Matty

From Proudhon - the first person to call himself an anarchist - to Gustav Landauer to Colin Ward to David Graeber to the Invisible Committee, there have been anarchists who advocated a strategy of gradually building alternate institutions that would eventually be able to relatively peacefully replace capitalism and the state. This is what I would call reformist anarchism, but they prefer to call themselves gradualists. (Landauer, to his lasting credit, participated in a socialist revolution with strong libertarian content after spending most of his career denying that such a thing was possible or desirable. He was killed for it.) The big issue with this idea is that the capitalist state will happily tolerate co-ops, collective farms, communes, or whatever most of the time, as they pose it no real threat and may actually save it some money at work. There's also the fact that these alternative communal experiments usually either fail or fail by success - that is, they break up, they're destroyed, or they're recuperated. This type of reformist anarchism with little connection to the proletariat and skeptical of the need for or desirability of revolution seems to have became the dominant anarchist tendency for a while following the defeat of the Spanish Revolution, and is still sometimes today called "the new anarchism" even though, as mentioned, it goes back to Proudhon.

I'm really not exaggerating, this seems to have become Jacobin's entire schtick. "this is a thing that people think communists don't like, but they actually do/they actually should!" They've run articles in defense of religion, nationalism, and the family. I'm beginning to wonder how exactly their "democratic socialist" utopia is supposed to be any different from what we have now.

when scrolling through tumblr while following a ton of trans women, the “mature content” warning is such a gamble cause you’re either gonna get a picture of the most gorgeous tits you’ve ever seen or a completely innocuous text post that has nothing sexual about it

anyways the guy sitting next to me in the doctors office liked the tits on my feed so thats great for him i guess

when looking at tits in the doctors office the people sitting next to you are such a gamble cause either you’re gonna get side eye for being a filthy pervert on main or you’re gonna get a fist bump from a 6 foot redneck who says “nice” in a thick southern accent

what if birds could smoke cigarettes…? Ha! an awesome image but we’d have to get them off of them. it just really wouldn’t be good for them

I was very hesitant when the band decided to start performing in costume but I think it looks good and it's been well-received.