Morning Comrades.
After getting yet another block from the social media platforms we use to- to do what exactly no one knows anymore- for using language they didn’t like I am going to dedicate the rest of the week to violence.
There are two options and two options only, that are interdependent on each other for us to reject the barbarism at play and in store for us to actually make this a worthwhile life, for us and all of us that came after us.
Those options are: the refusal of labour and violence.
In order for the refusal of labour to work and have the desired effect the primary tactic has to be the creation of non transaction mutual aid networks across entire nations to help the immediate but more importantly, when the time comes for everyone to stop working until the bosses lay down their claim over us and we can once and for all establish genuine democratic control over our labour and its profits, to be able to house, feed and care for one another. Truthfully, that is our generation(s) job.
To achieve that, to protect this and to carry it forward nothing but violence, the ability to wield it and the willingness to do so, will do. Not because they deserve it, and they do, but you can bet the ranch on the fact that any and all genuine organisation that aims to achieve the above will be met with the full force of the capitalists arsenal: their governments, their police, their judges and and their jails. At best. The rest of the world that they have colonized mostly saw their resolve at maintaining control over profits at the end of a gun, if they were lucky.
That brings us to the first part of this week’s focus on violence: Fanon’s paper and presentation “Why we use Violence” from 1960 that you can download as PDF by following the link. Seeing that the western white hegemon is still yapping on about civility and ceasefires after a public genocide paid for by our labour- for clarity, yes, to an immediate cease fire, to start not as an end - and the fact that we are slowly being taught about our genocidal history that allows us to all have the same fucking Ikea Couch that we all hate. Thus, no, it’s not some 80 year philosophical document that we can discuss in the abstract- this is our collective reality and we need to come to terms with their violence and what to do about it, now.
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