A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:22 am

This may prove to be a useful resource as things unfold:


http://postthirdpositionfascism.wordpre ... n-fascism/

Post-Third Position Fascism

Posted on February 4, 2013 by postthirdpositionfascism

Welcome to Post-Third Position Fascism. The purpose of this blog is to provide resources regarding recent permutations of Third Position and New Right fascist movements, especially in the U.S. – as well as groups that are influenced by these trends or work in alliance with them. These include, but are not limited to, groups like National-Anarchists, Attack the System, New Resistance, and others. We’ll also look at the attempts to appropriate radical left symbols and slogans by European groups like Casa Pound and the Autonomous Nationalists.

Third Position fascism is a lesser-known type of fascism that is anti-capitalist, believes in racial separatism rather than racial supremacy (and therefore can unite white and POC separatist groups in what we call reciprocal ethno-separatism), and is often interested in ecology and animal rights. The origins of the Third Position are in Otto Strasser’s wing of the original Nazi party; Strasser condemned Hitler for being “too moderate.” The term itself arose in the 1970s around the Italian “Nazi-Maoists.” These ideas became influential on British groups like the National Front; Russian groups like the National Bolshevik Party; and later on U.S. groups like the Tom Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance (WAR), the American Front, the White Order of Thule, and the National Alliance.

More recently longtime fascist activists, many of whom were involved in groups like the European Liberation Front, and the associated LCRN, have continued to develop and change their ideology. (As right-wing monitor Chip Berlet points out, these are not just followers of similar ideas, but participants in a close-knit, international network of postwar fascists.) These include far right activists like Britain’s Troy Southgate, America’s James Porrazzo, and Russia’s Alexander Dugin. They have developed in different directions, sometimes embracing a Eurasian superstate in opposition to liberal international capitalism, while at other times endorsing a micronational ethnic separatism and even fusing with racist, antisemitic elements of the Ron Paul-wing of libertarianism. All of them deny being “fascist” – while continuing to promote the same ideas they have held for decades.

We’ll keep track of all of them, and expose their attempts at “entryism” in the left; their promotion of holocaust denial and other conspiracy theories; and their attempts to justify and endorse White Nationalists’ supposed “right” to Jim Crow white racial separatism.

We stand in opposition to white supremacy and white separatism; anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish views and conspiracy theories; patriarchy and homophobia – and to capitalism and all authoritarian forms of statist and religious rule.
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby jakell » Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:45 am

Just seen an even newer modifier creep in here, that is post third position fascism. (it's a new one on me)

It seems like, in desperation to keep the snarl word 'fascist' alive, also sorts of grey modifications are being employed along with 'neo', and the tried and trusted 'cyrpto'

I think I've given my opinion on the significance of Troy Southgate.
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby jakell » Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:57 am

Thought so:

jakell » Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:44 pm wrote:Troy Southgate is not particularly well regarded** amongst those who term themselves 'national anarchists' in the UK, and his repeated mentions here on sound to me like boogeymanism. (the exact same info above has cropped up several times now)

It is also a mistake in my opinion to attach too much specific significance to individuals in the area of anarchism (as anarchists try not to), especially as they then become a lazy label for something.

**anecdotal I know, which is why I am clearly labelling at such.


Gotta keep the boogeymen under control.
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:03 pm

(Nothing to see here, Nothing at all...)
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby seemslikeadream » Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:07 pm

Richest 85 People Own As Much Wealth As Poorest 3.5 Billion

why would any of this be a big surprise



The global economy has become so skewed in favour of the rich that economic growth in many countries today “amounts to little more than a ‘winner takes all’ windfall for the richest,” Oxfam said in a statement.

The report, titled Working for the Few, warns that democratic institutions are being undermined as an increasing amount of wealth is concentrated in the hands of the richest, making it ever easier for them to influence policy to enrich themselves further. The report calls this process “political capture.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/01/20 ... 32157.html



we're looking way too much at the wrong enemy here


divide and conquer


(Nothing to see here, Nothing at all...)

cause you continue to chase windmills and leave the real enemy carte blanche....excuse my french :)
Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:40 pm

Beware of such wolves in sheeps' clothing who come along, saying they want to be our "friends"...


