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FYI: This project is on pause (indefinitely) as @BlackSocialists reassesses its organizational priorities. Everything we’ve published across product, design, and engineering (minus the OTD + DPA brands) is open to reuse and modification for the commons. dualpower.app

You absolutely love to see it. Zapatistas and other groups practicing radical democracy and autonomy fill me with sparks of hope in this world with so much despair.

Eighth Part: P.S. WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ TO KNOW WHAT IT’S ABOUT. English Translation: tinyurl.com/5n7zw9t3

I'ld like for every fellow consequentialist/utilitarian to read through this Helping yourself and those closer to you is, down the line, the path to helping others beyond it

Found this thread very helpful

This. “Justice” is irrelevant to the ruling class- they will defend their interests at all costs, period.

"Eco- Socialism" is more ambiguous than "Social Ecology"

@tvnkth People don't even like the sources/citations/books lol You cannot win on voante, ever. Also unity is too broad for me. Here's an interesting post from 2022 about "unity" on the "left." voante.com/BlackSocialists/status/15350109...

Are there any cool architects and/or designers based on the East Coast or in the Northeast of the U.S. who would be willing to work with some of our members on an eco-village for creatives? If you or someone you know is interested, please reach out below. blacksocialists.us/contactMostrar mais

Cited heavily in my work. RIP

Words to think about today. From Murray Bookchin. Today marks the anniversary of his passing. If you haven’t spent time with his work, now is a very important time to start. #GoogleMurrayBookchin

Thank you for all that you’ve done, Mutulu Shakur. #RestInPower

Some of our folks will be present.

You can now sign up for this year’s social ecology summer intensive course in Detroit — “All Power to the People: Social Ecology and the Black Radical Tradition.” givebutter.com/ISEIntensive2023

Yes. It’s stated explicitly in our “Core Principles and Objectives” document. #GoogleMurrayBookchin #GoogleModiboKadalie

Critical history here

La cantidad de información (y posibilidades de "exit") que hay en este hilo es increíble.

I have the same question. I feel like I am going @ it alone. But I am ready to connect with values aligned Black people that are ready take decisive action towards this.

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Well put and needs to be said. Thanks.

The need to adopt an abolitionist, intersectional vision, a structural analysis to dismantle systems of oppression. Turning to the lived experience of radical Black, Indigenous and disabled women, their scholarship through activism over 150 years of justice movements.

This small thread is now a part of the Cool required reading curriculum

You are *required* to read this thread.

babe wake up new black socialists thread just dropped

“Eco-Socialism” is more ambiguous than Social Ecology. No “ecological” movement is complete without a fundamental critique of hierarchy. This includes the hierarchies in social organization that inform the common belief that humans can “dominate” the rest of the natural world.

I feel this more than ever. Still the best political tweet in my opinion....

Imagine grassroots groups with trust and directly democratic practices pooling time and resources to get land and property, decommodify it, live cooperatively (and comfortably) on it (centering needs and usufruct), and using surplus to open up more decommodified space for others.

And by “world-building,” we mean “building a new world in the shell of the old one.” Ensuring that “not relying/waiting on the state” means more than just reactive charity masked as “mutual aid.” That it means infrastructure for a parallel social, economic, and political system.

The Turkish nation-state is now bombing civilians in AANES territory. The State of Israel is now bombing civilians in Gaza. In both cases, other nation-states (including the U.S.) insist the bombers have a right to “defend themselves.” Nation-states are a part of the problem.

Here is a thread featuring a passage on nation-states and our reliance on charismatic leaders from “Intimate Direct Democracy” by Modibo Kadalie, a Social Ecologist, and former member of both the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and the African Liberation Support Committee.

It's time for more of us to start thinking much more creatively and holistically about how we can get into the next system from the here and the now, instead of settling on strategically low-bar, Liberal tactics of the past that fail to interrogate “work” itself. Fuck tradition.

People are already over "it.” People already feel the status quo isn’t worth it. So why aren't more of us building on this to pool together time + resources, get more land + property, decommodify it via "solidarity economy” institutions, and live cooperatively, centering needs?

It’s time to open up space in the cracks and crevices this corroding system has left for us. It’s time for us to lean into those who have already decided to sign *out* of the capitalist logic, and who are open to signing *in* to the cooperative and communal logic of the future…

The brutality of the State of Israel is a brutality endemic to settler-colonialism as a whole, and reinforced by the authoritarian dimensions of the nation-state model. The State of Israel, the United States, and *all* other states must be transcended for this brutality to end…

Are you just waiting for moments of heightened tension or collapse (with media attention) to act? Or are you using the time in between the ruptures to build something radically different? To build aqueducts that can channel the waters of revolution?

Why assume we should be working 40 hours a week? Or working at all? At least, “working” under wage slavery instead of using our labor to meet needs and create with each other? We are in economic and ecological collapse. “Work” must end if we want to keep living on this planet.

Most “progressive politicians” running off of Bernie’s old Left-Liberal rhetoric are only serving to limit poor and working-class people’s imaginations in these times, and it’s sad to watch, because most have no idea what’s coming, and just how unprepared the gov't is to face it.

Just so you all are aware: 1) www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessmen... 2) www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statement... 3) www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021...Mostrar mais

It’s not just about striking, unionizing, or doing work around organized labor for individual (reactive) actions. It’s about a holistic approach centered on “world-building” that can generate not only a new, liberatory social logic, but resources for defensive infrastructure too.

Let’s build directly democratic communities and economic democracy so that we can one day fight our own battles with comrades around the world in moments of crisis as this system continues to decay and consume itself. #FreePalestine #FreeKurdistan #FreeHumanity

This “parallel social, economic, and political infrastructure” can’t be grounded in the same social relations and organization that define the oppressive system we’re in. It has to be grounded in cooperation, communalism, and direct democracy. It has to feel worth fighting for.

We’re not going to stop imperialism by making appeals to the imperialists and their forces of domination and destruction. We’ll stop imperialism when we do the hard(est) work of building parallel social, economic, and political infrastructure able to undergird a defensive force.

The State of Israel, the United States of America, and all other nation-states must cease to exist along with the global capitalist system if *all peoples* wish to survive and be free. But they will only cease to exist in the building of something better, and from the bottom up.

We have to defend ourselves in the system as it stands now as well, but we must also build towards a future where what we are defending is not merely the right to survive, but rather a new world within the shell of the old, decaying world that meets our needs and harbors freedom.

The key for us is to talk to one another (globally), build (not just react) with one another, be prefigurative (reflect the values of the world we want to live in in the act of trying to get there), and step in to fill the voids left by both nation-states and private capital.

In our fight to develop cooperative, communal social relations, and directly democratic social, economic, and political institutions, we will be met with violence from reactionary nationalists, supremacists (of all sorts), authoritarians (some of whom look like us), and fascists.

Please read Abdullah Öcalan’s “Democratic Confederalism” (2011): www.freeocalan.org/wp-content/uploads/2012... It is not long, and it serves as a succinct intro to why people of different colors and creeds must move together, beyond t…Mostrar mais

In order to pursue such a thing, those of us who stand for the liberation of all oppressed peoples and true freedom must cultivate a stronger, more collective, and more democratic imagination and level of organization. And all of this begins with communication (beyond borders).