Welcome to this moment’s episode of The Partisan.
It’s been said you’re doing something correct if both the left and the right hate you. Over the past few weeks, it appears I may be doing something along those lines.
You see, anarchism brings you to a strange place politically. You’re not really home anywhere. The right will shoot you in the face, the left will stab you in the back. Read the histories, if you don’t believe me. Thing is, when you insist on living outside the state dominated structures of humanity - at all - you’ll ruffle feathers.
Makes sense of course, and the results are often comical. Rightists shake their fist at me for questioning the righteousness of “the troops” and their commitment to “defending your freedom.” The left sharpens it blades when I suggest perhaps they’ve overreacted to The Bad Orange Man Who Is Bad.
At the end of the day, all of them can eat shit for this simple reason: they’re still playing the game. How, you may ask? Consider it the natural evolution of Noam Chomky’s Manufacturing Consent to Matt Taibbi’s Hate Inc. Before the advent of the internet, the regime could leverage the power of mass media to guide us. Now with the decentralization brought on by technology, it’s pivoted to keeping us at each other’s throats. We’re too busy yelling to see what the villain behind the curtain is doing.
It doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, that very decentralization provides opportunities to subvert this unholy order in ways most of us can only dream.
So, from The Partisan to the partisans of America: you’re on the same side. The regime is not looking out for you. Solving that is up to us.
Until you knock it off? I brought my shovel. I’ll gladly continue feeding you medicine until you get it.
Cheers, and thanks for reading.
sign me up.
Damn, sorry I missed your first post back on July 4th.
Hello from a newly minted Anarchist. I've been one for some time, but only recently decided to embrace the label after years of "well I'm not an anarchist, but" explanations to other people who get the definition wrong, which is apparently most people.
I always enjoy your comments because you don't take yourself too seriously and seem to enjoy killing sacred cows.
Looking forward to reading what you're putt'in down on your corner of Substack.