feralnostalgia:

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-King Mob

Offshoot of the Black Mask collective- situationist inspired cultural revolutionaries.  I found one of Victor’s old Black Mask/Up Against the Wall Motherfucker ‘zines and I am gonna be scanning copies of the pieces for people to write responses to.  There’s actually a fun one that deals with dada that I’m gonna try to get online in the next couple of days.

The dropout culture of the 1960’s failed because they failed to build an adequate alternative economic base.  The kids of Rocktown comfortably survive on societal waste- but it is still inefficient.

We are all too lazy.  The anarchists ignore the system and try to concentrate on culture- and they’ve slid so far as of late.  Where is the syndicalism?

The socialists either fetishise systemic work and neglect the cultural or they are moonbats.

scratch that- Both have their searing visionaries and their moonbats.

but- as is my everyday whimper- we should be working to build social infrastructure in the current system to create social relations to transcend capitalism but we should also be building a very vibrant very healty counter-culture to push innovation and have a group out there questioning the legitimacy of the status quo.

Black mask collective did some beautiful stuff- did some regrettable stuff.  Their writing is intelligent but hopelessly nihilistic.

I have been spending my days reading reading reading.  Read Jerry Rubin’s books “DO IT!: Scenarios of the Revolution” and “We are Everywhere”.  Those kids were ballsy but got too caught up in personal liberation to make any lasting footholds.  We should be radical individualists, yes…but are we doing this for ourselves or the shorties?

Ian Welsh (via azspot)

We are in a strange spot- the point where basic liberal reform isn’t going to cut the mustard and we are having to stare at ever-glaring structural flaws and ruptures.  Don’t fear radicalism- radicalism as in “what are the root causes of these problems?”

American Neoliberalism is dissolving.  There is going to be an ever-growing pile of dissidents.  They are going to try to patch up the system to pacify the dangerous classes, but I don’t see anything working, short of basic social democracy…which would be a welcome change and a springboard to a brighter social evolution.

p.s.- pecan pie.

C. Arkansas Viral bidya.  You’ve probably already seen it.  Golden.

Really Really Free Market today at 3 under the broadway bridge down Arch St. in Little Rock

hushpoint:

Kropotkin.

I taught my classes today (Middle Schoolers) about Kropotkin & Mutual Aid. Makes me smile to see them embrace this idea. The theme of the year: “We get better by working together.”

cuddlebeans:

miniminkie:

aliciaedge:

lol

awww shit.

redguard:

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adamquinn:

claytoncubitt:

Unknown contemporary cartoon update of the 1911 ‘Pyramid Of Capitalist System’ (via Royal Constantine)

If anybody knows who the artist is, let me know, Google and TinEye only turn up uncredited copies. Every time you post an uncredited copy of an artist’s work, a kitten dies.

Excellent, I wanted a good graphic for my social hierarchy presentation so I wouldn’t have to spend 20 minutes explaining how power works to a bunch of moderates.

The truth

forgive the download time, we’ll chop it into bits soon enough. Ridiculous show.