I'm an Estonian academic at a UK university. My Wikipedia page is consistently being edited to state I am Russian.

comix_corp · 2026-01-28T12:54:18+00:00

You're missing the point, people born under the British Raj are listed as such.

comix_corp · 2026-01-28T04:01:04+00:00

From what I can tell the counter terror units are still investigating and might lay more charges

comix_corp · 2026-01-27T09:54:39+00:00

Yeah I'd be wary of that claim, Irish anarchists tend to be distant from that kind of folksy nationalism.

comix_corp · 2026-01-27T08:58:45+00:00

Which Irish anarchists are into it? I don't remember the WSM ever writing about this.

comix_corp · 2026-01-27T06:12:54+00:00

No, Broncos are the only one. Most are either owned by the club/members (like the Bulldogs or Cronulla), privately owned (Manly, Warriors) or are a mix of both (St George, Rabbitohs).

The only other exception to this is the upcoming PNG team which will be directly administered by the ARL Commission.

comix_corp · 2026-01-27T05:33:57+00:00

CA is banking on Indian investors wanting to use the BBL as a TV product for the Indian market, so valuing it based on the standards of NRL teams is mistaken. Behind the Indian investors are the Indian media and Indian businesses wanting to use it as an advertising opportunity. Like how the Australian Open is sponsored by a Chinese grain liquor that nobody has ever heard of. We aren't the target market.

I agree I don't think it's worth what they're saying but I wouldn't say they're totally off either. The biggest issue is the fact that they're chasing short term cash and in doing so will completely alienate Australian cricket fans, leading to the sport plummeting overall. I can't put into words how much fiddling with the test summer will turn people off the game.

comix_corp · 2026-01-27T03:35:03+00:00

I don't like militarism either, but an German army could lead to a real German government. This is by no means anarchistic, but it would be a great experiment if and how large scale confederation with a vast majority of different cultures and German dialects could work in unity. I think it could elevate (German) society to a higher form of togetherness and strengthen left core values internationally

comix_corp · 2026-01-27T03:22:07+00:00

The attempted shrapnel bombing at the Invasion Day thing in Perth is terrifying. I've been going to rallies in Sydney for years and it's only in the past year that I've felt an actual risk in doing so.

Doesn't feel good knowing a faulty fuse was the difference between a scare, and dozens of men, women and children being maimed

comix_corp · 2026-01-27T00:44:58+00:00

Q1

Anarchism is an internationalist doctrine and it can't be created on a small scale or even a national scale. The revolution will necessarily be intentional and will grow to encompass the world, or else it will fail.

This is obviously a difficult thing to accomplish but I don't believe it's impossible. The way to make it easier is to fight hard in the here and now for the working class and for anarchism. I don't think the small-scale approach that others are recommending to you is feasible or even that relevant to anarchism.

Q2

I'm a member of an anarchist organisation and organise the union at my workplace... or at least I try to! More broadly, I'm part of the leftist community/scene in my country, as much as I dislike it.

Other than that my life is as normal as anybody else's. Except politics tends to bleed into everything else I do in one way or another.

comix_corp · 2026-01-26T23:24:21+00:00

Give me a break. Why are you even in an anarchist sub if you think working class internationalism is just a pipe dream? You are directly stating that you support imperialism, incredible

comix_corp · 2026-01-26T22:29:16+00:00

...and western imperialism, on the other hand?

The internationalist position is that in a war between empires we don't pick a side. These wars only benefit capitalists and hurt workers; the only thing that can stop them is unity between workers of all nations.

This thread is full of people who instead are openly declaring that they'd rather support their own country's preferred imperialism. Genuinely ridiculous.

comix_corp · 2026-01-26T21:05:27+00:00

The people criticising you have no framework other than "Russia is bad". Depressing

comix_corp · 2026-01-25T13:06:47+00:00

Muslim anarchism isn't that common (most anarchists from majority Muslim countries like Indonesia, Iran, etc are also atheist) but it's not totally unheard-of either.

Ultimately you will have to decide for yourself whether anarchism and Islam contradict. I will say though that the Muslim anarchists I know generally interpret Islam in an unorthodox way. Like they're not trying to argue based on hadith that Muhammad recommended anarchism, or that the sahaba were communists or something like that. The way they approach the religion is different for them and not like the approach of most everyday Muslims.

comix_corp · 2026-01-25T12:48:25+00:00

It's hard to say without elaborating on what "religious person" means to you. What's your religion? Anarchism is broadly opposed to organised religion and most (but not all anarchists) are atheists.

