The Contemptuous Communiques #1-6

Original title: The Contemptuous Communiques #1-6: “Sharpening The Claws” Now Available As A Downloadable Zine!

The Contemptuous
Communiques #1-6
“Sharpening The Claws”
Spring/Summer 2023
Now Available As A Downloadable Zine!

This is the complete first wave of critical attack by The Contemptuous.

Now you can have a free pdf zine version of all six initial contemptuous communiques to read in the privacy of your own home, to print out and leave at your local social space or give to a friend, or to use for ideological and/or physical target practice!

To get a digital zine, email:
contemptuous@riseup.net

(Please specify if you want a pdf for screen viewing, a saddle-stitched zine format and color cover to print out yourself on real paper, or both.)

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Here’s what rad folx are saying about The Contemptuous zine:

“It will probably corrupt your computer and it will definitely infect your mind. Stay away! There is still so much organizing to be done out there.”
- Candy Milestone, The Institute for Cultural Bionomics

“The last thing that is helpful for the much needed proliferation and opening up of anarchism for everyone is contempt. Our tent is big, but sorry folks, not that big.”
- MoonToad

“The Contemptuous will never be given a platform on our non-sectarian autonomous anti-capitalist anti-fascist anti-colonial website. They do not understand what it takes to promote projects and direct actions that fight against a class divided and settler/colonial dominated society. MIF believes that a better world will be built in place of this bad one, organized from the bottom up, where power is redistributed horizontally, with The People’s work filling in The People’s lack, not for profit or private gain. The Contemptuous seem to just believe in themselves and each other. Boo on that.”
- IGF (It’s Gonna Fall)

“We will never carry this crap!”
- AR Press

“We will never carry this crap!”
- BM Press

“These cynics fail to see the openings and possibilities just under the surface of this world, the small nuggets of potential that lie in the banality of the everyday crisis. From the disaffected sanitation worker to the depressed soccer mom to the forty-something addicted to video games, there is the undeniable flicker of a future food coop volunteer, a rent control activist, or a bicycle repair collectivist ready to be unleashed! We are the future that is unwritten. Chose a Path. Find Your node. Be active. Share. Expand. Repeat. That’s what we need, not more critique and contempt.”
- Inhibit

“I don’t even understand what the hell these people are talking about. What is an oppressed worker in a factory supposed to do with this stuff? Get off my lawn!”
- Chud Booffer, author of “My Necrophilic Anarchism”

“tldr. I mean, uh, we mean, how do these people expect to use the next new generation’s untapped teen angst to reproduce cliche after cliche when they use all those big mean words? …cringe!”
- MisdemeanorThoughtm Never-Needing-To-Be-Employed Collective

“Don’t these so-called anarchists know there is a People’s War to fight in Ukraine?”
- Wallace Cost

“These Luddite individualists want to destroy our future, including, among so many truly awesome things, three-dimensional bioprinters which could allow us to produce artificial organs for much needed medical purposes, and more, like really cool space migration and AI underwear! They don’t seem to realize that they are stuck within the backwards, outdated, and inherently fucked-up hegemonic cisheteropatriarchalwhitesupremacistableistbiologicaldeterministcapitalistetc paradigm rather than moving forward with the rest of us with a commitment to the intelligent and equitable use of technology for the expansion of human freedom, happiness, and dignity.”
- Gilliam Willis

“Come on now! You said you were done. I just can’t take it anymore of these pompous, snarky, edgelords. Will someone just do something about this already? ….mom, we’re out of juice boxes again!!! ”
- bumpy

"The Contemptuous are the problem. It's beyond clear that the fascist takeover of anarchism started when people started making fun of Primordial Anarchismo and other true tendencies. We can't lose sight of the fact that The Contemptuous are the harbingers of Ron DeSantis and Trump. It just can't be denied anymore. AND, most importantly, they have NEVER mentioned the undeniable fact that the Paleo diet is the only thing that matters.”
-Kaylee Trucker, Greenish Black Preview

“These pagan-egoists-scum have nothing to do with the struggle for popular power and social revolution.”
- The Storm Surge Federation

“Don’t worry, we can figure out a way to quietly absorb this into our project.”
- Piyyan and the Mime Committee

