The Contemptuous Communique #3: Resisting The Leftist Creep

The Contemptuous
Communique #3
Resisting The Leftist Creep

“The problem with being an individual
is that you always wind up outnumbered.”
- Jim Goad

“Causes are the diversion of the feeble – of those who have lost the power of acting strongly from their own nature. They are for the titillation of the senses of the herd, and a person who can act strongly should shun all Cause-ites and their works.”
- Dora Marsden

We, The Contemptuous, are a hostile and unapologetic gathering of critical negation. Temporarily breaking from our primary focus in our more authentic realm of creative living, we come together into this horrifically alienated and dysfunctional venue once again to cast our anarchic venom and spew our disdainful nausea in the hopes that our acidic tones and barbed words might offer a jarring contemplation for a few, and more importantly, an unwavering warning to the rest who stand in the way of unrestrained freedom. In our scopes and through the crosshairs: The Leftist Creeps.

It is all the rage in these superficial, trend-driven, artificially-polarized, and unbearably idiotic post-modern endtimes to write, text, tweet, post, talk, scream, and whine about the great “fascist creep”. That caricatural and hysterical claim that fascism is methodically seeping into culture and intentionally turning everything and everyone “far-Right”, “white supremacist”, “transphobic”, or any of the (slanderously grandiose, bombastic, and mostly overused or discombobulated for traumatic effect and power) terms meant to flatten everything into something “We” all hate without any nuance, refinement, understanding, or honesty by the Leftist Creeps. [That’s right, we sometimes employ run-on sentences and are also known to “take up too much space” with hyper-extended paragraphs. Sorry to traumatize the twits who like everything abbreviated, over-simplified, and in conformance with the current techno-pop-cultural half-wit norms derived from opposable thumbs swiping screens and ejaculated across the planet. You may even need to reread a sentence or two now and then, which we know will be disconcerting for all those multi-tasking between theory, politics, food and fashion right now. And, trigger warning: we may also use an occasional word you might need to look up in a dictionary, but you will probably just google it or pretend you know what it means so you can present more intelligently. Just one more reason why we almost exclusively root for global viruses, catastrophic meteors, and packs of rabid dogs.]

BUT, what actually seems to be occurring (as opposed to a “fascist creep”), generally and universally, is the undeniable and non-retractable pandemic-like spread of the Leftist Creeps and all of their slimy, sleazy, and sickening ooze. They are the ones who with every tweet, post, cause, or graduate school thesis are opportunistically, and sometimes even seemingly arbitrarily, continually moving the goalposts to match the whims of their constituents, dictates of their activists, soundbites of their celebrities, or most novel post-modern angling of their academics. Everyday more and more gets obtusely, hyperbolically, and erroneously labeled as “fascist” (it actually means something very specific and contextual, you ahistorical search-engined morons), sometimes for merely raising minor concerns or criticisms, or having even minimal variations of opinions outside of the latest Woke orthodoxy (which one must be perpetually glued to online virtual authorities or enrolled at just about any university (and in some places elementary school) to stay up-to-date and in adherence with)… and the dim-witted, the scared, the repressed, the insecure, the lonely, the brittle, the victims, the opportunistic, and the bullies repeat and share the shallow rhetoric of undigested ideology which feeds into the rising and spreading cultural and political domination by the Leftist Creeps. Damn, most of them haven’t even read the people they quote, mimic, and adhere to. Could this be something similar to what some mean by “Cultural Marxism”? How dare we! It has reached the point of pathology, a sickness that will feed on itself until all is consumed, adopted, colored, absorbed, or destroyed. And what is most disturbing, disgusting, and absolutely infuriating to some of us, The Contemptuous, is that anarchists are not only influenced by these Leftist Creeps, they are often their most dedicated and fierce advocates, propagators, street fighters, foot soldiers, and secret police. Can anyone say Antifa (Ant-eee-fah)? Just to name the most obvious, annoying, and dangerous example of The Leftist Creep’s physical and social manifestation in the relative sphere unfortunately and erroneously overlapping with the anarchist space. Enough is enough…. maybe anarchists could learn at least a few things from Joseph McCarthy.

