    "The wage system has only slavery for the working class and oft-times even that is denied them. It has served its time and purpose and must soon be abolished. The workers do not need masters; they can and must be their own."
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    - archive.org - https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1907/070518a-debs-thecomingclimax.pdf
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  • Don’t tread on me: The revolution within us | Rome Daily Sentinel
    "We are the 70. The Kingdom of God is the closest thing to an anti-state that the world will ever know. It exists not to serve itself, but to serve others; it does not conquer through violence or coercion, but multiplies by the force of love’s invitation. We reap what we sow. Jesus sowed a revolution not in others’ blood, but in his own, and for our sake."

    Takes a bit of a wild turn at the end.
    Tue 13 Oct 2020 10:22:09 AM MDT - permalink -
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  • The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose?
    The genesis of the Gadsden flag comes from a May 1751 editorial cartoon from Ben Franklin’s newspaper. It ran alongside a story calling for colonial governments to unify, act as one.

    Today, it means almost the opposite.
    Mon 12 Oct 2020 07:45:03 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.6/north-extremism-the-gadsden-flag-is-a-symbol-but-whose
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  • Turncoat - This American Life
    This American Life did an episode about Brandon Darby
    Mon 05 Oct 2020 12:42:45 PM MDT - permalink -
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    - archive.org - https://www.thisamericanlife.org/381/turncoat
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