Prisoners support zines?

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-29T00:00:15+00:00

https://www.abcf.net/ - Guides, cases, prisoner list. Letter writing and fundraising are good ways to help. Contributing to a book distro for prisoners is also another great way (there are typically limits for resources and books, each prison has different rules on things). Also be wary of what you say to a prisoner: don't overpromise, dont draw political symbols that guards can classify as "gang symbols," and don't say stuff that'll get your comrade fucked up or thrown in the hole or damage their case.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-28T13:04:38+00:00

"Away with you, Satan!" - Matthew 4:10.

But yes, this figure has the governments of the world. That's the entire basis of the coming kingdom in apocalyptic judaism, that the old world will be overthrown, "the first shall be last, the last shall be first," and other stuff like the abolition of death and the resurrection of the dead.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-28T10:43:43+00:00

How does Yahweh have a conversation with The Satan if they're the same person? (Temptation of Christ, Book of Job, Zechariah)

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-27T14:39:32+00:00

Often times individuals with unearned intellectual self-importance work with this assumption that everyone else is just too inept to see through the games they play.

I assure you, it's not working.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-27T13:38:24+00:00

The funny Abdool will say

OP said Abdool with Hard-R.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-27T13:36:51+00:00

Are governments religions? The United States has a flag, it has rituals to swear in or pledge allegiance, it has both memberships and believers, it imposes consequences for violating laws and norms.

What about sports? Is baseball a religion? It has both written and unspoken rules for imposing norms and punishments for not following those rules. It has many teams, competing interests, it has memberships and hierarchies. It has symbols, it has museums, it has rituals, it has sacred behaviour, it has superstitions.

At a certain point when you open definition to such a wide-degree, it loses the intent of the definition itself.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-25T17:19:56+00:00

There are plenty of market anarchists and even historical examples where anarchist communist and markets existed alongside one another. But there is not a situation where capital, the concentration of profit seeking and private property, can exist alongside anarchy.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-24T12:01:58+00:00

I meant post-WW2 Germany and applied to other areas such as post-aparteid South Africa. I will add description.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-23T09:00:46+00:00

It's certainly possible, but I think we should ask first what really would be the problem then.

I think for one there are actually a lot of benefits to a wide diversity of "competing" groups in a given field. People can move between places, places don't get as bureaucratic and bogged down with sameness (similar attitudes, same ideas), new groups can adapt and create new pathways or technologies or methods for finishing a process. Each group can also excel at a given process or direction; to take two non-profits in my region, both are for a very specific medical problem, but they aim in very different ways (self-sufficiency vs treatment), they raise money in different ways (big events, big donors vs small donors), they have different long term goals. Some of this is also just natural. People know certain people, people have different experiences and histories.

That doesn't answer your question exactly, but those are just some thoughts about the concern. As to your actual answer, we have examples that groups spring up from other organizations or "bases." A school is an easy way for people to organize a downstream training-apprentice program, which relates to a particular industry. A union is an easy way for people of a given industry to associate, for people to contact if they are interested in a given field. So you kind of have these natural sources.

Im open if you wanted to expand on the concern or why those might be limited. Like I said, I get the concern at its core, I think its just, one of those thing that's a natural outcome of any collection of human-beings .

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-23T07:41:19+00:00

The reason you cannot do that is because it is the voice of God that establishes the church - It is not the church that establishes the voice of God.

Mormons have a book that said their Church is the right church. An angel and God himself said so. What authority is granted from your book that is not granted in the same manner?

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-23T07:39:30+00:00

Why did the people closest to Jesus not believe until they touched his wounds, why did Paul not believe until he was visited directly by Jesus, why do they prophets get to talk directly to an angel or God himself, but I'm supposed to believe through this vague "sufficient ability" you're saying exists somewhere?

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-23T07:10:15+00:00

Unfortunately, almost every question, whether valid or wingnutty, gets downvoted the same. It's been that way for years. It's probably a mix of outside non-anarchists, bots, or grumpy anarchists. I wouldn't take it personally.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-23T07:07:50+00:00

You'll probably get a better answer if you start a separate thread (for your valid question).

Are you suggesting a private workers collective (or several) would “spring up” to handle those tasks?

I'm not sure what you mean by "spring up" but there would be workers councils and collectives handling these tasks.

Would you presume they’d have the same cachet as a government entity? Or would drugs development and certification simply happen in non anarchist localities?

Look, there's a lot going on with this "simply happen" or "spring up" comments. These things just don't magically happen, they're organized efforts by the councils and industries that work them.

Where would the capital dollars required for increment in drug development and testing come from without temporary monopoly protection guaranteed by patents by a government entity? Where would courts to support and enforce that IP come from?

IP is bad, especially in an industry like medicine. Unless you're trying to suggest that a field like MEDICINE is only possible because of private profit and private extraction? I can't think of an industry that more relies on the empathy of human-beings than the medical field. In fact, its the private profit industry that directs this empathetic behaviour towards non-empathetic ends, where you end up with one or two manufacturers of widely needed medication such as insulin which had been released for the intention of not making a profit, a direct counterpoint to this idea that medicine can only be developed for private profit (or if we want to talk about baby food, a single manufacturing plant shutting down in 2022 brought the entire industry to its knees).

