Either that, or they’re extremely obtuse. And I never have had it properly explained to me how anarchists can get together and organize and still remain true to anarchy.
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I first encountered them at an anarchist book fair, and learned an awful lot about collective action and mutual aid that weekend.
As I understand it, anarchy is the opposite of hierarchy, so collaboration and cooperation are possible, even necessary, but not imposed by authority from the top of a structure designed to maintain its own existence.
Cory Doctorow uses the word ad-hoc-racy (don’t recall the spelling) for this sort of communal action without submission to authority. It’s transient and absolutely voluntary.
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It’s an Orwell reference, not a plug.
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On that note, Facebook has been purging Crimethinc and others who post in support of Crimethinc.
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I don’t suppose having the word “Crime” in the name helps matters much.
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Anarchists tend to be very socially/community oriented. Very much in favor of pure democratic organization and communist-style cooperation. All through voluntary association, not imposed by some hierarchy of superiors. In most ways, an anarchist house/collective isn’t that much different from a hippie commune or co-op. So getting together and cooperating for mutual benefit is clearly true to anarchy.
Organizing however, I’m not so sure about. Forming a group that supports and works towards something, sure. But not setting up the sort of rank and power structures a lot of people think of as ‘organized’.
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The idea is to organize without hierarchy. It’s not always clear how.
One approach is to form trditional organizations, but with stronger accountability systems, and a mix of direct democracy and rotating leadership.
And if you want you can have farcical aquatic ceremonies alongside this, as long as they don’t interfere and don’t create some cult of personality…
Another approach is to eschew formal organization, which avoids some legal trouble, avoids takeovers, and so on.
And then you’ve got spokescouncils, general assemblies, and so on.
But really, the only sure form is the workers’ council, that absolutely can’t be hijacked like the others. /s
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Workers are always tied to capital. Workers movements lose their tie to infrastructure and funds by thinking they are separate from the product. They are not separate from the product of their labor, they are a part of it and vice versa, at least they will be once we can pry certain IP rights out of the hands of patent holders. It’ll be… sunshine and roses and a chicken in every pot. I mean, at minimum. Heh.
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Mr. Falwell suggested he was happy to move on. “The quote that keeps going through my mind this morning is Martin Luther King Jr: ‘Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty I’m free at last,’” he told a Lynchburg newspaper reporter on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Falwell did not respond to requests for comment from The New York Times.
one last tone deaf comment for the road?
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I guess he didn’t realize he was free to leave at any time?
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I have a gallon jug of hand sanitizer that boasts “180 Proof” and in much smaller letters “Do not consume.”
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Some will drink that intentionally.
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I’ll have the answer when I know why a sixty-nine-year-old sterno drinker with an ulcer is like a normal six-month-old baby.
–Dr Mark Hall The Andromeda Strain
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IIRC, also called “squeeze,” or, as TIL, “sock wine.” 
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The Venezuelan government, which has received billions of dollars in loans from Russia, said it would be willing to take part in clinical trials.
Mr Maduro’s statement indicates that Venezuela does not have the volunteers yet, suggesting that Health Minister Carlos Alvarado jumped the gun when he said 10 days ago that Venezuela had offered Russia “500 volunteers to participate in vaccine trials”.
The Venezuelan government has also said that it was ready to participate in testing of Chinese and Cuban vaccines against Covid-19.
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This.fucking.guy
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So why doesn’t HE step up and get vaccinated? Worked for Catherine the Great and smallpox.
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Someone’s clearly trying and desperately failing to come up with a counter to the “military LARPer” criticism of the right-wing “militia” dorks (and some police forces).
Also…
RICO is a really complicated racketeering law that has elaborate requirements that are difficult to meet. It’s overused by idiot plaintiff lawyers, and it’s ludicrously overused by a hundred million jackasses on the internet with an opinion and a mood disorder.
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Moderator Action
Modified to replace broken onebox with linked image.
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