A few days ago, the good folks at @unicorn.riot (UR) asked me to comment on the use of Sieg Heil by Musk on the inauguration of the Trump regime. I did my best to cobble some words together—a few of which are pictured here as a pull quote from the UR article—while sitting at a outdoor cafe in the Exarchia neighborhood and trying to get over jet lag. I’m not sure if my brief reflections on the topic were as coherent or nuanced as they could or should be, but I’m grateful to UR for compelling me to think more deeply on both my own feelings about it (as a Jew) and my political takeaways (as an anarchist).

What’s hitting me now—among so much else—is that I don’t want to keep resharing the image of an arm gesture that oversaw the murder of millions—Jews, disabled people, queers, Roma, radicals, and other “categories” deemed impure to the National Socialist body politic. Instead, along the pull quote above, I’m sharing one of our gestures—the street #ArtOfResistance, staking out an anarchist(ic) “antifascist area” in Athens, and in all likelihood, having the organization to largely keep it that way (or battle hard to do so). But beyond merely the “anti-,” such public antifascist culture signals a desire for something much more crucial and life-giving: our aspirations for #AWorldWithoutFascism, how to prefigure as much of that as we can now, and what that could and should look like.

Or as the quote above reads,

“I saw in that salute not merely a culminating ‘hail to victory’ for christofascism but crucially the challenge to us—all of us who are on the side of life—to abandon any delusions we may still harbor that these sadistic victors will ‘play by the rules’ of state, capital, or national borders. We, too, need new playbooks of resistance and solidarity.”

For the article in full:

https://unicornriot.ninja/2025/elon-musk-gives-nazi-salute-during-his-trump-inauguration-speech/

(In the comments below, see the “raw” text I sent to UR, from which they excerpted bits and pieces, in case that interests you.)

(Part 4 of 6): By way of celebrating my new book “Try Anarchism for Life” being in print and out in the world, and because I have a backlog of photos of circle As in the wild, plus to honor and thank the folks who took the time and care to write blurbs for this book, here’s a trifecta of what I hope are some beautiful expressions of anarchism: street art + the book’s cover + a blurb.

I’ve been thinking a lot—or more than I already do—about “tipping points, when phenomena palpably shift from bad to worse—such as, to my queer Jewish anarchist mind, proto-fascism tipping to fascism after the US midterms—and how those of us who are anarchists see train wrecks coming long before the train has even left the station and beautifully prepare all sorts of infrastructures of #Solidarity way ahead of time. Infrastructures of #MutualAid, #CommunitySelfDefense, #RebelliousMourning, and #FierceLove. It’s shattering my heart that we must increasingly use those infrastructures *merely* to try to lessen the genocidal impacts of Christian fascism here. Yet they are also, always, gesturing toward #AWorldWithoutFascism.

“‘Try Anarchism for Life’ is both a beautiful homage to the countless fragments of ephemeral resistance that constitute everyday antiauthoritarianism and a principled call to commit to stitching together those fragments of daily autonomy-making into flourishing lives of resistance. Paired with unique renditions of the classic circle A, Milstein’s poetic phrases endow age-old concepts like mutual aid and solidarity with renewed vitality and urgency.”

—Mark Bray, author of “Antifa,” “The Anarchist Inquisition,” and “Translating Anarchy”

Copies of the book are available from the publisher, @tangledwild, at www.tangledwilderness.org (for folks in and outside of the US too), @akpressdistro at www.akpress.org, or your favorite anarchist(ic) bookstore, and libraries.

(photos: the rock-solid strength of our circles, as portrayed on a sticker seen in mid-Oct at @defendatlantaforest; beautiful book cover, designed by @eff_charm with circle A by @landonsheely)

#TryAnarchismForLife
#TheBeautyOfOurCircle
#AnarchismOrFascism
#FuckFascism #FTP
#WeAreAllWeNeed
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