The institution of The Family is a force of political suppression; reactionaries know that and that’s why they love it so much.

The police intervention at Columbia and other schools is appaling. The time has come for the US to adopt the (Mexican) principle of university autonomy: cops and soldiers are barred from entering campuses by federal law.

Ordinary people are going to have to rise up. These kids cannot protect themselves against riot cops with linked arms singing songs. Every single person of conscience in this country has to resist.

Leaders give the State a locus of power to either imprison, kill, or co-opt. They do not know how to deal with decentralized movements that aim to disrupt rather than grasp for existing political power. They say so repeatedly in their own counterinsurgency manuals.

even the FAO recognizes that gardens already feed the majority of the world and can be 25x productive per area than agriculture.

2 chestnut trees will produce most of the grain-quality nutrition a person needs a year, so in the right climate a few trees per family create food

if you share this image and you haven't already achieved victory and you haven't already won power just know that you've wound up worse than those who critique power. you don't even measure up to a critique of power. you're a critic of critics at best.

To claim that leftists taking office in the state is 'victory' is as absurd as suggesting that leftists achieving executive positions in lockheed martin is advancing communism.

AshleyStevens The squad operates in the same way Obama does. To help keep the burgeoning young Left at bay.

Six lessons from previous occupations

'The true meaning of Marx’s work is that he regrets that I have thought like him everywhere, and that I was the first to say it. The reader is led to believe that it is Marx who, after reading me, regrets thinking like me! What a man!' - Proudhon

People are absolutely taking the wrong lesson from this the real lesson is that attempting to police your own movement to 'keep people safe' doesn't do shit. Do not comply resist the police

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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He doesn’t know what fascism is he’s obviously using it as a substitute for authoritarianism which means he’s calling anything not peaceful/violent authoritarian.

Engels “On Authority” still haunts us to this day I hate it.

Occupy did work in the sense that it dragged the left kicking and screaming from oblivion back into relevance so that annoying dipshits like you could be soc dems and not Obama supporters

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

People think this is shocking but the Executive has claimed this exact authority, the authority to kill anyone on earth the moment they step of US soil, since the Obama administration: it's the legal justification for the drone program

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Expecting the state to become a tool of liberation for the working classes if you put people in charge of it who have an ideology that wants to liberate the working classes is like putting a pilot in the driver's seat of a car and expecting the car to fly

5. David Graeber's The Democracy Project is a really good history of Occupy from one of the people who made it happen, his Direct Action: An Ethnography is great for the Global Justice Movement and summit hopping.

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

It is not a smear for news articles to be calling Aaron Bushnell an anarchist. He factually was an anarchist. And that is good. Anarchism is a liberatory ideology predicated on opposition to all hierarchical power structures and their replacement by a horizontal society.