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Kansas City: New Year's Eve bash hosted at US Bank
| This New Year’s Eve we took it upon ourselves to get especially festive. Finding that the beer and liquor, fraternizing, and flirting just didn’t suffice, we gallivanted by the US Bank at 103rd and Holmes. We were pleased to spot several large rocks amidst the stunning corporate landscaping. We also located a sturdy metal wastebasket. Soon we were partying like never before, dancing under floodlights behind masks before surveillance cameras to an improvised symphony of shattering plate glass. At least 20 large windows bit the dust before all was said and done. All present will attest: that damn bank never looked so good.
As long as banks get bailed out, we will attack.
Hell—as long as there are banks, we will attack.
Solidarity with all bank robbers, vandals, burglars, and thieves, everyone who seizes the means of consumption rather than slave for wages! |
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Wage slavery sucks, everyone
Wage slavery sucks, everyone here can attest to that.
But not everyone can afford to go out and trash banks instead of "slave for wages".
The working class folk who depend upon those paychecks to survive, arent thinking about "slaving for wages".
they are thinking if survival.
It is ignorant to assume that everyone who has a job is making the choice to be a wage slave.
Everyone who has a job in
Everyone who has a job in the non-black economy is a traitor to the identity of our global lifestylist revolution!
Step aside all you workerist lamers! Let a real anarchist through!
Hate for all the
Hate for all the 'anarchists' that make every excuse in the book for all the poor little peons that can't revolt, have to pay the bills, have to play by the rules. Nevermind all those who do motherfuckers! Which is a greater threat to the existing system: a robbery or another day at the factory, the store, the restaurant?
What the fuck? I don't know
What the fuck? I don't know where the fuck you come from, but in the real world people do have to pay bills, feed kids, be exploited at shit jobs by shit bosses to pay the rent for the shit house to the asshole landlord. Most people have no choice but play by atleast some of the rules. That's why it's called domination. Take your fucking bourgeois crimethinc. fantasy camp anarchy and fuck right off. Who the fuck do you think you are calling "poor little peons"??? You sound like a fucking boss or politician, you fucking worthless asshole piece of shit swine.
Your pathetic narrow minded idea of what is considered "revolutionary" and a "threat to the system" is fucking impotent. Banks get robbed every fucking day. You could rob one tommorow, the next day and the day after that and well shit if anyone even notices. Real people have real problems and real concerns and real needs, and a REAL THREAT comes when we actually organize alongside other real people and start answering these.
Solidarity Begets Victory I
Solidarity Begets Victory
I see wisdom in both sides of your arguments, really. You both have got some real insight to share, thank you. Yes, as we live in a society we inherited- us young adults at least- we must work for some form of the "man" ; which always gets me btw, cause, are not women apart of the system, should we in all honesty identify ourselves as male chauvinists in making the assumption the system is masculine or run strictly by men... I'm rambling, and I am not the "lord Rambler" who rarely has anything to add to a conversation.
Anyways... You both have something to add. Yes we must work to provide for ourselves, at least until we can become truly autonomous amongst the sheep of our country who aren't working for that end. But a revolutionary fervor must be developed before the ferment and the following revolution, check history. Yes, we must ORGANIZE, organize for peace, otherwise the group will be destroyed by the system before a successful rebellion can be attained. But do not discourage those that participate in direct action. The banks deserve it, like the politicians and employers deserve. Yes TAKE BACK THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION, but before we can do this we must ORGANIZE. Through solidarity we have strength, without unity we have what looks like childish rabble throwing a temper-tantrum-brick through windows ;) Stop being condescending towards one another, please, it only serves the perpetuation of the system. We all have a part to play in this "Grand Plan". Take some wisdom from Yoda ;)
MUCH LOVE TO ALL OF YOU!!!! UNITE!!! WE WILL TAKE FROM THE RICH WHAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO NO ONE THROUGH DEDICATION AND OPEN MINDS!!!
