Comments on: About Kasama

By: jmjennings59

jmjennings59 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:01:48 +0000

as a veteran of some of the cold war’s hotter episodes, i gotta say there’s nothing more fun or easier than opposing what passes for communism these days. y’all go ahead and debate what passes for ‘theory’ in your world. we will be bore-sighting, doing dry practice, land nav and welding caltrops. your ‘revolution’? bring it … oh please bring it. what a great opportunity to pour some chlorine into the gene pool.

By: The people who organized the “Occupied Wall Street Journal” paper

The people who organized the “Occupied Wall Street Journal” paper — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:24:35 +0000

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By: Kathleen Clementi

Kathleen Clementi — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:24:05 +0000

At last!

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By: Tomantua

Tomantua — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:55:45 +0000

i have no clue what political theory I follow. I don’t know what it means to be Marxist or Communist… all I know is this thread still does not help me or any other regular folks to stand up against current injustices. Once again, the folks that hope to make a change are still talking way over my head, and

If you truly speak of revolution, stop looking at how to overthrow the current system and start looking at YOUR daily habits that support the current capitalist society.

The path to revolution is a journey inwards.

By: DienBienPhu

DienBienPhu — Mon, 09 May 2011 08:27:06 +0000

Very glad to see that exist peoples who want to build a MLM organization in the US after fail of RCP-USA.
What do you think about groups like PLP, ROL or FRSO ?

Encouragements from France,

DBF.

By: Jesse Knutson

Jesse Knutson — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:29:06 +0000

I am very inspired reading about the collectives getting started in Louisiana and Seattle. Wondering if there is anything going on in the Bay Area. I am in Berkeley.

By: crows eye

crows eye — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 07:51:28 +0000

Edit:
In my rant I said “ELF (which, by the way, is synomomous with primitivism)”
This should have read “ELF (which, by the way, is NOT’T synomomous with primitivism)”
ie. ELF is against technologies which harm the environment, animals, human life but that is not synonymous with primitivism.

By: crows eye

crows eye — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 07:44:37 +0000

The debates here are actually fairly disapointing. Same old debate between “Class War” communists and “Class War” anarchists. I actually found this site through a post directing me to an article on this site called White women and the privilege of solidarity. And while the ariticle was critical of “white/Western feminism” from an anti-colonialist perspective, it in no way denied the centrality of patriarchy and white supremacy in understanding opression and power.

My question is, why is it that in all the posts discussing the direction of this “project” is their no discussion of how a “working class” revolution, apparently led by men (since I saw no women involved in this discussion), is going to liberate women or queer folks or indigenous peoples in the north and south? And please, don’t give me the tired line that these are just “life style” issues or offer some quote from Marx or Lenin (I actually had a Troskyist try to tell me that Marx had the whole queer liberation thing figured out over 100 years ago).

I have been involved in anti-authoritarian/anarchist struggles, on and off, for 20 years and have worked in frustration with anarchist white men who are no better than their Marxist conterparts in acknowledging the reality that oppression is simply not just about and never was just about class.

Its like you want to start something new but you just can let go of the past. Its still all fucking Lenin this and Trosky that and no, no you should read Kropotkin or Bakhunin and on and on.

Its sad,really sad.

You really need to open up this debate and open up the theory. You are all so afraid to try grasping this world by understanding it yourselves. The funny thing is, my reading of Marx was exactly that. He didn’t seem to be in to reified theories or ideology. He was into looking at the world around him, as it was, and trying to analyse and act in it and then analyse it again. But both Marxism and anarchism have become these dead theoretical places where you have reified your respective god/theorists and theories to the point where they don’t explain anything in the world you live in today ie. in 2011, not 1911.

Its as if Angela Davis, Gramsci, Foucalt, Ward Churchill, bell hooks, Malcom X, the Black Panthers, AIM, Stonewall, the LA riots, the Detroit riots of 67, anti-psychology, ALF, ELF (which, by the way, is synomomous with primitivism), Earth First!, OKA, Wounded Knee, 500++ years of colonialist geneocide, the holocaust, the occupation of Palestine,
….and on and on. Everything that has happened over the last 100 years has never happened. Isn’t worth theorizing or discussing or even fucking acknowledging because Marx and Engles and Lenin and Bakhunin and Kropotkin and all those old boy already had it figured out. And hey, it can all just be reduced to class no matter how much all those black and indian and queer women and men say it aint. Well it just is.

And thats how you start to build something new? Give me a break.

By: Adolfo V.

Adolfo V. — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:48:41 +0000

It’s great to see that there are comrades out there trying to “reconceive” and “regroup” in order to genuinely make REVOLUTION a reality here in the U.S.A. It’s about time this is being done. Unfortunately most “leftist” groups in this country have been dogmatic in their approach or opportunistic in their actions. I will be posting more often on the Kasama website. Hope to meet new people.

Best Regards,
Adolfo V.