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I agree discord is a shit platform for privacy. I also think that most of the time the top one priority is to create a community with a low entry barrier so anyone can organize and work together. And discord works well because a lot of people use it.

But again, if your group can move to another platform where you have privacy that's amazing and you should definitely do it. Try element.io to replace discord or signal.org to replace telegram and whatsapp.

It's not like you have to be in healthcare to get gloves. And they're not expensive.

Some people are concerned about prints going through them ... but I can't imagine being able to get good prints off of paper that somebody has touched with nitrile gloves. Wear two layers if you're worried.

Oh boy!

About a week and half ago I finished Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, which directly address your question.

No, "efficiency", as defined by capitalists, is definitely not profitable. The goal of Wall Street with corporate buyouts and consolidation is to make a company more liquid. The faster money can change hands the better. Everything on Wall Street is liquid, especially the employees. Wall Streets hires and fires people left and right all the time. Good times, bad times, middle times it's a shit show. And then they act surprised when suddenly they don't have people for some market, or they're understaffed in some way, they scramble, overshoot their target, rinse and repeat ad infinitum.

They're focused entirely on quarterly earnings rather than long term growth. They honestly think that if you're always posting higher numbers every quarter it's good for the economy even though the economy runs entirely on labor, which they'll treat like it's "fuck you" money and throw it away. But higher quarterly earnings is the basis of financial efficiency, making sure you're always getting more and more money and the other aspects of running a business are "in their place at the right quantities".

Yet somehow the economy is doing well while people die from all sorts of things and starve and can't pay for necessary goods and services.

Nah, efficiency isn't profitable, nor is it sustainable for them or us.

She almost singlehandedly kept this sub honest. Did more work than all the other mods combined. This is really fucked.

There's also a big gaping hole now re: active women on the mod team because of this. She was consistently the only mod that stood up for anarcha-feminism since the last purge of mods by the admins. The only active mod that was willing to talk back to manarchists and brocialists.

The suspension notice claims she approved a post containing 'personal information'. The post in question:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/9804tc/organizers_of_the_national_march_against_far_left/

If anyone needs to reach faolin (even just to thank her for her tireless work), you can do so on raddle where she mods several forums including:

https://raddle.me/f/Anarchism

Just click on her name on the mod list there and shoot her a direct message.

EDIT: Just talked to faolin again. She had no idea there were names of nazis on that twitter feed. She glanced at it on her phone and approved it without seeing the names. She's really broken up about it because she devoted so much of her time to maintaining this reddit sub.

She has to approve a flood of comments and posts everyday, has one slip up, fascists notice it a week later and flood the admins with messages demanding she be banned, and they comply.

Reddit admins are just shitty. Mods volunteer to spend hours a day maintaining this site for the admins and reddit shareholders without pay or any kind of gratitude, to keep their cash flowing so fucking /u/spez can have his private yacht and bugout survival island, and they just discard them like trash without any warning. And then the mods are left feeling like they wasted years of their life.

Reminder that Raddle is a thing.

Raddle: What is wrong with reddit?

Edit: I hadn't heard the bad things about raddle until today. Definitely something to keep in mind; thank you, friends.

You can't free a people by invading them. That is literally the opposite of freedom.

Cuba had a revolution 50 years ago to remove their local ruling class from power, and in the process the United States attempted an invasion in theory to free the people from Communism. The US was soundly defeated by the people of Cuba (Bay of Pigs), who, even if they weren't crazy about Communism, had no interest in the US imposing their political will on their land. The same happened in Vietnam. The US was sent home with its tail between its legs, even after killing four million Vietnamese, because the Vietnamese knew that imposition from imperial forces was even worse than local tyrants.

You literally couldn't imagine a bigger bully than the government you work for. They've killed so many millions of people (100 million Africans, 100 million Native Americans, 1 million in the Phillipines, Hundreds of thousands across Latin America, 3 million Koreans, 4 million Vietnamese, 1 million Iraqis), and we spend more money on our military than the rest of the world combined. We constantly trample all over other people's democracies and install and support dictators all over the planet to suit our own needs.

If you've got some time, check any one or many of these books:

• The Freedom - Christian Parenti (about Iraq specifically)
• War is a Racket - Smedley Butler (about War in general)
• Open Veins of Latin America - Eduardo Galeano (about our rampaging through Latin America over the last 500 years)
• The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein (about our use of shock and terror to undermine democracies all over the planet)
• A People's History of the United States (to gain some perspective that the people in the United States are wonderful and beautiful, despite their wretched masters in industry and government)

>A US airstrike appears to have hit a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in the Afghan city of Kunduz, killing nine staff members and injuring up to 37 people.

Afghanistan... wasn't that one of those two countries where Obama supposedly ended the war? I guess those are friendly peace-bombs then.

Buy information and free its licence

I would buy something like the source code of an important proprietary software then open source its licence with something like the General Public License. Or something similar with the blueprints of an important piece of hardware. It could also be done with art by buying an important song/film/book and licensing it with with something like Creative Commons. I think it could also be done with science data by building on the idea of Aaron Swartz.

There's actually an entire book written on the subject.