In Solidarity,
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"Yes TAKE BACK THE MEANS OF
"Yes TAKE BACK THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION"
What about *THE MEANS OF EXISTENCE* that seems strangely missing from the rhetoric of so many, so called, revolutionaries?
That goes for anarchists too.
"Step aside all you
"Step aside all you workerist lamers! Let a real anarchist through!"
Damn straight! You can't serve two masters, so to speak. Why fight the Capitalist system while also assisting in it's continued dominance? Isn't that just...self defeating?
The problem is that
The problem is that capitalism is not some simple objective system that pokes at us from without. Today, it's difficult to figure out if our resistance is not within the general parameters laid out for it by capitalism itself. For this reason, there is also a difficulty in defining what exactly we mean when we say "capitalism" -- it's not clear-cut anymore, if it ever was. I skipped out on a few of the responses so I'm sorry if this comment doesn't fit in precisely as it should.
We have different economies
We have different economies now too?
You are a racist prick.
My race: Human race!
My race: No race. Race is a
My race: No race.
Race is a social construct that has to be negated and pushed aside as an imagined phenomenon that pigeonholes people into categorical positions based on skin color.
The human "race" does not exist. Humanity exists. The human species exists.
You gotta come correct with that shit!!
;p
-Eyedea
Hey Eyedea The human race
Hey Eyedea
The human race thing is just my way of lumping everyone equally.
I love to do it on forms I have to fill out that ask for race. I check the "other" box and then fill in human in the blank.
It is just my smartass way to say fuck you (not you personally) for people or organizations who think they need to catergorise it.
peace out
I think that Johann Schmidt
I think that Johann Schmidt (aka: Stirner or "Saint Max") still provides the best critique of humanism (human essence, the natural unity of the human race) through his critique of Feuerbach in The Ego. Unfortunately, I would say that the "human race" option is just as confining as the "choose your race" option because it locks one into the fantasy of a unity that actually only occurs at the level of appearances. Each time we try to imagine this lost unity we do so through the terms of the symbolic order, thus it is captured and loses its significance. This to me means that the unity is simply not there and that it was never really there. Nor is this unity in any way desirable. In 1995, Judith Butler asked why unity must be the necessary basis for effective political action?, a question that she herself found too daunting to address considering the 'grip that identity [in the form of human essence--aka the human race] still held over her' (see: http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:n2birC3WGWwJ:bootheprize.stanford.edu/0607/IHUM-Tomiyama.pdf). Nonetheless she asks why it is that we so prematurely insist on discovering or striving toward this unity which inevitably forces ever more fragmentation. In place of unity, Butler suggests that political actors pass through the fragmentation register in order to bump aware presuppositions of unity in this or that form. She further asks: "Does 'unity' set up an exclusionary norm of solidarity at the level of identity that rules out the possibility of a set of actions which disrupt the very borders of identity concepts, or which seek to accomplish precisely that disruption as an explicit political aim?' There are, afterall, political actions which do not conform, will not conform, and do not desire to conform to any essence, race, gender, or human.
Bite your [human] tongue.
People can suggest and
People can suggest and suggest but I still like to say Fuck You to people who wish to categorize me in a little box.
You can call it what you like or do I need to say fuck you to you to?
Is that the question or is it my imagination thinking of lost unity through some terms of your assumed symbolic order?
Screw the question. Fuck You
Screw the question.
Fuck You for general purposes.
"It seems that Johann
"It seems that Johann Schmidt (aka: Stirner or "Saint Max") still provides the best critique of humanism (human essence, the natural unity of the human race) through his critique of Feuerbach in The Ego. Unfortunately, I would say that the "human race" option is just as confining as the "choose your race" option because it locks one into the fantasy of a unity that actually only occurs at the level of appearances. Each time we try to imagine this lost unity we do so through the terms of the symbolic order, thus it is captured and loses its significance. This to me means that the unity is simply not there and that it was never really there. Nor is this unity in any way desirable. In 1995, Judith Butler asked why unity must be the necessary basis for effective political action?, a question that she herself found too daunting to address considering the 'grip that identity [in the form of human essence--aka the human race] still held over her' (see: http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:n2birC3WGWwJ:bootheprize.stanford.edu/0607/IHUM-Tomiyama.pdf). Nonetheless she asks why it is that we so prematurely insist on discovering or striving toward this unity which inevitably forces ever more fragmentation. In place of unity, Butler suggests that political actors pass through the fragmentation register in order to bump aware presuppositions of unity in this or that form. She further asks: "Does 'unity' set up an exclusionary norm of solidarity at the level of identity that rules out the possibility of a set of actions which disrupt the very borders of identity concepts, or which seek to accomplish precisely that disruption as an explicit political aim?' There are, afterall, political actions which do not conform, will not conform, and do not desire to conform to any essence, race, gender, or human.
