you would betray them if you punish “russians” collecting a group of people and calling them “russians”, state members, regardless of self identification is nationalistic, you are the nationalist if that is what you do.
“russians betrayed machno”, no it was the bolsheviks, the living bolsheviks alive then, not now
No I do not expect you to show more than they do, but they are not one person, whilst a description of the world might contain a structure of social relations, the notion of nations is a prescription.
You are betraying all of the people who are against the war or are avoiding making themselves into nationalist cogs, your efforts should not be support of sanctions but maintenance of communication with anarchists and growth of horizontal governance both where you are and elsewhere.
You should be more responsible
Please instead of this, work to maintain worker councils and establish communication between them, in all regions of the world, especially a place like the russian region
Oh but we can go and pretend that all people are like the soldiers too. There are some beautiful people that have the misfortune of being born into the russian polity
Pro eu dogmatism is foolishness, construction of 2 sides is foolish.
Critique of the dear brussels leader is not support of the kremlin.
People should be better than siloing the responsibility for their mind away to some temporary heartless representative.
Ignore the disconnect between people affected by these ham fisted measures and the people that should be punished, strongly including those in the kremlin, and you are abandoning your responsibility to mankind.
thats so sad, ive not eaten meat for 6 years or so but i dont know how to handle this evil
So glad the “russian” people will be forced by these sanctions to… elect… a … differ… … oh…
Just because the nationalists claim working class aesthetics, it doesnt change anything, this hypothetical educated individual is capable of betraying the working class with nationalist politics, and to say that applying the same brush to different regions is naive is just to provide room for the true naive statement that those “unreported” regions are better suited for nationalism.
And you assumed my position on ukraine without asking, or in fact the general anarchist stance. Anarchists do not support ukranian nationalism despite the common desire between anarchists to prefer to support individuals in the ukranian nationalist supported region.
But it is not always true, and I hope that anarchists develop ties across the nationalist drawn borders. There are clearly wonderful people squandered in the russian region. Please do not mistake the brave individuals in organisations such as “solidarity collectives” for idiots rather than people forced by the ukranian nationalists into allying with the ukranian nationalists under their circumstance. In any case they clearly try to maintain seperation if you follow their efforts and if you would analyse the situation outside of a big money news corp line, it is clear that the choice to shoot and bomb the incoming soldiers is sensical, despite their class interest.
That then does not make those people nationalists, and people in less stressed theoretical circumstance absolutely should not propose nationalism in their name. And I do not like your line of singling out ukraine to this as to slyly construct a racist strawman.
Well maybe they could be less attached to their homes and move, or rally elsewhere and return, but it is not silly to be attached to a loved environment.
( the above comment was edited by “OBJECTION!” and mine was a response to the original)
the national identity is their tie to their local oppressors, they are not close to it one bit There is nuance in many things, even dead ends
I just scrolled for 2 seconds on the front page, unless they have all been deleted or something in reaction
But what benefit does constant refutation have really, the individuals in leninist dominated regions are sufficiently supported by their support under the conception of the international proletariat, they are not intrinsically members of a nation and the support of that nation does not translate into their liberation.
The statements in the last paragraph are reasonable, they are just truthful, they are not trying to divert effort towards dictatorship, just contextualise the world, it is easy to note the difference in my opinion
I know reality can suck folk, but please, lets fix our basis first, thank you
Its not just caring though, in order to make waves with any of this stuff, you need to put effort in and that can scale to consume a lot of time for the people involved
And before someone says about their artistic content, I agree, the word toys does exclude that, however, just like toys, art MUST take second place to more industrial and violent matters
And yet they do consume resources, and even a small amount of resources ( which is not what is being spent on these toys) would be better spent on more serious matters
To be honest, I wish people would stop making toys so centric in their headspace, please put all of that effort into fighting surveillance instead or something of similar consequence
Hey maybe its somewhat closer to worker control than before 🤷 :P
You do not seem capable of modelling the world in sufficient detail for compassion and you should be nowhere near a violence monopoly.
You use the abstraction of russia to include people who are not self identified russians, this boar headedness is dangerous