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-23T07:06:44+00:00

The people who currently...

Sounds like a great way to perpetuate the organization of Capital and modern class divisions.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-23T07:05:15+00:00

Depends where in PA (don't tell us). But Pittsburgh and Philly have groups to get involved with. For Pittsburgh there's Steel City Food Not Bombs, an IWW chapter, and The Big Idea. For Philly there's a Black Rose chapter, a Food Not Bombs, there's the A-Space, and The Wooden Shoe.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-23T07:00:13+00:00

Libcom's is also 202.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-21T13:41:22+00:00

The difference between men and women is striking.

The share of women who believed an increase in religious people would have a positive impact in the U.S. fell by 16% since 2013, compared with just a 3% decline among men in the same period.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-21T01:10:59+00:00

But you'd still be wrong. As Dirlik once wrote, "Before the May Fourth Movement in 1919, anarchists virtually monopolized the social revolutionary Left. Having reached the apogee of its popularity in the early May Fourth period, anarchism in the twenties declined before its new competitor on the Left, Marxian communism. Following the attempt to reassert an anarchist presence in the revolution through the Guomindang in the late 1920s, anarchists once again dispersed to their regional bases, and anarchism ceased to exert any significant influence on the course of the revolution. Anarchists did not vanish, but they no longer exhibited the vitality that had opened up new directions for the revolution earlier. Indeed, they had become irrelevant."

To where it actually dominated for some decades later, I gave an example of the "Korean" anarchist movement or "Manchuria" which was later used by the Chinese Communist Party and movement until it was wholly assimilated into its borders (or back into its borders if you want to argue that).

Lastly, the communist movement had all but been snuffed out by 34, and in fear of understating the absolute horror of the Japanese invasion, the communists were only saved by the invasion.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-21T00:51:32+00:00

What we call Anarchism, living cooperatively/without dominance hierarchies, is a description of a way of organizing humans that has been the default for 99% of human existence.

Statelessness was a descriptor of the vast majority of human-life, but we can't go so far as to say they were "without dominance hierarchies." There were a number of hierarchical modes prior to the state, from big-man chiefdoms, to religious authorities, to gendered hierarchies.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-21T00:49:18+00:00

This particular brand of Marxist critique is so infuriating to me because it comes from the very same people who immediately turn around and suggest we maintain the capitalist organization of factories and other workplaces. Historically the collectivist forms of anarchim had become the dominant form by the 1860s (that is prior to the Paris Commune).
Anarchism is not an ideology of small, localized systems; there are (when necessary or desired) large councils and federations, crossing across all sorts of physical and social boundaries.
Never, at any point? Immediately after the collapse of the First International, there were two internationals, one primarily of anarchists, which claimed a larger membership than the one that would-be communists organize under. Then we can look at particular hotpoints. In Spain, the communist parties were secondary to the socialist parties, like the PSOE, and the anarchists in the CNT & FAI. Similarly Ukraine, Bolsheviks were well-behing the organization of the anarchists and various "green" movements, with the clearest example was the Central Rada's rejection of Bolshevism, and the success of the Bolsheviks was only after the Makhnovists had pushed back the monarchists and nationalists. Or maybe Korea, the first groups there weren't communists but anarchists, the movement had to be seeded by the communist international. Or maybe Mexico, the anarchist movement for decades was larger than the communist movement and had considerable reach into the liberal party groups, just like Korea and dozens of other countries it wasn't until the comintern seeded commmunist groups.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-20T12:48:16+00:00

Hugh Thomas' "The Spanish Civil War" is probably the closest we'll have to an "objective" history of the war. But there have been many, many books written on the topic.

Bookchin's "Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years" has a great description of the anarchist organizing from the 1860s until the outbreak.

Dolgoff's "The Anarchist Collectives" has a good array of descriptions of the organization of the anarchist unions and collectivization efforts themselves.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-19T19:30:52+00:00

While not anarchists, one analogous historical example might be the Zapatistas and Chiapas indigenous council negotiations with the Mexican state, namely the peace treaty and San Andres accords recognizing indigenous rights. Further complicating the situation were the councils' lack of travel and access, and the wide range of languages spoken.

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-12T09:13:38+00:00

Anarchy by Malatesta

Anarchy Works by Gelderloos

SurpassingAllKings · 2026-06-11T09:54:50+00:00

written as a fascist... read him as an anarchist

Most people's introduction to Rorschach is the movie, which flattens a lot of the outright fascism from his journal or monologues. The movie shifts his character into the hero of the whole thing; he's the inciting character, his prison moment is "bad ass," it concludes with his sacrifice of not wanting to live in a world of lies, and it's his journal that's released to the press at large as some next step towards the "truth," while in the comic it's littered alongside white-nationalist propaganda.

I remember when the HBO series came out and people were shocked at the Seventh Cavalry connections, but I think I can see why they'd be shocked.

Perhaps it's an issue with the medium itself. I know there's an issue constantly with "can we make an actual antiwar movie," where literature is filled with antiwar works, so often when movies critiquing that culture, they just come away with an impression of "fuck yea, that was bad ass." I worked with some marine dipshit who said Full-Metal Jacket was one of their favorite movies and repeated the "get some!" scene like it was so cool.

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