Announcing “Coronavirus & Anarchism, pandemic’s anthology”

November 30, 2021
Anarchistische Groep Amsterdam

We are proud to announce our up and coming compendium of corona criticism! You can find the forward below in which we summarize and prepare you for a plethora of anarchist analysis.

The following collection attempts to gather as many pieces regarding Anarchist takes on Corona as possible. It is a collaboration that was not intended as such. Each piece presented was independently published and only now are they meant to be read as a whole. For this reason there will be many, many topics and opinions presented throughout and it is important that you keep an open and critical mind.

Within you will find testimonies of people suffering and actively working to support others during Covid, a plethora of criticism against Capitalism, geopolitical overviews of a multitude of continents and countries both in how they are impacted as well as how they failed to prepare themselves against a worldwide pandemic.

An emphasis in some texts will be on the need to prevent future pandemics as well as the lack of preparation to the one we are all living through, or on how our rights are being reserved as future privileges that many had never had access to in the first place, or how even when this is ‘over’ we should still ask the question ‘are we going back to normal?’ to which our definition of what should BE normal needs to be thought through thoroughly and radically.

With so many lives jeopardized by the current state of the world, the most important, overarching message in these texts, is to maintain solidarity.

So as these eclectic texts join together in a unified voice to renounce Capitalism and State Control we too should read and share, spread the word and seek out our own forms of solidarity! We hope you enjoy these texts, it may often make you feel sick to your stomach but within these texts and your own critical mind lies the remedy, so please come join us in creating the cure!

You can get your physical copy at Het fort van Sjakoo.

If you prefer it, the digital version can be downloaded here: https://www.agamsterdam.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/corona-virus-and-...

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An anthology for getting the jab, stay at home, be silent and friendly... Not even one word against the coercive vacination that European states are imposing!? You didn't get the point of all this hipernormalization... You are part of the progressive left that is supporting this technocracy!

Ragnarock can’t come soon enough! We pure blooded will triumph over the vaccinated hipertechnocracy!

Doesn't change the fact that his basic points are good even if they are societarian in nature.

I hear no good points here. Covid has only revealed the vacuous nature of Western society if you haven't already been paying attention. All the things he says covid has laid bare were already in play before covid.

He says mask mandates are ok because they apply to everyone but vaccine mandates aren't because they only apply to the unvaccinated, which is just funny.
Not to mention, schools have had mandatory vaccinations for a long time, this is not new.

But my favorite is when he says "everything but the material realm" is being "systematically demolished" and I had to rewind and listen thrice because, bro, really? I've got a demolished ecosystem that begs to differ.

The point about his religious beliefs is that he is not against authority, he just wants it to be what it was before, when men and Europeans were able to force, through genocide and the aforementioned decimation of the ecosystem, their ownership of the earth.

Your last point is not descriptive of Kingsnorth. Look into his other work and you'll agree. Your other points are apt.

Anyone who has basic post modern analysis knows that these things were potentially coming. The fact that they are happening now and the excuses that are being made for it are what the issue is ESPECIALLY when you have so-called anarchists that either directly or indirectly support it.

In terms of schools and mandatory vax, any honest anarchist or agent of liberty should have already been against that as well. The fact that those power encroachments have happened and have been going on for some time is no excuse to stop the problem from getting even worse. My goal is to try to undo the centuries of power building before hand IN ADDITION to what is a current power grab happening right now.

I have looked into his other work. Kingsnorth was at his best in "Savage Gods" but was unwilling or unable to stay with the trouble and took a less daunting path by converting to Orthodox Christianity. Since then he has taken up terf talking points, and all this knee-jerk reaction that he tries to wave off as anti- authoritarian but is really an old authority ie the Christian God.
He also falls into the universal "our" & "we" when he means something less than that.
He knows he has readers who are anarchist and anti-authoritarian and of course he doesn't want to alienate them so he chooses his language carefully, but if you have read his blog you can see this drift.

Perhaps you're not understanding what you're reading or are front loading your read of PK with personal biases on issues you feel strongly about? Perhaps by "terf talking points" in this case you mean Transhuman Exclusionary Radical Fenland? Do be specific.

PK wanting to exclude Willy Gilly and his cyborg army should be something that anarchists celebrate IMO.

Why waste so much time and space arguing about Paul Kingsnorth? Coz he's pretty much a British-Irish version of Bellamy? Just like with the latter, I ain't seeing a connection to green anarchist tendency, save perhaps in the academic echo chambers that are symbolically agreeing with these views, or at best pursuing it in their quests that always translate to boring, exclusive, privately-owned eco-projects that are meant to attract impressionable rich college kids in their spider webs.

