If you live in tyranny, like Russia - then only death means something. It is a death race between you and the tyrant, who will die first?- How much years will you lose before the tyrant perish? What will left from you and your life in the end? Is it really worth waiting ? Maybe a flash of glorious self-destructing rebellion is preferable, while you still have some dignity to light it? #russia#anarchism#tyranny#rebellion#resistance#revolution#rebellious
I feel like to a certain extent pacifism has a privelege problem. A lot of people fail to understand that violence being framed as a choice is ignoring reality for those of us who face discrimination or have lived at the bottom of society, of which I have both. Everyone in society is either having violence constantly inflicted upon them, participating in the systems that push that violence down upon others, or a mix of both.
There is no peace in our current society. Society as a whole, as it exists today, is violence, and being able to ignore that reality is privelege. For pacifism to attain any viability requires a fundamental change in society. Otherwise all it will mean is "peaceful violence", meaningless to those of us subject to it, and a denial of reality by those who inflict it.
Can someone please tell me what is the point of us trying to engage in a civil society that adheres to laws, morals and ethics, if a fascist state is going to ignore not only massive global public opinion, the increasing opposition from once staunch allies, but now international law itself?
Like, why haven't we turned the world upside down yet?
So..It’s time for a change…
Raise your voice to the air
It’s time for a change
Revolution is here
This is our song,
our rights now expressed
There’s power in our voice
There’s strength in our words
When the whole world is silent,
Our voice must be heard.
This is our song #Revolution is set
For the festival of the #oppressed https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=9F_coLFmerg
Today in Labor History March 18, 1918: U.S. authorities arrested Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón under the Espionage Act. They charged him with hindering the American war effort and imprisoned him at Leavenworth, where he died under highly suspicious circumstances. The authorities claimed he died of a "heart attack," but Chicano inmates rioted after his death and killed the prison guard who they believed executed him. Magon published the periodical “Regeneracion” with his brother Jesus, and with Licenciado Antonio Horcasitas. The Magonostas later led a revolution in Baja California during the Mexican Revolution. Many American members of the IWW participated. During the uprising, they conquered and held Tijuana for several days. Lowell Blaisdell writes about it in his now hard to find book, “The Desert Revolution,” (1962). Dos Passos references in his “USA Trilogy.”
“Bowl a strike, not a spare—Revolution everywhere!” Members of the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League (RABL) chanted bowling-themed slogans as they marched against President Ronald Reagan’s threat to invade Nicaragua in 1988.
Acting within a broad progressive coalition, RABL helped shut down major sections of downtown Minneapolis for three days in an outpouring of rebellion against the Reagan administration’s covert wars in Central America. They built barricades in the streets and occupied major intersections in the business district. Events reached a dramatic climax when a masked protester threw a bowling ball through the window of a military recruitment office. The crash of the broken glass marked the beginning of a new era of anarchist militancy in the United States. The rage of a generation of young people raised in Reagan’s America threatened to explode.
Promised a “new morning in America,” a generation of disaffected young people found themselves shut out of political life and raised in the alienation of the suburbs. Many of their parents lost their unionized factory jobs to neoliberal outsourcing or were kicked off welfare. They grappled with the reality of skyrocketing inequality, precarious jobs, and violent policing. The hopes of social democracy—not to mention the liberatory movements of the 1960s-1970s—were dead, and mainstream society seemingly offered little worth saving.
Meanwhile, Reagan crushed the hopes of a better world in Central America by funding and training Guatemalan death squads, Nicaraguan Contras, and violent Salvadoran elites. The 1980s was the decade of the triumph of American capitalism against both the left-wing idealism of the 1960s at home and the “Evil Empire” of Soviet Communism abroad. The New Right remade American society in its image, spreading suburbia and waging war on what it called the liberal “nanny state.”
But dissidents emerged out of the cracks of the new society. A new generation growing up in Reagan’s America turned to anarchism. Young people found a new form of politics in mosh pits at punk shows and street fights against fascists and police. Anarchism provided a political home and a strategic program for rebels of the new generation.
