political scope and limits expressed in the constant assertion that the black panther party was "maoist" and huey p. newton never turned revisionist. intercommunalism had some points but you are insane. there was a decade-long war over this.
you should only read MIM theory in short bursts and only what they wrote about the labor and gender aristocracy. otherwise the novelty wears off and your eyes have peeled through 400 pages of totally conventional maoist analysis that has been elevated only in close comparison to the RCP-USA.
one of MIM's retrospective conclusions on the PCP's "right-opportunist line" involves about 12 individual reiterations of "you should never lead an organization from prison," which is great foreshadowing.
Why the name "mole people?"
But! But I thought!
i'll basically never get tired of yelling at people in blue states that they're living in a fucking soviet socialist utopia in comparison, for all the good it does.
one of the worst political consequences of the "surge" operations is that they fully convinced millions of people that ICE ceases operations when they stop ramming their SUVs into white neighborhoods.
readsettlers.org/beyondmcanti...
Honestly do not understand why American anarchists see liberals as their main constituency or the main instigators of change.
youtube.com/watch?v=fofZ...
this is done btw and i'll be circulating it on signal, so you'd have to hit me up on there to actually get it
the "zones" & euro-amerikan political consciousness:
anyway, actually freaking out about prairieland is kind of silly. this is still somewhat better than like tsarism.
finally, a free-floating mass illegality will put the entire legal left on the same terrain as armed clandestine cells. with a collapse of the distinction between legal and illegal struggle on a juridical level, a group's relationship to the state will become the determining factor of its politics.
do you cooperate or resist? when you cooperate, what are you compromising and gaining? when you resist, what are you fighting and risking? the political work of acting on behalf of the state, in order to salvage it, has an immediately antagonizing effect that can be measured in deaths and decades.
not a new problem but one that's been intensified by the strategic militarization of settler society and the increasing illegality of the legal left. now the prairieland verdict poses roughly the same existential question as the steady formation of a kettle around everyone.
basically, the struggle between radicals and peace police has become substantiated on a more social scale. anti-ICE resistance has been massively impeded by the majority's unwillingness to oppose more than just one part of the state, even as they embraced illegal tactics themselves.
my brain's too fried to sum up the developments toward liberalism (probably better called "constitutionalism") and social-fascism/imperialism as byproducts of lots of repression, etc.. all of it furnished conditions in which they assume direct agency over rule of law while opposing a "lawless" state
you can definitely break the state's rules in order to support and uphold it, so it's not really the legal/illegal distinction (which is becoming kind of moot anyway). it's a question of revolution or reform. when you move, do you move to preserve and beautify the state or attack and destroy it?
i mean both but primarily using and maintaining the existing state
i mean people with an interest in preserving and collaborating with the state vs. people with an interest in destroying and abolishing it. one of the big problems in minneapolis. for ex, was that the majority of people were using extralegal tactics but in service of restoring "normal" state power.
i think atp the most salient and consequential split in politics is between statist and anti-statist forces in a way and degree comparable to the crisis over imperialism in the 2nd international. if it isn't obvious now, it will be when the DSA hands their membership rosters over to the DOJ.
you aren't gonna be able to CPUSA lawyer your way out of any of this shit
We are Daedalus. We are Icarus. The barriers between us have fallen and we have become --
obamna
Sniff.
"The Man Who Was Thursday."