“We’ve got solid and committed comrades working on figuring out who these fascist-adjacents are for thorough and proper doxing.”
- Southeast Cleveland Anteeefoo

“We are like so sure they have dreaded mohawks, black sun tattoos, do tarot, and refuse to wear masks. Fuck Them! Smash The Librarian In Your Head! Please leave your chemically-scented products at home!”
- Martha’s Vineyard Anarchist-like Bookfair Collective

“Damn. These guys are contemptuous.”
- Gary Gray, author of The Destruction of Labor and Anarchy Beyond The Left

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In our own words:

"The Contemptuous have chosen to make one last stand in the anarchist world, from the edge, and spewing into the vacuous space of the anarchist scene. Maybe its our stubbornness, maybe residual remnants of withered romanticism, maybe we just can’t help our joyously deviant selves, maybe its just for shits and giggles, or just maybe in five, ten, twenty, a hundred years from now when the world and its deranged participants play out their sick and deadening game, someone may remember that there actually were a few authentic anarchists out there who fought against it, not just an annoying swarm of leftist drones wearing black and helping it along."

"Enough is ENOUGH!
The Contemptuous’
culling must begin."

"We will launch our attacks anonymously and shoot our poison arrows from undisclosed (and always shifting) locations. We have arrived to disturb the anarchist milieu within its deep slumbers, to thunderbolt its paralytic posture and to disorder its crystallized patterns of thought. We represent a discontinuity in the overriding progressive narrative and will spit our venomous and unyielding critique into your vile and vacuous cyber-spaces and let others pick it to bones, and from there, deeper critique may actually flourish, authentic affinities may develop, lines may be drawn, and perhaps (relevant) actions will follow."

"Consider yourselves warned."

- The Contemptuous

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The Contemptuous Communiques were originally posted on ANews (anarchistnews.org).
They are (as of the time of posting) available with all of the comments that were not deleted by the moderators at:

Communique #1: A Contemptuous Idea
posted April 12, 2023
https://anarchistnews.org/content/contemptuous-idea-communique-1

Communique #2: We are a pack. We are not the crowd.
posted May 16, 2023
https://anarchistnews.org/content/contemptuous-communique-2-we-are-pack-...

Communique #3: Resisting The Leftist Creep
posted June 3, 2023
https://anarchistnews.org/content/contemptuous-communique-3-resisting-le...

Communique #4: We Bring Flamethrowers to the Snow Storm
posted June 17, 2023
https://anarchistnews.org/content/contemptuous-communique-4

Communique #5: A Void Full of Mirrors
posted July 7, 2023
(Forum Section)
https://anarchistnews.org/content/contemptuous-communique-5-void-full-mi...

Communique #6: The Stage Has Been Set
posted August 15, 2023
(Forum Section, again)
https://anarchistnews.org/content/contemptuous-communique-6-stage-has-be...

And, we are not done.
We will be back.

There are 46 Comments

Stale gen-x edginess with nothing to say, pathetic and lacking the vintage charm of an old Surge soda commercial. You're not offending anyone, cuz nobody cares. Hang it up, old farts.

totally disagree. you (anon) are the one saying nothing with your pathetically useless generational generalizational flaccid dis’s. i don’t know how old the contemptuous are, but if you think younger people have more to say, your brain is rot.

your satires are forced and therefore not very amusing. if y'all were really embracing contempt, you wouldn't spend so much time puffing yourselves up. it really looks like you're only trying to impress each other. in other words, boring.

yeah you already made the same point in your last post

nice little zine those peeps have put together. i hope to see them collected in print one day ASAP

A bit forced still but I like it. Let the attacks begin:)

Sharpening my claws on the hard rock of my disgust for artificial organs! Keep up the good chore of slashing away at the leviathan my sweet bitter buddies!

you're satirizing an @news troll's trolling of a troll about his trolling?

it's not enough to take a shit in the photocopier, you still needed to make copies of copies?

Awesome toxic masculinity bro dood. The insult is that you call them both cunts and wussies? Sorry that they can’t all be pretend alpha males like you.

How American of you to not understand our European usage of cunt and wuss. Yuck!

Yeah, cause there is no toxic masculinity or patriarchy in Europe.
Your anti-Americanism is so Chomsky. Problems go deeper than all you libs think.