We suppose it may be necessary here to briefly point out that some folx (hopefully they were merely Russian-bots, AI agents, or some deviant hairy little creatures under a bridge) have accused our first communique of being “so anti-Leftist” and complained that we used some so-called “Right-wing language” that we must be “soft on the Right” and even that we are “Trumpian”. This shallow and misdirected slander is absurd, reactionary, sophomoric, and quite revealing. To be absolutely clear, we despise ALL politics (we know you skipped over this part for your own inbred agendas, that’s ok, it is hard to think these days, we know), but focus on the Left so pointedly and frequently because it is the political persuasion that has most penetrated and negatively effected what should be an apolitical and anti-ideological anarchist space. Sure, anarchists have rubbed elbows with Leftists for well over a century, since their beginning, in fact. How did that work out? Every time we got fucked, not to mention that our perspectives and goals have never been the same from the start and at the core. We have never been fellow travelers, just opportunistic and misguided third cousins at best. We also tire of having to endlessly point out that while much of the classical anarchists’ histories have had a socialist component, there have always been anti-socialist and anti-Leftist anarchists in the egoist, individualist, illegalist, and more recently insurrectionary, ecological, indigenous, primitivist, anti-civilization, and post-Leftist persuasions. These perspectives are obviously closer to the center of anarchy than the humanist, syndicalist, socialist, and communist varieties. Compounding the problem are the more contemporary infusions of Leftism into anarchism from the New-Left onward all the way through contemporary Wokeness (Yes, “Wokeness”, that’s what we said, and no, we didn’t storm the Capital, we don’t pay with bitcoin, we don’t think we are being replaced, and we very much believe that the Holocaust actually happened and that the ecosphere is dramatically changing due to the absolute absurdity of human behavior. We just think the concept is fitting and most upsetting to those for whom it applies, i.e. those contemporary anarcho-progressives whose ideas and actions are pathetically closer to “ridin’ with Biden” and “feelin’ the Burn” than they are anything remotely anarchist.), and all of the negative qualities, baggage, and danger they bring with them. There are too many to list here, but you know what they are, we never shut up about them. Some of us have been pushing back on this for years, some even decades, and it just seems to get worse and worse with the rest of this sick culture to the point where there is, sadly, very little difference between most anarchists and your run-of-the-mill Leftists, paternalistic Liberals, and equity-chasing Progressives. Now, the anarchist space is primarily a bunch of over-boiled anarcho-Leftist frogs wearing the costumes and slogans of each new cause of the day. It has reached a pathetic point where most anarchists frame, discuss, and act in relation to this world and its “issues” by taking their cues from the Left (vanguards, academics, politicos, activists, trends, popularized culture, social pressures, etc), rather than from themselves, their own thoughts and feelings, and their directly-lived experiences with those they share authentic affinity with, and most importantly, apart from political situations, activist projects, and infantile and ritualistic performances.

Again, The Contemptuous are adamantly apolitical. We do not think this should have been confusing in our first communique. Probably the more accurate explanation for some people’s misreading is their projection onto us from within their unquestioned, socialized, and critically-devoid Leftist ideologies and perspectives. This was kind of our point. Thanks to those who supplied your pathetically predictable examples as simpleton commentary. It should also be added here that our apolitical and anti-political position does not mean that we do not express something along the lines of political theory to study the workings of politics in an attempt to understand, reveal, and critique certain dynamics, motivations, strategies, and players. One dynamic we spend a fair amount of time paying attention to is the manipulation of part of the populace by using specific and oversimplified elements, language, symbols, fashions, and ideas that are part of their popular vernacular to control or even to create crisis and conflict with other parts of the populace who are also being manipulated in similar, yet differently-flavored ways. We see this happening throughout politics, from every side and angle. But we come to this analysis from outside of their cultural wars and with no attempt at intervention within them, just critique and negation from outside, with our actions of destruction focused on the totality that is encompassing of all of these elements and much more. We have no dog in their game, our wolf pack is elusive and more at home in the mountains and woods than in this dead virtual world, only rushing in to attack before slipping back into our own prioritized self-referential existence. Obviously we also have colossal distaste for the political Right, but we feel this is clear to us and should be relatively apparent to everyone but the reactionary Leftist Creeps. But, we also feel that the political Right is often misidentified, mislabeled, misjudged, and overinflated by most Leftists, so perhaps we shall give them more critical attention in future communiques. Again, we focus on the Leftist Creeps with more attention and disdain because anarchists have morphed with them in almost every way to the point that they are its cutting edge and actually feed it with new ideas, fuel, and fodder. The list of subjects that contemporary anarchists too often view through an unquestionable Leftist lens is beyond disheartening: technology, social media, identity politics, victimhood, privilege, race, ethnicity, class, work, economics, humor, education, tradition, gender, sexuality, health and illness, freedom, truth, spirituality, materialism, revolution, totalitarianism, fascism, the individual, society, equity, justice, etc, et al… It is exhaustingly deplorable for anti-civilization tribal anarchists with healthy individualist tendencies to stomach any of this. It is why we bring our bile up here for you to feast on. So, eat up! It’s only the first course. Many more delicacies are sure to follow.

Some of us have literally risked our freedom, any sense of security, even our lives, over and over again, not to mention shedding colossal amounts of sweat and tears, for years, and for what? For a pathetic little inconsequential flea circus, an infantile sandbox filled with lame ideas and cat shit, a performative post-modern role-playing virtual second-life? Fuck that! Anarchy is not a hobby for us, we live it every day in the real world, and we are disgusted by what we see out there posing as anarchists, who are in reality, confused little Leftists with mommy and/or daddy issues. For those exceptions out there, good luck, find us if you care to, we’d love to conspire if we can. For the rest of you, watch yer back. We align ourselves with freedom, not politics or ideologies or spectacles. You love to slander and “call-out” just about everyone with even a shade outside the latest Progressive post-modern paradigm or with books on our shelves that you have ignorantly, and as authoritarians, determined we are not supposed to read, and declare us your enemy. Well, ok, right back atcha! Gloves are off. Let’s fuckin’ do this already.

