Another example: warehouse-arsonist guy's "all you had to do is pay us enough to live"... that's really low-balling it, my man. No. even if we all got paid enough to live, we'd still have racism, sexism, rape, police brutality, war, imperialism, neocolonialism, etc. I just can't help but object to these really absolutist statements. Really it should be "the LEAST you could do is pay us enough to live. BUT we also want these other things and so we're asking for those too."

But, yeah that isn't as catchy, I guess. That'd be a long bumper sticker.

(and again, i'm not against the action. just thinkg the messaging around it could be better)

#arson #slogans #propaganda #propagandaofthedeed #rhetoric #messaging #direct action.

It seems like there's so many radical progressive "slogans" that i end up taking issue with, wording-wise. I guess maybe it''s cuz I'm on the spectrum and i just really want stuff to be accurate, or at least realistic. And by their nature slogans are vague and simplistic, but reality is complicated and nuanced. So I end up always thinking, "well no, actually..." and then people think I'm against the sentiment when I'm not.

For instance "defund the police" - that's catchy & quick but it's also polarizing & shocking to people who arent already radicalized, & like, c'mon, in this society can we really just suddenly get rid of all police? no. We need to remove the conditions that encourage crime, so we won't need police.

#arson #directAction #rhetoric #propaganda #propagandaofthedeed #messaging

Heroic Corps - Wikipedia

At 1:35 p.m. on Saturday 10 September 1898, empress elisabeth of austria left the hotel on the shore of Lake Geneva #switzerland.

They were walking along the promenade when the 25-year-old Italian anarchist #LuigiLucheni approached them, attempting to peer underneath the empress's parasol. Lucheni seemed to stumble and made a movement with his hand, as if he wanted to maintain his balance. In reality, in an act of propaganda of the deed, he had stabbed elisabeth with a sharpened needle file that was 4 inches (10 cm) long (used to file the eyes of industrial needles).

Lucheni originally planned to kill the duke of Orléans. Failing to find him, Lucheni selected elisabeth when a Geneva newspaper revealed that the person was the empress of austria.

'I am an anarchist by conviction. I came to Geneva to kill a sovereign, with object of giving an example to those who suffer and those who do nothing to improve their social position; it did not matter to me who the sovereign was whom I should kill. It was not a woman I struck, but an empress; it was a crown that I had in view.'

#PropagandaOfTheDeed #NoKings

"There’s wrong and there’s right.

It’s time to take action against the forces of evil.

Evil says one life is worth less than another.

Evil says the flow of commerce is our purpose here.

Evil says concentration camps for folks deemed lesser are necessary.

The handmaid of evil says the concentration camps should be more humane.

Beware the centrist..."

Willem Van Spronsen’s Final Statement
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/william-von-spronson-to-my-comrades

#WillemVanSpronsen #Action #DirectAction #PropagandaOfTheDeed

Willem Van Spronsen’s Final Statement

Willem Van Spronsen Willem Van Spronsen’s Final Statement July 14th 2019

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