#william c. anderson

[forbidden-sorcery]

…like many religious organizations, the authoritarian left often works under the influence of messianic modes of leadership. Its doctrine and beliefs work in favor of the notion that leadership shouldn't be challenged. Revolutionary heroes and leaders of the past are revered like gods, no matter their failures, shortcomings, or abuses of power. However much they condemned religion, dead and martyred revolutionaries become holy icons with followers who take on the names of the dead they venerate. Just as followers of Christ can label themselves Christians, the authoritarian leftist followers of diverging sects like those of Stalin and Trotsky become Stalinists and Trotskyists. These followers proselytize oppressed people, offering salvation, deliverance, and liberation, if only those they see as in need of their politics will fall into faithful practice. Challenging this sort of orthodoxy is one of the most important tasks we face.

William C. Anderson - The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition

[80smovies]

[pumpacti0n]

1: Get your nasty ass hands out of my face.

2: William C. Anderson would like a word with you:

"One of the best places to examine the manipulation of history for the sake of nationalism is U.S. elections. A regular line you hear directed at or from Black people is about how all of our ancestors died so that we could attain the right to vote. This simply isn’t true, not because it didn’t actually occur at times, but because it homogenizes Black politics. Patriotism is centered by overemphasizing one aspect of Black history and erasing other dissident aspects. While some Black people did believe the right to vote was important, others did not and there’s a record of their opposition.

One person who embodies the complexities and complications of this history is Lucy Parsons (...)In one of her clearest condemnations of voting, Parsons wrote, “The fact is money and not votes is what rules the people. And the capitalists no longer care to buy the voters, they simply buy the ‘servants’ after they have been elected to ‘serve.’ The idea that the poor man’s vote amounts to anything is the veriest delusion. The ballot is only the paper veil that hides the tricks.”

"...Du Bois clearly stated his position writing, “In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no ‘two evils’ exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.” He lamented more stating, “Stop yelling about a democracy we do not have. Democracy is dead in the United States. Yet there is still nothing to replace real democracy.”

3: your transparent and disgusting weaponization of Black history to coerce people into voting for your favorite war criminal is a bastardized and whitewashed version of reality and you should be ashamed of yourself for doing it, but it's clear from the tone of this post that people like you desperately want to feel like the moral authority, superior to everyone else who (rightfully) condemns this white supremacist empire and refuses to agree to its murderous terms.

Do better. Stop using our deaths as leverage to advance and make excuses for neoliberalism.

One final quote by Anderson:

"Black suffering gets fetishized and struggles for liberation are framed as being for the betterment of the state. Black history gets twisted, co-opted, and misrepresented so frequently that people believe masses of us dying, and suffering, are necessary to help the state develop a conscience it will never have. Hard learned lessons get lost in favor of stories about patriotic duty, for the advancement of a country instead of for our survival. The liberal idea of democracy and progress leans on Black longsuffering, which is why it periodically doles out disingenuous “thank yous” to Black people who “save America” from itself at our own expense."

"If voting changed anything they wouldn't let people do it-" grabs your face THEY DIDN'T JUST "LET" PEOPLE DO IT, MOST PEOPLE COULDN'T VOTE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. PEOPLE OF COLOR ONLY GOT THE FULL RIGHT TO VOTE 50 YEARS AGO IN THE US, THATS BARELY A GENERATION.

IF IT DIDNT MATTER AT ALL WHY WOULD THEY SPEND SO MUCH TIME GERRYMANDERING THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYWHERE?? WHY CAN'T FELONS VOTE?? WHY CANT PUERTO RICO VOTE? WHY DO THEY KEEP SWITCHING DATES AND LAWS AND TIMES AND WHATEVER THEY POSSIBLY CAN TO STOP PEOPLE FROM VOTING?? WHY DO THEY MAKE EFFORT AT ALL??

BEING DISILLUSIONED IS A REASONABLE RESPONSE. BUT PEOPLE FOUGHT AND DIED AND ARE STILL FUCKING DYING FOR THAT RIGHT, DONT SPIT IN THEIR FACE.

[textinfilms]

Magnolia (1999), dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

My name is Donnie Smith, and I have lots of love to give.

[aarontveit]

You can't keep her safe forever. No matter how hard you try, no matter how many people you kill — she's gonna grow up, Joel. And then you'll die. She'll leave. Then what? How long till she's torn apart by Infected or murdered by raiders? Because she lives in a broken world that you could have saved. Maybe. But it isn't for you to decide. Or you. So, what would she decide, huh? 'Cause I think she'd wanna do what's right. And you know it. It's not too late. Even now. Even after what you've done, we can still find a way.