Anyway, yes, there is a Red Wave, but regardless of what we are told, it is not a temporary Right-wing electoral landslide. The Red Wave Is Woke. In fact, the Red Tides have been rising for decades, through academia, through the arts, through pop culture and entertainment, through sub-cultures and alternative scenes, and through the virtual world. This cannot be written off or “gaslit” as some Right-wing trope, reactionary politicized agenda, or paranoid conspiratorial apparition; it is real and has dire consequences for the world, for anarchists, for freedom. The Great Red Swell is now upon us and all evacuation roots have been deemed fascistic or racist or transphobic (or whatever weaponized and hyperbolic term seems most destructive at the time) based on mostly ignorant reconstitutions, empty rhetoric, or opportunistically malicious misinformation. The uniform of the new political, social, and cultural authoritarian is no longer the drab brown of yesteryear’s most notorious actual fascists (yes, again, that word actually defines something very specific, but that easily researched lesson is for another day), but instead, they smother themselves in every shade and tint of the techno-color rainbow and all the superficial, predictable, and victimized identities as their activists seek to gain political, social, and cultural power. The list grows everyday and never recognizes the complicated nature of the individual experience in vast and varied contexts. At most they use the now-quite-in-fashion-and-therefore-approaching-meaninglessness term “intersectional” to describe where victimhood identities cross with other victimhood identities, offering an even more victimized position of political, social, and cultural power for the Leftist Creeps to move and attack from. The fabricated rhetoric of pluralism, globalism, and inclusivity has replaced, in reverse, the purity, nationalism and exclusivity of the authoritarianism of another time. Both are troubling, but one is decisively succeeding. The slow march has proved to be amazingly advantageous for them.

The new political, social, and cultural authoritarian is empty and vacuous, a pathetic vessel, allowing themselves to be filled with the latest version of what they are supposed to “believe” and enforce, even if it makes absolutely no sense to them or anyone else. They are ahistorical, so they can absorb and regurgitate any narrative or line without context or question. They are spiritually lost, and thus, more than willing to travel down any so-called “enlightened path”, however dim it may actually be. They serve technology and bow to its perpetual ascendancy, and view it as anything from inevitable to essential. And, most importantly, they want to belong to something bigger and righteous and to be on the “correct” side of history in the cultural wars, so they are more than enthusiastic to view almost anyone as their enemy no matter how powerless their perceived opponent is or misdirected their attack, shaming them, slandering them, shunning them, virtue signaling and performing resistance against them, fighting them in ritualistic street battles, harassing them any chance they can get, attempting to ruin their lives and spreading often false or at least misleading information about them, getting them fired from their jobs, or doxing them so others can do their dirty work for them. They are the Leftist Creeps. Do they creep you out? If so, it is past time to stand up! If not, we have nothing more to say to each other. We can already hear the slithering snakes gathering information to dishonestly cut and paste and opportunistically collage in their creepy dossier for their next internet tribunal. That’s fine, we live in a real world.

As we leave you, for now, and go back into the shadows where we may speak and act openly amongst our kindred free folk, live our lives with all of the joy and beauty and creativity we can summon, and prepare our next corrosive promulgation, we must offer some simple information and advice to those whose interested ear we may have drawn towards us. Here are a few tips about and some clues pertaining to the Leftist Creeps. You can find them everywhere. The highest density is at ground zero, the University, of course, but the inoculation has been unbelievably successful and so the infection has been vast in this intellectually and emotionally weak and desperate population. It has thoroughly seeped into all venues, scenes, and situations. And, sadly, the Leftist virus has taken over and perhaps has terminally infected the now-zombified anarchist space. The pandemic of the Leftist Creep has no vaccine: instead, a holistic approach of rigorous critical thinking and healthy skepticism along with internet abstinence is extremely helpful. Self-employment and gray and black market outlaw skills will keep the Leftist Creeps in human resources and the legal system off of your back. Prioritizing relationships “in real life”, while seeming quite “old-fashioned” and “too limiting” and “too real”, helps avoid the Leftist Creeps which flood dating cesspools, social media, and other unauthentic virtual realities. The most upsetting part in all of this is recognizing the Leftist Creeps in our midst, masquerading, fooling themselves or unaware of just what they are: sleazy, opportunistic, cultivated, and just plain stupid Leftist Creeps. It is time to call them out! It is time to call them what they are! It is time to stop The Leftist Creep and dam the rising Red Tide! Yes my friends, simply put, Time Is Up!

“I do not want to nor can I espouse the cause of atheistic communism, because I do not believe in the supreme elevation of the masses, and so I deny the realization of Anarchy meant as a social form of human life together … Anarchy is nectar for the psychic I and not sociological alcohol for the collectivity”
- Renzo Novatore

“Life is feasting and conflict: that is its zest.”
- Dora Marsden

For A Metaphorical, Critical, and
Literal Dis-membering
Of The Leftist Creeps,

The Contemptuous
contemptuous@riseup.net

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Litany Against the Crowd

I will not gather with the Crowd
to Gather with the crowd is to betray my pack
The crowd is the I killer, the subtle death of all kinship by elimination of its constituent brilliance.

I will not gather in the tidal pools of conformity
I will not coalesce and wait for the coming waves of freedom
I will not concede to the catastrophe that justifies their rule of form

I am the pack.  We each are its piece and its entirety.
I will not hook to invisible transmissions and ride the psychic waves of jubilant conformity encased in its intoxicating velocity and impenetrable sightlessness.