Congrats if these green capitalist ventures work for them! But these ain't worthy any free promotion on anarchist websites. They gotta pay for the lip service.

about Bellamy, but Kingsnorth gives off vibes of a slightly smarter Jordan Peterson.

Yes, smarter, and at least more in touch with current political realities (like the current Covid political crisis). Still, the fact that these two capitalist academic clowns are still being promoted or even defended here betrays the moronic normie or reactionary conservative nature of a few commenters of this site.

It's always funny to see when people like Bellamy or other post-left sort of people get brought up in the comments here that the accusations are usually something about them being professional academics (Bellamy isn't, and neither was Aragorn or, as far as I know, anyone in the LBC orbit) or making a bunch of money off of publishing writing (LMAO , these kinds of obscure publishing projects consider breaking even to be success, people do it because they want to put ideas into the world, not make money). These same tropes have cropped up in the @news comments sections for years now. Criticize someone's ideas if you don't like them, sure, but please do better than assassinating imaginary figures in your mind.

silly anon! lazy, bad faith misrepresentations of what somebody said or strawman attacks on their character is the life blood of the @news comment section and probably makes up like, at least a 3rd of all online chatter in general? you're silly! ya silly goose!

Yes, anarchists shouldn't be allowed to criticize the practices of making money out of anarchists. Only the contents of these bought publications should be criticized... once you bought the journal and also through private emails. Let's protect our eminences from the criticism of them lowlife commenters. Also aristocracies weren't a bad idea at all! You need sanctified authority figures in order for this society boat to float.

Wow someone is seething with jealousy. Did your crunchy crush not even notice you drooling at an anarcho forest gathering and walk straight to Bellamy's tent? Don't be jealous that B is more accomplished than you with anarchists, leftoids, and the right. And FWIW, Bellamy would be the American version of Kingsnorth if your tantrum was thought out, but you'd know that if you weren't just being a butthurt hater.

"B is more accomplished than you with anarchists, leftoids (...)"

*facepalm*

Hums... No. And considering the Right-wing uglies he's been attracting, I ain't too jealous of him, no.

There's a cost to be attracting people in the forest, as well as going to some forest camp set up by a one or a bunch of internet people. But that doesn't mean I'd be charging them for it. This means I don't wanna end up with the worst people I'd like to have around.

...and I did say "congrats", ya know?

Care to share your bibliography, 12:26? Or are you just going to seethe and make empty proclamations?

- Behn, Nicholas, Togher, Leanne, Power, Emma and Heard, Rob. ‘Evaluating communication training for paid carers of people with traumatic brain injury.’ Brain Injury, December 2012; 26(13–14): 1702–1715.
- Bernstein, Jay H. ‘From the Ubiquitous to the Nonexistent: A Demographic Study of OCLC WorldCat,’ Library Resources & Technical Services 50 (2): 79-90, Spring 2006.
- Biggar, Paul, Nash, Nicholas, Williams, Kevin, and Gregg, David. 2008. ‘An experimental study of sorting and branch prediction.’ ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics. 12 (Jun. 2008), 1-39.
- Byamugisha, Robert, Astrom, Anne N., Ndeezi, Grace, Karamagi, Charles A.S., Tylleskar, Thorkild, and Tumwine, James K. 2011 ‘Male partner antenatal attendance and HIV testing in eastern Uganda: a randomized facility-based intervention trial.’ Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2011, 14:43.
- Fankhauser, Niklaus and Mäser, Pascal. ‘Identification of GPI anchor attachment signals by a Kohonen self-organizing map.’ Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press, 2005;21(9):1846-1852.
- Haahr, Mads. ‘Random Numbers,’ editor Neil J. Salkind, Encyclopedia of Measurements and Statistics, Sage Publications, 2006.
- Horvath, James W., Barnett, Gary E., Jimenez, Rafael E., Young, Donn C. and Povoski, Stephen P. ‘Comparison of intraoperative frozen section analysis for sentinel lymph node biopsy during breast cancer surgery for invasive lobular carcinoma and invasive ductal carcinoma.’ World Journal of Surgical Oncology, BioMed Central, 2009; 7:34.
- Huestis, Bradley J. ‘Anatomy of a Random Court-Martial Panel,’ The Army Lawyer, DPA 27-50-401, October 2006.
- Kellar, Ian & Abraham, Charles. ‘Randomised controlled trial of a brief research-based intervention promoting fruit and vegetable consumption.’ British Journal of Health Psychology, British Psychological Society, 2005;10(4):543-558.
- Mowbray, Miranda & Gollman, Dieter. ‘Electing the Doge of Venice: analysis of a 13th Century pr--otocol.’ In Proc. IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium. (Venice, Italy July 6-8 2007), pp.295-308, ISBN 0-7695-2819-8.
- Perescis MFJ, de Bruin N, Heijink L, Kruse C, Vinogradova L, Lüttjohann A, et al. (2017) Cannabinoid antagonist SLV326 induces convulsive seizures and changes in the interictal EEG in rats. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0165363. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0165363
- Rüegg, Nina, Steffen Moritz, Thomas Berger, Thies Lüdtke, and Stefan Westermann. "An internet-based intervention for people with psychosis (EviBaS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial." BMC psychiatry 18, no. 1 (2018): 102.
- Salahu-Din, Sakinah. Social Work Research: An Applied Approach, Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2003.
- Zijlstra, Eeuwe S., Kalitsov, Alan, Zier, Tobias, and Garcia, Martin E.. ‘Squeezed Thermal Phonons Precurse Nonthermal Melting of Silicon as a Function of Fluence,’ Physical Review X 3, 011005 (2013).

