ANARCHY NOW!

I just watched a new DVD released by AK Press called Anarchism in America. It's actually a re-release of a documentary made in the early 80's. I expected a lot more from it, but some of the interviews and news-reel footage made the weaknesses of the film very much worth it. What I was the most irritated by was the confusion created by the outlining of similarities between Anarchists and Libertarians. I understand that some contemporary anarchists (like Noam Chomsky) prefer to use the term "libertarian socialist" when describing their political philosophies, but the classical libertarian belief system (if you go by the libertarian party platform) has much more in common with feudalism than anarchism. Because, in my belief, if government is removed from the picture, capitalism must go with it. Otherwise corporations will just replace the government, and as much as Milton Friedman would just love that, it would be worse than any political dictatorship we've ever seen. I much prefer anarchists who emphasize the individual as part of the collective "we." Without individual liberty we can't be collectivists, and without a sense of cooperation we can't preserve our liberties. Classical libertarians want the right to exploit labor and smoke weed at the same time. Fucking selfish.

Anyhow, here's a clip from the movie of American anarchist Murray Bookchin talking about his conversion from Marxism to anarchism.

Finally

Hey y'all,

Sorry I haven't posted anything for a while, I got a job that has been keeping me very busy for the past week. Marx's idea of the Alienation of Labor has never been clearer to me than right now. But, thus is life I guess.

Anyways, I wanted to post this link for everyone. It's a video of Noam Chomsky debating William F. Buckley in 1969. It's pretty awesome (Chomsky obviously wins).

I've been watching a lot of world cup soccer lately. The Ghana versus Czech Republic game was especially interesting.

Okay, so I promise to keep updating on a regular basis. Peace Out!

A poem by Kenneth Rexroth

FROM THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE KRONSTADT REBELLION

Remember now there were others before this;
Now when the unwanted hours rise up,
And the sun rises red in unknown quarters,
And the constellations change places,
And cloudless thunder erases the furrows,
And moonlight stains and the stars grow hot.
Though the air is fetid, conscripted fathers,
With the black bloat of your dead faces;
Though men wander idling out of factories
Where turbine and hand are both freezing;
And the air clears at last above the chimneys;
Though mattresses curtain the windows;
And every hour hears the snarl of explosion;
Yet one shall rise up alone saying:
“I am one out of many, I have heard
Voices high in the air crying out commands;
Seen men’s bodies burst into torches;
Seen faun and maiden die in the night air raids;
Heard the watchwords exchanged in the alleys;
Felt hate speed the blood stream and fear curl the nerves.
I know too the last heavy maggot;
And know the trapped vertigo of impotence.
I have traveled prone and unwilling
In the dense processions through the shaken streets.
Shall we hang thus by taut navel strings
To this corrupt placenta till we’re flyblown;
Till our skulls are cracked by crow and kite
And our members become the business of ants,
Our teeth the collection of magpies?”
They shall rise up heroes, there will be many,
None will prevail against them at last.
They go saying each: “I am one of many”;
Their hands empty save for history.
They die at bridges, bridge gates, and drawbridges.
Remember now there were others before;
The sepulchres are full at ford and bridgehead.
There will be children with flowers there,
And lambs and golden-eyed lions there,
And people remembering in the future.

Okay, What The Fuck?

Here's another item to add onto the ever-expanding list of horrible things the CIA has done.

Confess or complain to a monkey in Belarus.

So for the past two days I've been sitting around in an under shirt and pajama pants, glued to C-SPAN like a deadbeat sopa opera fan, in order to catch every last minute of their dramatic new series "Senate Debates Gay Marriage Amendment." What a show! The baby-faced Rick Santorum gave a performance worthy of such adjectives as "stunning," "breath-taking," and "douche-baggy." With the help of giant blue plackards emblazoned with quotes from former Supreme Court decisions, Mr. Santorum made use of some of the classic catch-phrases that initially made him a star, like:

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything."

Sam Brownback was up to his old tricks again as well. In an unprecedented move he actually incorporated French legal theory and sociological empiricism straight out of the pot-smoking Netherlands into his speech. That's hardly fair! The one thing that liberal politicians could always count on was European precedent to back them up. I guess Democrats are going to have to start quoting scripture to catch up. *Le Sigh*.

I always hoped that I would never see anyone I knew listed as a casualty of war.

Oh, Kip, you were just a kid. I can't believe you had die for all this bullshit.

Some news from the UK

A Brit's eye view of Bushlandia.

Boycotting Yahoo.

Marijuana is good for you...I swear!

And, who would want to be a teenager these days?