Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
-- Oscar Wilde
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
-- Oscar Wilde
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
-- Peter Kropotkin
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
-- Peter Kropotkin
Aleppo is home to over half a million Kurdish people. The neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah, self-organized in communes and councils, are in grave danger.
These neighborhoods lived through and defended self from blockade, military attacks and harassment by Assad regime before and after Syrian revolution. Today they are under brutal attack by Turkish-backed militias integrated into ministry of defense of Damascus government. In 2025 these same armed factions massacred Alawites in Latakia, then Druze in Suweida, and now they are set to commit ethnic cleansing and massacre in Aleppo.
Councils of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah decided to not leave the besieged neighborhoods and chose defense. Internal Security Forces (Asayish) are putting up resistance to the attacks in an unequal battle.
Stay tuned for detailed update and analysis tomorrow on Sunday. We invite you to be careful about disinformation present in the media spreading talking points of the Turkish and other governmental narratives.
Statement of Kurdistan National Congress on the attacks: https://knk-kurdistan.com/eng/kurdish-civilians-and-infrastructure-in-aleppo-under-siege-from-the-damascus-government/
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#Syria #NES #SDF #DAANES #AANES #SNA #SDF #PYD #YPJ #YPG #HTS #Rojava #Kurdistan #Revolution #DefendRojava #Anarchy #Anarchism #Comrades #Internationalism #AbdullahOcalan #Öcalan #PKK #WomenLifeFreedom #TekosinaAnarsist
Aleppo is home to over half a million Kurdish people. The neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah, self-organized in communes and councils, are in grave danger.
These neighborhoods lived through and defended self from blockade, military attacks and harassment by Assad regime before and after Syrian revolution. Today they are under brutal attack by Turkish-backed militias integrated into ministry of defense of Damascus government. In 2025 these same armed factions massacred Alawites in Latakia, then Druze in Suweida, and now they are set to commit ethnic cleansing and massacre in Aleppo.
Councils of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah decided to not leave the besieged neighborhoods and chose defense. Internal Security Forces (Asayish) are putting up resistance to the attacks in an unequal battle.
Stay tuned for detailed update and analysis tomorrow on Sunday. We invite you to be careful about disinformation present in the media spreading talking points of the Turkish and other governmental narratives.
Statement of Kurdistan National Congress on the attacks: https://knk-kurdistan.com/eng/kurdish-civilians-and-infrastructure-in-aleppo-under-siege-from-the-damascus-government/
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#Syria #NES #SDF #DAANES #AANES #SNA #SDF #PYD #YPJ #YPG #HTS #Rojava #Kurdistan #Revolution #DefendRojava #Anarchy #Anarchism #Comrades #Internationalism #AbdullahOcalan #Öcalan #PKK #WomenLifeFreedom #TekosinaAnarsist
Everyone complains about politicians. Everyone says they suck. But where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky; they don't pass through a membrane from a separate reality. They come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, and American businesses. And they're elected by American voters. This is what our system produces, folks. This is the best we can do.
-- George Carlin
Everyone complains about politicians. Everyone says they suck. But where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky; they don't pass through a membrane from a separate reality. They come from American homes, American families, American schools, American churches, and American businesses. And they're elected by American voters. This is what our system produces, folks. This is the best we can do.
-- George Carlin
If this isn't SHTF, what is?
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Socialist #Socialism #History #Politics #Economics #Philosophy
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If this isn't SHTF, what is?
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Socialist #Socialism #History #Politics #Economics #Philosophy
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Am 16.01. spricht Peter Gelderloos in Dresden: https://terminal.digital/events/struggling-for-memory-struggling-for-survival-cultivating-an-ecosystem-of-revolt-amidst-ecological-collapse-with-peter-gelderloos/
Am 16.01. spricht Peter Gelderloos in Dresden: https://terminal.digital/events/struggling-for-memory-struggling-for-survival-cultivating-an-ecosystem-of-revolt-amidst-ecological-collapse-with-peter-gelderloos/
Do you know more about https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/01/04/berlin-power-outages-after-left-wing-anarchist-attack-on-power-cables/ and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkangruppe ?
I really hope that #solarpunk can promote #anarchism which doesn't leave people without electricity and heating in winter.
@ambiguous_yelp @JessTheUnstill you're attacking a person who you agree with about like 99% of stuff and in the end neither of you have energy left to fight the rich.
We absolutely cant fight capitalism if we're going to replicate its structures on an interpersonal level, the best we can hope for in that sitution is a substition of the capitalist class for some other ruling class. We need to be principally and absolutely against exploitation of all forms otherwise it will keep popping up over and over in new forms. This is why I'm an intersecionalist and believe in Total Liberation and its why I don't believe in excusing participation in exploitative systems in any way. Is it hard or impossible in some cases to remove yourself from these systems? Yes. Does that mean investments in stocks should get a blanket pass because it can facilitate class mobility to the Petty Bourgeoisie? no.
The concept of "passive income" in our capitalist society is a curse. The whole idea that simply having wealth makes more wealth without having to do anything at all is rotten at the very core.
Oh sure, my savings are in interest bearing accounts and funds and such. But it's still the toxic concept that allows for billionaires to exist.
All passive income means you are extracting surplus value from someone elses labour, every dollar you make on profit from stocks (savings accounts also pay interest from stocks the bank invests in) is a dollar tied up in an economy of extracting surplus value from labour. If you are against capitalism then you are doing the same thing here just to a lesser extent and more indirectly but materially its still money coming from someone elses labour into your bank account
Even stocks held in worker coops which I assume exist, still lubricate the extraction of value from the workers of those coops by an investor class.
If you want to say that you cant get by without this theft there is a name for that its called the Petty Bourgeoisie. Please do not feed the monster, you are tying your financial security to the success of capitalist markets and creating perverse incentives away from revolutionary action
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Red anarchists — If you don’t take responsibility for the harm you do, no one will. There’s no rapture-like revolution coming to wipe out capitalism’s sins and absolve you of any guilt for your part in it because “no ethical consumption”. There’s only this life you’re living and your choices absolutely matter. They shape who you are and the impact you make on your environment and your culture. If you just keep doing harm and blame your actions on capitalism, you’re no different than any CEO dumping toxic waste in a river in China. Harm reduction in your community is something you have direct control over. You can choose to not dump that waste. Or you can dump it and justify it to yourself by saying “it’s okay because capitalism did it”.
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We can either choose to take action to resist the violent system starting on an individual and on a local level, or we can live and die waiting for capitalism to magically go away worldwide while participating in it fully and thus furthering its growth and increasing its violence.
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