You asked for a bibliography. I delivered. You're well-cum. Bye!

Anon: Bellamy is more accomplished don't be jealous

You: Nuh uh!

Anon: Let's see your bibliography.

You: *Spends hours compiling a List of works by other writers*
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*toilet flushing sounds*

He accomplished attracting a lot of Right-wing dolts, not just the CHUDs on his Twitter but in his active collaboration with the Right libertarians at Liberty & Logos. Hence the comparison with that other armchair anarchist. I don't see why this should be claimed any sort of anarchist achievement. Same goes for the inconsistency of promoting private land projects as an alternative to civ.

But I sure can post you a bunch of pics of gated eco-communities just to show how radically different they are from the rest of society, lol.

As for the online "anarchists" he's been attracting, I question the authenticity but also the relevance of this niche clique of crybaby every time their cult guru (ahem!) or online fash celebrities are being attacked here, but always got an axe to grind against anarchists, for some reason...

i heard Bellamy once flexed on you so hard you didn't even leave your room for 3 weeks -- sobbing on the floor amongst half-eaten plates of store-bought poutine soiled by tears, completely inconsolable.

in contrast, Bellamy's mature forest garden provided a great bounty that season. sales and popularity of his latest book and pamphlets skyrocketed affording him the luxury of time to maximize his potential as an anarchist and beloved human amongst all earth's creatures.

Ok so this reply turned out to be way better than I expected. And I'm sure Bellamy has a much bigger dongle than mine, and also likely got laid with my last girlfriend before-during-after our love affair and that they're still laughing at how bad I was into bed, or something. He's also right now plotting into bed with my future girlfriends just to make sure they won't happen.

But why is this so focused on sex? Or maybe there's a whole dimension about this academic big brain's online fame you didn't tell me about?

*presses back of hand to forehead*

oh bellamy! libertarian food forest daddy! nothing gets us hotter than a long diatribe about a legal land project!

everything on the internet is about sex dummy, learn to internet!

Ancient Wisdom We Have Forsaken

So tired of it all, the endless ‘debate’ and angst about this current crisis — Covid. The pandemonium is dizzying.

This crisis is real, we suppose. As real as every other self-inflicted malaise of our spinning out-of-control ‘civil’-ization. And it will play itself out as it will, in spite of how bogged down we get in perplexities, competing theories, and varied, disparate solutions surrounding this real yet unreal crisis. We’re enmeshed in the tertiary branches of this unfolding saga of chaos and confusion, blind to the forest by the trees of our fear-based hype. ‘Covid’ may be real, but the greater real of it is the calling to consider the deeper existential, experiential crisis of civilization and to get to the root of our obvious dysfunctionalities as a society and as a species. The real crisis, beneath the surface of this one, points to how we have been indoctrinated to relinquish our autonomy to think and feel for ourselves, tapping into our archetypal intuitions and wisdoms about life from which emerges awareness with instinctive callings. We have disconnected ourselves from primal wildness and the organic flow of life. We are living in humans’ self-constructed artificial closed system of civilization, remote from unfettered Earth, stuck in the prison of our amplified brains and screaming egos, detached from our languishing hearts.