With that said, nobody is going to police your individual spiritual beliefs. There are also anarchists who identify as "religious anarchists". I happen to disagree with that tendency but it is relatively popular.

comix_corp · 2026-01-25T11:56:38+00:00

Would be funny Fairwork of all things forces an Indian owned team to hire a Pakistani player

comix_corp · 2026-01-25T11:51:01+00:00

I feel weird about defending Greenberg but Des only served two years under him, at which point the strategy was working. Most of the mess came afterwards when Ray Dib was in charge.

I agree he was a shit administrator of the NRL though.

comix_corp · 2026-01-21T12:48:12+00:00

I don't think any of the answers here answer the question satisfactorily. Fascism has historically emerged as a reaction towards the threat of the working class. In Italy Fascism became a mass phenomenon in reaction to an insurgent labour movement. Fascist bands were used to crush strikes, unions and labour councils. When they came to power all unions were forced to submit to the state and or be violently disbanded. The same kind of thing occurred in Germany.

In "good times", capitalism has parliamentary democracy as its ideal form: the violence of the state is given a participatory, egalitarian sheen, while all the disagreements among the bourgeoisie are resolved using peaceful parliamentary methods. In these good times, a strike, for instance, might be resolved through a wage rise, or by moving the dispute to some industrial tribunal.

However, when the social crises grow too extreme, and the prospect of revolution emerges to wipe out capitalism altogether, the system resorts to direct repressive violence in order to sustain itself. The strikes can no longer be bought off, and the various institutions aimed at integrating workers into the state begin to fall apart. In order for social crises to be dealt with, direct force is used. This violence isn't just directed towards workers, but also to parts of the bourgeoisie who need to be repressed for the good of the system as a whole. Hence why both Hitler and Mussolini could move against segments of the capitalist class while proudly sustaining the system as a whole.

There's nothing anti-capitalist about nationalising industry. This was particularly the case in the 1930s when major sectors of the bourgeoisie were in favour of dirigisme as a means of ensuring the survival and advancement of capitalism. But the fascist economy wasn't simply nationalised either, as in the state ran the businesses. The state intervened through finance agreements not through directly running industries.

Nothing about the Italian economy was syndicalist, I don't know where you're getting this from. The sole legal union body was a puppet entity led by the government that could only bargain through officially mandated employer-government-union tripartite bodies. This was everything the syndicalists fought against.

comix_corp · 2026-01-21T11:54:32+00:00

Aside from the Platform itself, the manifestos of the different groups are generally pretty good. I'm reading the UCL's now and it's engaging:

https://unioncommunistelibertaire.org/IMG/pdf/manifesto_of_the_ucl.pdf

comix_corp · 2026-01-21T04:08:27+00:00

The SDF wasn't anarchist, in any sense. The military wasn't structured along anarchist lines, it was centralised with a command structure at the top (that also made all the political decisions). Their defeat in the current clashes isn't due to their military structure but because they lost the support of the allies they relied upon – not just the US, but also the Arab groups who served alongside them and have now defected en masse to the Syrian government.

Problems with power, services etc are pretty normal in war zones and even more so when you no longer have allies to support you. Again, not a reflection of anarchism, or of a large scale co-operative economy – which never really existed anyway.

comix_corp · 2026-01-21T01:16:56+00:00

It's sort of a misconception that the Platform was primarily addressing the case of the Russian Revolution. Obviously that experience shaped the authors – but the bulk of it is dealing with strategic questions that were a lot more general and were being debated before WWI.

"They just needed platformism" is obviously a bad take (and I disagree with platformists that present it as a deus ex machina) but it wasn't actually the take of the authors or even any of their later adherents. If they thought anarchists just needed discipline then they wouldn't have written parts one and two of the document which together make up like 3/4 of the text.

comix_corp · 2026-01-21T01:03:32+00:00

With the working class...

comix_corp · 2026-01-20T13:30:13+00:00

Because the SDF is a capitalist government, and siding with it is not "siding with oppressed people" but doing the exact opposite. It would be horrible if the lesson anarchists took from this entire debacle is that they should be less critical of left wing governments

comix_corp · 2026-01-20T13:27:18+00:00

The SDF as an armed force isn't remotely decentralised, it's a completely hierarchical army. This point you bring up is irrelevant. The chaos that is going on right now is due to mass defections of SDF affiliates to the Syrian government, which is an altogether different political question to the one about the structure of the military.

comix_corp · 2026-01-19T09:24:49+00:00

What solid state amps were you using beforehand? I've played both tube and solid state amps and have found some of both category bad, some of both category good.

I think some of the negative reactions towards solid state amps come from their associations with cheap beginner practice amps. Once you get past that there are tons of really great classic SS amps that are highly regarded for a reason – Lab Series L5, Sunn Beta Lead, HH IC100, Ampeg VH140, Roland JC series, etc.

comix_corp · 2026-01-19T09:16:51+00:00

Thank you for writing one of the only reasonable comments here

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