Today in Labor History March 13, 1848: The German revolutions of 1848-1849 began in Vienna. Middle class participants were committed to liberal principles, while working class revolutionaries fought for radical changes to their working and living conditions. The split between the classes facilitated their violent defeat by the aristocracy. Many fled Germany. Those who came to the U.S. were known as Forty-Eighters. Many of them became militant abolitionists and soldiers in the Union Army when the Civil War began.
On la décrit souvent comme la fidèle et sage compagne de #lenine. Pourtant, Nadejda #Kroupskaïa est aussi l’artisane de la plus importante réforme du système éducatif de l’URSS. Cette révolutionnaire de la première heure, fille de la petite noblesse de St Petersbourg et convertie au #marxisme dès la fin du XIXe siècle, a fait de la pédagogie en temps de révolution son cheval de bataille.
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"In the heart of every craftsman lies a quiet revolution; an unwavering commitment to breathe soul into the mundane, turning ordinary materials into extraordinary experiences." - Anonymous
En cette journée de lutte pour les droit de la femme, je vous partage ma citation préférée de la suffragette Madeleine Pelletier (1874-1939), première femme psychiatre et militante socialiste libertaire.
« Il est certain que casser un carreau n’est pas un argument ; mais si l’opinion, sourde aux arguments, n’est sensible qu’aux carreaux cassés, que faire ? Les casser, évidemment. »
Revolutions A Very Short Introduction Second Edition by Jack A. Goldstone
This Very Short Introduction illuminates the revolutionaries, their strategies, their successes and failures, and the ways in which revolutions continue to dominate world events and the popular imagination.
Today in Labor History February 24, 1895: Revolution broke out in Baire, near Santiago de Cuba. This was the beginning of the Cuban War of Independence (1895-1898). The liberation war ended with the Spanish-American War and the U.S. taking Cuba as a colony. Some of the more well-known commanders of the Cuban revolution were the poet Jose Marti (composer of “Guantanamera”) and Antonio Maceo, the Titan of Bronze.
Today in Labor History February 24, 1917: The Petrograd bread riot that started yesterday (March 8 on Western calendars) turned into a revolution. Soldiers refused to fire on demonstrators and turned on their officers. Then they stormed the arsenal and liberated 20,000 automatic pistols, torched the police stations and emptied the prisons.
Idk what to say when ppl I care about living in the US be like: "I've been feeling not so well recently, it's hard to focus, but I need to do better cuz I want another job." Even normal ideas are bad!
What can I say? "Oh that's fine and expectable, have u thought about going to therapy or treating that intestine issue you got? Oh yeh u're in the US sorry, you can't afford health, sorry for suggesting"
@PacificNic
It's really relieving to have a certified expert for #revolution on the #fediverse. It's falling from my eyes like scales: The only reason why revolutions haven't occurred yet, is that people hadn't enough time to think! 😂
Today in Labor History February 21, 1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published the “Communist Manifesto,” in Brussels, just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt across Europe. After the French overthrew their monarchy, revolutions broke out in Germany, Italy and Austria. When the Prussian democratic parliament collapsed, and the king imposed new counter-revolutionary measures, Marx moved to Paris, then London, where he and his family lived in poverty while he continued to publish. He wrote his most important work there, “Das Kapital.”
Murders and violence against the EuroMaidan Revolution's participants were carried out by Ukrainian law enforcement officers under the orders of Ukrainian authorities and Russia's guidance, according to a conclusion by the Prosecutor General's Office, Interfax-Ukraine reported on Feb. 19.
AEW REVOLUTION Discussion Thread 03/03/24
Tonight, AEW presents Revolution! LIVE from the Greeensboro Coliseum Complex in Greensboro, NC! The card includes:...
Prosecutors: EuroMaidan violence perpetrated by Ukrainian officers under Russia's guidance (kyivindependent.com)
Murders and violence against the EuroMaidan Revolution's participants were carried out by Ukrainian law enforcement officers under the orders of Ukrainian authorities and Russia's guidance, according to a conclusion by the Prosecutor General's Office, Interfax-Ukraine reported on Feb. 19.