Tommy Sanders

Tommy Sanders

@tommysanders.bsky.social

Social anarchist "The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it."-Errico Malatesta #ReadMeansAndEndsByZoeBaker

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Tommy Sanders
@tommysanders.bsky.social

If any of yall are platformists or especifists this is worth checking out.

Tommy Sanders@tommysanders.bsky.social

Cities where @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social "locals are forming / where current at-large members reside" blackrosefed.org/locals/

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🌹Dystopian Grift 🌹
@dystopiangrift.bsky.social

This is a good read. Lucy was a former slave turned anarchist. Her husband was executed for being the ringleader of the Haymarket Affair in Chicago, Illinois c. 1887.

The Green Vanguard@greenvanguard.bsky.social

Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth. -Lucy Parsons

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It's Going Down
@igd.bsky.social

Check out this book and listen to our podcast interview with @anarchozoe.bsky.social here: itsgoingdown.org/means-and-en...

Zoe Baker@anarchozoe.bsky.social

My history book about the revolutionary strategy of anarchism is now on the anarchist library and available for free in a file format of your choosing. If you have the money please buy a copy from AK press and support radical publishing. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/zoe-...

theanarchistlibrary.orgMeans and EndsZoe Baker Means and Ends The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States 2023 Cover design by John Yates | www.stealworks.com //...
Tommy Sanders
@tommysanders.bsky.social

Quote posting this because I keep seeing people online asking 'how would anarchists defend themselves' PLEASE just take the time to watch this video🙏🙏

Tommy Sanders@tommysanders.bsky.social

If any of yall have 2 hours to spare, you should watch this video. It's probably the best video essay I've ever seen on youtube. I really hope that it gets published as a text at some point. youtu.be/rhAHKI2-3so

youtu.beAnarchy and Self-DefenseYouTube video by NLH
Tommy Sanders
@tommysanders.bsky.social

Kropotkin: "We admit the imperfections of human nature but we make no exceptions for the rulers" Me: "We admit the bias of anarchist historians but we make no exceptions for the statists"

Tommy Sanders@tommysanders.bsky.social

Statist historians are just as biased against anarchism as anarchists are biased for it.

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The Dugout - A Black Anarchist Podcast
@thedugoutpod.bsky.social

In this episode of The Dugout, we speak with Lebanese anarchists about organizing and surviving through war, occupation, sectarianism, displacement, and economic crisis. At the center of the conversation is a simple principle: abandon nobody. Find where you get podcast

Tommy Sanders
@tommysanders.bsky.social

"Men are not good enough for Communism, but are they good enough for Capitalism? If all men were good-hearted, kind, and just, they would never exploit one another, although possessing the means of doing so."-Peter Kropotkin theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr...

theanarchistlibrary.orgAre We Good Enough?Pëtr Kropotkin Are We Good Enough? 1888 From Freedom 21, June 1888.
gizmocats.bsky.social@gizmocats.bsky.social

Precisely, it always infuriates me when people point out good things about Socialism saying ‘that’s not Communism,’ then point to one thing more or less monarchy (or as you point out fascism) and say ‘Communism is still bad but it’s that.’ Communism isn’t bad, people are just too bad for Communism.

Tommy Sanders
@tommysanders.bsky.social

I've personally never seen anyone critique Malatesta for using the term 'party' to describe what he called a 'specifically anarchist organization'. Yet somehow people think that calling platformist and especifist groups 'non-electoral parties' is an insult.