Book Review of "Confronting Fascism"

Reviewed by Matthew Lyons

ImageA central theme of this book is that fascism is fundamentally hostile to both the left and the ruling class -- it is a revolutionary movement of the right. Hamerquist argues that fascism is a danger both in the US and globally, not because it's about to seize power, but because it has the potential to become the main insurgent mass movement -- to "take the game away from the left" as Tom Metzger of White Aryan Resistance put it in the 1980s.

Hamerquist sees the greatest such danger in the "third position" variant of fascism, which claims to reject both the left and the right. Third positionists (such as Metzger) present themselves as socialist and anti-capitalist and often seem much more intransigently oppositional than most of the left. Many third positionists support some Third World liberation struggles and some even claim to reject White supremacy.

Third positionists also want to recruit or ally with sections of the left. While the vision of the "radical right" joining forces with the "radical left" is a standard line of liberal and state propaganda, Hamerquist argues that the danger of a right/left convergence is real, and not only because of what fascists are doing. He points to tendencies within much of the left that mesh dangerously with fascism, such as male supremacy, glorification of violence, leader cultism, hostility to open debate and discussion, and elitism. Hamerquist notes that the German Communists in the early thirties sometimes made tactical alliances with the Nazis against the Social Democrats because they thought Social Democrats were the bigger threat.

Hamerquist also argues that we need to rethink old assumptions about fascism's relationship with white supremacy. First, there's the potential that some white fascists may build alliances with right wing nationalist or religious organizations among oppressed peoples -- something that has already happened in small ways. Second, Black, Asian, and Latino peoples may generate their own fascist movements.

Sakai picks up on this theme. He argues that the mass displacement of Black workers over the past generation, coupled with the defeat of 1960s left Black nationalism, has fueled an unprecedented growth of authoritarian rightist organizations in the Black community. And Sakai also argues that fascism's key growth area now is in the Third World, where pan-Islamic fascism and related far-right movements have largely replaced the left as the major anti-imperialist opposition force.

Hamerquist's discussion of anti-fascist organizing and strategy touches on a wide range of issues, from the need to balance military and political considerations, to the building of a revolutionary culture that will counter fascism's militant appeal. Hamerquist cautions anti-fascists to look beyond the immediate situation. For example, what seems like a victory in a confrontation with fascists may be part of a process by which the fascist movement weeds out less effective tendencies and tactics. We also need to remember that the capitalist state is always a player in a three-cornered struggle with fascists and anti-fascists. The state's role varies -- often it tries to defuse street confrontations, but it can also sit back and let fascists and anti-fascists "fight it out." Sometimes it sides with the fascists, and all along, it may be trying to shape both fascist and anti-fascist movements as part of a larger counterinsurgency strategy. "Keep in mind," Hamerquist warns, "that in our confrontation with the fascists, the side that is identified with the state is ultimately going to lose politically" (p. 51).

Sakai's reply to Hamerquist's essay does not dwell on anti-fascist strategy. Instead, it focuses on fascism's historical and class dynamics. Sakai praises Hamerquist for challenging standard assumptions and opening up key questions that leftists have generally avoided. He also takes issue with Hamerquist on certain points. While Hamerquist says that some fascists are anti-capitalist -- notably Third Positionists -- Sakai argues that fascism is revolutionary and "anti-bourgeois but not anti-capitalist" (p. 94). It is revolutionary in the sense that it aims to seize state power from big business, but the new order it imposes is still capitalism -- in a rawer, more brutal form.

I tend to agree with Sakai on this point. Historically, fascist anti-capitalism has always been vague and slippery. Up close, it has generally meant opposition to "bourgeois values" or to a "parasitic" wing of capital (such as Jewish bankers), rather than to capitalism as a system.
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby jakell » Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:49 pm

I'm wondering if we're inching back to the meme of infiltrators here . The last time was revealing to me as I'm not aware of hidden board tensions (of which there seem to be quite a few).

