no kkkings
No KKKings – Towards a united, anti-imperialist front (2025) by anonymous
via 15 pg kindle version from anarchist library [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/no-kkkings]
notes/quotes:
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“Whatever is unprincipled, incorrect, and counterproductive about you and your style of work, you have to be willing to subject to the rapier knife of revolutionary criticism if you are serious about creating a revolution. Everything — action or inaction, the way you relate to people you work with, how you deal with the masses, how you deal with your family, how you deal with personal relationships, how you deal with people with whom you disagree has to be open to criticism and self-criticism. None of us is perfect, but we all claim to want to create a revolution. *In order to create this revolution we must be willing to sublimate our egos for the good of the movement and suffer death of these egos by a thousand cuts. It is only when we are able to do this that we will truly be able to move forward and create a revolution-and win… We cannot organize our communities for revolution if we cannot resolve the contradictions among ourselves…There is no separate way in a revolutionary struggle. **We’re all either in this together or we’re working at odds with each other. The sooner we recognize this and begin seriously working to resolve the contradictions among us, the sooner we can seriously begin to build a foundation for revolution… We can no longer afford the luxury of rumormongering, making unsubstantiated allegations, or harboring ill feelings without airing them.”
*rather.. willing to let go enough to try/see the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
pearson unconditional law et al.. nothing we’ve tried/seen has let go enough to trust the dance
**exactly.. but not shown even throughout this paper.. and ‘resolving contradictions’ will be yet another cancerous distraction
– Safiya Bukhari, The War Before
Operating from within the u.s. empire, there are many contradictions that run rampant in our movements — so much so that sometimes, the movements we foolishly perceive as posing a challenge to the state are actually reinforcing its violence.
actually.. all of them to date.. ie: nothing to date has gotten to the root of problem
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
We must always remember that every unprincipled choice and counter-insurgent action we take are done from within the belly of the beast — and in order to kill that beast, we most first resolve the contradictions that fuel its forward motion.
forward motion is by any form of m\a\p
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Workshops4Gaza was instrumental in uplifting the demands of T Hoxha’s hunger strike, while many others in the west who participate in the settler solidarity industrial complex were largely silent and dismissed it altogether. Tragically, this is too often the case in our spineless movements that routinely forsake the few militants brave enough to engage in true rebellion against the system. “Solidarity” in the west is an entire industry of ted talks, webinars, op-eds, and other activity meant to uphold reformism and pacify militancy.
nothing to date.. need something legit diff
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Right after Casey began their hunger strike, Workshops4Gaza released a statement written by Casey in solidarity with T. Hoxha. In this statement, Casey expressed the importance of continuing to center Palestine, and of working to support the political agency of the movement’s captured militants — whose only weapon left within the dungeons that cage them are their minds and wills. The hunger strike is a sacred form of resistance undertaken as a last resort by those who have had everything else taken from them
We must take care to differentiate between antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions, and to distinguish between enemies and potential friends. Too often, we see organisers reject co-strugglers in order to appeal to liberal institutions that will never be on our side. They may frame the conservative path as the only strategic option, rejecting open support for armed struggle, militant direct action, and anything else that would create “bad optics.” Disagreements from co-strugglers are treated as threats worse than that of liberal media, who we must appeal to for sympathy, or Zionists and cops, who we must appease for our safety. When our enemies attack us anyways, these organisers pin the blame not on the perpetrators but on the co-strugglers who deviate from their line. They forget that to be attacked by the enemy is not a bad thing but a good thing. Our enemies do not strive for unity with us, knowing that ours is an antagonistic contradiction, knowing that our collective liberation requires their annihilation. It is better that we, too, abandon any notions of conciliation and recognise our enemies as enemies.
oi.. same song.. so cancerous distractions.. you just said has to be all.. all means all.. sans any form of us & them ness
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For all these reasons, we urge people to draw a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves. Abandon the euphemisms and name our enemies. When we struggle through our differences, let us do so with a shared understanding of what we are for and what we are against.”
again.. cancerous distractions.. all means all.. sans any form of us & them ness
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Assata Shakur put it best. “Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people’s freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism’s tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberat
none of us are free ness
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Letting all of your decisions be guided by considerations of “safety” alone ultimately legitimizes the violent reign of the state. It allows the enemy to set the terms of our struggle, to the point where we can only ever be on the defensive, and never on the offensive. But taking an offensive position and upholding and defending militant acts is the only way to sustain the forward motion of our movements.
yes to letting go of defense.. any form of re ness.. but then you add.. oi
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This moment has plainly revealed that our movements are not nearly as abolitionist, anti-racist, or anti-imperialist as they claim to be. This is the moment to name just exactly why we are not, and it’s past time we name how to get to where we need to be. It certainly cannot be through continuing to idolize and platform people who use their social capital to destroy the lives of principled organizers.
nothing to date about legit freedom..
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But but but how can you be so carceral? Eric is just a traumatized man?
Being able to recognize and acknowledge everything that contributed to getting to this moment is important, but that does not inherently serve as a justification for these actions. Eric cannot be forgiven for committing the harm he did just because he is a traumatized individual, because frankly, what form of harm would anyone ever be held accountable for if this was always the convenient excuse?
but there’s that in all of us.. to some degree.. only way out (hari rat park law et al) is via the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
Contextualizing why Eric might have jumped to the escalatory methods he did is really vital to making sense of how we prevent others from following in his footsteps, but contextualization is not an opportunity to entrench excuses or to justify the behavior he enacted. That’s a super dangerous precedent to set.
more ‘dangerous’ to not.. ie: everything we’ve tried to date has gotten/kept us here
Workshops4Gaza released a very thorough response to this point that we will uplift at this time.
“d if that is requested. All other people, organizations, businesses and groups that promote, associate with or support Eric and Josh without calling out their unprincipled and damaging behavior are also complicit in this harm.”
nothing is going to work.. be different.. until we quit casting stone s.. pointing fingers.. us & them ing..
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While nothing can be done to erase the harm caused by the co-conspirators of this fed-jacketing campaign, we collectively have the opportunity to set the tone going further, to ensure that no one ever feels emboldened and untouchable to ever do any of this again. We must raise the standard and ensure these dangerous, unprincipled actions do not continue to go excused because the white men engaging in them are shielded from any rightfully deserved criticism
that’s not ‘raising standards’.. that’s just perpetuating same song.. just perpetuating myth of tragedy and lord ness et al
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If this is not possible, these motherfuckers need to leave our spaces entirely. This is the same filth and violence we all ought to stand staunchly against, and it is unacceptable it is now breeding in spaces we are meant to be safe from it and further driving women and people of color away.
ie of us & them
We anticipate that some people, namely those that have continued to worship and stand behind Eric and Josh despite everything, will argue that this is all too harsh. But we simply do not care. We see the double standard — where a woman of color can have her anonymity stolen from her in a public humiliation ritual by white men who want to punish her for her politics that challenge their comfort.
so too a ‘double standard’ to say it has to be all.. then select out a few ‘dangerous’ ones..
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