monochrome scarab lineart

2025-03-19
of tankies and anarkiddies

faded bunting, Vientiane, Laos

2018-08-19 – Nikon D3300
faded bunting, Ventiane, Laos

🎵 (youtube) Ennio Morricone «The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly»

a quick rant about a field I have little knowledge of – on the left, there’s been a longtime split between the communists and the anarchists – the communist penchant for solving everything through mechanized military force («tankies») versus the utopian daydreaming of the anarchists («anarkiddies») – for me, I find the split easier to define in terms of the literature surrounding the two sides – the communist writings are an outgrowth of the German philosophical tradition and easily reveal their ivory tower bent – anarchist writings grew out of an epistolary tradition – communists insist on maintaining 100-year-old terminology that’s lost its meaning outside of their ivory tower – anarchists adapt their writings to the current conditions – capitalists exploit the worker, communists talk down to the worker, anarchists talk with the worker

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