I literally just got fucking scolded and told I have some “accountability for my behavior” or whatever because I replied to someone who was insulting me, defaming my character, and lying about me with “Fuck you, you lying piece of shit.” This isn’t the first time this has happened, and it’s always in these anarchist/“radical” mutual aid groups. I was flabbergasted. It was like I was on some other planet.
The Tyranny of Structurelessness, by Jo Freeman.
“Because elites are informal does not mean they are invisible. At any small group meeting anyone with a sharp eye and an acute ear can tell who is influencing whom. The members of a friendship group will relate more to each other than to other people. They listen more attentively, and interrupt less; they repeat each other’s points and give in amiably; they tend to ignore or grapple with the “outs” whose approval is not necessary for making a decision.”
Fun fact there are like three different trans socials in dublin. One is irrelevant. One sucks, and the other is for trans fems.
The one for trans fems was TAKEN OVER BY A FUCKING POLYCULE AT SOME POINT. SO if you went it would be super fucking awkward to try to socialize because a fucking polycule would be 80% of the people there and if they didn’t find you hot or interesting enough to join the polycule they wouldn’t talk to you.
So now the transfer social has a representation with local transfems (who aren’t babytrans) of just being a big weird anarchist polycule. IDK if its still like that or if it still goes on. THe trans rights non profit shit down its building where it was hosted.
But this article is reminding me how these anarchist “no organizer” shit always ends up being toxic.
Yeah “political org that’s actually just a Polycule” seems to be an oddly common experience around here.
We should unironically enforce volcel police in our political organizations to combat this bullshit.
Problem is, you get a bunch of like minded young people together doing activities, some of them are gonna want to fuck each other.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
Reminds me of our student movement here too.
They started out as anti-political essentially anarchist with some lib talking points about “democracy and a state that respects the law”. To turning to electoralism and shit.
Only the be infiltrated by NGO’s that are both lib and right wing lmao. The whole thing is essentially over now. People were hyping this up mind you to be a revolution.
I assume this isn’t Nepal because you don’t mention riots, but this playbook seems very commonplace nowadays.
Yeah, It’s Serbia. We had ironically the most organized anarchist-ish student movement that didn’t really succeed much lol.