south salish sea anti-civ, nihilist, queer anarchy
“Through collections of essays, communiqués, narratives, images, and interviews, this anthology hopes to account for what Bash Back! was and what happened to it. We have included a number of actions, theories, and other essays that were not explicitly or implicitly related to Bash Back! as a name. In this context, if we do not recognize the actions of related tendencies and publications, then we fail to tell the complete history of Bash Back! as a network and as a tendency.”
“Anarchists, if they are to transform the anti-prison movement into part of the larger revolutionary process, need to start hammering away at the prisons themselves. Every prison in existence needs to be destroyed, on principle, and in preparation for Day One of the social revolution, when, as they say, the prison gates will fly open and the dragon will fly out. The purpose of this pamphlet is to take a brief, but detailed look at individuals and groups who have targeted the prison-industrial complex at the point of production, in the hopes of giving contemporary anarchists some ideas about how we could potentially be lending a lot more support to our sisters and brothers behind bars.”
“This proposal for security culture is based on reframing on shifting our focus from fear to confidence, from risk aversion to courage, from isolation to connection, and from suspicion to trust.”
“Our own celebrations are during the night, when the shiny lights give their place to the thick darkness of delinquency and become the gasoline for the fire, the movement, the destruction. Because national unity is for the frightened, we shall never compromise with any state and any nation. Our only country is the Revolution, Violent and Subversive in its steps, bound to annihilate your old world.”
“Today’s era smells like engine oil, cheap labor, sweat and naphthalene of the morality of voluntary obedience… We do not want to be defined by the culture of techno-industrial fascism, the white uniforms of scientists, the neckties of technocrats, the eager silences of ordinary people, the stupid smiles of consumers… We do not match with the aesthetics of the glass world of flat television screens, the digital imitation of the life of social media, the display windows of lifestyle, the lens of security cameras. We do not fit in the society of captivity, the police checks of our identification papers, the supervision of security guards, the laws of the judges, the locked doors of prisons. We do not settle for the average normality dictated by morality, we don’t amuse our boredom with psychotropic drugs, we aren’t covered by the coldness of empty relations, we don’t read… Marx.”
“In ‘Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tankies, But Were Afraid to Ask,’ Mike Harman uncovers the history of the term ‘tankie’ and its relationship to various strains of Marxism-Leninism. Then ‘Ending the Idealization of the Other’ draws on Su-lin Yu’s critique of Orientalism to explain why some queer people of color in North America support repression when it is committed by ‘socialist states.’ Finally, in ‘Is Genocide Denial Anti-Imperialist Now?’ Darya Rustamova confronts the fetishization of the USSR while expounding on the harm caused by those denying or minimizing genocide and war crimes.”
“There appears to be a rise in known infiltration investigations in North American radical networks, with thorough destabilizing effects on our capacities to struggle, comrades facing heavy repression and of course, the less obvious consequences on our personal mental states. The place that we start is with dialogue. “
“If we want to improve our lives as women, we need to look at our realities,
learn survival skills and support each other. With this, we can fight back
against intimidation and being pushed around, and take back control over
our lives.”
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“While the rapid expansion of home surveillance systems like doorbell cameras has been extensively noted and attacked by anarchists,³ there has been less focus on the equally rapid expansion of vehicle-based surveillance systems.”
“The anarcho-nihilist position is essentially that we are fucked.1 That the current
manifestation of human society (civilization, leviathan, industrial society, global
capitalism, whatever) is beyond salvation, and so our response to it should be one
of unmitigated hostility. There are no demands to be made, no utopic visions to be
upheld, no political programs to be followed — the path of resistance is one of pure
negation”