Against Answers, Especially The Easy Ones; And Thoughts About The Limitations Of Social Movements

I normally would avoid responding to posts like these in an effort to avoid a counter-info site being watered down to twitter/4chan/reddit-level discourse drama entrapping us in ridiculous debate that has has callous disregard for, and clear ignorance of, people’s individual ideas, motives, beliefs. However, clearly you and I share similar frustrations and I would like to offer some thoughts and analysis to extend the conversation and promote anarchist discussion, and build upon, or alongside previous writings. Often poorly informed posts ignore the reality that anarchists in the present are in dialogue, attacking, and experimenting with the ferocity of negation, desire, and their stance/beliefs/lives as anarchists themselves, and doing all this with disregard for or subversion of the organizing, spoke-structures, hierarchy, or the limited aim of social/political movements. For evidence of the anarchism as previously mentioned, look no further than the “communique” category on this website(scenes.noblogs.org) . However, I want to introduce dialogue around the limitations of social movements, and the necessity, or desire of an anarchist desire that demands everything, namely by demanding nothing at all. https://crimethinc.com/2015/05/05/feature-why-we-dont-make-demands

I have an understanding that this counter-info site often serves as largely a subversion of and disregard for the organizing model and the limitations present within it. Among many other things, it allows dialogue between anarchists, and is a platform for the communication of critique, ideas, attack, and happenings.

All this is to say that no movement or group of people can represent me. It cannot represent any individual person, and any attempt to claim do so would be a compromise of individual beliefs.

So, let’s begin, one forest defender’s beliefs to another and hopefully to anarchists in general.

“Free every forest defender”
This will not happen unless the government believes forest defense no longer poses a threat to its power. If that happens, you’re probably doing something wrong.

I am an anarchist, therefore unsurprisingly also an abolitionist. I call for the freedom of every single prisoner regardless of anything, but because I want absolutely nothing less. the freedom of every prisoner will require the destruction of prisons, abolition of the police, abolition of the borders, capitalism, destruction of civilization, abolition of work, destruction of schools, media, governance itself, gender, dams, pipelines, telecommunications, race, electrical infrastructure, anthropocentrism, agriculture, animal agriculture, animal testing, speciesism entirely, the list goes on, there is nothing in this fabricated dystopia that does not constitute, enable, or require a prison. Some call this construct of a prison society the “totality”.

Here is a zine outlining some more thoughts on prisons including “the totality”.
https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/prisons/3-positions-prison/

“Drop every charge”

See above.

See above

“Cancel the Cop City project”

Cop City is everywhere. If Atlanta cancels, that’s just the beginning, not the end. Not only are there Cop City projects being proposed worldwide there are many that already exist. End all of them.

I agree that there are countless cop cities, and this is an indefinite struggle, that the demand of the end of a singular cop city is limited in desire and scope, and that I hope it manages to culminate in something that attacks governance, civilization, and the “deadness” of society. Regardless there will always be anarchists and people who are attempting to be free and there will always be people attempting to control. It is important to attack, resist, and be hostile towards control, and to attempt to move towards freedom, anarchy, and attempt to stop time, and to break open spaces of freedom. We have clear evidence of our capability to attack, spread attack. Hostility, experimentation, and pure negation is the only dignified response and position as anarchists to civilization, totality, and the deadness, our dreams can be larger than just stopping cop city. The stopping or interruption of the regular maintenance and progression of this world can be found in the pursuit of our desires, the negation of what exists, and an attack against anything that constitutes, enables, or requires the prison society. The regular flows of the totality can be attacked.

A zine on “deadness” among criminal intimacy/queerness https://warzonedistro.noblogs.org/post/2017/09/14/criminal-intimacy/

“Reverse the land swap”

You mean reverse the land swap between the U.S.A. and every indigenous people they have expropriated. Right?

I definitely believe in land-back and the absolute destruction of the united states of america and all governance.

“Protect & restore the Weelaunee Forest”

They’re not gonna do that. Liberals want to frame what’s happening as a “Constitutional crisis facing Atlanta-area government” because this does not challenge the legitimacy of the 250-year old piece of toilet paper known as the U.S. Constitution or the local government of a slave state. If the movement had allowed itself to be dominated by liberals from the beginning, construction of Cop City would have progressed much further than it has so far. Don’t let them stamp out the guiding flames. Combat liberalism within your milieu and yourself; sharpen your critique and sharpen your knives, because the struggle will go on, with or without us. Kill the counterinsurgency operation in your head.

Agreed.