Amazon link

I can't remember what the statistic is, but, I want to say it was something like 90% of the "terrorists" that have been arrested have been FBI setups. So, pretty much only ten percent are real.

To be fair, there was an article calling the admins out on it which, in my guess, was the actual reason they did. Not saying the admins aren't fascist sympathizers, just that they'll only take action when media attention gets just negative enough to affect advertising revenue.

Don't forget that over the site's history, they allowed some deplorable shit on the site until it gained mainstream media attention, such as the old /r/jailbait fiasco, as with the banning of subs like /r/niggers, /r/greatapes, /r/fatpeoplehate, etc. They even used Ellen Pao as a scapegoat for when the entire site was screaming about censorship when that last sub was banned.

Greenwald's commentary: One Day After Warning Russia of Civilian Casualties, the U.S. Bombs a Hospital in Afghanistan

I was happily surprised by the popular reaction during this demonstration in Lille where the crowd started chanting "Fascists Out!" and pushed them back.

>A carpenter might be good at making cabinets, an expert at it even, but that doesn't make them an authority. Their talent doesn't give them the right to assert authority; power over anyone. Authority is not simply an isolated instance of a person using force. Authority is a distinct on-going social relationship between people. A coercive relationship that has been legitimized by our authoritarian hierarchical society. It's a relationship where authority figures assert power over less-powerful individuals in their care. These individuals are expected to submit to this mighty authority figure and obey their commands unwaveringly.

https://raddle.me/wiki/expertise_vs_authority

> Praxology is a tool not an ideology.

It presupposes, without any evidence, a given view of all sorts of things. Like, for example, human free will, the natural of rational thought, the nature of intention, and the definition of humanity insofar as it relates to action. Then it uses these beliefs to found a theory of economics that gives prescriptions for behavior. That is almost the exact definition of ideology:

>the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group. *

We would benefit a lot from a federated reddit alternative akin to Mastodon. Federation would mean there could be instances for other interests, thus not alienating non-leftists as raddle might. It also means decentralisation, thus no corporate bullshit like reddit cashing in on hosting fascist propaganda. Sure, they would be able to host themselves, but the larger net could just cut them off.

Lydon is Irish and grew up in England at a time where anti-Irish sentiment was high. The title of his autobiography is a reference to infamous racist signs some shops would put up in the years after WWII. It's not meant to be racist itself.

I think the sign's referring to the terrorist/freedom fighter definition. Original quote here.

Edit: someone downvoted Okina for, essentially, asking a question. Bad form.

https://protonmail.com/

It's offshore and encrypts the e-mail, so even if they were lawfully willed into giving up data, it'd just be encrypted blobs.

Edit, also check out Signal messaging app if you haven't already. Signal was founded by an outspoken anarchist, Moxie Marlinspike

There was an interview or a podcast that I listened to a while back, and naturally I can't seem to find it – but anyway a communist/anarchist (I forget which) guy from North America went down on a field trip to investigate the worker self-management movement in South America (Argentina, I think.) Edit: /u/takepossession found it here and is now my new hero. Congratulations – your cetificate is in the post.

He said that they are very much based in what could be called praxis if you dig the term, or the actual process of making things happen with a direct democratic approach and with respect for dissensus.

The guy was interesting, but so very decandent and unaware of it. I remember he mentioned that when he asked the workers about how they navigate through people identifying with different philosophies of anarchism/communism they just laughed at him for the question being so irrelevant.

I think the TL;DR of is it that doing things is more important than ensuring that everyone is toeing the party line.

Denver: The usual place in front of the capitol building near Colfax and Broadway. It's going to be warm this year instead of snowing all day like last year!

This Facebook Event created by Occupy Denver gives a time of 12pm.

There was a "fork", or whatever it should be called, a year or so back... I have not saved the link, after some duckduckgoing I find https://raddle.me/ which looks to be it. It may be what you are looking for.

felix the cat! love these old style comic strips from the 1940s & 1950s

here's a couple of links:

https://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html (scroll down to FELIX FRIDAY)

and from that blog post, a link to a collection of the original author's work:

https://www.amazon.com/Felix-Cats-Greatest-Comic-Tails/dp/1600107052/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_2

apologies for amazon link, might be avaliable somewhere else

also, sort of related but also unrelated: alan moore's graphic novels (& graphic novels in general) were one of the first things that suggested to me that, actually, there's more to things than just whatever the X default status quo is

Bakunin quote : Quoted in Daniel Guerin, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1970), pp. 25–26.

Stalin quote : To his mother in the 1930's as quoted in <em>Young Stalin</em> (2007) by Simon Sebag Montefiore.

I actually went to a direct democratic anarchist inspired school. Forsøksgymnaset i Oslo. The teachers did not grade the students, all decisions were done democratically, we could come and go as we liked, and we had to take full responsibility of our own education. We once even voted to replace a teacher because he didn't work out.

Otherwise, it worked like a regular school. We picked the subjects we wanted to study, the teachers shared their knowledge and we were graded by a final exam. It worked great for me. A few dropped out, but they wouldn't have completed a regular school either. But I became a life long anarchist.

>If you don't understand calculation problem, marginal value, global capitalism, freedom, income mobility, regulations, innovations in the first place of course you'll end up as a commie. What did you expect?

