Online discourse once again shows its ass, but this time it takes form in folks misunderstanding what it means to be a settler and complicit. For all the hollow conversation about privilege, they did not take the logic present and take it to its furthest conclusion. I’ll present the argument being made then I will… Continue reading A Small Word on Blood Money
Author: Half-Light
anarchist-nihilist of some sort
Guiding Lights for this Rupture
Finally, we’re seeing some semblance of the George Floyd Uprising now and the militants in action. The west coast has been particularly example setting, but we also must commend those incarcerated uprising in Delaney Hall, a detention facility in New Jersey, along with the militants who’ve arrived to support the unrest. Solidarity to those not… Continue reading Guiding Lights for this Rupture
You can bomb a social relation (and more)
In 1978-1979, the Libertarian Socialist Organisation in Australia published a complete liberal, counter-insurgent drivel that the state couldn’t have written better titled “You can’t blow up a social relation”. Thank god that not only do I not have any expectations of Australian anarchists similarly to UK anarchists, but I expect them also to be anti-militant… Continue reading You can bomb a social relation (and more)
Coping Mechanisms as Symptoms of Failure
The deaths of Margaret Thatcher and Henry Kissinger are reoccurring celebrations for left social media among many other of the capitalist elite. The jokes about public toilets, the celebration of their dying, I’d partaken it in it myself once. You’d almost forget they lived full lives with zero consequences and died in a way most… Continue reading Coping Mechanisms as Symptoms of Failure
Leftwing Conspiracy Theorists are Counter-Insurgents
I went from being a teenage conspiracy theorist, to not being a conspiracy theorist, to hating most conspiracy theorists. The George Floyd Rebellion resoundingly showed that conspiracy theorists, especially those identified as leftist, were among the front line of counterinsurgency and the inability of the all sorts of radicals, to include militants and anarchists, to… Continue reading Leftwing Conspiracy Theorists are Counter-Insurgents
You Ask Bad Questions About Anarchy
Maybe there’s just increasingly less good places on the internet to discuss anarchy or I continue the grave mistake to pop into anarchist subreddits. Why? I don’t know. If it isn’t apparent by how I write my other pieces, my audience is often a mix of me trying to get my thoughts out to anarchists,… Continue reading You Ask Bad Questions About Anarchy
Your Antifascism Was D.O.A When It Tolerated Liberals
I’m speaking to antifascists now who were content with extending solidarity to legalitarians. Have you changed your tone? If you haven’t, when will you recognize you’re a fool? I made that mistake early on as an anarchist. The eager, as long as you oppose fascism, that makes you an antifascist. That was perhaps one of… Continue reading Your Antifascism Was D.O.A When It Tolerated Liberals
American Cowardice
I hate this introduction, because I don’t believe it matters in the sense I should not have to do this, but I also understand from a rhetorical standpoint why I should, so I’ll write it out to condemn it before proceeding. What I advocate for is not you to taking risks that I would not… Continue reading American Cowardice
Against the Sisyphean Mass
SisypheanadjectiveSis·y·phe·an ˌsi-sə-ˈfē-ən variants or less commonly Sisyphian: of, relating to, or suggestive of the labors of Sisyphus specifically: requiring continual and often ineffective effort A Sisyphean Task From the first Trump administration to the current, there has been an unfortunate amount of broad, left antifascist coalitions, and it is clear when anarchists are influenced by the… Continue reading Against the Sisyphean Mass
Against Nonviolence
I’ve spent enough years within “movement” spaces to have heard it all and at this point, fundamentally reject nonviolence and the American left’s obsession with it. At best, I’ve heard of people arguing for both sides, needing both whenever the topic emerges. This fails to recognize the status quo in which there hasn’t been “violent”… Continue reading Against Nonviolence