The Weather Underground

Jack / 21 / NY Hudson Valley / vagrant / left communist / autonomist / anarchist / nihilist / writer? /

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Today in history: October 15, 1966 – Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale form the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California.

Via Freedom Road Socialist Organization (Fight Back!)

[weather-underground]

Be scared

haha what the fuck. no thanks. fuck off & die? 

[goodmorningleftside]

TIKKO (the armed wing of a turkish maoist party, the TKP/ML) guerillas in Rojava

[weather-underground]

“if you cannot convince a fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement” as in, try to reason with them i suppose, make them see the class enemy in the bourgeoisie instead of fellow proletarians. fascism is deeply rooted as a political philosophy in those who adhere to it, about the same as anyone who claims to be a militant communist or anarchist. as in, once you believe in it, it is hard to sway. which is why we also say fascism is not to be debated, it is to be smashed. 

with most of my recent encounters with pacifists, the same could be said. if you can’t convince them that we have to struggle against oppression actively, then fuck ‘em. acquaint their head with the pavement if they try & stop you from defending yourself, which is exactly what countering fascism is about - self defense. sometimes the best defense is a good offense. within our movements, pacifism must be challenged & smashed if we are to wage revolution, just as we are going to need to be prepared to confront the violence of the state & fascists in order to defend the revolution from defeat at the hands of capital. 

not everyone who polices the people are wearing badges, not all are agents of the state. just as fascists are the paramilitary vigilante police enforcing white supremacy, nationalism, etc, so to do the pacifists march among us, policing our behaviors as we revolt. 

[fuckyeajews-deactivated20150121]

“I’m pro-peace” is a completely useless thing to say, and I would even it a cowardly cop-out. It can mean just about anything, peace being such a vague term. Even the most hawkish Israelis are pro-peace in their own way. Why? Peace, simply speaking, refers to a lack of conflict. You can have a lack of conflict in any number of ways. If the Israeli far-right got its way, peace would be brought about by the mass slaughter and complete expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza. For the more moderate two-stater faction, peace would be brought about with the creation of a vassal Palestinian state with no right of return for Palestinian refugees living abroad. Is this the peace that you strive for? Don’t support peace, support justice for the Palestinian people, or otherwise make it clear where you stand.

[weather-underground]

been debating with pacifists the last few weeks in regards to fascism & white supremacy, using the model of the Black Panthers & AntiFascist Action over shit like the hippies [ ick ] & this has total relevance to that conversation. 

[kropotkindersurprise]

2000 - Czech antifascists fight neonazis in Prague. From the great documentary 161 > 88 on the evolution of the Czech antifascist movement since the late 1980’s. [video]

[weather-underground]

How To Talk To Babies About Marxist Theory

BABY: [builds tower with blocks]

ME: ok this is very good

under capitalism massive building projects are constructed through wage slavery

and through their sheer size and scale intimidate and pacify the masses

so this is a great comment

BABY: [knocks over tower]

ME: that’s right

[babylonfalling]

Only with the power of the gun can the black masses halt the terror and brutality perpetrated against them by the armed racist power structure; and in one sense only by the power of the gun can the whole world be transformed into the earthly paradise dreamed of by the people from time immemorial.

[coolthingoftheday]

Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.

[jumpingjacktrash]

the reason it’s rare is because without chlorophyll, the plant can’t get energy, and dies shortly after sprouting unless it has some other source of food. so if you see a plant as big as the one in the picture that doesn’t have any green in its leaves, it’s getting its nutrition from the roots of a neighboring plant of the same species, feeding on the sugars created by the other plant’s photosynthesis.

albino plants are basically vampires.

[kropotkindersurprise]

May 3 2015 -  Several thousand people, mostly from Israel’s Jewish Ethiopian minority, protested in Tel Aviv against racism and police brutality, shutting down a major highway and clashing with police on horseback long into the night. [video]/[video]

[talesofthestarshipregeneration]

so why is it that people like to use the words “colonies” and “colonizations” for exploring the planets?

Have ya’ll not learned your lessons with the fuckeries those actions precipitated on earth? How about changing your pov? Come up with different words about the efforts to make new homes amongst the stars. and for for gods sake change your fucking attitudes about those endeavours. No more conquering. No more exploiting. Maybe you could talk about making habitations among the stars. And stop fucking fetishizing war. 

jesus christ. the sci fi genre can be so damn disappointing. you can imagine so many things accept better ways of living. 