Bite your [human] tongue."
my thoughts on unity exactly. the only unity i see is that we are all domesticated and exploited (even those of us who have some level of benifit) by the social processes we have (in the form of aeons of civilization) set in motion and live the roles of everyday. i can socialize as much as the next person, of course, but like anyone else this has to be on my terms. i understand the good intentions too, of course, we are so used to having our lives ordered we feel that we must come up with the ideal order rather than wage war on all imposed forms of order. thing is people are different on a plethora of levels and even two individuals adhereing to the same school of though can be as oppisite as the poles otherwise and even hostile to each other (and vice versa: one can find alliances with plenty who don't activly share ones convictions, assuming the right set of circumstances). what we need is not unity, what we need is control of our own lives in so much as we can have this, socially and ecologically determined as we are much as we are also agents with choices.
-lord rambler
"My race: No race. Race is a
"My race: No race.
Race is a social construct that has to be negated and pushed aside as an imagined phenomenon that pigeonholes people into categorical positions based on skin color.
The human "race" does not exist. Humanity exists. The human species exists.
You gotta come correct with that shit!!"
;p
-Eyedea
i by and large agree with this statement, though being ahumanist as i am i would go further than you and say i identify as an organism.
one thing though: differences, including racial (by which i mean an ethnic sense, in other words a cultural sense) can be very important. if someone identifies as____________(fill it in yourself) ethnicity or even race who am i to tell them otherwise (as who are they to, say, come after me for being a nihilist, or probably in this case a critic of identity politics). the point is not to see these differences as implying superiority on the one hand or inferiority on the other but simply as what they are, differences. but i suppose we are never going to be free of assholes that do, but of course if they don't encroach on my space or otherwise try to colonize they can live to see tomorrow (i am obviously conjecturing a post collapse/revolution scenario there).
-lord rambler
Interesting action. Glad
Interesting action. Glad the initiative was taken.
The linking of "solidarity" is limited by defining "slaves for wages" against "bank robbers, vandals, burglars, and thieves". This probably just meant to include everyone that "seizes the means of consumption" and not just those named, but I can see how this statement could be confused for saying "fuck slaving for wages" or "fuck wage slaves".
But anyways, keep it up, I think the messages will always be mixed on the Internet. I think most people will understand.
"Solidarity with all bank
"Solidarity with all bank robbers, vandals, burglars, and thieves, everyone who seizes the means of consumption rather than slave for wages!"
Seriously? Real burglars and thieves seize their "means of consumption" from people who work their asses off to survive. The assholes who jump everyone and their mother in my community for a couple bucks (and leave them in the hospital) aren't the politicized Robin Hoods you think they are. The burglar that I worked with in retail was raping underage girls at gunpoint. Nevermind that the career criminals I know are not seizing the means of consumption, but rather seizing their means of consumerism. "Solidarity with ALL" (emphasis added) is a pretty statement written by a pretty closeted individual.
"Nevermind that the career
"Nevermind that the career criminals I know are not seizing the means of consumption, but rather seizing their means of consumerism."
To people who are unconscious/unaware of the capitalist system (as in, people who are ignorant of the dichotomies/systems/social effects that play out in capitalist society: wage-labor, ruling class/working class, consumerist homogenization and the social assimilation that follows it etc)....to them, consumerism IS the means of consumption, so don't criticize them for their socio-economic-political unconsciousness. That's a completely empty statement.