This time I am hampered so will definitely have to take a back seat.
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby jakell » Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:29 pm

Looking at the above book description, and the number of times it mentions 'fascists', one is left with the impression that this is a well defined enemy. The trouble is it then goes on to say how this is becoming more and more blurred (but they're definitely in there somewhere, apparently).

This is not a good approach if you are confronting or fighting something, these things need a fairly clear definition, and if this is becoming increasingly unclear, then it is this discovery mechanism that is probably suspect.
Sun Tzu probably said something along these lines.
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:46 pm

Has good info on the "anarchists" of Keith Preston's Attack The System, which jakell supports and recommends.

Links in the original:
http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2011/ ... treet.html

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Rightists woo the Occupy Wall Street movement

by Matthew N. Lyons

Most right-wing responses to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement have ranged from patronizing to hostile. Rightists have variously criticized the Occupy forces for--supposedly--copying the Tea Party; failing to target big government; being dirty, lazy lawbreakers; being orchestrated by pro-Obama union bosses and community organizers; having ties with radical Islamists; fomenting antisemitism; or failing to address Jewish dominance of Wall Street. (On the Jewish Question, the John Birch Society wants to have it both ways--arguing that antisemitic attacks are integral to the Occupy movement's leftist ideology, but also that the movement is bankrolled by Jewish financier George Soros, who is backed by "the unimaginably vast Rothschild banking empire.")

At the same time, some right-wingers have joined or endorsed Occupy events, causing some leftists and liberals to raise warning flags. Neonazis have shown up at Occupy Phoenix and been kicked out of Occupy Seattle, where leftists formed an antifascist working group to keep them out. The Liberty Lamp, an anti-racist website, has identified a number of right-wing groups that have sought to "capitalize on the success" of OWS, including several neonazi organizations, Oath Keepers (a Patriot movement group for police and military personnel), libertarian supporters of Texas congressmember Ron Paul, and even the neoconservative American Spectator magazine. Leonard Zeskind's Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights has warned against Tea Party supporters "who want to be friends with the Occupiers," including FedUpUSA, Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty, and conspiracist talk show host Alex Jones. The International Socialist Organization has focused on Ron Paul libertarians as a particular threat to the Occupy movement. In a related vein, the socialist journal Links reposted a detailed expose of Zeitgeist (aka the Venus Project), a conspiracist cult that has been involved in Occupy movement events, many of whose ideas are rooted in antisemitism or other right-wing ideology.

There is always a danger that some rightists will come to Occupy movement events to harass or attack leftists, or act as spies or provocateurs. More commonly, rightists see the movement as an opportunity to gain credibility, win new recruits, or build coalitions with leftists. When pitching to left-leaning activists, these right-wingers emphasize their opposition to the U.S. economic and political establishment--but downplay their own oppressive politics. In place of systemic critiques of power, rightists promote distorted forms of anti-elitism, such as conspiracy theories or the belief that government is the root of economic tyranny. We've seen this "Right Woos Left" dynamic over and over, for example in the anti-war, environmental, and anti-globalization movements.

Neo-fascists against financial elites

Rightists who support the Occupy movement aim to redefine and redirect Occupiers' discontent. Hoosier Nation (Indiana chapter of American Third Position) pledged to join Occupy Indianapolis as a "popular uprising against the financial elites" but criticized the rally organizers' call for human unity as "muddled thinking": "Not to quibble, but our races, religions, and identities do matter. Our identities aren't the problem, they're the solution.... The notion that we don't exist as families and nations but rather as autonomous individuals is a fiction perpetuated by our financial elites to topple the barriers standing in the way of exploiting us."

