A Brief Chat v.2
Due to some difficulties and shoddy linking...
Everything Is Dangerous posted a "brief chat" between a guy named Joshua Stephens and my friend/comrade, Harjit Singh Gill. The dialogue brings up some points that very much need addressing within North American anarchist circles. I HIGHLY encourage you all to check it out, engage the discussion (online or better yet- in person amongst friends/comrades), and help build a future.
"I think it’s imperative anarchists and socialists of all stripes up the ante on their level of understanding with regard to capitalism. Pretending it will collapse while we sit on our hands is naive at best."
"Much of the most visible self-identified anarchist milieu in this country was produced by the punk scene. And the punk scene largely provides what is a generally age-appropriate politics of negation. It's necessary, at a certain stage, to say "no" or (better yet) "fuck you" to any number of traditions, institutions, etc. that get hoisted onto us. Straighedge, veganism -- things that have served me quite well, mind you -- are effectively a politics of what one doesn't do. They line up nicely with the purity/athenticity debates that result when perfectly reasonable skepticism about co-optation devolves into mindless pablum. But eventually, one has to come around to grapple with what one is willing to say "yes" to."
" The terms of the conversation need to be less about the righteousness of hedonistic and individualist impulses, and more about our collective responsibility."
Everything Is Dangerous posted a "brief chat" between a guy named Joshua Stephens and my friend/comrade, Harjit Singh Gill. The dialogue brings up some points that very much need addressing within North American anarchist circles. I HIGHLY encourage you all to check it out, engage the discussion (online or better yet- in person amongst friends/comrades), and help build a future.
"I think it’s imperative anarchists and socialists of all stripes up the ante on their level of understanding with regard to capitalism. Pretending it will collapse while we sit on our hands is naive at best."
"Much of the most visible self-identified anarchist milieu in this country was produced by the punk scene. And the punk scene largely provides what is a generally age-appropriate politics of negation. It's necessary, at a certain stage, to say "no" or (better yet) "fuck you" to any number of traditions, institutions, etc. that get hoisted onto us. Straighedge, veganism -- things that have served me quite well, mind you -- are effectively a politics of what one doesn't do. They line up nicely with the purity/athenticity debates that result when perfectly reasonable skepticism about co-optation devolves into mindless pablum. But eventually, one has to come around to grapple with what one is willing to say "yes" to."
" The terms of the conversation need to be less about the righteousness of hedonistic and individualist impulses, and more about our collective responsibility."
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