@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaOn my Linktree, I’ve kept the link to @…, and the video on revolutionary syndicalism, and thus have moved all my recommended reading to my new document titled "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading".
📚 Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading:
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI couldn’t find a clear guide, so I put together my own “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading.”
Thought it might help others getting started on this path.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJXJn-KbXfsQi3uHE5EYYzQcbD8/ed…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPipe bomb suspect confesses and has expressed support for Trump, sources say (Ken Dilanian/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/fbi-describes-jan-6-pipe-bomb-suspect-as-pro-trump-anarchist
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p95#a251205p95
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIf you follow me and identify as a Marxist-Leninist, it’s worth understanding that we stand on very different sides of the socialist tradition. It’s time to read and learn, my friend. Marxist-Leninists have a long history of opposing anarchists, especially anarcho-syndicalists.
Docs: https://
@hex@kolektiva.socialColonial nations didn't stop colonialism because they became moral. They stopped because it was untenable. The advancement of asymmetric warfare made it impossible to maintain colonial holdings and those empires crumbled.
The answer was neoliberalism and soft power. Trump had annihilated the financial systems that held that fragile order in place.
#Venezuela will probably end up trying to teach Trump the lesson everyone else learned in the 20th century, but since he's incapable of learning it may very well teach him the lesson Afghanistan taught the USSR.
We'll see how it goes.
It's still possible that we could end up with the US interfering so much that the only people left able to defend space are anarchists. South and Central America actually has some really interesting and advanced anarchist tendencies, so fucking with that could absolutely blow up in Trump (and every other authoritarian's) face.
I hope that the Venezuelan people can take advantage of the situation to get rid of both a shitty dictator and the shitty colonizers who want to replace him.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIf you’re new around here, I maintain an “Intro to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” list, which you can find here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJXJn-KbXfsQi3uHE5EYYzQcbD8/edit?tab=t.0
There’s also a mirror availabl…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaForgotten Fighters: American Anarchist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
https://albavolunteer.org/2017/08/forgotten-fighters-american-anarchist-volunteers-in-the-spanish-civil-war/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEntropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25M seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after "several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs" (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/386942/entro…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Orsinian Tales" by Ursula K Le Guin. It's... good, but not nearly as anarchist as a lot of her other work. These are short fiction stories weaving mostly through a fictional Eastern European country during the cold war, although some stretch farther back into history.
As typical for Le Guin a bunch of male protagonists, and a few parts that might seem to excuse sexual assault, which I've always found an odd thing in Le Guin's work (the rape in "The Dispossessed" bothered me too; the lack of strong female characters in "A Wizard of Earthsea" also sticks out to me). On the other hand, I've read from an interview that she wrote "Earthsea" absolutely knowing her audience (teenage boys) and intentionally writing something that would sell, which speaks to true mastery of her craft (I think the opening of "The Word for World is Forest" demonstrates what an expert can do wielding an intimate understanding of pulp science fiction tropes with intent, for example).
In any case, she writes sublime similes and sparse characters who nevertheless seem to embody deep wisdom about the human condition. I feel that often enough just a few words or sentences in a story bear forth hefty wisdom while around them Le Guin constructs something like an austere painting in muted tones, full of rich details that one can easily miss.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@hex@kolektiva.socialTaking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaBehold this ridiculous shitpost about me, yeah, it gets even weirder.
@ErikUden@mastodon.deJust finished filming a video, who can guess what it was about? #Plushtodon ;)
@davej@dice.campEverything is cool and normal in the Land of the Free.
http://archive.today/2025.11.23-133655/https://theintercept.com/2025/11/23/prairieland-ice-antifa-zines-criminalize-protest-journalism/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaAgain, I highly recommend you read this article!
Anarcho-Syndicalism: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, But Were Too Afraid To Ask – Class Autonomy
https://classautonomy.info/anarcho-syndicalism-everything-you-ever-wanted-…
@pre@boing.worldOne room at the conference center is dedicated to an art gallery, showing pictures and images inspired by satoshi and bitcoin. Some are impressive and colourful, but some I find myself ideology opposed to their point of view.
Bitcoiners as a group tend libertarian and capitalist. Is there common cause between them and me, a more anarchist and socialist tending individual?
I think we can agree that the government money system is broken, disagree about the aims of a replacement system, and disagree on the actual effects of a bitcoin based system.
Some say bitcoin is money for enemies. We do need to transact with people without having to agree with them.
#bitfest #bitcoin #art
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaGoogle says my "Entry to Left Wing Anarchist Reading" doc is getting a ton of traffic lately. Not sure where to check the exact stats, but here's the link if you wanna dive in.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJX…
@ose_rouge@don.linxx.netNur noch ein Anschlag und die Bevölkerung wird verstehen und sich auf die Seite dieser Berliner Anarchist*innen schlagen. (Ganz bestimmt.)
@hllizi@hespere.deAls Anarchist ist mir die Kultusministerkonferenz ziemlich egal und ich schreibe so, wie man es mir irgendwann mal beigebracht hat.