A cruder style of rhetoric comes from Rocky Suhayda's American Nazi Party, which champions the "White working class" against "this evil corrupt, decadent JUDEO-CAPITALIST SYSTEM." The ANP praised the Occupy movement as "a breath of cleansing air" and urged its supporters to get involved. "Produce some flyers EXPLAINING the 'JEW BANKER' influence--DON'T wear anything marking you as an 'evil racist'--and GET OUT THERE and SPREAD the WORD!" (Another fascist grouplet, the National Socialist American Labor Party, immediately repudiated the ANP's stance and denounced Occupy Wall Street as a Jewish Communist movement.)

The Lyndon LaRouche network, which offers a more esoteric version of fascist politics, has a long history of attaching itself to popular movements--as well as violence, spying, and dirty tricks against political opponents. LaRouchites have always denounced finance capital as one of the world's main evils, so it is no surprise that they have joined Occupy events in several cities. True to their current attempt to package themselves as Franklin Roosevelt liberals, the LaRouchites are pushing for reinstatement of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act's wall between investment banking and commercial banking, which was repealed in 1999. The LaRouchites take credit for supposedly making Glass-Steagall reinstatement "a leading demand" of the Occupy movement.

Attack the System's "Message to Occupy Wall Street"

A more sophisticated rightist overture to the Occupy movement comes from Keith Preston's Attack the System (ATS) network. Two ATS associate editors, RJ Jacob and Miles Joyner, have produced a YouTube video titled "Message to Occupy Wall Street: Power to the Neighborhoods." The 13-minute video is explicitly "tailored to the mainstream left" and contains many elements designed to appeal to leftists. Jacob and Joyner call for OWS to develop into a revolutionary insurgency against the American Empire and highlight their opposition to U.S. military aggression, state repression, global capitalist institutions, corporate welfare, gentrification, and other standard leftist targets. They also advocate a strategy of "pan-secessionism" to help bring about "a system of decentralized cities, towns and neighborhoods where all colors, genders, and political groups can achieve self-determination."

What Jacob and Joyner's video doesn't tell us is that their organization's vision of revolution would not dismantle oppression but simply decentralize it. ATS founder and leader Keith Preston believes that most people are herd-like "sheep" who will inevitably be dominated by a few power hungry "wolves." Although Preston calls himself an anarchist, he has no problem with authoritarianism on a small scale and has made it a priority to "collaborate with racialists and theocrats" against the left. White nationalists and Christian rightists are major players in the pan-secessionist movement that ATS and the Jacob/Joyner video promote. (For details on Preston and ATS, see my article "Rising Above the Herd.")

ATS elitism is reflected in "Message to Occupy Wall Street." In explaining what's needed to move toward revolution, the video puts a big emphasis on the development of "an intellectual and philosophical counter-elite." It is this counter-elite that develops revolutionary ideas, which then "trickle down into the ranks of the masses." No hint that "the masses" might develop a few ideas of their own.

"Message" also calls for a revolutionary movement that transcends left/right divisions. This is a standard theme for ATS (and many other far rightists), but the approach to it here is different from what I have seen in Preston's work. Jacob and Joyner argue that "counter-elites" on both the left and the right have contributed to developing a revolutionary movement--but in very different ways. The leftist counter-elites "have served as leaders of systems disruption, networked resistance, informational warfare, communications, and public intelligence." Meanwhile, "it is the counter-elites of the right who are developing an entirely new political paradigm in opposition to the state ideologies of the system." In other words, leftists are good at developing the technologies of revolution, but rightists are the ones with the actual vision for society.

John Robb, open-source technocrat

The counter-elite figure who gets the most coverage in "Message" is John Robb, who runs the Global Guerrillas website, and he deserves attention here because of his murky politics and his interest in OWS. Robb is a former U.S. counter-terrorism mission commander turned independent military theorist and technology analyst. He has written about the rise of "open-source warfare"--characterized by decentralized networks of terrorists, criminals, and other non-state actors acting with a high degree of innovation and flexibility--and the hollowing out of traditional nation-states. In response to these and other trends--including economic and environmental crises--Robb promotes the development of "resilient communities," which are autonomous and largely self-sufficient in terms of energy, food, security, and other basic needs. Robb has praised the Occupy Wall Street movement as a pioneering example of "open-source protest" that is "constructing the outlines of resilient communities in the heart of many of our most dense urban areas."