"Real burglars and thieves seize their "means of consumption" from people who work their asses off to survive."
What's a "real" burglar/thief? You're really going to tell me that you've never copped something without paying for it or asking for it? Don't apply such a smug attitude to the lumpen proletariat. They are just as oppressed as wage-laborers are, they simply can't find a wage-labor position to fill, or they refuse to do so (for good reasons obviously).
You're romanticizing thief
You're romanticizing thief defined by taking what is not theirs on a selfish whim or indiscriminate tit for tat grievance against the state taken out on an innocent citizen.I'm a reformed thief (I can hear the chuckles)and did my 6yrs and came out a better person.Dont glorify ripping off citizens.
If we're going to start
If we're going to start using Marxist terminology, its best you realize that Marx placed the lumpenproletariat on the reactionary side. Thieves, burglars, gang bangers etc are far from the most oppressed peoples. More often then not the lumpenproles are the most powerful in a poor community; controlling the streets, drug and gun trade, prostitutes, etc etc. That they are breaking into working peoples' homes and using the money to buy Ipods, that they would put a woman in a hospital for her purse etc doesn't exactly seem like they're the ones being oppressed.
You're glorifying the 'lumpenproletariat' and letting them hide as victims. If you want to declare solidarity with them, go ahead, I won't stop you. But realize that you'd have to ignore their role as oppressors, that their position requires capitalism/the State to exist, and that poor people denounce them while privileged Marxist grad students cry for them.
A "real" thief is someone who breaks into my neighbors house and steals everything she owns... contrast that against a Crimethinc kid who steals an Odwalla every now and then.
I wasn't trying to glorify
I wasn't trying to glorify criminals. I was simply making a counter argument to, as rambler put it, your sweeping generalizations. I saw a "black and white" mentality behind your comment. I'm by no means a supporter of illegal/gangster capitalism, but I also don't immediately attack people based on what they do to survive in this fucked up world. Nor do I always clump people together into neat little homogenized (my new favorite word) groupings.
Honestly, I'm too tired to debate you right now. I just waded through a sea of morons, nationalists and anti-semitic rhetoric (you ever have a debate, where it's you vs dozens of people at the same time? It's not fun). I even butted heads with a leninist (they're not too bright, are they?). Maybe later.
Everyone knows that the
Everyone knows that the lumpies are the true revolutionary class today. That is unless the financial crisis puts the proles in a position where they no longer have anything to lose.
"Seriously? Real burglars
"Seriously? Real burglars and thieves seize their "means of consumption" from people who work their asses off to survive. The assholes who jump everyone and their mother in my community for a couple bucks (and leave them in the hospital) aren't the politicized Robin Hoods you think they are. The burglar that I worked with in retail was raping underage girls at gunpoint. Nevermind that the career criminals I know are not seizing the means of consumption, but rather seizing their means of consumerism. "Solidarity with ALL" (emphasis added) is a pretty statement written by a pretty closeted individual."
really? i understand what you are talking about chappy, the world of illegal capitalism is a problem and the mere commiting of a crime is nothing more to be valorized than is being a "good" citizen. all the same in an environment such as our own there is no need to demonize even the worse of the worse, even if you have to deal with these people down the barrel of a gun some day (something i obviously do not rule out, but i am open to more theraputic options if they present themselves)...we are all damaged.
i say this because of what you say about criminals. while i give credit to what you say your generalizations are far to sweeping. not even all criminals who do not have a "robin hood mentality" of some kind steal from their nieghbors, and it is certainly not true that they all commit rape (in fact, i hear in prison that rapists and child molesters tend to get murdered from those who have been there). so long as people i care about or "average people" in general are not being robbed so what? so means of consumerism are being siezed, it is too narrow? is it better for people to make money for these? again, remeber my qualifier, i am not talking about your neighbors being robbed or something. further, social war is not something necessarily pleasent (other than the fall of this society hopefully) or that we can control: there are going to be loose cannons...the point is how to deal with them if they need to be dealt with.
