These last few days i have been watching some of the videos from #Socialism2023. Some of it was interesting, like the panel on carceral sanity. But most of it was trying to sell books. And then there was Naomi Klein, who in one sentence said she still believed in the Green New Deal and Bernie Sanders, in other words reformist or #greenwashing stuff, and in the next seemed to say that we need an insurrection!? Uhm. And oh, she was also selling her latest book (which i will read, it sounds quite relevant).
I am definitely not a socialist.
But. The conference had a state of the art #COVID19-policy. And comparing this to some recent anarchist conferences and festivals, like the superspreader #Anarchy2023 for instance, made me despair yet again.
It has to be stated again and again, the #anarchist scene has glamorously failed and keeps failing during the ongoing pandemic and is therefore not the scene to be involved in as we enter the age of the pandemics.
Yes, COVID is not the last pandemic, far from it. In fact, COVID has even weakened our immune systems in such a fundamental way, that it opened the door even wider for future pandemics.
The ableist even eugenic turn i had to witness and even experience among people claiming to believe in #anarchy has been the biggest disappointment in my life. So far.
Get a fucking grip.
Let us build robust and radical communal care structures.
Mutual aid needs to be a praxis or fuck off.
Abolish cops, psychiatry, the state, the family.
Anti. š
Anti.
Caitlin Waddick
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