Jacob and Joyner's video characterizes Robb as a leftist, and indeed many of his ideas, such as his belief that both capitalism and the nation state are breaking down and his emphasis on decentralized solutions, sound radical. But while I don't claim to fully understand where Robb is coming from, I am deeply wary. Robb himself avoids political labels, and Thomas Barnett has characterized him as "a serious technocrat who distrusts politics." According to his online bio, Robb has consulted extensively for government agencies such as the CIA, NSA, and Defense Department. And his anti-establishment friends seem to be found mainly on the right. For example, he has archived the former blog of fellow military theorist William Lind and features it prominently on the Global Guerrillas home page. Lind, whose theory of "fourth generation war" has a lot in common with Robb's ideas, is a hardline traditionalist conservative who spent many years at Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation.

Robb's writings are often reposted on right-wing websites such as AlternativeRight.com, The Occidental Quarterly, Occidental Dissent, and Attack the System. As far as I know, he has never tried to dissociate himself from these organs. Intentionally or unintentionally, his own work often resonates with rightist themes without invoking them directly, as when he writes about "the decline of the West" (echoing Oswald Spengler) or the virtues of building a "tribe" (echoing national-anarchists, among others). John Robb's relationship with the right merits more in-depth study, but he is no leftist.


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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby Searcher08 » Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:15 pm

AD, since I posted my request you have posted pages and pages and pages of stuff - (ie business as usual) without much context, or connection (for me) to the thread.

So for me, I would have to spend a lot of time 'close reading'. Some of the information is (to me) extremely dense, jargon filled, making me wonder if you have even read it yourself!! And if you have not, why are you posting it in GD??!!

I feel defeated by this - it is like trying to talk to someone who is communicating by Alex Jones style bullhorn. So I'm out of this thread. Perhaps another time.

My takeaway from this thread is as follows:
If continual non-contextualised information is presented with little context, unclear relevance or no personal experience, then over time the value created tends to zero.

This is similar to planting a garden by random chance, as opposed to using a holistic approach eg Permaculture.

And with that, I'm outta this thread!
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby jakell » Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:42 pm

As I am no longer allowed on here to defend myself from insinuations and accusations from certain quarters, I remain hopeful that someone on the forum here can at least explain where the burden of proof lies.
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby jakell » Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:55 pm

Searcher08 » Sat Feb 15, 2014 7:15 pm wrote:AD, since I posted my request you have posted pages and pages and pages of stuff - (ie business as usual) without much context, or connection (for me) to the thread.

So for me, I would have to spend a lot of time 'close reading'. Some of the information is (to me) extremely dense, jargon filled, making me wonder if you have even read it yourself!! And if you have not, why are you posting it in GD??!!

I feel defeated by this - it is like trying to talk to someone who is communicating by Alex Jones style bullhorn. So I'm out of this thread. Perhaps another time.

My takeaway from this thread is as follows:
If continual non-contextualised information is presented with little context, unclear relevance or no personal experience, then over time the value created tends to zero.


This is similar to planting a garden by random chance, as opposed to using a holistic approach eg Permaculture.

And with that, I'm outta this thread!


When repeatedly presented with an impasse in internet forums, I use a similar formula to what you describe here. I weigh up the time spent over what has been gained (if anything), if this in the negative, and I can't find a wider perspective**, I cut my losses. An enormous amount of valuable time can be wasted in this environment .

This becomes even more significant the more it is repeated, As I'm new here, the learning experience is still valuable to me.

**I can nearly always find and define a wider perspective, but this takes quite a bit of thought sometimes, and also some creativity.

