Making a Living, not a Killing
I was quietly hoping for a mellow one today only so that I could focus on some more pressing personal matters but similar to yesterday we seem to be one an increasing trajectory of the fuckening and with that today is going to be another long one friends.
As tough as all this shit is to stomach at times, it is important, only to achieve clarity in what we are facing. However, we need words of encouragement, hope and examples of how we can do cooperate and exist in a more peaceful and prosperous community. Often, the old works of lore fail in that regard, despite their enormous sense of clarity due to their historical detachment - and I have several degrees in History, I dare not imagine how inaccessible this must to someone who hasn’t had the privilege of studying history. With that, I often turn to Utah Phillips. Below is a wonderful clip of him talking about mutual aid in practice. I implore you to watch this watch and have a good listen. It is truly inspiring and uplifting and we all need that.
With that bit of essential positivity behind us we can now face today’s fuckening. For once we are going to start with a bit of news from here, Germany, only to destroy the notion that we somehow have it better than elsewhere. We don’t, we just don’t make the international news that often. The story is that a state minister of the interior - who are in charge of the police, secret police etc in their respective states, bought an illegal hand gun from a well-known neo-nazi for whatever reason- that in itself is a major fuck-off, but more so, since a member of this fellow’s party was assassinated by neo-nazi in his home last summer. More importantly, the state and federal government, especially our federal minster of the interior, a righteous evil fascist fuck, wanted to cover this up and blow it off. It was only due to the incredible research, reporting and subsequent pressure from several anti-fascist groups that his resignation was forced into effect a few days ago. Another example of fine and important anti-fascist praxis if you needed seeing that.
Additionally, and on a different subject, this one is dear to my heart as well. As much time as I have and will invest in studying theory, political idealogical purity is a rot to the brain and only serves to maintain an unreflected ego in regards to reality. Learn, but sticking to dogma for the sake of purity will get you nowhere, especially if the end-level boss aka Capitalism’s most singular power is Universalism. Think on it.
And now, a few pointers to see what our enemies are up to.