kittenlikeasmallcat @kittenlikeasmallcat@anarchism.space

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Apple has been pissing me off less with it's ports and it's self-repair toolkits and it's packaging. Idk mabye I need to rage out at some good old fashioned anti mac propaganda soon and get my perspective back.

Poppy Covered Jack Off Jill?!?! https://open.spotify.com/track/1iJDsSrrVM1GrToPOMnq0e?si=0ccf70ddf9c04266 #nowplaying

Another slightly more liberal but still coherent take on this conversation: https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/how-we-end-consumerism/

If it means they get to keep consuming, anarcho-consumers would happily define everything from pesticides to slaughterhouses to automobile plants as “needed”. This is the power of democracy. Whatever narrative the collective adopts becomes the official, approved narrative and anyone questioning it will be seen as subversive and dangerous and a threat to order and common decency.

Ancoms insist “people would choose to produce only what is needed” in an anarcho-communist society. That word; "needed" is really useless. Anyone can define anything as being "needed", but almost none of the things defined as such are actually needed. This is why industrial communism isn't really compatible with anarchy: anything and everything will be defined as "needed" by domesticated people, no matter how authority-forming the things are.

Red anarchists throw every insult in the book at me when I voice my doubts about their wistful ideologies; condemning me for being critical of the amazing breadman Kropotkin or their “green industry” tsar Professor Bookchin... It’s hard to give my perspective as an indigenous anarchist to these people who are so hostile to any worldview that doesn’t validate their luxurious industrial lifestyle ...

I'm hesitant to imagine that ancoms at large don't intend to abolish anything to do with producing non-sustainable consumer goods. I'm referencing: "I keep saying this in my writing but here I go again: In an industrial society that aims to give everyone in the world equal access to consumer goods, industry does not decrease; it increases."

I'm not sure I see every characterization of anarchocommunists made by the author of burn the bread book is well informed, but I do see why it's imperative to say many of these things, even if they're partially based in ignorance. I'm mainly looking at the "For some reason ancoms think assholes would cease to exist in a communist society." line. Obviously, though, a lot of these criticisms hit the nail on the head.

The settler-farmers who are burning what’s left of the Amazon rainforest to the ground say they’re doing it for their children... To make the cash to pay for their children to be educated and get good jobs in the city. It shouldn’t be controversial for me to say civilized people value their civilized life and will always put their civilized needs before the needs of uncivilized others.

So when faced with the conundrum that the anarcho-communist city needs lumber, paper, corn and meat, and the only thing standing in the way of production is a few indigenous tribes, the ancom will put their anarcho-Spock ears on and declare: “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”.

Direct food is the only anarchist mode of production. When other people are tasked with growing your food, they will take shortcuts because the food isn’t going into their own mouths or the mouths of their loved ones. Food harvesting needs to go back to being a way of life for every able-bodied person, rather than something industrial farm workers are tasked with to serve an elite class of privileged office workers who are completely disconnected from the food chain.

Bread and other industrial products alienate us from our ecosystem and cause us to stop caring about how our food is produced, so long as it’s there in the store when we want to eat it. Putting food production back into the control of the individual is the only way to preserve the ecosystem.

It’s worth noting that the baker, like most people in my village, and in fact most people on the island, considers himself a communist. The village has a “communist party” clubhouse and they always elect “communist” local leaders and vote for “communist” politicians in the national elections.

In just a few years, all the fruits, nuts and berries that sustained the people in the area for millennia are wiped out and replaced with a consumer product that is made from a single grain crop. A thriving ecosystem has been replaced with a wheat monoculture that could collapse at any moment and take the lives of everyone it feeds with it.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-burn-the-bread-book-make-anarchy