How patriarchal of you to assume all these things. This is an anarchist website. At MINIMUM learn the difference between liberals and anarchists if you're going to troll here, sport.

“This is an anarchist website”
Coulda fooled me. But seriously, some of us only come here out of morbid curiosity, in order to see just how far a news and lbc have degenerated into liberalism. I’d say it is worse than AK press at this point.

"some of us only come here out of morbid curiosity,"

You don't say?

Well we surely thought you were a sincere anarcho-curious fellow traveler this whole time and not some douchebag bootlicking troll! Clever, clever lad.

i'm also here out of morbid curiousity! and i also find this place to be a bit of a living museum at this point

but the idea that this place is "degenerating in to liberalism" ...

tell me without telling me, that there's nothing left in your thick skull but squirming, fashy brainworms

Tell me without telling me that you have never actually read any post-left content, let alone the ultra-left, pro-situ, individualist, egoist, or autonomen content that informed the post-left tendency. A news is the brain worms my tech and/or social worker friend.

nice try zerzan or wannabe

i don't think jz is at the top of the list of those critical of anews at this point. i was always a little dismissive of jz's issues with anews, and i do think he was off in some ways, but in other ways, maybe ahead of the curve???

JZ's criticisms of Anews were all justified, accurate, and predictive.

#JZWASRIGHT

Society!

“Don’t worry, we can figure out a way to quietly absorb this into our project.”
- Piyyan and the Mime Committee

is my favorite, but, to be fair and balanced, what about a Stop Pop Shitty?

I love the rhetoric in these communiques, which is reminiscent of Anarchy magazine, Lawrence Jarach, Jason McQuinn, and Bob Black. That is what actually made anarchism interesting to me thirty years ago , and still does. The Contemptuous' critique of the current North American scene resonates very stronglye, but if this is to be an on-going project, they will have to focus on more substantial analysis and critique of contemporary issues. To paraphrase William James, they will have to show us all the "cash value" of their anti-ideology.

Dear Lumpy, Dear Lumpy, you have no complaint, you are what you are and you ain't what you ain't.....Just don't try to marginalize me for wanting to explore these subjects!

*face palm* are you kidding?

not what marginalization means ... it's not just when people disagree with you... fukin dumbass

"Our quarrel with things in general is difficult to state in words for the precise reason that the biggest part of our quarrel is against words – against “thoughts.” It is a quarrel with human culture, with the kinds of labels put on things – or rather on living activities."
- Dora Marsden, The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 2, July 1st 1913

thanks for putting a few things into words and for mostly living your lives.

may your contempt create the rich, deep, and dark humus for new and healthier growth!

*hummus

We contemptuouses must have no seething contempt for such a delicious, protein packed dish.

Expect hummus and the darkness of our blades

don't put it on a pita

.... actually, go ahead.

kick Leftist ass! More, more, more you slime! Commit your special crime! Blow these activoid minds!

the point (as usual). Retirees and alienated people are coming together not being able to deal with the mess of it all. This is what we have instead of a serious political movement. No wonder they call them Controllers...

what a crock of shit.

what is a retiree? someone who sees through the performative activistoid bullshit and understands that it keeps getting exponentially worse so reorients their life towards something that means something to them? sign me up!

who is someone alienated? all of us? yup. don't fool yerselves.

"deal with the mess" ok, ready for the next bright idea from the real "controllers" who complain we don't have " a serious political movement" and line us up for their delusional visions.

hi morton!

mind telling me wtf you're even responding to? what statement or wtf in general? just wtf..?

like, prove you're not a bot

hI mORton!

mInd tElling mE WtF yoU'Re Even respOnding tO? whAt stAtement or WtF in gEneral? jUst WTfffffffF!!??

like, prove you're not a bot"

Listen, that’s no way to talk to your father Morton! You know what he’s talking about, don’t play dumb. Furthermore, we can’t afford Capri Sun anymore. Your going to have to deal with store brand from here on

damn, those are some endorsements!

IGF (It’s Gonna Fall) and MisdemeanorThoughtm Never-Needing-To-Be-Employed Collective, haha!

just got it!

Hey that's great to hear, totally not the Contemptuous brah not desperately trying to become relevant. Enjoy!

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