Lmfao. I see somebody just finished Economics in One Lesson

It depends. I have accounts that can be traced back to me (like this one) with only a little work. I have accounts that are my full name. I have accounts that appear to have nothing to do with me at all.

What you're looking for is threat modeling and knowing how extreme you need to be in certain situations. Unfortunately, resisting the all seeing eye of nation states is about as difficult as it can get.

There's nothing I can write here that isn't already covered better by the EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Guide. Read it, download it, use it. Another great resource is privacytools.io (/r/privacytoolsIO) which is a bit more focused on being easy to understand.

Specific answers:

1. Depends. Everything from nothing to Tor over a temporary OS like Whonix off wifi that doesn't belong to me.
2. Not at all.
3. Moving away from Gmail is great, but as long as you email people also on Gmail, then it doesn't really matter (unless you can convince them to use PGP, but that is never ever going to happen).
4. VPN should be sufficient with internet kill switch enabled. Seedbox paid with non traceable currency is useful, but you still need to download from it in which case you'll be using a VPN anyway. They're more about bandwidth and speed than anything else.

Some general rules: open source or you can't trust it, avoid companies in nations that compel them to handover data (US for example), get as many other people doing this as possible - defeating mass surveillance works best when everyone does it forcing them to target individuals instead (slower and more expensive).

You're right, but that's for just <code>rm</code>, which removes files and directories. The apt-get remove command uninstalls software using <code>apt-get</code>, which uses different flags. Hope that helps!

> My essay analyzes similar politico-philosophics: monetarily penalizing governmental allowance of racially instigated social deterioration is were ethno-nationalism and Techno-Commercialism converge.

Seriously, what the fuck is with the alt-right and the compulsive need to write in as dense and unreadable a flow of words as is humanly possible? Didn't their English 101 teachers ever show them Zinsser's "On Writing Well"? Make your ideas complex, not your words and sentence structure. The average person being unable to untangle your writing doesn't mean you're some braniac; it means you're a pompous dandy with communication issues.

And for the record, here's my attempt to clean this shit up into plain English:

> My essay analyzes similar political theory: fining the government for allowing social decay caused by race is where ethnic nationalism and industrial capitalism* meet.

Based on what I can dig up on "techno-commercialism" or whatever the fuck they're calling it now, that's the most reasonable approximation I can muster.

Orwell uses "Communists" to mean the Stalinists. The anarchists were communists too; the CNT officially called for "libertarian communism".

Stalin's Great Purge coincided almost exactly with the timing of the Spanish Civil War. All opponents of Stalin were being exterminated: anarchists, Trotskysts, independent socialists, etc. Even some of Stalin's most loyal followers become victims due to rumor and paranoia. Orwell didn't know the full extent of the purges because news of the executions wasn't widely published in the West until after Khrushchev's Secret Speech, six years after Orwell had died. This is not to say that Orwell was naive or ignorant. He was always extremely critical of Stalinism, often going against the grain of the educated British left in his attacks on the USSR. The news would not have surprised Orwell, nor would the fact that it was covered up for two decades with the help of western intellectuals.

How do Marxist-Lenists justify their behavior, specifically restoring class division and managerial control, and reconcile it with communist theory? Badly. To see the sad spectacle in action, check out Lenin's The Role and Function of Trade Unions Under the NEP.

How Non-violence Protects the State is another good source critiquing pacifism, specifically the cases of Gandhi and MLK, which inevitably come up in these debates. For an introductory critical analysis of the breakup of the USSR, check out Kline's The Shock Doctrine and various Michael Parent works.

Problem is, most people go to Facebook to get their news... It is the hub for social interaction these days.

Cell phones are a great tool for recording video for instant uploading... But even that can be stopped by jamming signals, disrupting the ability to get that information out there anyway. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/post/bart-san-francisco-cut-cell-services-to-avert-protest/2011/08/12/gIQAfLCgBJ_blog.html

And then you have the fact you're being tracked by GPS at every step of the way anyway... Hell, and Apple has a patent that allows them to disable your camera at will. http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-patent-could-remotely-disable-protesters-phone-cameras/

>any citizen can get a passport

Not in the US:

>Applicants in arrears more than $5,000 in support payments will be denied a Passport.

>Outstanding Felony/Criminal Warrant (not parking tickets or civil infractions)

>Prior Felony Conviction that prohibits international travel

Less common reasons can include a court order establishing incompetence, a request for extradition by another country and owing back taxes.

It is also common for people to have their passports denied or delayed for improper documentation, even though they have submitted proper documentation. Whether this is due to incompetency in the government or a grey-area profiling of flagged citizens, I don't know.

What I do know is that when you attempt to enter back into the country they can harass you for all sorts of reasons and, in fact, will not generally reveal to you why they have done so. Take all of this together and you get a pretty clear picture that, in practice, citizens require authorization from the country to leave with the knowledge that they will ever be able to re-enter, despite there not being an official government policy that states as much directly.

And i would recommend looking at Marshall Sahlins and the book The western illusion of human nature The gist of it being that the notion of human nature derives deep from the westen culture starting with Thucydides towards Hobs and the founders of modern liberalism.

