https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti

Great video! He made some really solid points. I hope some of the audience of Contrapoints sees it.

Prefiguration really is the answer in so many cases. I think he could have emphasised, though, that while the road to rebuilding a real revolutionary left is long, every step along the path of prefiguration can and does make a practical difference to people’s lives. The pressure that can be brought to bear on elected officials will also grow little by little.

Regarding disengaging from electoral politics, I think that radicals, since they’re people who are very interested in politics, have often become so highly engaged with electoral politics that they find it difficult to kick the habit. Also, I think there’s a perception that keeping up with the minutiae of bills and appointments is essential for being taken seriously when discussing politics.

Boycott HP: https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

HP-branded corporations play key roles in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. They are complicit in Israel’s occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid regime. They provide computer hardware to the Israeli army and maintain data centers through their servers for the Israeli police. They provide the Itanium servers to operate the Aviv System, the computerized database of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority. This forms the backbone of Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid.

Did the people downvoting this post even watch the video?

It’s been a while since I watched it, but I think it’d be accurate to say the TL;DW is basically that we shouldn’t care about ‘left unity’ if that means abandoning vulnerable people and reliquishing our deepest values. Essentially, if ‘the left’ doesn’t deliver safety for us and the people we love, then ‘the left’ can suck it.

I would have thought people on an anarchism community could appreciate that, and if they don’t, then they need to do some thinking, and maybe learn some history to see how anarchists have responded to demands of ‘unity’ and been persecuted in its name.