I will not gather with the crowd, I will not obviate all I love for a fleeting facsimile of freedom.

————

Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing
Many years ago, the elders of the herds would tell the youngsters frightening tales about wolves in sheeps’ clothing, tales of terror meant to warn the young ones against wandering, pursuing their own ways, choosing their own companions.
These days wolves are rare and tend to avoid the herds since the flavor of the meat no longer seems worth risking the wrath of the shepherds ...
But within the herds themselves, a new phenomenon has arisen: sheep, so many sheep, have taken to dressing up as wolves ... From all sides, you can hear the ba-a-a-h-hing howls and the bleating growls. And some go so far as to don fanged dentures and clawed gloves! Let no one think they are sheep! “Ba-a-a-a-h-h-h-oooo!”
But sheep they are, all around, to the farthest right, to the farthest left, and everywhere in between. You can tell that they are sheep by the repetitive bleating sameness of their so- called howls and growls, by the ease with which they are led by whoever bleats the loudest. No need for the bleat to even faintly resemble the soaring beauty of a genuine howl or the deep menace of a genuine growl. It just needs to be loud enough to enforce a sense of belonging, of conformity, of obedience to a cause and a willingness to follow.
The flocks and herds wearing these wolf disguises go by many names ... Some call themselves Proud Boys, others Anti-Fa; some say that they are Nazis (National Socialists), others that they are Communists (International Socialists); some call themselves alt-right, others ultra-left; and then there are those who’ve donned the disguise to defend their middle ground, still using their old names, the Democrats and the old-school Republicans ... But in every case, you find the same herd-like demand for conformity, the insistence on adherence to the group and its mentality (if you can call it that), the insistence that everyone bleat-howl the same note and that everyone be prepared to lash out at anyone who bleats wrong or dares to stray from the herd, and especially those who dare to howl out their own songs and go their own way, with no need or desire to belong to any flock or herd.
For at least as long as there have been the civilized, gathering in herds has been the norm for human sheep. But sheep disguising themselves in wolves’ clothing in mass is a much more modern phenomenon. And the development of that vast electronic global herd of herds known as the Internet has made this the norm as each sub-herd bares its artificial fangs and swipes its artificial claws at the other sub-herds, to prove (to themselves as much as to anyone else) that they really are “different”. Meanwhile, the genuine human wolves are increasingly lone wolves, gradually realizing how utterly poisonous every herd is, and so
learning to avoid them, and particularly to move away from the plague-ridden sewage that is the herd of herds ... the Internet that melts all it takes in down to stinky toxic sludge.
... And the lone wolves know that the only way to cure this sludge-borne plague is to howl with mocking laughter.

A laughing anarchic lone wolf

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tl;dr: wah wah left bad

inb4 lumpy comes to white knight for the left

anyways, this is terrible. a self-parody, whether intentional or not

(too long) (didn't read (etc) - but "its terrible"
you conformist swine. it read it, and there is a lot there, but go back to texting your leftist loser friends now

Firstly, anarchists write communiques after they've actually done something. A communique is not issued when you write a cringe blog post.

Secondly... goddamn these Contemptous folx are so cringe. Like, I really feel embarrassed for them. I see they are trying to mimic some well known Greek anarchos but we all know thise Greek anarchos actually DID the things they wrote about. The worst thing is that of course they only exist as writing. If they actually did things they cringily write about I'd cheer them on but we know that it has as much offline presence as a fart.

TL;DR: Please stop issuing communiques for your blog posts.

what do you know about these people? why do you assume they don't do anything? and who does nothing? that is some stupid pseudo-logic. why not address what they bring up rather than write it off with your projected bullshit

Why was this published? It's dumb as hell. Not worth anybody's time to read.

If you've read Goad, then you should be aware of his views on non-whites, gays, women, etc. His Redneck Manifesto might be his best, but even that tries to justify his views via whataboutisms. He's def a product of the very selfish generation x group and I seriously doubt he shares views with anyone visiting a website called "anarchist news".

Gosh.. everything about that Jim Goad is pure trash. He's making many governments look like the good guys, except that many cops are just the exact same trash that he is. The guy went to jail for beating up his mistress and after being released from his reduced sentence he stated he was all proud of it.

That shitlord deserves a molotov blown up his ass... not a quote in the header of an article on anarchistnews.org, for fuck's sake!

The Contemptuous deserves only contempt.

Beautiful,,,beaUTiful, so true-"will be disconcerting for all those multi-tasking between theory, politics, food and fashion right now." Lolol, sums up woke/leftist interests,,,,and also is humorous " trigger warning: we may also use an occasional word you might need to look up in a dictionary",
So refreshing to see a fellow lone wolf rail against the left/right herds of democrats, nazis, communists, libertards and all the other conformist herded hordes that make life sooOoo bORing!

lol, they cite mccarthy positively and the n complain that people called them right-wing-leaning. omgosh. do they read what they write?

don't forget this particular little scumbag is now signing off with a generalized death threat at the end.

if I could take this person seriously, making public, generalized death threats towards leftists is apparently where we're at?

that escalated and went mask off exactly like i thought it would! rapidly approaching the ITS horizon, now they just need to kill somebody for no good reason and the cycle will be compete. but much more likely, this sad little chest thumping display is where the drama dies with a whimper.