"If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .”  ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Agreed. There is no guarantee that the solution people get from the crisis will be an anarchist one. Fascists love crises, and in recent history, have been always been waiting in the wings with a terrible solution just looking for a problem. 9-11 comes to mind, but there is a wealth of evidence in Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" that it's not an isolated incident.

If a person thinks that things will always get better, the world may surprise us with the future of a boot stamping on a human face - forever. The only evidence that bad will always get better is just that it always has - the same kind of evidence that backed polyannas before the housing bubble. And even if it does get better eventually, history is long, and our lives are short.

To quote ziq on raddle.me: "Authority is not simply an isolated instance of a person using force. Authority is a distinct on-going social relationship between people. A coercive relationship that has been legitimized by our authoritarian hierarchical society. It's a relationship where authority figures assert power over less-powerful individuals in their care. These individuals are expected to submit to this mighty authority figure and obey their commands unwaveringly."

This pretty much sums up my feelings about what authority is. So situational authority would not be the kind of authority that anarchists oppose. There is no coercion involved in your example situation here.

Raddle of course. Shifty reddit nerds will slander it to stop anarchists from jumping ship to it but it's by far the best anarchist community on the internet.

And it's booming lately:

https://raddle.me/f/lobby/40991/friday-free-talk

/r/anarchism's existence is not dangerous for reddit's corporate investors, reddit doesn't lose money for keeping /r/anarchism alive. Unless /r/anarchism starts doing serious organizing it's not going anywhere.

If the corporate giant Barnes and Noble carries Chomsky and Emma Goldman, I seriously doubt reddit is gonna purge /r/anarchism.

Well, this strikes me as incredibly silly and counter-productive. I don't use Uber much, but the last time I used it the driver was a former taxi driver who said that he liked using Uber a hell of a lot more than being a taxi driver.

And indeed, unless I'm presented with some kind of counter-analysis, I'm inclined to believe that taxi drivers do like Uber and other online taxi platforms more than being a traditional taxi driver. They are able to set their own hours and own their own labor, way more than if they have to hire out a car from a taxi company and get registered and whatnot.

-edit- Actually I did a quick Google search and it does seem like taxi drivers in Seattle are generally upset about Uber disrupting their business. But this doesn't seem like its a homogeneous phenomena across different cities--for example, in San Francisco ~1/3 of taxi drivers have switched to Uber and other ride-share companies.

So whatevs about the action against Uber in Seattle, I guess its raising awareness and that's good.

Be wary of any business offering a 'free' service and never trust a company with your credit card information or other identifying information. Use open source software and protocols. A good starting point: https://prism-break.org

I recommend everyone download this torrent and seed it. It's the entire Anarchist Library in eBook format, as of May 2012.

Not since Hillary Clinton's biggest financial backer took control of it. https://theintercept.com/2016/01/26/ha-ha-hillary-clintons-top-financial-supporter-now-controls-the-onion/ Now they go soft on targets like Clinton who deserve the biggest satirical rips.

Electronic components, colloidal gold and nanomaterials, immunogold labeling and microscopy, and potentially an inert delivery means with other medical applications [1]. At least until an alternative of comparable conductivity, ductility, malleability, and resistance to corrosion, gains prominence. Last I looked, a few folks playing with graphene were also toying with introducing gold to improve / control it's electronic properties [2].

Its from <em>God and the State</em>:

>Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. I do not content myself with consulting authority in any special branch; I consult several; I compare their opinions, and choose that which seems to me the soundest. But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

> The capitalist machinery of our time can just as easily be taken over as the factories of previous revolutions.

Low-level internet protocols (including the Internet Protocol), are designed to be centralised and hierarchical (DNS is notoriously centralised, and the server-client paradigm is a relation of authority). We could try to take them over, and in the event of a global revolution we would probably be successful, but I'd rather see us try to replace the Internet with protocols with decentralised protocols (eg mesh networks) and peer-to-peer/client-to-client applications.

tl;dr: is not just about taking over Google's server farms - the Internet is authoritarian by design.

Reddit is biased actually. Just look at what fascists are allowed to say without any consequence whatsoever.

This was linked above in the thread, and it was pretty enlightening: https://raddle.me/wiki/what_is_wrong_with_reddit

The most 'crucial' function of the police to most people are the protection of their private property and 'justice' for those who wrong them.

Of course, they only really protect the property of the wealthy. Everybody I know who has had a bicycle stolen or something short of a car where they won't get paid for an arrest has been basically told to fuck off and that 'if it falls from the sky into the police station we might return it.' Luckily you usually won't get punished for stealing your shit back but I guess that just reiterates how random cops behave and basically just do whatever hits the quotas.

The first part of this book has some really fascinating if a bit disgusting insight into cops behavior.

Yeah, it'll do. Honestly the only real problems with ProtonVPN are in the clients they release: The Windows one is kinda crap for maintaining a 24/7 connection, and if you use Linux you really may as well treat it like any OpenVPN tunnel configuration and will need to set up firewall rules, write some scripts, etc.

Regardless, here are a few things you'll want to do in pretty much every case:

1) Disable IPv6 if you aren't using it, and you almost certainly aren't.

2) Go to to run a test, then disable anything that shows as active.

