I'm an anarchist writer who likes to blow off steam by using twitter to dunk on every school of everything. I identify with Voltairine de Cleyre's "steal bread for the hungry" market anarchism. Here's a short thread of major subjects I've written essays on and that I return to:.

RT @JihadalHaqq: This is a form of racism but I can't quite put my finger on what kind it is yet.

RT @c4ssdotorg: "Javier Milei is a brutal authoritarian thug, comparable to other right-wing dictators and would-be dictators like Trump, B….

RT @PhxInsurgent: Give them a parent of the year award already!

RT @notjessewalker: This is what Solzhenitsyn was talking about: It's a bizarre irony that Davis became an icon of….

RT @deusexmoniker: The romans were fastidious record keepers which is why we know how genocidal they actually were

RT @deusexmoniker: Cato the Elder and Scipio gave the speeches themselves calling for genocide. They literally said that their plantatio….

RT @sorceressofmath: Also, I love how "atheists assume all religions are like Christianity" has officially evolved into "atheists assume al….

Maddy worked hard to join a wonky political elite, all on the premise that they were the smartest people in the country and the only ones who mattered. It offends him at a deep spiritual level that the radical rabble keep being right about Iraq, fascism, Palestine, etc.

RT @jessespafford: The idea that the facts have changed in some significant way is going to be the new line of pundits who have spent years….

RT @JihadalHaqq: The audacity to say this when the Soviet Union was instrumental in the founding of Israel because they thought it would be….

RT @bjoewolf: We did this to him. This government. This country. We condemned him to this torture because he dared to follow our own laws a….

Libertarians fail to grasp this because they have class affinities that disdain activism and because they see their critique of power as one of subtracting a few isolatable problems rather than one of ethical responsibility to proactive engagement forever.

Do you think that anarchists will stop sabotaging fur farms in the absence of the state or attacking people who wear fur? Of course not. Indeed, our efforts would be supercharged!. The shaping of society by antiauthoritarian activists *begins* with the removal of the state.

Just as there are entrepreneurs who can bring novel insight and gumption and radically reshape an economy, so too are there activists who can reshape everything with antistate or stateless tactics like boycotts, unions, direct action, insurrection, etc.

Economies, societies, and cultures can develop structures and norms in a very *path-dependent* way. There is no one pure universally emergent single true result of a "free market" -- markets are ecosystems that can evolve in different directions and be affected by activists.

But they also tend to miss that it's in no sense anarchist to just say "do we have a 'free' market" in the sense of stateless and then throw up our hands and accept whatever arises, rather than quite proactively grappling with and shaping those conclusions.

So libertarians tend to miss that we are obliged not only to rip out the continued impacts of state violence that prop up bosses, corporations, etc, but also to work to *undo* the centuries of distortions and lasting impact upon the distributions and *norms* of our society.

Yes, we frequently highlight the systematic and dispersed impact of sustained state violence on shaping our present capitalist world and its economic and social norms. But we are not "come what may" advocates. As Charles emphasized endlessly: *we* are the market. We get choices.

It's weird to be decades into libertarians discovering left market anarchists and still fielding these kinds of critiques. Anarchism isn't "remove the state and whatever might come is good" it's a deep critique of power and thus *obliges* cultural and institutional changes.

RT @Zennistrad: Authoritarian leftists will seriously take one look at a society that looks like this and think, "see, you only hate it for….