[art-and-anarchism-deactivated20]

[babylonfalling]

Only with the power of the gun can the black masses halt the terror and brutality perpetrated against them by the armed racist power structure; and in one sense only by the power of the gun can the whole world be transformed into the earthly paradise dreamed of by the people from time immemorial.

[plantcuttings-deactivated201810]

liverpool activists have occupied an old bank of england building in the city centre

love activists got into the building this morning and they’re taking it over as a community centre. we just brought a couple of things down there an hour ago and that space is HUGE. liverpool has a lot of homelessness and a LOT of empty housing, so i hope they manage to stick it out for a while. this is a list of things they need - if you’re free and have any of it to spare, bring it down.

[did-you-know]

Where there are wolves, there are ravens. Ravens follow wolves around a lot, mostly because they just seem to like them. They aren’t known to follow other predators and they prefer to eat with the wolves instead of alone. Source

[grinningmoonlight-deactivated20]

wait are you telling me that wolves keep ravens as pets cause this is the most goth thing ever since My Immortal

[dragon-of-the-stars]

It would be an easier way for the raven’s to get food. And I bet the wolf doesn’t mind the companionship either.

[sosungalittleclodofclay-deactiv]

it’s mutualism! Ravens circle ungulate herds and wolf packs, wolves see them, find the animal faster, kill the animal and open up the carcass(which ravens can’t peck through), and then the ravens eat and the nice juicy bits.

oh, and the pet anology is back-assward. ravens play with wolves. and more importantly, wolf pups. you know how animals raised together from a young age are super tolerant of one another? ravens exploit that to get better access to carcasses. 

[quinzelade]

yeah i was gonna say it sounds more like the ravens are keeping the wolves as pets

[rpmaniac]

Ravens, and other crows, are some of the world’s most intelligent animals, passing tests even chimpanzees and some humans fail at. They use tools, they plan ahead, they can think in multiple steps and use their environments to get food. They’ve even been known to fashion tools such as hooks from metal wires and understand water displacement.

Wolves on the other hand are basically large wild dogs.

If anyone’s manipulating and using the other it’s the ravens.

[velvethorn]

What we can observe: animals coexisting.

What we assume: one animal is manipulating the other, the “smart” animals are taking advantage of the “dumb” ones; likening the ravens to the human role.

What we assumed wrong: that the human role with dogs was anything like the above detached decision to domesticate puppies. Current evidence implies that dogs had a larger role in their own domestication than humans did, and basically moved in with us first. But this doesn’t fit in with the Aryan caveman mythology of a survival-of-the-fittest paleolithic sociopath viewing prey as bags of meat on legs and other creatures as threats or possible resources on legs and women as wombs on legs. This was largely a Victorian reaction to Darwinism and attempt to contextualize a theory which described our own lack of divine specialness through the lens of human exceptionalism we refused to give up. This continues on today in the form of “evolutionary psychology,” which is mostly MRAs talking about how rape is a natural way to pursue one’s biological imperative when sexually frustrated.

What is likely given the limited evidence: neither ravens nor wolves have the power to imprison, control, or discipline the other. The ravens could leave and the wolves couldn’t stop them, and if the wolves didn’t like the ravens they could bite them in half. We have no evidence that this relationship is hierarchical, and no evidence that either would have the power to impose a hierarchy, and ravens brainwashing baby wolves to obey them is a bit more of a stretch than babies being universally adorable and everyone liking to play with them. It might acclimate them to their presence, but that still isn’t a hierarchical relationship, or necessarily a premeditated manipulation rather than something immediately rewarding. It is true that ravens are intelligent, but domination of other beings does not follow naturally from intelligence, and there’s no evidence that other species would see such a thing as rational. A tapeworm uses and manipulates other beings for its own benefit, and does not need intelligence to do it. Therefore intelligence and a parasitic nature can be seen to be two traits which may or may not coexist.

From the limited evidence, it would appear that the wolves and the ravens are friends, and that neither is subordinate to the other. That’s goth AND communist.

[formerlyknownasemily-deactivate]

I was talking to a friend about dog domestication the other day because it’s super interesting because of things like this.

[antilla-dean]

[weather-underground]

life shit

lost my job & apartment at the pizza shop, floating in space these last few days. 

on a side note, national sibling day is another reason to keep drinking, as an only child who expected to be a brother but never got to in the end. pour some for the homies too.