3) Once you're connected to a VPN, go to and check to make sure you don't have a DNS leak.

The NYtimes of course tries to put this on the gig economy, but lines like this:

> Medallions, which grant the right to operate a taxi in New York City, were now depreciating assets and drivers who had borrowed money to pay for them, once a sound investment strategy, were deeply in debt.

hint at just how profoundly artificially constructed the entire taxi industry was, in ways deliberately designed from the start to create capital functions that otherwise would not have existed. The existing industry was a goddamn feudalistic shitshow before predatory monopolistic middlemen like Uber came along.

I strongly encourage everyone to read https://www.amazon.com/Taxi-Cabs-Capitalism-York-City/dp/0801474396 a book by a labor organizer who worked in the taxi industry in new york.

what I think needs to be done even more than expressing anarchist ideas and how they can help the working class, is to work to set up anarchist institutions to actually help the working class, the best way to convince them of our position is to show them how it can improve their lives. Free shops, swaps, attempts to create credit co-opts, if you're more rural then creating affinity groups that help your local farming community building equipment like this, in an effort to create a more independent agricultural community.

Efforts to basically try and replace capitalist institutions with anarchist ones that help take care of people will go a far longer way to convince them of our positions imo.

Here's a cool essay on Buddhism and anarchism: https://www.academia.edu/7258742/_Buddhism_Radical_Critique_and_Revolutionary_Praxis_

The author, John Clark, has almost two-hundred freely accessible articles at Academia.edu, most of which are related to anarchism.

There are a number of sort-of similar projects currently ongoing (Ethereum or some of the new Bitcoin blockchain techs are others). Many seem like vaportware IPO's, though the underlying concepts hold promise. I am currently in the "wait and see" stage while these projects grapple with the initial technical hurdles and new tech must deal with.

/r/darknetplan and /r/Rad_Decentralization are probably the best places to look for news in the field (head's up, lots of ancaps and similar take to these techs).

If you haven't already, would you please provide a rating for him on RateMyProfessor that way student's would know not to take his class? That might not do a whole lot, but it could still help a bit.

As if the average person had a computer to begin with. For reference, world population is about 7 billion.

So yeah. Only the technical elite even OWN a computer. But since you're only counting people with the money to get one in the first place, here you are - secure Linux on the computer when you buy it. Not even a button to press.

I won't be responding to any more of your trolling.

It'd be awesome if you would post this on raddle.me too! Most of the people there are very well educated, but won't contribute to what's happening on Reddit. Hope to see you there.

>Labour was the first price, the original purchase money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.

Adam Smith 1776 The Wealth of Nations, chapter 5.

>It is not labour which directly confronts the possessor of money on the commodity-market, but rather the worker. What the worker is selling is his labour-power. As soon as his labour actually begins, it has already ceased to belong to him; it can therefore no longer be sold by him. Labour is the substance, and the immanent measure of value, but it has no value itself.

Karl Marx 1867 Capital Volume 1, chapter 19.

Labor having value is circular reasoning that says value has value in capitalism. So the value of labor is a fetishistic concept that disguises the value of labor-power, avoiding the question of how labor-power became a commodity in the first place.

TL;DR when you go to your job, you sell your capacity to do work. Since you've already sold this capacity to do whatever work in an eight hour day, you're not going to be paid again for work you actually do. Your boss already owns that free and clear. From the beginning, private business does not provide equal compensation. The theft has already occurred, which is why (business) property is theft.

Everyone should be using signal

android

iphone

They released the full text here though Obama deviated in a couple small sections.

I won't comment on most, but I want to bring attention to the "cyber" section.

&gt; No foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks, steal our trade secrets, or invade the privacy of American families, especially our kids.

Couple of things. The hypocrisy is amazing. These are all routine acts for or many digitally concerned agencies. Typical "when other nations do this to us it's cyber warfare" but when we do it to others it business as usual under an American hegemony.

That and the comment about protecting children. What's the old cliche about bundling awful legislation as either protecting us from terrorists (since Communists have fallen out of vogue) or protecting the children? Well they're doubling down and hitting both at once.

&gt; And tonight, I urge this Congress to finally pass the legislation we need to better meet the evolving threat of cyber-attacks, combat identity theft, and protect our children’s information.

Children again. Here is a glimpse of the terrifyingly bad legislation he is referring to.

The war for the web is heating up and things do not look very good the citizens of the US and the world.

If for whatever reason you decide not to acquire PS, krita.org is free open source software that you can do a lot of artwork in and I think has a better UI than the gimp.org

People who think that Marxism and anarchism have the same end goal are misunderstanding anarchism, framing anarchism in terms of authoritarian values and perspectives.

I don't know anything about Dyslexia but does it only affect your ability to percieve writing? If so then check out Librivox, a project to create free audiobooks of books in the public domain. The Communist Manifesto is on there.

This right here. Also it's stupid simple to roll your own homeserver (synapse) and web client (element) using something like Yunohost.

Keep your shit in-house by being your own cloud provider.

I put this reading list together (with help from other Redditors) to do just what you're looking for. There's even a Food Not Bombs doc in the bundle.

The whole idea was to make it easier for noobs to find their way in rather than assault them with dense material from Kropotkin and Goldman. That stuff can come later.