[closetofcuriosities]

Boogie Nights - 1997 - Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

[chappellroansdreamgirl]

hey guys! what if we just let people create whatever the hell they wanted and have fun and just scroll when you see something you're not super fucking crazy about! just! what if!

[d3arapril]

hi folks! doing this again because last time it was fun and i got creative (i need to break this writers block) so…

send me a prompt + a person and i’ll write a little something! can be a phrase, a feeling, a single word - whatever u like 🤍

[fightingwithallreality]

Blaze and Thunderbolt (1955) written and illustrated by Clarence William Anderson

[forbidden-sorcery]

We can't tuly say that anywhere in this world is for us without being proven wrong and wrong again. Perhaps part of the problem is that nations and states have long treated this planet and its resources as always being for someone. The oppressive state structure we attempt to survive under grants extractive rights based on the idea of citizenship. Since the very beginning of the United States, the right to land and natural resources and the right to commit acts of violence against people—Indigenous, Black, or otherwise—have been closely linked to citizenship. To be a citizen has meant to be white, and, like whiteness, citizenship itself is an invention that is of no good use to us here. It has done much more harm than good. Anything that affords some people more rights than others based on borders, race, or class should be abolished. It has no redeeming quality for Black people, and fighting to be recognized by or within it means seeking to be embraced by something that has our rejection.

William C. Anderson - The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition

[80smovies]

[anarchistin]

Some socialists wanted to work through government, political parties, and the state to seize power. Other socialists saw this as a corruptible reformist effort. Instead, they argued for building socialism from below through direct action, federations, and the expropriation of the means of production. The different sides agreed capitalism had to go and that the state itself was a looming threat, but struggled to find unity in their respective approaches.

This created the division we now know between statist socialism and libertarian socialism, which came to be known as Anarchism. [Note: "Libertarian" should not be confused with the modern-day appropriation of the term by right-wing laissez-faire capitalists who use the word libertarian for their purposes.]

Libertarian had a different meaning and context then; to this day, some anarchists still hold onto the libertarian-socialist label. Furthermore, some participants of the International faced repression for using the term "anarchist" [Note: this term was first embraced by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]. Self-identifying anarchists of this period began calling themselves such to set themselves apart from other socialists, but this did not mean that they were no longer socialists themselves. Understanding this history also helps clarify the origins of libertarian, or, anarchist communism.

[crowandthefics]

Headcannons/information about my Titan army killer au!

-this au takes place between the last Olympian and the lost hero.

-in this au, Ethan does not die in the battle of manhattan. He survives after being found by Drew. Only to die a week later by the titan army killer.

-Tanaka/nakamura family is cannon to this.

-many half bloods in the TA were given pardons and welcomed back to chb

-the titan army killer is an unidentified camper at chb. They are killing ex-titan army campers for an unknown reason.

-Chiron is negligent to all of this, passing off every death as an accident of some sort.

-Drew Tanaka and Valentina Diaz are the ones actually stepping up and searching for the killer.

-there is a group called “the crew”. Which was formed after the second death (Margret smiths). The crew consists of: Lou Ellen, Valentina, Neil, Milly, James, marrie, desire, Jessie(before death), Clovis and Drew. Notably, Chris is not in the crew

-there are supporting campers who are not part of the crew but are upset about the murders, including: Will solace, Cecil markowitz, and the stolls

Important characters

Ex-Titan army campers

Lou Ellen blackstone, Hecate counselor; alive

Ethan nakamura, son of nemesis; dead

Margret smiths, daughter of Hephaestus; dead

Chris Rodriguez, son of Hermes; alive

Valentina Diaz, daughter of Aphrodite; alive

Neil, son of Nike; dead

Milly Anderson, daughter of Demeter; alive

James step, son of Athena; alive

Marrie jones, daughter of Aphrodite; alive

Desire brown, daughter of tyche; alive

Jessie Williams; unclaimed; dead

Regular chb campers

Drew Tanaka, Aphrodite counselor

Damian White, son of nemesis

Will Solace, Apollo counselor

Cecil Markowitz, son of Hermes

Evan Winks, son of Hermes

The stoll brothers, Hermes counselors

Other

Alabaster Torrington, son of Hecate, exiled

Chiron, camp director

Clovis, Hypnos counselor

This will be updated as the story goes on

And please, ask questions! Make theory’s, try to find the killer,

[nando161mando]

’I ultimately want to encourage others to take abolition and apply it to borders, nations, and states. I see the “nation on no map” as a group of people using skills others may struggle to recognize to develop new thinking, new language, and new societies.

I envision a nation that doesn’t need to be a nation and that doesn’t need to be on a map, because it knows borders, states, and boundaries cannot accommodate the complexity of our struggles.’

– William C Anderson, The Nation on No Map, Black Anarchism and Abolition

[closetofcuriosities]

Boogie Nights - 1997 - Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson