Comments on: Things I Love, Things I Hate, Volume 2

By: Dugan

Dugan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:58:49 +0000

Cracked me up! Loved it, and your whole blog. A good mutual friend introduced me to it.
You can’t throw a rock through a social relation= hilarious
It should be a t-shirt but then that would go to shit cuz somebody would think that you think throwing rocks is ideologically useless in all instances. sheesh, kids and their totalities. :)

By: boulevardier

boulevardier — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:23:26 +0000

omg, that was soooo funny, i love the part when the totality quickly climbed the nearest desires! that would make a good children’s book- like those monkeys that steal the guy’s like 50 hats (caps for sale is the title i believe) but with insurrectionist hats, okay this is a bit of a fashion tangent but maybe it would revolve around those “indie revolution” hats with the star on the front, i’m pretty sure that’s what most insurrectionists i’ve met wear… does that make any sense?

but good news, according to ‘the coming insurrection’, insurrectionists are communists after all and anarchism is just “stupid formalism”… good riddance! sukkas! I always had a sneaking suspicion to be honest.

anyway, thanks for the lovely post, it made me laugh!

By: Viviana

Viviana — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:15:14 +0000

Excellent post – and such articles as the one you cite are why, in my 40′s, I stopped reading much current anarchist writing (obviously, I’m still following a couple of folks, such as yourself). History would indicate that anarchists who want change should perhaps consider having a large repertoire of actions and responses, for who knows what opportunities will arise… but in the US, until more of the citizenry want a society without hierarchy, etc. – and are willing to work within alternative social organizations (let’s face it, consensus takes work) – I think throwing bricks or holding signs will be equally (in)effective.

While discussions about how to get to a better society/social organization/insert-current-buzzword-or-phrase-here can be instructive, I wonder how much thought some writers give to what sort of society they actually want to achieve. Violent revolution, not infrequently, can be difficult to rein in once it’s out of the gate, usually leaves lasting scars on the psyche of a populace, and more than once has been co-opted by others with less noble ambitions than a more just world. It’s not a choice free of seriously negative repercussions. Do modern insurrectionists ever discuss these issues in regard to their favorite approach?