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/17094641/How_To_Join_The_Resistance__an_Anarchist_Primer

In this vice article they say

> In Dallas, the Huey P. Newton Gun Club's members are the most thoughtful and professional revolutionaries around. They have a platform, an ideology, work as barbers and electricians, and are serious about their politics and the importance of being armed. "What you see in the media relates to them on a national level, but their organization is a lot different here on a local level," Goodson tells me. Darren X says that his Party is trying to move away from the inflammatory rhetoric of its leadership and "transition from black power to all power to all the people."

I am not sure what extent the huey p newton gun club are associated with the NBPP as a whole but it seems like they are a bit different ideologically. Based on their website it looks like they are much more focused on teaching black people self defense and how to safely use and carry firearms than anything.

Aaron Swartz, one of the co-founders of Reddit, among other things, literally wrote the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto supporting the case for piracy of knowledge and chiding corporate agenda.

Here is the original post just so we know who exactly is being discussed.

Corey Wright

Adam Smith actually considered his lesser-known work, his Theory on Moral Sentiments to be more important and, perhaps more importantly for us to keep in mind today, inseparable from the ideas explored in The Wealth of Nations.

Chomsky responds to a similar question here.

The short answer: Even if we grant the assumption that workers' material conditions have gotten better over the last several decades, that wouldn't justify the current economic system any more than the fact that the material conditions of American slaves improved from the 18th to the 19th century justified slavery.

You've probably been given good reason to dislike taxes. I think you could do a lot of good in the opposite direction. Noam Chomsky made a great statement to the effect that you can tell how much people trust their governments by whether and how much they hate paying taxes; if taxes constitute a community getting together and pooling their resources to accomplish something they believe in and have a truly democratic say over, paying taxes is something to celebrate, not detest.

Ah. Here it is: Noam Chomsky explains taxes in 40 seconds.

We all do!

The code is free. Anyone can run their own website based on the reddit platform. Anyone with the technology to visit a website should also be able to run their own website. Install a webserver, configure the reddit code, make sure your machine has a real internet facing IP address or if you are behind NAT, port forward port 80 or put your machine in the DMZ, and you're good to go.

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Discord servers are also notoriously easy to be infiltrated, whether it be by cops or fascists.

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I posted the respective zdnet article (maybe better/better working source?) to /r/technology: click me.

Please upvote it so that the folks over at /r/technology can see this, I am sure that we are not the only ones to be enraged about this.

Words can't express how bizarre it is to find Manufacturing Consent and The Corporation available to watch in their entirety, for free (though ad-supported, obviously), on Hulu.

It's so easy to miss! I frequented it for months and all was great until one day one of the mods (the most active one) started harassing one of the BAME subs (with which they are weirdly in war) and demanding from them a 'non-CIA' proof of the Uyghur genocide. It was one of the weirdest posts I've seen on reddit.

The worst thing about this bunch is that the mods are worrying great at cleaning their mess up. Any anti-tankie stuff gets immediately muted and they also remove their own pro-tankie posts.

Here's quite a good 'investigation' of the tankie epidemic on the leftist subreddits (some good links also in the comments): https://raddle.me/f/lobby/129535/i-think-it-s-also-time-for-me-to-leave-reddit-a-conspiracy

Chomsky has one book on Anarchism, a disjointed collection of barely on-topic essays and interview transcripts, compiled by someone else for the hype around Occupy. That's his contribution. No mention of anarchy or anarchism in any other of the 100+ books he's written/published.

Chomsky read Rocker and Guerin, he knows a bit about the syndicalist movements of the 1930s, but that's it. Anything before or after, he doesn't care about. He spends much time promoting and donating to politicians, shaming people into voting for the lesser evil, but not once in the past half century did he join in on the broader anarchist discussion.

He introduced entryist weapons like "justified hierarchy" and "legitimate government", and he seems more interested in democracy than anarchy.

There's no reason to believe Chomsky knows what he's talking about, not when it comes to anarchism.

https://tails.boum.org/

Unless you really know what you are about, you should use tails for anything you really don't want others to see. If you need to save something, it makes creating an encrypted area of a usb stick extremely easy.

The more incriminating info you get, the better you have him. I agree that something with his face would be ideal.

Protect yourself. Use TAILS and make sure to protect any associations to your real identity as much as possible.

If you've taken good security and anonymity precautions up to this point, and can continue to do so (especially if you can get more pics - maybe one with both his face AND his junk?), you could probably make a pretty penny with blackmail, but it increases the risk to you enormously. There are some good tutorials out there about how to use Electrum (a Bitcoin wallet) through TAILS, should you want to go that route - but I wouldn't try it if you don't have a very good understanding of security and privacy (OPSEC). And of course, you shouldn't do it, anyway - that's illegal (hi Interpol!).

You can also leak the info to the press (as you should, whether he pays you or not), again preferably while using TAILS. Wikileaks would love it, and there are a number of other, smaller sites (particularly on the [dark web](/r/onions)) that are also good for leaking things anonymously.

Be careful. This is a very hot potato. It's for exactly this kind of stuff that we need strong, easy to use privacy technologies, and unfortunately navigating what we have now is rather complex (not even so much using the tools, but using them properly).

