Comments on: Some shit on race, “nationalist anarchists,” anti-racist black metal

By: Mike McGee

Mike McGee — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:42:19 +0000

Anarchism and nationalism have nothing to do with one another? Tell that to the Anarchist Panthers. While I agree with you in principle, nationalist anarchism does exist for some . . . some, that is, who insist that race is a social construct for everyone except themselves. So, even though you’re responding to a white nationalist writer here, a more balanced an nuanced analysis would have, should have, addressed the broad problem of nationalism in race-based anarchist movements. Race based politics are, alas, a symptom of our fallen world and they history of oppression, but they have no place in anarchist politics, regardless of the race of the nationalist proposing that his or her racial concerns should trump the basic individualism of anarchist socialism, unless the critique is of the inherent racism of all nationalism, black, white, brown, or what have you.

By: Magpie

Magpie — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:08:34 +0000

Jim: Basically, the idea is that sex is the genetic thing, gender represents the social construct that accompanies it (for example, a male-bodied drag queen is expressing a different gender than, say, a male-bodied construction worker). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

By: Jim Sachsen

Jim Sachsen — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:17:12 +0000

>whiteness is a social construct: that is to say, it is as manufactured by our society as gender is.

Gender is a social construct? All this time I thought that my Y-chromosome and sexual hardware had something to do with it.

;)

By: Magpie

Magpie — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:07:13 +0000

Also, it would honestly be laughable to call my writing “academic puffery.” Academics aren’t known for writing “facts” like “nazis should fuck off and die.” No offense to academics, mind you, but it’s kind of insulting to them to compare my writing to theirs.

By: Magpie

Magpie — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:53:07 +0000

I’m afraid you’ve fallen prey to one of the more common fallacies in how the world perceives anarchism. Anarchists actually advocate for a specific political system, that of anarchism. This is very much a different thing than the “anarchy” that the media speaks about, which is by and large warlordism. Anarchism advocates an intentional, horizontal system.

By: unzeitgeist

unzeitgeist — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:47:37 +0000

because “grownups” realize some people are better at things, like leadership, than other things, like writing academic puffery. whether that leadership is authoritarian or not, and the consequences of that authoritarianism, is another matter. intelligent people don’t live in the oversimplified “us vs them” world of high school and hollywood, where you have the pure and good majority crowd versus the evil elitist snobs. people become dictators because that power is there for the taking, and that vacuum only exists in a society that has forgotten the necessity of an organic hierarchy which forms from within. without that, a civlization lives on the verge of impending anarchy, which leaves them ripe for exploitation. if anything anarchy should be regarded as a stage or gateway, a moment in the historical cycle which allows the remnants of a corroded civilization to plant the seeds for a new order. anarchy for the sake of anarchism is like death for the sake of dying.

By: Magpie

Magpie — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:28:15 +0000

unzeitgeist – and the ideology preferred for grownups is to accept the authoritarian control of overlords.

By: unzeitgeist

unzeitgeist — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:21:51 +0000

Anarchism is an ideology for children.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:32 +0000

“fascists should fuck off and die”

*clap clap clap*

By: Offlogic

Offlogic — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:11:31 +0000

Well put.
NPFO