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"Anti-Fascism" is the Leftism of Fools (bad title, see comments!) (www.youtube.com)
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cross-posted from: https://anarchist.nexus/c/anarchism/p/609207/anti-fascism-is-the-leftism-of-fools

It's about how merely anti-fascist art and movements can be recuperated and made safe by capitalism. Blow it up 🏴🏴🏴🏴

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[–] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Quote from Margaret Killjoy in the video:

There are two sides to this struggle: rapid response and mutual aid. Rapid response networks organize to identify and track ICE vehicles and agents and to disrupt abductions in process. Mutual aid networks organize to get affected people food, medical care, rides, vet visits, company... whatever they need. These are two seperate webs of networks. The mutual aid side is more secretive in its organizing, of course, because it is taking care of the people who cannot leave their homes without being kidnapped... Partly because there's no central organization, it's hard to get a sense of the scale of these networks, especially the mutual aid networks. There are tens of thousands of people, at least, being cared for by these networks... When I ask people where all of this came from, the answer was never some specific organization or network or coalition. Organizations, networks, and coalitions are part of this, absolutely. But the core of the resistance is just neighborliness... I can't emphasize the decentralization of theese networks enough... Decentralizaed networks are harder to inflitrate and harder to destroy. This movement is not leaderless, but leaderful, and there are no few specific people who could be arrested to stop the movement... Noen of this works top-down.

In norwegian we have a word for non-authoritarian leaders, which is called "los". It comes from somebody who is helping with navigation of ships. I guess it could be translated to guider. You don't have to listen to the guider, but if they are reckognized as capable, you trust them.