@hex@kolektiva.socialSlight tanget but...
There is exactly one way to prevent authoritarianism. That is to make these systems optional. It must be possible to leave a system if it becomes oppressive, and by doing so deprive the system of it's power.
This is what anarchists assert.
Now, have you thought to wonder why the state claiming that someone is an anarchist is generally considered sufficient to excuse any violence against that individual? If someone wants to lock you into the system, they are going to target people who assert that systems should be possible to leave.
Remember that when the only evidience against someone is "they had anarchist literature."
@luana@wetdry.worldCan I please please please live in a world that joints the few good stuff of cyberpunk (bodymods, high-tech, techy implants and hotswappable bodyparts, full selfidentification, sex-positivity, etc) into a solarpunk anarchist world?
Pleeeeeease I want to have open hardware and open source brain implants and bodyparts made by hacky cute girls and no capitalist bullshit 
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeThree posts in and I really dig the format so far!
Two brothers riffing about Punk Rock / IT-Management is interesting.
(Scroll below the header to see the posts or subscribe.)
https://www.agileisanarchy.com
@hex@kolektiva.socialIt's probably worth mentioning that I went to an anarchist event last night and ended up talking to someone about the fact that there are like 2 regular anarchist camps in the Netherlands (not including anarchist adjacent and nearby like CCC).
Meanwhile, I'm reading the noodsituatie packet from the NCTV and there are definitely some gaps. Like, it talks about what you need for 72 hours without services, including water, but doesn't really bring up sanitation beyond "have some hand sanitizer."
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza00:30—Good night #Fediverse! 😴💤
I added two new books to my collection of anarchist works this December. The first is by the Norwegian anarchist Hans Jæger, titled "Anarkiets Bibel", and the second is Cindy Milstein’s "Anarchism and Its Aspirations".
#Anarchism
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI just updated my reading guide, “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” again!
I want it to be a curated path from beginner-friendly intros to deeper theory and real-world examples, enjoy!
Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wu…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI was just thinking about how the fact that #Musk named his AI "Grok" is evidence that he "reads sci-fi" in the same way he "plays video games." Like, he claims to do it but when it comes time to show the evidence it's clear he does not actually "grok" it.
Like... To grok something is to have a layer deeper than simply knowledge, but mathematically encoding statistical relationships between words is pretty obviously not even understanding much less qualifying as "groking" it. In the book, the ability to grok something is also the ability to annihilate that thing with a thought. Just pretending that an LLM actually *was* something that could become AGI (which it's not), this name would imply the AI would have the power to annihilate reality. That's bad. That's a bad name for an AI.
And why would a greedy fascist name something of his after something an anarchist communist space Jesus taught to the hippie cult he started? There are so many layers of facepalm to this. It's some kind of php-esque fractal of incompetence.
Like, there's no reason to talk about this but my brain does this to me sometimes and now it's your problem.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Can't believe I didn't read this one earlier, and this strengthens my resolve to finish off the rest of her stuff I have yet to read sooner. I think it benefits somewhat from having read it after "Four Ways to Forgiveness" which gives more of the Hainish context. Certainly none of the blurbs I had read about it did it any measure of justice, which is one reason I hadn't prioritized it. More than being about colonization, it's about a solution to the paradox of tolerance, and both the price and imperfections of that solution. As usual with Le Guin's science fiction, it's a rich companion to anarchist thought.
I think the typical objection to seeing it as an answer to the warlord question would be that it serendipitously positions the indigenous population with more power and a less ruthless opponent than in the imagined scenario, and it uses the League of Worlds as a sort of deus ex machina to foreclose further retribution. Ultimately that's why I think it's more about the paradox of tolerance than anything else, but I also think in regards to the warlord problem that we are too quick to underestimate just how numerous and enthusiastic the opponents of a warlord might be, and to overestimate the strength of technological weapons wielded by frail (and psychologically unarmored) humans.
In any case, Le Guin gives this book's alien humans yet another fascinatingly credible capability, and getting to see the introduction of ansible technology with all its implications is pretty cool too. Maybe not
@ose_rouge@don.linxx.netDas Statement auf welches sie sich beziehe wurde im Text falsch verlinkt, hier der richtige Link: https://www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/on-silencing-voices-from-eastern-europe-at-anarchist-events-in-
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI have autism, and I tend to forget things quite often. That’s part of why I’m currently reading Rudolf Rocker – Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice for the fifth time.
If you’d like to read it too, you can find it in my “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” document, which I’ll keep updating over time with new books, media, and resources.
Docs:
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaUpdated my "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading" Phase 2!
Added two solid EZLN Zapatista documents, one peer-reviewed journal article, and another field studies on their autonomous governance & education projects!
Happy reading: https://docs.google.com/docu…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaHaving begun reading "Post-Scarcity Anarchism" by Murray Bookchin, I might add it to my "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading" doc.
📄 Reading list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJXJn-KbXfsQi3uHE5EYYzQcbD8…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI keep thinking that I should text a friend of mine, tell him how much I've been writing, tell him I mentioned him in something I wrote. Then I remember he died like 4 years ago.
