Notices by mooncake (mooncake@anticapitalist.party), page 2

"Abolish ICE" is now a mainstream position but only in regards to ICE targeting families - nobody had a problem with ICE when it was Obama sending them to harass "felons, not families"

When will "abolish prisons" and "abolish the police" and "abolish the USA" become mainstream positions if ever?

"To equate dissent with subversion, as intelligence officials do, is to deny that the demand for change is based on real social, economic, or political conditions. A familiar example of this is the almost paranoid obsession with the 'agitator.'"

OH OH THEYRE TALKING ABOUT ME /s

So I read the sections on

- the murder of Fred Hampton
- the MOVE bombing
- other attempts to undermind black liberation movements

and it was a lot for me to read and process and i didnt really save any quotes or anything

just

know that the state will target POC first and kill us first - and will kill black and indigenous POC first. So

Keep that in mind when you're planning direct actions and which people you let into your circles

OPEN THE MOTHERFUCKING BORDERS

If you hate cops and you choose to exercise your right to protest, mask the fuck up

I'm so serious

"One question that I was interested in unpacking [in Carceral Capitalism] is what it means to cage people. What does it mean to have a world where if there’s some kind of social rupture that needs to be repaired, prisons are offered as the social solution? If we agree that people have certain basic needs—the need for meaningful activity, time in nature, the ability to socialize with people, the ability to work towards something in their lives—to me then, prisons seem anti-life." -- Jackie Wang

Good morning! You don’t hate Mondays, you hate capitalism

“What scholars of Europe call the ‘long peace,’ from 1815 to 1914, ended with two world wars. But keep in mind that during this period of long peace an estimated 120 million people were killed in the process of colonial expansion and ensuring the safety of the capitalist market.”

— Eqbal Ahmed, Confronting Empire

#introductions

Name: Mooncake
Pronouns: she/they

I live-toot anarchist theory/books, I boost my own toots

Prison abolition
Prisoner support
ACAB
Knitting but also I’m a total novice
Dogs
Anti-imperialism, anti-white supremacy, anti-capitalist, anti-border, anti-statist
:anarchismred:
Mutual aid is good
Asian(-American) and diaspora stuff, sometimes
https://anticapitalist.party/media/piOd17uKf-gB3DQbPQs

Please check out http://www.ianalanpaul.com/the-disappeared/

"''The Dis/Appeared' (2018) is an experimental video essay that examines the totalizing imposition of colonial perception in contemporary Palestine. The project theorizes the Israeli state’s establishment of perceptual regimes that confine the colonized to the liminal thresholds of view, never allowing Palestinians to entirely appear or disappear but instead perpetually rendering them dis/appeared..."

via @ianalanpaul

“Do people actually use Mastodon?”

Nope. Nobody is here. Absolutely no one.

@chr @amphetamine an end to capitalism is also and always:

- an end to wage labor
- an end to bosses
- an end to cops and policing
- an end to imperialism
- an end to colonial systems
- an end to property and propertarian relations
- an end to social death (see Ruth Wilson Gilmore)
- an end to ALL systems of domination and exploitation

ICE is the clearest example that we already live in a fascist dystopia and raids in people’s homes, work places, schools, and community spaces are wholly unconscionable

I liked this paragraph too much to split it up into multiple toot-quotes

And yes, I don't think Kropotkin or Goldman anticipated this. Even now, as this very "Quantified Self" that they speak of, I don't know how to stop it or opt out of being "a system-being which is itself part of an ensemble of complex information systems"

I find this stuff chilling and fascinating and I love/hate it

https://anticapitalist.party/media/eSD9Gko_y883A-dxsGY

"Cybernetic government is inherently apocalyptic. Its purpose is to locally impede the spontaneously entropic, chaotic movement of the world and to ensure 'enclaves of order,' of stability, and - who knows? - the perpetual self-regulation of systems, through the unrestrained, transparent, and controllable circulation of information."

"If so much satisfaction is derived from surveying the devastation of the environment it’s largely because this veils the shocking destruction of interiorities. Every oil spill, every sterile plain, every species extinction is an image of our souls in shreds, a reflection of our absence from the world, of our personal inability to inhabit it."

Here it is! My entire thread/live-toot of the Conquest of Bread, mostly done when I was on desk duty at work

https://anticapitalist.party/@mooncake/3716142

This is your reminder that a year ago, water protectors at Standing Rock were being shot at with water cannons, LRADs, attacked by police dogs, and so much more

This is your reminder that Indigenous resistance to settler colonialism is ongoing.

THE STATE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND

THE STATE WOULD HAVE YOU EXTERMINATED IF IT COULD

What I like about anarchism is that there is no faffing about WHO will lead the revolution - every person is capable of doing it. No fretting about the lumpenproletariat, etc etc etc. Every person can be a revolutionary. As long as you seek to undo hierarchies and systems of domination, you can be an anarchist.

At least that’s my understanding of it