"Literal Dis-membering Of The Leftist Creeps" <---- see?

somebody wants to ""rosa luxenberg"" anyone who disagrees with them!
something something helicopter rides! BuT wE're NOT rEaCTiONaRies tHo!

it says "dis-membering"
i read it, because of the hyphen, as removing from membership, not chopping up, otherwise why the hyphen?

calm down lumpy,

BUT if it said Rightwing Creeps, y'all would be salivating with joy.

so many comments here reveal what the contemptuous seem to be trying to point out, but i don't expect most people to actually engage with much these days. i am inspired by this forceful pushback against leftism and wish other anarchists were too.

ah yes, working backwards from your own biases while pointing the finger about it too. classic!

OooOooh nOooo, rEad some NEech, fInd yoUr Inner UbermEnsch!

OooOooh nOoooo "read a little Neech" has taken on a life of its own! I am a Meme Master! Mmmm!

BIG Philosophy Debate of the Year: Übermensch Vs DASEIN

Who wins?

Get ready to rrrrrr...

ok Lumpy, way to take one (misread, i believe) line and color the entire piece and the authors with your leftist fanaticism.

the entire tone of this piece is unhinged polemical screech rant, no need to colour it

if you think this reads like "normal analysis" or "humour", you've gone nose blind to reactionary screeds

stay hinged everyone, lumpy thinks we can figure this all out if we just try a little harder going through the motions and reflecting society, oh, and we want "normal analysis" not passionate anarchic disdain that IS reacting (reaction is not always a bad thing) to a real tendency, no that's too soft, problem.

i thought it was funny and do not watch fox news. its sad how most people here are so predictable.

all the pompous, snarky edgelords were laughing right up until the trump election too! then half of them turned out to be ducks that go quack and the other half had to eat crow. which bird are you?

trump election?
who cares?

ducks and crows aren't the only options

sure! you could also get a job working for the CIA, trying to "purge" the anarchists of their collective memory about where the beautiful ideas came from. or maybe be a useful idiot, workin for the pigs for free cuz you're so busy posturing at annoying college students

i think they are kinda joking here. boy, humor (which bites and exaggerates but with a hint of truth) seems to be lost on most people these days

or it's just not funny.

aka
humor is super subjective and writing like this doesn't lead to people understanding what the authors are doing, since so much of it is over-the-top ranting at full volume. might as well be in all caps...

Somebody should tell the birds at Riseup.net that one of their users is being fashy and calling for the attack and literal dismemberment of leftists. That would solve this quickly.

"Somebody should tell the birds at Riseup.net that one of their users is being fashy and calling for the attack and literal dismemberment of leftists. That would solve this quickly."

...and let's snitch them out and dox them too.

way to go anarchy!

Yeah because telling your comrades things about others who are doing things they disagree with but may have gone unnoticed is, *checks notes*, “snitching”…………. Cry more, alt-child.

i love the type of rant that begins with condescension about how the audience will struggle to look up the definition of basic terms... then whines about 'escape roots' being blocked. pages and pages' worth of insulting the reader's intelligence, as though that's equivalent to making a good point. i give this a D and i expect the revised version on my desk Thursday morning.

finally, a bit of fresh air and hope! where can i find the other communiqués?

just found them here at anews...

Dear contemptous bastards, I would love to see a nice real world publication with your communiques. There is poetry in it.

just to piss off most so-called anarchists......i hope its coming too!

something needs to fill the emptiness

It appears to me that most comments here, as with the other contemptuous’ communiques fall into a thin margin of responses and write it off without engaging with the text by: saying they authors “don’t do anything in the real world”, which i am not sure anyone can claim about them unless they have some magic ball or inside info; say they are too mean, which i think they would probably agree with, but might defend as warranted, which i would generally agree; or claim they are “right-wing”, fascist, etc, which they don’t in any way appear to be unless you fall squarely into the critique they present here as part of “the leftist creep”. so i guess they did their work and you did yours. i wish people who have issues with it would directly argue their points and specifics within the piece.

i find a few issues with the communique, like their lack of critique of the right, which they hint may be coming, their reliance on charged political language like “woke” and “cultural marxism”, although i tend to agree with how they use these words, just that most people react to them without hearing what is behind them, and the “lone wolf” stuff in the last poem, which seems more removed from reality than the rest.

overall, this seems like the anarchy i was drawn to, not the activist-oriented, super-hero, saving the world stuff that plagues this site and the anarchist scene in north america.

I also think tht the authors are having more fun pissing people off than they are looking for people of the same ilk, though they might it's the same thing.

No big deal. We all have barriers that we make people get through in order to connect with us.

The authors aren't pissing anybody off, 20:08. We are EMBARRASSED for them. There is a BIG difference. They are simply wasting everyone's time each time they attempt to intensify the edginess of their dangerous blog posting. It's corny as fuck and so obviously LARPing it SADDENS us readers who expect more from writers in AND around the milieu.

Did someone train a chat bot on this comments section, now posting its results?