ETA: seems I misread your post slightly, but what I said here still stands.
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby jakell » Sat Feb 15, 2014 6:47 pm

jakell » Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:20 pm wrote:Another error is to assume there is such a thing as 'European white nationalism'. This is something that was thrown at me when I was trying to drive the wedge a little bit further in between British nationalists and White nationalists.

British WN enthusiasts like to say there is no difference, and I counter this by saying that they are trying to devolve 'Britishness' into the image of some American import, this is hard for them to argue with, WN is foreign to Britain, and can exist independently of Britain.
They then termed themselves 'European White Nationalists', but this is easy to counter too. If 'whiteness' alone is supposed to be the significant decider (which they claim), then geography cannot be, it is a worldwide thing or nothing.

I'm not offering the above as some sort of great truth , just one of the many points they can be practically countered on if one keeps a level head, and doesn't get distracted by shrill binary ideologies.


The argument here is only really effective where there is another indigenous nationalism to pit WN against, eg most European Counties, To make the distinction in America for instance would be more difficult.

Another very simple and effective way to argue against WN's is to play on their insistence that the views of whites are supposedly paramount. Then all that is needed is to point out the vast number of whites who are not receptive to their views**, or even in strident opposition.

This might sound like a small point, but it does open up a logical contradiction in their views that is hard to reconcile, the only way they can do this is to try to explain away the views of certain whites (they have some quite creative ways of doing this ), but this all leads away from their insistance that race is paramount

** This nags at them constantly, not the opposition part, they sort of dig that, but the general non acceptance part.
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:23 pm

Searcher08 » Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:15 pm wrote:AD, since I posted my request you have posted pages and pages and pages of stuff - (ie business as usual) without much context, or connection (for me) to the thread.

So for me, I would have to spend a lot of time 'close reading'. Some of the information is (to me) extremely dense, jargon filled, making me wonder if you have even read it yourself!! And if you have not, why are you posting it in GD??!!

I feel defeated by this - it is like trying to talk to someone who is communicating by Alex Jones style bullhorn. So I'm out of this thread. Perhaps another time.

My takeaway from this thread is as follows:
If continual non-contextualised information is presented with little context, unclear relevance or no personal experience, then over time the value created tends to zero.

This is similar to planting a garden by random chance, as opposed to using a holistic approach eg Permaculture.

And with that, I'm outta this thread!


I think you may be misunderstanding my posts on this thread. Sometimes they could be considered as polemical but on the whole they represent more my general interests, as informed by my perspective which is certainly left/anti-fascist. Many though are guideposts in my own process of self-development as much as anything else.

I've also thought about this a great deal and given the meandering, digression and fluff on other threads, I feel no shame about this whatsoever.

I have little patience for crypto-racism, crypto-fascism, and all the tired tropes which they generate. I have no shame for this also. And I'm proud that Rigorous Intuition is an anti-fascist board, an anti-sexist board, and that posts "espousing hatred of a people based upon race, religion, gender or sexuality, are not permitted".
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Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Sun Feb 16, 2014 12:07 am

The threat of a good example:

http://www.slaf.org.uk/post/76728305776 ... uth-london

Celebrate LGBT history month with South London Anti-Fascists!

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(image from Stonewall uprising, 1969)

LGBT communities are constantly told we’ve never had it so good. But though we have made legislative gains, many of us are still marginalised and subject to violence of all kinds, including state violence. This violence is expressed through police harassment of LGBT sex workers, homeless people and migrants - people the state is confident the wider LGBT community doesn’t care about.

Join us as we celebrate the role of marginalised LGBT people in the history of queer liberation movements, and hear from our speakers about the state violence many LGBT people face today, and the ways they - and we - can organise resistance.


Speakers:
James Butler (Novara)
Ellis Susanna Slack (Sex Worker Open University)
Refreshments and film will also be provided.
February 24th, 8pm
Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre
5 Glasshouse Walk, London SE11 5ES
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Any access requirements or other enquiries to hello@slaf.org.uk



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