And within that disconnect, we have become, as a collective, lost in technology and its technocracy, swirling in a citadel of babble, now in its current iteration of Covid clamor. But it’s been going on for at least 10,000 years, this babble and disconnect, ever since we stopped being unimposing mammals on this Earth, free from our conceits of pseudo-supremacy. It was then we left our belonging, embedded in wildness. We began objectifying, subduing, commodifying, and dominating wild and once-wild animals and plants, whom we recast as ‘its’ in a slight of mind and denial of heart to numb us from the pain of our alienation from nature, and our true natures. Rationalization supplanted our innate compassion and became our Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Thus began the descent into the death march of civilization.

This rationalization provided an illusion of ‘working’ for thousands of years while we exploited new frontiers, whether of other lands, other peoples, or other life forms, while we expanded and intensified our supremacist war on all to consume the spoils. We are now so estranged from visceral sensations and situational awareness that we neither notice nor care about the ravages in our wake we ourselves are ushering in, such as the monstrous destruction of Earth’s biodiversity in this current 6th mass extinction event, and slaughtering over 70 billion fellow animals per year, over 150 million every hour, and trillions of marine beings, for mere titillation of our taste buds. We are essentially obliterating Earth’s biota and abiota to prop up and propel our social hegemony, our artificial, speciesist behemoth lifeway, once mutualistic now parasitic and as audacious as our mountaintop removals with our mechanisms of mass destruction. Yet we tell ourselves, in utmost human-centric arrogance, that we are kind and caring, as we willfully and maliciously assault life, and remain steeped in prevarications when our victims — and now a covid posing as a metaphor of deeper calling — implore “What are you doing!?” and cry “Stop!!”

But now at last, we have run out of new worlds and new victims to subjugate. Out-of-mind and out-of-sight finally fails. Our exploits now come full circle and close in on us, the pompous assailants. The chickens are coming home to roost. We are an organism that has walled itself off from our intrinsic relationship with the greater sustaining whole and began feeding on itself with a cancer of dis-ease, in a pilot’s death-spiral...

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jack-mcmillan-and-ria-montana-an...

wow, was waiting to hear what the anarchist vegan anti-civ perspective was on covid-19

not sure why I'm reading it in this thread about something from amsterdam but now I know what the anarchist vegan anti-civ perspective is on covid-19

and later in that piece "Some say we must solve human issues first, but such supremacist perspective is a shallow, upside-down, and ill-fated origin of the issues we seek to solve."

Some might say that. I say, "but have you noticed how almost nobody even gives a shit about solving human issues first?"

small distinction? no.

Anyone who doesn’t see human problems being massively prioritized is akin to animal eaters who don’t see people-meat propaganda & action everywhere. It’s such a given it goes unnoticed. No?

my point was that it wouldn't be "supremacist"? it would be a remark about how much of a compassion deficit we're talking about here... a big one.

Yeah, that's been the net result. We don't give a S abt the more-than-human-world, and that mentality comes full circle making us insensitive across the board, including within the human realm.

This is the deep true behind all of the current crisis. I should say nevertheless, that mainstream speech on mass vacination and new medical technologies is steep forward into the deepening of civilization.

Appreciate you specifically calling out vaccines & medtech. So many devices I’d civ’s deep dive

made sense.

Behind the moralist curtain of collective responsibility that unsurprisingly North American & Aussie collectivist Left have been championing since the first days of the pandemic, we all can notice the brutal political shift and its related super-steep demand a new level of authoritarianism.

The Facebook/Instagram zoomer leftoids wearing masks outside are the spearheads of this new authoritarian rule, and without comparing with Nazi Germany as the Qanon idiots have been doing, it's still a kickback to this fascist era when we see the youth being so much into embracing the (new) system instead of revolting... as any self-respecting youth would be expected to do. This especially I find much worrying.

I’m fairly certain that Kevin Tucker will teach us how to reconnect with our “primal wildness and the organic flow of life” for a small monthly fee on Patreon.

i despise the condescending, self-righteous style, the typically primitivist dogmatism and moralism, and the severe undertones of prescriptiveness. BUT, there is not really anything there i can disagree with. i'll have to look at the full piece.

Care to expound on that? Curious, your thoughts.

Not really.

Let's just say, a lot of people who are humans were never included in the "we" of those who made this world.

hey ria, is there a reason you posted this as a comment to an unrelated article rather than submitting it to the forums or something?

I find it amusing that U.S anarchists have largely submitted into the large overreach of state authoritarianism in the name of health and science while leaving the space of anti-state and anti-authority to be taken by other groups of people predominately on the right side of the political spectrum

body autonomy doesn't matter, health autonomy doesn't matter, traditional Indigenous Healings are now being called fascist and Ableism, anarchist virtue-signaling, and moralism

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