My summary, with reactions:
Everyone’s worried about the fascist creep!- really? Is it 2017 where you live, or are you just stuck there mentally?
If you were confused by our last communique into thinking we’re right wingers, that’s on you, because we clearly said we’re not!- ok…
Anyway Wokeness, cultural Marxism and stupid sleazy leftist creeps are our main enemies - ….
Other people disagree with us only because their belief systems are born from the internet - if you were doing something interesting offline I think you’d rather be talking about that instead of bellyaching like this, but you sound as online as anyone.

What do you even think “the left” or “leftist” means anyway? Is it anyone who’s vaccinated? Is it run by George soros? Have you maybe just built your own identity and agenda over not being able to tolerate when someone addresses the obvious rightward slant of your rhetoric? I’m struck that almost everything you say here is rhetoric about rhetoric and little about actual practices, people or events- is that what you mean by “apolitical”?

At the end of the text they call for “Literally dismembering” the “woke leftist creeps”. This is a call for violence in the style of ITS, who tried to bomb university students for being leftist anarchists.

this frog has been so slowly boiled it can't see what it is....a leftist creep.

What is this alt-lite, FoxNews-level, dogshit comment doing on my beloved ANARCHISTnews?

For fucks sake if you want to dunk on leftists then AT LEAST learn a language that is not the telltale verbal stupidity of the bootlicking, mainstream rightwing and alt-right mouthbreathers. At least TRY to be interesting!.

If you quack like a duck expect to be called a duck.

i'd like to add smells like a duck, flaps around like a duck, has stupid looking little duck feet that they waddle around on ... probably farts like a duck?

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE DUCK FARTS PPL

Duct tape (also called duck tape, from the cotton duck cloth it was originally made of) is cloth- or scrim-backed pressure-sensitive tape, often coated with polyethylene. There are a variety of constructions using different backings and adhesives, and the term 'duct tape' has been genericized to refer to different cloth tapes with differing purposes. A variation is heat-resistant foil tape useful for sealing heating and cooling ducts, produced because the adhesive on standard duct tape fails and the synthetic fabric reinforcement mesh deteriorates when used on heating ducts.

Duct tape is generally silvery gray in color, but also available in other colors and printed designs, from whimsical yellow ducks, college logos to practical camouflage patterns. It is often confused with gaffer tape (which is designed to be non-reflective and cleanly removed, unlike duct tape).

When we marched against the Proud Boys we carried duct tape but called it duct tape.

"When we marched against the Proud Boys we carried duct tape but called it duct tape."

so proud of you boys. did we win?

Let's just say they found themselves in a..... sticky situation.

who needs masturbation when you can just write long winded wining communiques?

Well at least the latter allows for a level of creativity and writing skills, where any retard can masterbait.

I mean, I'm the target audience of this piece and it just isn't doing it. These guys aren't exactly Bob Black when it comes to good effective post/non-left radical writing. The attempted Novatoresque prose doesn't work either.

In regards to the left, you have to acknowledge that there is a relationship between modern age anarchism/anarchy and the left. Perhaps overtime it will fade but there are still adjacent relations and dynamics. Not enough to make one like me a leftist but something to acknowledge. Given that the left is going to stick around for a longer while yet, I would at least like to see a new age better left then what exists right now that is at least closer in an absolute sense to post-left @ discourse then the current Marxist dominated left.

Beyond that the left is not something to be demonized or positioned within.

ideally we'd be not talking about left or right, because both are inadequate boxes for anarchists. this writing just solidifies the left/right spectrum, much as woke/antiwoke diatribes do.

anarchists are neitehr left nor right, which is presumably the point of all this rhetoric, but ranting about either or both is still maintaining the binary.

agreed, so why do most anarchists focus on the right and act like leftists?

you don't know what you'r talking about. there are FAR more people calling themselves anarchists who are conservative than progressive. just check out who the top-viewed anarchist on youtube is.

Who is not an anarchist but he has successfully communicated the Chuck Palahniuk millennial angry young man that many traditional anarchists have completely missed the boat on post-punk generation X.

Elon Musk also called himself an anarchist, brah.
THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT SO.

"the top-viewed anarchist on youtube is"

Let's look into all these top-viewed Youtube big dickssss... Like that annoying Swedish neonazi rich kid who's so edgy he's making millions out of ads!

That game is rigged, boi. I'm sure there's no way some non-jackass with intelligent things to say but no lucrative connections is gonna make it to 500k subscribers and beyond. Look at the RLM guys... like them or not, they're for real, but they been working their stuff, with a film studio, for two decades and yet they ain't got a fraction of the subscribers that some tool like PeeDiePie has.

The best you can do is offline exploits on them. Like trick them into coming to some galore event or something.

God, I'll just listen to The Perfume Nationalist instead of this collection of whining and shrieking and their awful soulful white boy poetry.... at least he's got good taste and smells nice.

Also the image for this "communique" looks like a shit power electronics "better dead than red" comp CDR. Get a grip please

@ discourse badly needs an equivalent to that. Leftist criticalism(the other side of the coin to fundamentalism) and institutional recuperation and capture has badly retarded @ aesthetics. We're a LOOONG way away from the SI at this point in time and some of the more interesting aesthetic reactionaries have made use of those people.

Don't quote Dora Marsden if you don't want to be called right wing.

Dora didn't understand Egoism, and would probably have been a "anarcho"-capitalist, if they'd existed at the time.

