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
Author: Half-Light
anarchist-nihilist of some sort
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
Do the Crime They’ll Convict You For Because They’ll Convict You Even If You Don’t
Forward: I mentioned in my introduction that I am an informal organizer in formal spaces. It is an unenvious position, but I believe strategically it is important for certain things. Mainly to be the random insidious person going, “these are kind people, but this shit seems futile, right? Like we can do something better?” which… Continue reading Do the Crime They’ll Convict You For Because They’ll Convict You Even If You Don’t
The real-time descent
I’ve been angrily writing to my friends, my comrades, and their reception to my writing has caused me to rethink how I should communicate at-large. This is my attempt to-do so. So who am I? I am a former union organizer, I’m an anarchist, I am an informal organizer in formal organizing spaces. I’m watching… Continue reading The real-time descent