Self reflection is fundamental for self growth. What are we as anarchists? Idealists, radicals, movers and
shakers, or are we a means to an end? It is great to have hopes and dreams of utopian societys, but so far that's
all they have been. We have to look at the reality of our actions. I mean really look at ourselves. Smash, burn
fight, riot. Most people do not understand that when we hit the streets, we are fighting more for their liberties
more so than the soldiers over in Iraq. Most people watch from the safety of their couch while the streets are
set ablaze, only seeing carnage, not understanding.
In our own heads we see the picture clearly. But the masses have blinders on, caused by years of social programming
by the school systems and the almighty television. Most people see us as terrorists and that is the cold hard
truth. Our symbol has a bad stigma surrounding it.
It is not that we must change our image or our actions. We must change how the people of this country view us.
Counteract the poor lighting we have been shed in by illuminating our intentions of civil and personal liberty.
So take a minute to step back and ask yourself, how can I affect how the public view anarchists?
I, personally, will be at the homeless shelter this Christmas serving food. Toss around a few ideas
amongst yourselves and see what you can come up with.
My Practice what you Preach post will be coming soon.
You criticise people who want to act, calling them too gung-ho, I
understand, but at the same time I must tender the thought that maybe the
place for most bretherine is on the frontline, in direct action. It may be
your place to wander the meaningless digital plane created by the very
people we seek to destroy, but I, for one, don't find that prospect
attractive. Anarchism by nature is uncontrolable and can't be negotiated
with. To control it would be a seeming violation of anarchistic principle.
To not is to forever beat against the impenetrable capitalist war machine.
I have a feeling we (The pigs and the freedom fighters) will do this right
up until the sun swallows us up. Seriously consider the entire movement
for a moment: We have an uncoordinated, unorganized, motivated yes, but
mostly unarmed population of Young men and Women. What chance do we really
stand? In all honesty? None. But I guess that's courage. Fighting even
though you know you're beat. But this is the real world, and I don't want
to fight a war that we have no chance of winning. So, what is it we have
that they don't? My question I guess is: How the fucking hell do we win?
Reply:
Very simple...Numbers.
You see nothing can be accomplished without the proper numbers. What is the point of making a strike if it is
futile? As I have said numerous times before, I am not opposed to direct action. The timing has to be right.
If you are going to make a strike, you better make it count.
Anarchism by nature is very chaotic and unorganized.
The people such as myself spend our time trying to wake the masses because we know that our numbers are
insufficient. This meaningless digital plane you speak of is our best chance for success. The Internet offers
networking on a scale that cannot be paralleled.
This "impenetrable capitalist war machine" can be penetrated, we just need a bigger ram (numbers) or a Trojan horse.
By Trojan horse, I mean this, infiltrating the currently established system and beat them at their own game.
You see the life of living in free associations with one another and sharing work and products is idealistic
at best with the current situation we are in. What about getting one of our own in there
and sabotaging the system from the inside out. If one of our own was to run on the coat tails of the independent
party and pull this place apart brick by brick. Would be something huh? Nothing is impossible only improbable.
Utilize their school systems to gain knowledge. Educate yourself on social and global politics, keeping your
mind centered and uncorrupted and then run. Just a theory, but I can only imagine the possibilities.
I will leave you with this, It is our duty as anarchists to awaken others around you. Take the spirit of free
thought and knowledge you have attained as an anarchist and pass it on. Soon enough it will spread like a wild fire.
Only then will you have a fight you can win.
Stay posted because I will be setting up a mass awakening within the next few weeks!
Claims for unemployment have skyrocketed this year higher than they have been in the past 25 years.
The Labor Department released information thursday speculating that the Job market will continue to see a
decline throughout next year.
The government said new applications for jobless benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 542,000 from a downwardly
revised figure of 515,000 in the previous week. That's much higher than Wall Street economists' expectations of
505,000, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist at MFR Inc., a consulting firm, said the four-week average of continuing
claims is 49 percent higher than it was a year ago. That "indicates that those who are unemployed are finding
it increasingly difficult to get re-employed."
Shapiro wrote in a note that the number of claims indicates that net job reductions by employers could top 400,000
this month, up from 240,000 in October, when the unemployment rate reached 6.5 percent. Companies have cut
1.2 million jobs so far this year.
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released projections that the jobless rate will climb to between 7.1 percent and
7.6 percent next year, according to documents from the Fed's Oct. 29 closed-door deliberations on interest rate
policy.
The fall of the American economy is already set in motion. There will be increased crime, food riots, and
violence, all in the name of survival. Anarchist here in America need to be prepared when Martial Law
is declared. We need to make sure we awaken those that the government has let slip through thier fingers.
To my brothers and sisters, this shit is about to get real!
A.O.C.
The man who predicted the 1987 stock market crash and the fall of the Soviet Union is now forecasting revolution in America, food riots and tax rebellions - all within four years, while cautioning that putting food on the table will be a more pressing concern than buying Christmas gifts by 2012.
Gerald Celente, the CEO of Trends Research Institute, is renowned for his accuracy in predicting future world and economic events, which will send a chill down your spine considering what he told Fox News this week.
Celente says that by 2012 America will become an undeveloped nation, that there will be a revolution marked by food riots, squatter rebellions, tax revolts and job marches, and that holidays will be more about obtaining food, not gifts.