In saying that, overall I agree with the general idea you're presenting, but not the way you presented them.

Dora Marsden "right wing"? she was neither left nor right, as anarchist should be

you fuckin idiot.

and she had her own take on egoism, as all egoists should....max is not a god, nor would he have wanted to be

Ayn's take is best take everybody knows this

except she needed citizens believing in natural law, like Christians believing in the grace of god. that's why she didn't appreciate nietzsche or stirner, their ideas were too dangerous for her system (capitalism).

So true, she hadn't really reached (neeched, haha) the point of Max's individual sovereignty, her system still required a willingness for her citizens to volunteer to a collective hierarchy of labor and equity.

She was clearly agreeing with the idea of domination or power over other people. Dora would likely be fine with someone working for the police to satiate their sadistic drives.

It is possible to critique leftist tendencies in anarchy without quoting someone like Jim Goad.

"It is possible to critique leftist tendencies in anarchy without quoting someone like Jim Goad."

of course it is. this is the first place i have seen him quoted.

jim goad is a mixed bag. i think he nails it so completely on at times and other times completely misses, but well-worth the reading if one is not too thin-skinned and fragile or if one wants a good crass laugh. probably not for most of the commenters here, and also books that can get you put on some people's lists if they find them on your bookshelf.

According to the contemptible:

Communists
Capitalists
“Cultural Marxism”
Academia
Pop culture
Vaccines
Trans people
Joe Biden
Joe Stalin
Asking the contemptuous why they sound so right wing

this is just misreading at best, but probably more likely either dishonest baiting or someone so within the leftist universe that they can only see through those manufactured filters

wow, well where the hell did you get "Trans people"....never saw that in any of their communiques, but hey, no need to bother with the truth now.

all the other ones:

Communists: check
Capitalists: how did they say it is leftist in and of itself?
“Cultural Marxism”: check, with explanation
Academia: come on now, don't play naive
Pop culture: same as above
Vaccines: that's a cheap jab, they may have commented on how people interacted with the cultural expectations, etc, but......yeah, whatever. way to mislead people
Trans people: never saw it anywhere, at most, they hint briefly at how the left directs discussion involving gender within a larger context,
Joe Biden: check
Joe Stalin: super check

they don't sound right-wing at all to me, they send like anarchists fed up with the leftist influence and submission to the left. right on!

The trans and pop culture allegation is fueled by the new woke/left-liberal identity policies sweeping democracies, thus Biden, capitalism, vaccines and academia, broadly speaking, fall within the leftist hegemony.

Yeah they mentioned “transgenderism” in #1.
Point was: if communists and capitalists alike are “left” to you, then it’s not a very useful category, and this is exactly how right wingers use the term…

transgenderism, in how it is flattened and used by the left, is in no way the same as trans people.

Isn't Goad a notorious racist/sexist/right winger? Odd to quote him...lol

Their entire project (blog posts) and all the edgelords references they're trying to push into the anarchist space are anti-anarchis. Surely soon we'll be hearing about how based Ragnar Redbeard or the Wolves of Vineland could be for the contemptous anarchist assassin lone wolf blogger!

Their very cringe name (the contemptuous) was pushing the right buttons from the start. Including that the Right button.

We started the year with that AG dumpster fire... and now this. I'd love not having to come near the paranoid conclusion that "we're being attacked on all sides". But then again that is the fate of actual non-sectarian anarchists in such a miserable society run by cults and gangs of all kinds.

i'm so afraid of referencing scary people. dumb. there is nothing anti-anarchist in The Contemptuous, only here in the comments section

'You guys I know you like the Stirner and Malatesta stuff but have you considered the writings of Savitri Devi or Ragnar Redbeard? Anarchists could surely benefit from something from these texts don't be scared anarchist-bookcucks.'

but unironically.

8:42, saying the same thing over and over again doesn't make it so. make an argument or go outside. no one knows you to be compelled by your repetition, and online is full of strangers repeating stuff ad nauseum. no one's convinced, dude.

Is it not possible that all of these associative puzzles being played out in the comments are not the point of the critique? It seems a little short-sighted to assume the references are all meant to be endorsements or condemnations of entire bodies of work. To the extent it's dramatic, isn't that the point? To provoke and illuminate the failings. It feels like these comments are largely caught up in an adolescent reading, both in method and comprehension.

well if pretentious distance is the game, I can play too!

i find those "anarchists" who don't have an antifascist analysis that's worth a damn, to be dangerously naive (at best) on the subject of who their friends and enemies are! and down which garden path their affinities lead them! much like teenagers! the silly fools!

enjoy that company you so carelessly keep, kiddos!

are you centering your feelings about my point that you missed?

who said they don't have an antifascist critique?

that's different than antifa bullshit. what is antifa the only game in town?

...and reading from a diverse library only helps in the development of a more intricate critique.

lumpy, once again, missing the point and smearing it with ignorant self-righteousness.

You do realize that "antifa" just means anti-fascist and isn't a singular organized body of scary radicals that your right-wing/reactionary clergymen are always crying about, right? So your statement makes ZERO sense and you just played yourself AGAIN. Are the chans down or something or are you just bored a lot?

