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 No.490718

>Take over an entire city block because "ACAB"
>Literally wall it off, then have armed patrols walk around terrorizing locals, while alowing the area to flood with drug addict, antisocial lumpens, drug dealers and schizos and protecting them against any repurcussions.
>Instantly entire thing devolves into a den of crime, drug dealing, gangs. All protected by the Anarkiddies while local proles beg for the police to tear the entire thing down.
>Anarkiddies "not police" shoot 2 young black teens to death for doing a burn out in a car, in under a week.
>Literally cover for the murderers and they never are caught.
How in fuck are Anarkiddies taken seriously at all anymore in the Western left? Chaz more than anything proved that modern Anarchism, is nothing more than a reactionary antisocial Lumpen movement.
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 No.490719

Literally the only thing here which was actually a legitimate fuckup was the killing those rwo guys thing. The rest is either exaggerated or otherwise misleading. CHAZ was poorly run, but it didn't singlehandedly bring drugs & crime to a major American city, and that's a dumb claim.

And it's also worth noting that they took over part of a major American city, which means that they spent their existence as a "zone" effectively under siege by the state. It's odd that MLism is essentially based around the understanding that, under such conditions, harsh "authoritarian" actions and ruthlessness are necessary, but when anarchists do that suddenly it's, like, a problem.

I think it's dumb that, with all that's happening now, anyone is still taking the time to bitch about CHAZ. Thus far, taking over part of a major city is way more impressive than anything that factional American MLs have done in my lifetime, and I'm not saying that as a factionalist, I'm not an anarchist, all I am saying is get off your asses.
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 No.490720

>One of the most unsavory examples of lifestyle anarchism is Hakim Bey’s (aka Peter Lamborn Wilson’s) T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone […] the call for autonomy is taken to lengths so absurd as to seemingly parody a self-absorbed and self-absorbing ideology.
>T.A.Z. presents itself as a state of mind, an ardently antirational and anticivilizational mood, in which disorganization is conceived as an art form and graffiti supplants programs. The Bey (his pseudonym is the Turkish word for ‘chief’ or ‘prince’) minces no words about his disdain for social revolution: ‘Why bother to confront a ‘power’ which has lost all meaning and become sheer Simulation? Such confrontations will only result in dangerous and ugly spasms of violence’ (TAZ, p.128).
>‘The TAZ is like an uprising which does not engage directly with the State, a guerrilla operation which liberates an area (of land, of time, of imagination) and then dissolves itself, to re-form elsewhere/elsewhen, before the State can crush it’ (TAZ, p.101). In a TAZ we can ‘realize many of our true Desires, even if only for a season, a brief Pirate Utopia, a warped free-zone in the old Space/Time continuum)’ (TAZ, p.62).
>So transient, so evanescent, so ineffable is a TAZ in contrast to the formidably stable State and bourgeoisie that ‘as soon as the TAZ is named … it must vanish, it will vanish … only to spring up again somewhere else’ (TAZ, p.101). A TAZ, in effect, is not a revolt but precisely a simulation, an insurrection as lived in the imagination of a juvenile brain, a safe retreat into unreality. Indeed, declaims the Bey: ‘We recommend [the TAZ] because it can provide the quality of enhancement without necessarily leading to violence & martyrdom’ (TAZ, p.101). More precisely, like an Andy Warhol ‘happening,’ a TAZ is a passing event, a momentary orgasm, a fleeting expression of the ‘will to power’ that is, in fact, conspicuously powerless in its capacity to leave any imprint on the individual’s personality, subjectivity, and even self-formation, still less on shaping events and reality.
>Perhaps no better description can be given of T.A.Z.’s message than the one that appeared in Whole Earth Review, whose reviewer emphasizes that the Bey’s pamphlet is ‘quickly becom[ing] the countercultural bible of the 1990s … While many of Bey’s concepts share an affinity with the doctrines of anarchism,’ the Review reassures its yuppie clientele that he pointedly departs from the usual rhetoric about overthrowing the government. Instead, he prefers the mercurial nature of ‘uprisings,’ which he believes provide ‘moments of intensity [that can] give shape and meaning to the entirety of life.’ These pockets of freedom, or temporary autonomous zones, enable the individual to elude the schematic grids of Big Government and to occasionally live within realms where he or she can briefly experience total freedom. (emphasis added)
>The bourgeoisie has nothing whatever to fear from such lifestyle declamations. With its aversion for institutions, mass-based organizations, its largely subcultural orientation, its moral decadence, its celebration of transience, and its rejection of programs, this kind of narcissistic anarchism is socially innocuous, often merely a safety valve for discontent toward the prevailing social order. With the Bey, lifestyle anarchism takes flight from all meaningful social activism and a steadfast commitment to lasting and creative projects by dissolving itself into kicks, postmodernist nihilism, and a dizzying Nietzschean sense of elitist superiority.
>The price that anarchism will pay if it permits this swill to displace the libertarian ideals of an earlier period could be enormous. The Bey’s egocentric anarchism, with its post-modernist withdrawal into individualistic ‘autonomy,’ Foucauldian ‘limit experiences,’ and neo-Situationist ‘ecstasy,’ threatens to render the very word anarchism politically and socially harmless — a mere fad for the titillation of the petty bourgeois of all ages.
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 No.490726

That was the moment I quit being an anarchkidde. I was living 6 hours from that shit.
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 No.490792

>>490726
Cause you failed to realize anarchism is being astroturfed by liberalism and succdems? It's too bad you've already moved onto "marxism" which is just the same shit as the anarchism astroturfed by succdems and liberals. You've got false consciousness either way.
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 No.490793

>>490792
I dunno where you live but in my parts liberals are always more ready to side with fascists than Marxism.

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