I’m an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such.

I see anarchism as something you do not an identity...

...so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist

Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Thu 11 Jun 2020 09:23

the Corbyn folks got slaughtered by the media & party establishment but they actually did achieve significant policy change because they didn’t try to coopt those they worked with. Sanders seems to have diverted energy & achieved nothing.

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Thu 11 Jun 2020 09:21

I have myself been willing to work with those who try to make change w/in the electoral system exactly insofar as they want to build up, rather than coopt, the extra-parliamentary left. Corbynites understood that was the only way they could succeed. Sanders folk did not, & failed

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Thu 11 Jun 2020 09:19

If it wasn’t for the fact that electoralism always fails, we’d never have had #OWS to begin with. #electoralismfailed #electoralismalwaysfails

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Thu 11 Jun 2020 09:17

Electoralism failed. Every time you encounter a Jacobinite from now on, they need to be told the same thing: #electoralismfailed. Electoralism always fails.

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Thu 11 Jun 2020 08:48

Notice how when the #OWS camps were evicted in 2011 everyone in the media & across the political spectrum chanted “Occupy failed” because they didn’t take an electoral approach. And have been ever since. When Bernie lost twice, do you hear anyone chanting “electoralism failed”?

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Wed 10 Jun 2020 11:06

Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle already has its own wikipedia page! #Iamsohappynow https://t.co/eVHSmhyd3d

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Wed 10 Jun 2020 10:41

thanks so much to everyone who helped with the final edits of On Kings. It’s well-nigh perfect now. i’m so happy. #a4all https://t.co/SohnAwlLWU

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Tue 9 Jun 2020 17:41

some further reflections on vampires, aristocracy and the contradictions of capitalism #a4all https://t.co/qbxkSPjyzR

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Mon 8 Jun 2020 22:12

that’s either true courage, or true desperation, or some remarkable mix of both https://t.co/xaNg4uqn8M

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Mon 8 Jun 2020 15:53

.@nikadubrovsky and I talking about value, Proletkult, and other things on the #16Beaver conversation https://t.co/uBwSfpOTmG

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Fri 5 Jun 2020 00:57

apparently during Nixon’s impeachment, those in charge of nuclear silos were ordered to report any “unusual orders” from the President before acting, but otherwise I’ve never heard anything like this. Pres orders troops to capital. General orders them back … https://t.co/uIt2BhcJmX

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Thu 4 Jun 2020 15:18

The #XRBrainTrust needs you! If you have web design skills anyway. Maybe even otherwise. But for the moment, if you would 1. like to help save the world by volunteering your time & effort, and 2. can help with the web page, please do email XRBraintrust@gmail.com.

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Thu 4 Jun 2020 14:32

granted it won’t look exactly like this as it won’t mostly be landslide, but this is what we have in store in a few years almost everywhere there’s a coast, if we don’t stop with the carbon emissions immediately https://t.co/j1UKxBRfFP

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Tue 2 Jun 2020 22:27

hell, if the lawyers come over to our side, we don’t need the police to defect. We used to joke about having a “lawyer’s bloc” with suits and brief cases standing between us and the cops. They could just stare at them in their riot gear & say “I dare you to even think about it.”

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Tue 2 Jun 2020 19:49

we want your help for our new Uprisings book! This is our plan (we think) for how to put it together. Also with digression on case of ex-GDR women & gives me a chance to show off one of my favourite T-shirts https://t.co/x2gH3ib7q0

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Tue 2 Jun 2020 19:46

the story of the scandal almost no one ever talks about: the former East German women who were robbed of their pensions because they’d had a divorce. https://t.co/7rPAnWlDWM

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Tue 2 Jun 2020 14:59

Gandhi believed that if you can overcome injustice non-violently, that’s best. But he also insisted opposing injustice violently is always morally superior to sitting back and not doing anything at all.

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Tue 2 Jun 2020 14:54

It was co-written by me and .@nikadubrovsky. Basically her analysis with my additions rather than the other way around! https://t.co/akBOyqU5Gc

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Tue 2 Jun 2020 14:34

Review of Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite (supposed to have been published in N+1) https://t.co/TbXNYQYRUI

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Tue 2 Jun 2020 13:52

So one line I’m hearing – not saying I agree at all – is that Biden clearly doesn’t want to win. What would happen if people voted for him anyway and say “ha ha joke’s on you, now you’re President, because you’re way easier to pressure than Trump.”

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