The Shock Doctrine covers a lot of this and it was my introduction not only to why contempirary capitalism is shitty in theory but also why it has been shitty on a historical, large scale basis for a long time. Because it was the test tube for the West's current economic political environment, it is also why I see the fights back against the systems in Latin America as super interesting case studies for people in the European West to learn from.

It should also be mentioned that there is a subset of anarchist thought that is not necessarily opposed to markets, just not capitalist markets. It is important to note that from the very begining that capitalism, as a step past mercantilism, is inherently a tool of the state. That context becomes very clear when you read books like "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith... who is widely regarded as the "Father of Capitalism."

This notion that capitalsim is somehow separate from state oppression is revisionism put forth by devotees of Rothbard, Rand, Freidman and the like.

Get TAILS on a portable medium (flash drive, SD card, or disk) which comes with GNUPG tools preinstalled, and you'll have encrypted emails to-go. Trusted software with little setup. https://tails.boum.org/

Making plants illegal is a sin. Profiting wildly off it is also.

Criminilization taught how the US government oppresses- lessons learnt which helped people empathize with the minority & foreign nation struggles.

When the price drops and everyone applies for growing permits, many will lose their jobs. This will be another lesson.

California has too to much lose to legalize it. Time Magazine said it's a several (7?) billion dollar industry in California alone. That's a lot of people's livelihood at stake. But it is no excuse.

Hippies are generally awfull business people and they've lost their way. The old idealism of the 60s turned into a "give me" attitude that adapted well to modern times & consumer culture.

Maybe people will be wondered by nature again and realize beans aren't hard to grow either.

if you really need to communicate, cheap prepaid non-smartphone with multiple disposable SIMs. do not store contacts or data on phone or SIM. memorize your contact numbers.

another method, however with smartphone if you need to constantly connect to media. get a cheap unlocked android phone, root it if you could (to use many powerful apps), encrypt it with strong passphrase. install these apps without using Google Play via online apk repository, or F-Droid:

• Signal - secure communication (chat/call) via wifi
• Ring - similar to Signal
• SnoopSnitch (root) - anti IMSI catcher and detector
• GSM Spy Finder (no root) - same as above
• Intercom - mesh net communication via Wifi/Bluetooth
• Orbot/Orfox/Orweb - Tor Browser for mobile
• Firefox Focus - least case scenario where Tor was blocked.

DO NOT STORE PASSWORD OR SENSITIVE INFO ON YOUR SMARTPHONE IF THIS IS THE CASE YOU USE THEM. trash the SIM and the phone after you used them.

list of no log trial VPN you can use

list of free encrypted disposable email

Or the method of communication/sharing:

• Riot.im
• Riseup Etherpad
• 0Bin and Ghostpaste
• OnionShare

remember you are not doing this to completely avoid tracking, because you can't. you are doing this do evade targeted tracking. you bet for damn sure the pigs will use ISMI catchers like Stingray in the protest.

> Whatever people do or don't think of my party's program, at least I haven't been used to villify an entire movement in the eyes of large segments of the population because of a deluded fantasy.

Are you serious right now? The fuck is this?

i don't think i did a very good job of sharing this zine.

don't take the baton sitting down [pdf]

hopefully some people find it useful when attending upcoming protests related to [insert capitalist atrocity here]

There are 'fundamental' differences, for lack of a better word. Someone on raddle wrote a (provocative) post on the topic: Anarchism has depths that are not easily seen

As an ex-Marxist, Marxism really doesn't have much to offer for a critique of government and authority, and if that were the only real difference, I would be inclined to say anarchist communism is the tendency to water down anarchism for communist purposes.

Amazon spies on what you read. Check out Project Gutenburg. They even have a (limited) anarchism bookshelf https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Anarchism_(Bookshelf) .

Edit: I hope it's clear I appreciate the submission, just not the source it's from.

I just wanna say that I respect your OPSEC with changing pseudonyms regularly (says the person with the 6 y/o account). Mo' names mo' betta! Everyone remember that every piece of information you reveal about a particular pseudonym, even very vague stuff, can eventually fit into a profile of you and your identity. By disconnecting the links between pseudonyms, we can thwart this kind of profiling and identification greatly. Of course, if you're the target of an active investigation, it is still trivial for many governments to demand your IP address from reddit and then demand your identity from your ISP - but this is time-consuming and expensive, and every bit of security helps. And of course, tools like Tails can be used to reddit somewhat anonymously, but it's a little sketchy because it requires JavaScript (which is generally not good to allow while using Tor or any anonymity software).

Anyway, that got on to quite a ramble, but this is an interesting video. I honestly really hate being in those total clusterfuck situations, I think nearly everyone does.

>Also what would an anarchist society look like if we were to overthrow this administration?

Sorry to have to give you bad news, but we won't get to an anarchist society this way. This is how real fascist leaders get in power. There is nothing good about a power vacuum. We need to build dual power first. This means build the anarchist institutions that would replaces the ones we currently have, then wait for the current ones to stop working as we feel they should, or until we push out the old. Now the most we can try for imo is something like libertarian municipalism. The atmosphere just isn't stable enough to be able to get people to let go of their ideas. People are scared. But all they are used to is running to some leader when that happens. This is a dangerous time to be an anarchist.