Antifa doesn't really just mean antifascist though, because it's mostly referring to a group (admittedly amorphous and changing, as are black blocs) doing street actions against a particular kind of fascist, and influenced by a German (?), at least European tradition of street actions.

"Mostly"

yeah. "mostly" is relevenat when one is trying to be understood by other people.

perhaps it is nto relevant when you're just attempting some empty online victory; you'll have to let us know.

"don't have an antifascist analysis that's worth a damn, to be dangerously naive (at best) on the subject of who their friends and enemies are! and down which garden path their affinities lead them! much like teenagers! the silly fools!"
OMG ageist fits with vertical binary mindset. Having an antifascist analysis is passé you moron, and has been since the 70's, sheesh!

give me a break, nobody in 2023 actually believes that antifa = antifascist. antifa is so much more than that now. it is a specific analysis and practice, both completely over-simplistic at that. and, it is not just the "right-wing" who criticize them, but any anarchist with half-a brain.

your arrogance does not cover up your ignorance

i don't think that is what was said. way to blow past things....don't you leftists call that gaslighting?

OooOooh nOoooOoo the leftist antifa are gaslighting meEeeee!
Please, themods, protec me!

not whining about it, just pointing out faulty argumentation and complete stupidity.

Par for the course when it comes to Lumpy and frens. If one is anti-authoritarian the anti/non-fascist analysis is already down. If there’s anything more then that, particularly at this point in time, you’re probably some deployed humanist liberal progressive foot soldier.

and you're not soldiering for anyone, huh? that's cute!

you must just be a useful idiot that constantly circulates reactionary arguments then? not even getting any soros cheques or nothin? too bad ziggles. if you're good at something, never do it for free!

I've always stuck to the more acute anarchist to anarch arguments and I'm not showing up to any marches or political assemblages that do the dictating to @ thinkers and actors. I'm not against informing and influencing greater discourse pipelines or political vortexes as they're called but I think you have to be smart in how you go about doing it and the integrity of anarchy should come first.

Also you know damn well that I don't circulate reactionary arguments. You can say that I do but I know you can't demonstrate it and if you try I'll like debunk it like I've been dunking and debunking you for years now. I MIGHT agree with a talking point here and there(from a different radical angle) where greater logic dictates that you concede and acknowledge an argument but that is not the same thing as circulating them.

And I'd assume you'd be against exchange value. That idiom that you mention is one of numerous things that keeps the logic of exchange going as ubiquitously as it does(though there will always be some when things get complex and complicated enough)

don't assume. i mostly live in the real world where you haven't dunked or debunked anything, outside of your self reinforcing delusions.

you'd be quacking like a duck, insisting there's no such thing as ducks, even if a truckload of ducks was driven straight through the wall of your house.

"They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. [...] If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

you're a scumsucking reactionary and you'll never stop lying about it, just like all your kind, mmk? get fuked

You don't even know what a reactionary is Lumpy:) You're just an old dumb GenXer who flails and fails at even defining these things. The Ted K takes are just the latest example.

Another poster here, well you know, these idioms and clichéd whining expletives like a lefty- agitator, or a medieval town-crier, weird !

so the contemptuous want to be dramatic and poetic and anonymous, but their readers shouldn't be dramatic in response? or try to fgure out who's talking to them, since context is relevant in any conversation? and the way one trys to find out who an online anon is, is to follow through on the hints given by... you know... references cited... but readers sholdn't do that either, 'cause the contemptuous are above all references they're using...?.

wow.

its probably anonymous because more than a few dim wits here would dox them, no doubt.

and the rest of your comment is just plain stupid

it doesn't matter why it's anonymous, for the point i'm making. readers are correct in trying to figure out what context an anonymous writer is speaking to and from.

the rest of your comment is just plain empty.

Well I mean this is yet another Keith Preston situation. What did happen when Preston started posting his drivel on Anews? It got removed.

Racism is downright stupid. Nationalism quite nearly as much. These are big territorializations that any Stirner or Renzo would scoff at, and non-sectarianism doesn't save these crypto-fash propaganda being used by Neonazis for gaining a new entry into anarchyland.

This has absolutely NOTHING to do with the "Keith Preston situation" or anything like it.

There is absolutely nothing" racist", "nationalist", or "crypto-fash" about this piece or any other Contemptuous communique. That is what is downright stupid. You are showing your colors here (red) by comparing this to anything of the sort, you are making their point for them. Continue to play in your sanitized, make-believe, and safe "anarchyland", some of us want anarchy! Thank you Contemptuous, the lines are being drawn.

I AM NOT OWNED!! I AM NOT OWNED!!

STOP SAYING THE OBVIOUS ABOUT "US"!!

they should remain reclining on the fainting couch.

Be careful here.. being so much in denial is not good for your brain or what's left of it. Dementia is an increasingly widespread condition that is very unfortunate and saddening if you get it.

wow. i dipped out of the anarchist scene for a few years to unplug, refocus, learn some life-skills, catch up on diverse reading, and breath some fresher air. i did not recognize anarchism when i reemerged from my fast. it seems to have become a tool for the system's battles, physically, politically, culturally, etc. i am glad that someone is not afraid to speak what needs to be spoken. can i get the other ones somewhere? give us more!

Hi, totally not the Contemptous goober. Thanks for sharing your very real opinion and story. You will get more soon.

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