“We’re going to see the end of the retail Christmas….we’re going to see a fundamental shift take place….putting food on the table is going to be more important that putting gifts under the Christmas tree,” said Celente, adding that the situation would be “worse than the great depression”.
“America’s going to go through a transition the likes of which no one is prepared for,” said Celente, noting that people’s refusal to acknowledge that America was even in a recession highlights how big a problem denial is in being ready for the true scale of the crisis.
Celente, who successfully predicted the 1997 Asian Currency Crisis, the subprime mortgage collapse and the massive devaluation of the U.S. dollar, told UPI in November last year that the following year would be known as “The Panic of 2008,” adding that “giants (would) tumble to their deaths,” which is exactly what we have witnessed with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and others. He also said that the dollar would eventually be devalued by as much as 90 per cent.
The consequence of what we have seen unfold this year would lead to a lowering in living standards, Celente predicted a year ago, which is also being borne out by plummeting retail sales figures.
The prospect of revolution was a concept echoed by a British Ministry of Defence report last year, which predicted that within 30 years, the growing gap between the super rich and the middle class, along with an urban underclass threatening social order would mean, “The world’s middle classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest,” and that, “The middle classes could become a revolutionary class.”
In a separate recent interview, Celente went further on the subject of revolution in America.
“There will be a revolution in this country,” he said. “It’s not going to come yet, but it’s going to come down the line and we’re going to see a third party and this was the catalyst for it: the takeover of Washington, D. C., in broad daylight by Wall Street in this bloodless coup. And it will happen as conditions continue to worsen.”
“The first thing to do is organize with tax revolts. That’s going to be the big one because people can’t afford to pay more school tax, property tax, any kind of tax. You’re going to start seeing those kinds of protests start to develop.”
“It’s going to be very bleak. Very sad. And there is going to be a lot of homeless, the likes of which we have never seen before. Tent cities are already sprouting up around the country and we’re going to see many more.”
“We’re going to start seeing huge areas of vacant real estate and squatters living in them as well. It’s going to be a picture the likes of which Americans are not going to be used to. It’s going to come as a shock and with it, there’s going to be a lot of crime. And the crime is going to be a lot worse than it was before because in the last 1929 Depression, people’s minds weren’t wrecked on all these modern drugs – over-the-counter drugs, or crystal meth or whatever it might be. So, you have a huge underclass of very desperate people with their minds chemically blown beyond anybody’s comprehension.”
The George Washington blog has compiled a list of quotes attesting to Celente’s accuracy as a trend forecaster.
“When CNN wants to know about the Top Trends, we ask Gerald Celente.”
— CNN Headline News
“A network of 25 experts whose range of specialties would rival many university faculties.”
— The Economist
“Gerald Celente has a knack for getting the zeitgeist right.”
— USA Today
“There’s not a better trend forecaster than Gerald Celente. The man knows what he’s talking about.”
- CNBC
“Those who take their predictions seriously … consider the Trends Research Institute.”
— The Wall Street Journal
“Gerald Celente is always ahead of the curve on trends and uncannily on the mark … he’s one of the most accurate forecasters around.”
— The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Mr. Celente tracks the world’s social, economic and business trends for corporate clients.”
— The New York Times
“Mr. Celente is a very intelligent guy. We are able to learn about trends from an authority.”
— 48 Hours, CBS News
“Gerald Celente has a solid track record. He has predicted everything from the 1987 stock market crash and the demise of the Soviet Union to green marketing and corporate downsizing.”
— The Detroit News
“Gerald Celente forecast the 1987 stock market crash, ‘green marketing,’ and the boom in gourmet coffees.”
— Chicago Tribune
“The Trends Research Institute is the Standard and Poors of Popular Culture.”
— The Los Angeles Times
“If Nostradamus were alive today, he’d have a hard time keeping up with Gerald Celente.”
— New York Post
Mikhail Bakunin was born in russia in 1814. Bakunin, an insurrection anarchist, wanted to "take the land and
throw out those landlords who live by the labor of others". Bakunin was also a theorist of collectivist anarchism.
I find this amazing due to the fact that Bakunin was of noble descent.
Bakunin writes, "We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular,
the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda." As an anarchist I agree to an extent. Anarchist
principals must be expressed to others in the proper light in order to gain favor of the public. Without this,
we as anarchists will fail. The system of today is much stronger and has a firm grip on it's populace through fear
and propoganda. Anarchists of today are viewed with dissent and as terrorists. In short I feel that direct action
is necessary but only with numbers that can create an impact.
Bakunin’s disagreements with Marx led to Bakunin’s expulsion from the International Working Mens Association in 1872,
after being out voted by the Marx party at the Hague Congress. This illustrated the growing divergence between the
"anti-authoritarian" sections of the International, which advocated the direct revolutionary action and organization of
the workers in order to abolish the state and capitalism. The social democratic sections allied with Marx lead to
the conquest of political power by the working class. Bakunin wanted a classless society.
Bakunin writes, “It is the peculiarity of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the intellect and heart of man.
The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man deprived in intellect and
heart."
Regardless of which president we ended up with, we are moving closer into globalization. Obama may cushion the
blow of the failing economy here in the states, but will not deter the government's plans for the North
American Union. As anarchists, we need to keep our sights on the goal. We need to stay prepared and continue
to awaken the masses. Obama as president does not change a thing. If anything he will make it harder to wake
people up. Obama is the pacifier required to lull the lower class populace back to sleep. Bush put on enough
pressure to where people were becoming restless. We as anarchists need the masses to be restless.