-lord rambler
I work with gang bangers,
I work with gang bangers, thieves, burglars etc on a day-to-day basis as an unlicensed tattoo artist in a poor community. While I like them as people, I don't rule out the real possibility that they'll break in my windows and steal whatever I have, or that they'll come into my house and rob me at gun point. If banks and stores are being robbed by them, I could care less. But to declare solidarity with them implies that there is some sort of common interest...
I'm not generalizing so much that I'm saying all thieves/burglars are rapists/murderers, but the document does declare solidarity for ALL of them... as if the act of burglary or theft is something in itself worth supporting.
In my experiences, it is my neighbors, friends, family etc that are being robbed, enough so that I carry a bat next to my door and I'm saving up for a pistol (or taser gun, if the money comes in). I don't have any more solidarity with these people than I do with my wage-labor boss.
ive heard you talk about
ive heard you talk about your union before. what kind of union is an "unlicensed tattoo artist" in?
I have a second job in
I have a second job in retail.
Yeah I used to have a friend
Yeah I used to have a friend back in Russia that was like that. He was hanging with this gang at school and they used to rob some of the younger kids for there money. Then his grandparents gave him money for his birthday and his friends found out about. They beat him up and then robbed him. I think it was for about 874 roubles, which in the United States is about $30. They beat up there friends for $30. Solidarity my ass.
Jason Martin
I have encountered the same
I have encountered the same thing hanging with my good friend, also an unlicensed tattoo artist in a poor community. I started trying to get integrated with the group of "gang bangers, thieves, burglars etc." because I figured that since they obviously devalued the state enough to ignore its laws, that they would be open to anarchist ideas. I found myself easily drawn into a web of intricate organized crime and it turns out that most of these guys are really just thugish businessmen. They are truly capitalists in every aspect of that word, and they have no desire to bring down the state or uplift their communities. I am sure there are criminals that are anarchists, but I have never met one.
Three words "Fuck Large
Three words "Fuck Large Banks" if a bank is to large to be able to go out of buisness, then it does not deserve to contniue to be around. Burn those fuckers down.
Jason Martin
That is one cute cat in the
That is one cute cat in the photo!!!Here kitty kitty,come to your daddy.
Mines cuter, solid black
Mines cuter, solid black Hemingway with opposable thumbs. Here pussy,pussy,pussy
Organize with like-minded
Organize with like-minded thieves, take what you need, share the rest.
People robbing banks are not the ones mugging working class people at night. Mugging is easier.
And yea, robbing banks happens all the time, so it isn't much of a threat to the system, unless you share the wealth, arm your community, feed them, expand that community, work together with them, have each others backs.
We all know people who hate the system but would steal with us, let's SHOW them that things can be different.
Oh, and props on smashing the bank, unfortunately I didn't see this on Infoshop, oh well, most people hate banks nowadays, even the ones using them.
we know where you live
we know where you live
Thats a cowardly example of
Thats a cowardly example of authoritarian coersive manipulation to perpetuate paranoia,thus sustaining their negative control system on others. egodeath
No. It's just a fact. Is
No. It's just a fact. Is that where you keep the guns? How much did you PAY for them?
Why don't you all move to
Why don't you all move to Somalia. I hear they have no government. You also know that when capitalism fails you guys will go hungry. Without this system how could we fill all the dumpsters you guys eat from? Did you pay for that spray paint? You sure do ride some expensive looking bikes. You should all go get jobs anyway. You already seem to like wearing a uniform. The oppressed are slowly becoming the oppressors and they can't even see it happening. Thanks for the laughs. Keep up the cute antics! xoxo
You can always tell when the
You can always tell when the conversation has devolved to pointlessness when the trolls show up.
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Delusions held by one is insanity, by a few a cult, and by many a religion.
Capitalists just get upset
Capitalists just get upset when we don't contribute to their system. They can whine all they want: I'm the one laughing at the end of the day while I collect unemployment benefits and steal all that I eat. Kiss your pathetic economy goodbye!