Nish🌿🏴 (@convivialmeans on kolektiva and blsky)
@nsheorey
Researcher/organizer interested in the socio-material organization of energy systems, recommoning, decolonial movements, and socio-ecological justice. he/him
I think being on twitter is ultimately doing me more harm than good, so probably going to wind down my presence here now that I've shared this piece. convivialmeans.noblogs.org/post/2025/02/0…
I feel like people who want this kind of thing sort of just don't understand... people? The "we only need x layers of delegation to cover the whole world" thing is particularly absurd.
i get the appeal of dreaming big, but hoping for the creation of a single great all-encompassing anarchist federation is… silly
I'd go one further and say the real problem here is that's dreaming too small! A "great anarchist federation", you say? how quaint and parochial your aspirations.
i get the appeal of dreaming big, but hoping for the creation of a single great all-encompassing anarchist federation is… silly
No one has a worse understanding of people and history than Liberals
The normative desire to realize freedom for all. The project of abolishing coercive & hierarchical systems that stand in the way of that freedom. Bottom-up efforts to prefigure alternative arrangements grounded in voluntary association. A movement surrounding these projects.
what is anarchism?
Sorry to have to ask again. Thanks to everyone who helped out earlier this month. I'm living as frugally as I can to make any help I get stretch. I appreciate any donations or shares. Making progress on my situation, but it's still uncertain. Thanks, fam🖤 ko-fi.com/basedopossum
Mutual aid and affinity (groups) are the foundational building blocks of radical sociopolitical change, and, to me, represent what I personally see as the defining feature of anarchism: the understanding of autonomy and solidarity as two sides of the same coin
I feel like the 'left' would benefit from a much deeper understanding of ecology, which would immensely improve both sociotechnical critique as well as organisational analysis
Very much feels like the vast majority of critiques of the dietary component of veganism are based on 1) ignorance of the modern food system, 2) a lack of cooking skills and an unwillingness to learn, or 3) both.
with all the atrocities and abuses that have existed in the service of the production of fruits and vegetables, i do not believe that being vegan is notably more ethical than not being vegan
People who describe Marxism Leninism as a Science have the highest confidence to ignorance ratio you’ll ever encounter
An alternative modernity that was still industrializing at a dizzying rate, colonizing, building mass prison and labor camps, with a class system, etc. Tolerable to who? The bureaucratic class? Surely not the imprisoned, the colonized, etc.
You know, whatever else you can say about the Soviets, but they offered an alternative modernity. A tolerable world. There is nothing - NOTHING - like that in today's world. Dubai, Brooklyn, even the China that incredible things are happening in, they're all the same awful thing
Does anyone know of and have access to anything like a long term study of changes in tick populations in North America?
No one need take these folks seriously. They're actively opposed to intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and self awareness or growth. They use science as a rhetorical weapon while being some of the most scientifically illiterate and dogmatic people on earth. Embarrassing.
Eclecticism as a principle is not virtuous. “To be radical is to get to grasp things by the root”, and to do otherwise is to blunt/weaken your ideas Marxism is the accumulated historical experience of the working class, scientifically synthesized. It is totalizing bc it is true
Last thing I'm going to say here is that people already tend towards the formation of all kinds of relationships depending on the context, and facilitating the growth of those relationships (and the ecosystem) is great! I just don't see the need to fit this into artificial forms.
I feel like people who want this kind of thing sort of just don't understand... people? The "we only need x layers of delegation to cover the whole world" thing is particularly absurd.
Here is a list of texts (mostly books), in no particular order, that strongly influenced my shift towards anti-orgism, anti-hegemony, & anarchy rooted in negation. More notes at the bottom: Against His-Story, Against Leviathan, Fredy Perlman No Spiritual Surrender, Klee Benally
would anybody be interested in me compiling a list of texts (most of which i first read over the past year) that strongly shifted my perspective towards anti-orgism and anti-hegemony (as opposed to counter-hegemony)?