ANews Podcast 282 – 9.30.22

ANews Podcast 282 – 9.30.22

From ANews Podcast

Welcome to this week’s podcast. This podcast is on anarchist activity, ideas, and comments from the previous week on anarchistnews.org.

Notes:

What’s New

Written by chisel, read by chisel and grumples 

A reading from theanarchistlibrary

Anarchy in Critical Dystopias: An Anatomy of Rebellion by Taylor Andrew Loy (excerpt)

Read & sound edited by Max Res

A discussion prompted by
2 CrimethInc. articles, a “System Fail” video, a forum post

with Max Res & octox

sound editing by octox

Music & Samples: 

Hudson Mohawke – Cbat

Snail’s House x potsu – summer is over

IC3PEAK – Марш (Marching)

oOoOO & Islamiq Grrrls – The Stranger

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The authors of the text about the situation in Iran that CrimethInc. published is not by "the journalists at CrimethInc." but by Iranian and Kurdish-Iranian feminists from Collectif 98, as noted at the beginning of the article. It's obvious (e.g., the slogans about class struggle) that it's not the voice one most often sees from "the journalists at CrimethInc."

yea, i hear that. on the other hand, since crimethinc publishes everything as crimethinc, that comes with certain detriments as well as benefits. just as posting as anon does.

my comment was to point that out, but it was opaque, i agree. thanks for making clear my opaqueness.

Yeah, it's just notable that this is one of the few cases in which CrimethInc. was clear that they were publishing something from another formal group. Otherwise, they "everybody is CrimethInc." thing applies, sure.

Or maybe... everyone is CrimethInc., etc. etc., but not everyone deserves to be slagged off as "the journalists at CrimethInc."?

fair point, first off.

but also seems like you're taking this in a meaner spirit than was intended.

Have I ended up in the nice-spirited part of the anews comments? That's good news! I'll take more care not to be mean-spirited myself, then.

Slight but important rectification: every GROUP is CrimethInc.

They're collectivists to the bone and I think this is just how they find groups to interview, as they're part of their libleft network(s).

OK, listening further, at least one of the hosts seems to be clear on that already.

Likewise, the quote about "vague democracy" in the CrimethInc. text about Russia is from the Avtonom podcast, not from participants in CrimethInc. projects. Whatever you can say about CrimethInc., they have come down very clearly against confusing anarchism within democracy.

Enjoying the discussion about Blessed is the Flame.

you're just doing your best trying to find what to nitpick. no one accused crimethinc of confusing anarchism with democracy. that quote was mentioned in its proper context of interacting with mass movements which may be vaguely democratic at best due to their mixed composition and fickle affiliations and desires.

Aww, I wasn't trying to nitpick, but I can see why you would say that.

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