>Can anyone give me some links to some good intro literature?

Google bookchin

https://libcom.org/files/Post-Scarcity%20Anarchism%20-%20Murray%20Bookchin.pdf

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/16860310/Third-Revolution-Vol3.pdf <pirate bay, so maybe nsfw

Use Signal for encrypted communication, check if your Android phone is supported by LineageOS, take a look at /r/privacy and /r/linux
Consider changing Windows for a Linux distribution. As others have said, use DuckDuckGo instead of Google, stop using Facebook and everything related to it, if you care for your privacy.

I recently read The Dispossessed, Ursula K Le Guin is awesome apparently. I'll have to read more of her work soon. Right now I'm about halfway through The Shock Doctrine, so far it is really well written but it's honestly upsetting. I've also been slowly working through The Conquest of Bread and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.

> all i see is a bunch of mewling spoiled-rotten piss babies throwing a temper tantrum about literally-worse-than-hitler ellen pao, or whatever her name is, taking away their freezie-peaches because she apparently hinted that maybe they can't stalk users screaming faggot at them anymore or something

That says more about what you are looking at and seeing, than what is there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9822580

> there's an easy solution: just get rid of them -- remove all the "power mods" in one fell swoop and let the fucking users decide... just de-mod them all

That's not an easy solution, it's a fantasy.

> fuck him

That's a great argument. A perfectly valid rebuttal would be "fuck you".

> farcical pissing and moaning from these delusional internet turds about how their very-serious-jobs are oh-so-hard is downright embarrassing

Right, says the person comparing this like the Ku-Klux clan setting up shop in someone's living room, and "the people" kicking them to the curb? It's not hard to see why you would be focusing on the subset of people protesting that are of that caliber. It's all you can address.

The word "radicalized" has a very strange usage in American political discourse. Muslims become "radical" when some sinister website tricks them into hating the USA. It's sort of assumed that if we just kill enough jihadist recruiters they won't be able to radicalize the "good" Muslims anymore. This line of thinking denies that the actions of the United States play any part in "radicalizing" people against it. The efforts of the U.S. to present a "counter-narrative" to the jihadists is pretty laughable.

The Daily Beast is doing the CIA's bidding. Perhaps not consciously or directly, but the result is the same.

From WikiLeaks:

Classified CIA plan to exploit concern for women to shore up support for war in Afghanistan:

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/CIA_report_into_shoring_up_Afghan_war_support_in_Western_Europe,_11_Mar_2010

I shouldn't have to say this, but proxy up, checkout Tor, be paranoid of EVERYTHING, and stay safe. Use Linux liveCDs, use public computers, use public wifi. Don't engage in this kind of action on the same PC/connection you use to play WoW and Eve on, etc.

If you honestly don't know what you are doing and how to keep yourself protected, then I stress that you don't engage in online direct action of any kind for your own safety. There are too many variables and one fuckup can ruin you. Take a lesson from the old Silkroad admin.

Check this out.

It’s a great resource.

And Raddle is generally more accepting of this kind of post.

Hope this helps.

Oh, one last bit of advice.

Don’t look up to adults, we’re kinda assholes.

https://raddle.me/wiki/leftunity

>The left / right paradigm has nothing to do with anarchy, really. It was created in the days leading up to the French revolution, to differentiate between those who supported the French republic (leftists) and those who supported the French monarchy (rightists).

>A politician in the états généraux who sat on the left side of the king favored the republic, while those sitting on his right favored the monarchy. Of course, neither side wished to abolish authority. Both left and right were clearly in favor of the state, regardless of who got to rule it.

I'm not a fan. Marxists (leftcoms) aren't tankies, but they're still high on authority because Marx just took Proudhon's critique of capitalism and stripped all the anarchy out of it.

I wrote an essay about it here:

https://raddle.me/wiki/leftunity

That’s incorrect, The book anarchy works details quite a few anarchist societies, and later applies them in modern context either in this same book or in another book, everything’s running together for me atm. And there’s a piece here we’re missing, I believe the person you were talking to in the earlier thread is speaking from the point of view of an Anarchist Society, which is pre-defined, they were correct, if anarchism is the structure of said society, yes, they would probably want that outcome, a rehabilitated person, who has learned morality, I don’t know what you do when it comes to light this person is incapable of feeling those types of emotions and express those types of ideas. But there’s a deeper reason why someone killed a person inside a social structure, such as anarchism. Did that make sense? I’ll keep trying until it does.

I suggest checking out DAREBEE!

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CS is fun, but if you're not into math you're gunna have a bad time. I used to be a CS major but after taking a bunch of math classes I decided I would rather suck start my shotgun than continue on with it.

What OS are you running?

If you want hands on with NetSec tools install Kali Linux, it's based on Debian but comes pre-loaded with just about everything you would need to get into that stuff.

If you do install it, don't use it as your daily driver. It's in perma-root mode and if someone get's into it they can really fuck your life over.

> The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

-- Noam Chomsky, The Common Good (1998)

(thanks Wikiquote! https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#The_Common_Good_.281998.29 )