#bash back!

[queersatanic]

[Kolektiva]

[anarchospunk]

Revolution, Not Assimilation.

[midwestdissent-blog]

A submission about Bash Back! formed in the midwest. July 2018 issue of Anathema.

[queersatanic]

For a long time, I’ve thought I aligned with what I’ve heard of Satanism, so I started to read the Satanic Bible and Satanist Scripture. A lot of Satanism still resonates with me, but I’m having trouble with parsing the Randian philosophy part of Satanism with with my queer-socialist/anarchist values.

Is it still possible to identify with being a Satanist if I’m in conflict with one of the core beliefs? Do you know any other texts I can read?

We've answered this sort of question before.

Your mileage may vary, but radical insurrectionary queer anarchism seems like a good place to go if you're looking for a new way forward for Satanism.

Anton LaVey was a pretty basic dude in lots of ways, he believed in greater social stratification, and his politics of rebellion were closer to Nixon's "silent majority" than anything.

But take Mary Nardini Gang and Bash Back! and throw in some 19th century political Satanism — baby, you got a stew goin'.

Note that this isn't quite the same thing as "individualistic Satanism"; you are going to want to work with people collectively who you have an affinity with.

But do definitely avoid at all costs hierarchical organizations and systems that encourage abuse and cultish behavior.

How to spot when you're in a cult

How to recognize that you're in a cult seems so obvious and therefore unnecessary to ask that most people never even bother to do so. Conseq

[queersatanic]

Hello! I'm 18 and I have been an atheist for as long as I remember. Recently I started reading the Satanic Bible and it really appealed to me, because I've always believed in serving one's self above all as long as it does not harm others. But seeing all the reactionary politics that LaVey apparently had makes me feel unsure about the label, and TST itself does not appeal to me at all. So I would love to learn more about individualistic Satanism from other sources. Could you recommend any?

We've answered this sort of question before, and your mileage may vary, but radical insurrectionary queer anarchism seems like a good place to go if you're looking for a new way forward for Satanism.

Anton LaVey was a pretty basic dude in lots of ways, he believed in greater social stratification, and his politics of rebellion were closer to Nixon's "silent majority" than anything.

But take Mary Nardini Gang and Bash Back! and throw in some 19th century political Satanism —

Note that this isn't quite the same thing as "individualistic Satanism"; you are going to want to work with people collectively who you have an affinity with.

But do definitely avoid at all costs hierarchical organizations and systems that encourage abuse and cultish behavior.

[queersatanic]

The term queer in this book [Queer Ultraviolence: Bash Back! anthology] is used both loosely and inclusively. We view queer as the blurring of sexual and gender identities. Queer is the refusal of fixed identities. It is a war on all identity. In line with the Bash Back! tendency, for the uses of this anthology queer is trans because the gender binary is inherently oppressive. More often than not, our use of the term queer is interchangeable with our use of trans, though that is not necessarily true of the way in which trans-whatever is used. We acknowledge that society ensures Queer is an oppressed identity. Anti-Queer oppression is the systematic violence encountered by people who fall outside of traditional sexual or gender categories. This terminology might be confusing, but it is likely that the content within this anthology will clear the air. Admittedly, it might create more confusion among our straight counterparts. With revolution complete and the black flag burned, the category of queer must too be destroyed.

[queersatanic]

Our bodies have been born into conflict with this social order.

We need to deepen that conflict and make it spread.

"Toward The Queerest Insurrection" by The Mary Nardini Gang.

[image background by @holo-gender]

If history proves anything, it is that capitalism has a treacherous recuperative tendency to pacify radical social movements. It works rather simply, actually. A group gains privilege and power within a movement, and shortly thereafter sell their comrades out. Within a couple years of stonewall, affluent gay white males had thoroughly marginalized everyone that had made their movement possible and abandoned their revolution with them. It was once that to be queer was to be in direct conflict with the forces of control and domination. Now, we are faced with a condition of utter stagnation and sterility. As always, Capital recuperated brick-throwing street queens into suited politicians and activists. There are logcabin Republicans and “stonewall” refers to gay Democrats. There are gay energy drinks and a “queer” television station that wages war on the minds, bodies and esteem of impressionable youth.

The “LGBT” political establishment has become a force of assimilation, gentrification, capital and statepower. Gay identity has become both a marketable commodity and a device of withdrawal from struggle against domination. Now they don’t critique marriage, military or the state. Rather we have campaigns for queer assimilation into each. Their politics is advocacy for such grievous institutions, rather than the annihilation of them all. “Gays can kill poor people around the world as well as straight people!” “Gays can hold the reigns of the state and capital as well straight people!” “We are just like you.” Assimilationists want nothing less than to construct the homosexual as normal — white, monogamous, wealthy, 2.5 children, SUVs with a white picket fence. This construction, of course, reproduces the stability of heterosexuality, whiteness, patriarchy, the gender binary, and capitalism itself.

If we genuinely want to make ruins of this totality, we need to make a break. We don’t need inclusion into marriage, the military and the state. We need to end them. No more gay politicians, CEOs and cops. We need to swiftly and immediately articulate a wide gulf between the politics of assimilation and the struggle for liberation.

We need to rediscover our riotous inheritance as queer anarchists. We need to destroy constructions of normalcy, and create instead a position based in our alienation from this normalcy, and one capable of dismantling it. We must use these positions to instigate breaks, not just from the assimilationist mainstream, but from capitalism itself. These positions can become tools of a social force ready to create a complete rupture with this world. Our bodies have been born into conflict with this social order. We need to deepen that conflict and make it spread.

[anarchospunk]

Never Again. BashBack!