SanazJan 8, 2021

Cindy Milstein

We don’t give ourselves nearly enough credit for, nor do we do nearly enough honest self-reflection about, how much our anarchistic ethics, tactics, strategies, and practices reshape the world. We win more than we tend to acknowledge, including because we aim so high that any gains still seem to fall far short of “full anarchism,” and because we’re rightly critical of our wins being co-opted, perverted, or used for wholly unanarchistic purposes.

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It’s a virtue that nothing less than “everything for everyone” satisfies us.
Yesterday’s fascist direct action provoked me in so many ways, even a few good ways if I squinted hard through my anarchistic eyeglasses. The MAGA bros who stormed and temporarily occupied the Capitol got there because, among other things, the cops went lighter on them or maybe aided them at points. So we could say, it’s the same old “cops and klan go hand in hand.”
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Yet the impact of the anarchistic (note: not anarchist, but deeply infected by an ethos that’s compatible) uprising last summer, among others, is that many, many more folks now embrace and will take to the streets for #ACAB. Think back before May, and compare what was possible re: #abolition then and now, from what happened to the 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis, to cop-free zones and other experiments toward a world without police.
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We’ve won a lot in a half year on the #FTP front. And, alas, our liberatory #ACAB is now appearing in a fascist version, where perhaps increasingly, the MAGA troops will see the cops as their enemy, and the cops will fear the fascists, ceding them ground too easily, maybe like yesterday.
The dilemma for me isn’t: Should we stop trying to win, or cede our #ACAB stance? It’s how do we stay open to shifting phenomena—like fascists also hating cops—and adjust to make our ethics clear;
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how do we win bigger and better, and when our wins get distorted, dream even bigger, while always making it abundantly obvious what beauty we want in the absence of cops, prisons, states, fascists, and their ilk?
#CareNotCops #CommunityNotCages
#SolidarityNotStates #EverythingForEveryone #AllComradesAreBeautiful #TryAnarchismForLife
(photo: what I see on my daily #FuckThePolice walks)