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Noah // Anarchist // 19 // AZ // Agender

[berniesrevolution]

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[luimneach]

[transkafka]

Fully automated luxury Rely-Heavily-On-The-Labor-of-Miners-and-Maintenance-Workers-And-The-Displacement-of-Indigenous-Peoples-For-Access-to-REE-and-Minerals I mean communism sorry

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[havesexwithghosts]

First issue of Acephale, 1936, drawing by Andre Masson

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[corporate--stalinism]

thinking I'm gonna probably remake my Tumblr. I've had this one for a quick minute now and there's a lot on here I want to leave behind. stay tuned

[meatthawsmoth]

Remember this classic

[corporate--stalinism]

I have no desire to jump in this discourse, but y'all need to learn what anti-civ/primitivism is actually about before trying to trash on it. a lot of y'all are just attacking caricatures at best and blatantly false mischaracterizations at worst

[anarchistquotations]

The laborers have the most enormous power in their hands, and, if they once became thoroughly conscious of it and used it, nothing would withstand them; they would only have to stop labor, regard the product of labor as theirs, and enjoy it. This is the sense of the labor disturbances which show themselves here and there. The State rests on the — slavery of labor. If labor becomes free. the State is lost.

Max Stirner; The Unique and It’s Own (1845)

[anarchistquotations]

Anarchism is the attempt to eradicate domination. This includes not only such obvious forms as the nation-state, with its routine use of violence and the force of law, and the corporation, with its institutionalized irresponsibility, but also such internalized forms as patriarchy, racism, homophobia. Also it is the attempt to expose the ways our philosophy, religion, economics, and other ideological constructions perform their primary function, which is to rationalize or naturalize — make seem natural — the domination that pervades our way of life: the destruction of the natural world or of indigenous peoples, for example, comes not from the result of decisions actively made and actions pursued, but instead, so we convince ourselves, as a manifestation of Darwinian selection, or God’s will, or economic exigency. Beyond that, Anarchism is the attempt to look even into those parts of our everyday lives we accept as givens, as part of the universe, to see how they, too, dominate us or facilitate our domination over others… Most fundamentally, I would see Anarchism as a synonym for anti-authoritarianism.

John Zerzan; Running on Emptiness (2002)

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[lithicc]

Every disease that civilization has cured (usually only for relatively wealthy people living in the industrial centers of the global north) is massively outweighed by the epidemics that civilization has created. 

You know how many people died of air pollution before the industrial revolution? heart disease? cancer? diabetes?

[barbarianarchy-deactivated20200]

the logic of civilization is to “solve” one problem in an unproductive/unhealthy way and create five more problems, then pat yourself on the back for solving the problems you created in the first place

[cultural-goldmanism]

Cancer and diabetes have been known since literally ancient times. Hell, diabetes is one of the earliest recorded diseases. Are you sure you don’t mean capitalism or hierarchy when you say civilization?

[barbarianarchy-deactivated20200]

Cancer and diabetes might be something that has existed all through-out humanity but it’s easily arguable that these diseases are exacerbated by civilization. Even our own statistics show that diabetes has massively accelerated in the past few decades. What about the people who have died from industrial toxicity, air poisoning, etc. In a lot of places you can trace asthma sufferers related to their proximity of industrial spaces. Think about the history of environmental racism, how marginalized folks are shuffled into once-industrial areas rife with pollution, etc. Think of all the people depressed because of how dispossessed we are from our lives in this mass society, thinks like depression and anxiety are nearly ubiquitous these days.

[cultural-goldmanism]

I don’t disagree with you there, but those still seem more like symptoms of capitalism and kyriarchy/hierarchy than symptoms of groups of people living permanently in settled areas.

[barbarianarchy-deactivated20200]

Yea but what if hierarchy is the result of civilization? Hierarchy predates agricultural civilization but rigid hierarchies and accumulation of resources is something that came out of the agricultural revolution and the rise of agricultural civilization. When excess food production was able to be stored for later hierarchies naturally developed.

[cultural-goldmanism]

If hierarchies already existed before there was agriculture, then isn’t the stratification we see in civilization just more of something that had already been going on? Do something about hunanity’s love of authority and maybe civilization wouldn’t be the monster you’re making it out to be. I dunno, I just want reliable access to the medications I need and don’t think that’s doable without a settled society and industrial manufacturing capabilities.

[barbarianarchy-deactivated20200]

Hierarchy existed before agriculture but anthropologists seem to suggest that most people lived in relatively egalitarian band societies (primitive communism) before the rise of agriculture and civilization. Hierarchy existed in pre-agriculture “society” but it wasn’t the norm until agricultural civilization came on the scene. 

[ancientorigins]

Ruins of Pompeii, Naples, Italy

[romeneverfell]

Update: Thank you to the two in the replies who were quick to point out this is a scale model! It was my mistake, scrolling too quickly. In fact, this is a really neat scale model anyway. 

It was made for the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy. 

You can find a few more pictures on the museum’s website, here. 

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