Edit:
It must have been more like 6 or something now that I'm thinking about it. It was part of the way through the first Trump administration. He would have really appreciated the way Trump is unraveling now. One of the last times we talked he was like... "You know man, You used to play 'Baby, I'm an anarchist' and I'd think... ' don't want to throw a brick through a Starbucks window. I kinda like their coffee sometimes.' But the way things have been going lately, I'm kind of looking around and thinking you might be right. Fuck Starbucks. Where's that brick?"
At least I won the SRV vs the Hendrix version of Voodoo Chile debate. Hendrix is just better.
We used to talk about music, especially punk (and rockabilly, and ska, and 2 tone), and poetry, and beer. He liked hop stupid, but I always thought it didn't have the body to match the hops and I always preferred Racer 5. Of course, this time of year we'd be shifting in to red and stout season, and I'd be excited for Lagunitas Russian Imperial and this year's Bourbon County Stout batch.
He was really big in to Star Wars. He missed all of Andor, which is probably the best thing to have come out since the original 3. But I guess he also missed the new trilogy, so maybe it balances out.
He would have really liked all the good music I've run across in the last few years. He had a music blog for a bit.
Yeah... I don't know why it's hitting me so hard now, other than maybe I never had time to really process it before.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza❤️🖤 Rudolf Rocker had it right: from the ground up. 🖤❤️
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIf you support, stand with, and unapologetically defend the Palestinian struggle for liberation, justice, and self-determination, if you believe in freedom from occupation and solidarity with all resisting oppression, then I recommend reading "Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle" by Uri Gordon and Ohal Grietzer. Available on The Anarchist Library, as well from AK Press.
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@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Chumbawamba:
🎵 Give the Anarchist a Cigarette
#Chumbawamba
https://open.spotify.com/track/7Jf3Tm9dTOE23tvY7L5b36
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI’ve moved my “Entry to Left Wing Anarchist Reading” to my personal website.
It’s styled to look a lot like Google Docs, that was intentional, regardless, it’s hosted in a more private, self-controlled space.
⭐ Read more here: https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/resources.html ⭐<…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaEverything You Ever Wanted to Know, But Were Too Afraid To Ask
https://classautonomy.info/anarcho-syndicalism-everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI purposely made my “Entry to Left‑Wing Anarchist Reading” page look almost exactly like a Google Doc, just so the normies wouldn’t freak out and bounce the second they open it.
https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/resources.html
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaHi, #Anarchism! 🚩🏴
I want to grow my RSS feed and get more variety in what I read. What sources do you all check out regularly? That could be news outlets, journalists, organizations, unions, blogs, or individual creators.
Please share your favorite anarchist, socialist, or syndicalist-leaning websites in the comments. I’d really like to see what everyone else is reading and may…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaBuddhist Anarchism: Theory and Practice | The Anarchist Library
#Buddhism
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI’ve lost a lot of respect for Andrewism after his recent upload. It feels disconnected from the reality of working-class life and from anarcho-syndicalism as it actually exists.
This response is a worthwhile read. It doesn’t romanticize work or the working class, but it doesn’t drift into abstract alternatives either. It sits with the fact that we don’t want to be working class, but we are, and that contradiction isn’t something you escape with theory.
I strongly relate to what’…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaAnarcho-syndicalist. non-binary person. they/them, also bisexual.
I took down one of my Moomin posters and hung up my two favorite flags in my living room instead. It feels good making my own place look like me.
I know my mom doesn’t like it, but this is my apartment and I’m not going to hide who I am just to make someone else comfortable.
:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
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@ose_rouge@don.linxx.net»This is not an isolated case. By silencing these voices, the Anarchist Bookfair Berlin aligns itself with a wider Western leftist tendency to treat Eastern European comrades with paternalism and suspicion.« @… #ACABB
https://chaos.social/@justanotherguy/115525588852263864
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaExcellent analysis and well-argued analysis of the current rupture in Spanish anarcho-syndicalism. Definitely worth your attention:
https://anarchistunionjournal.org/2023/12/07/a-new-rupture-in-spanish-anarcho-syndicalism/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIf you’re curious about anarchism, I highly recommend starting with "Anarchism and Its Aspirations" by Cindy Milstein.
You can read it for free at the Anarchist @…: https:…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaAh yes, the three comrades, affectionate today, ideological enemies tomorrow!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI’m will get sister’s Kindle too, they don’t use theirs, and it’s a newer model with a better e-ink display than mine. I read a lot of anarchist theory on my jailbroken Kindle.
Technically, a jailbroken Kindle can even run Linux, but for me, it is more just so I can free it from Amazon’s walled garden than anything else.
#Kindle
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaRE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115827039406863229
After editing this post and going through heaps of theory, anarchist texts, and NSF-IAA and IWA-AIT magazines, I noticed it ended up being exactly 2,048 characters. I wanted to keep editing …
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza @midtsveen@social.linux.pizza❤️🖤 Relatable! 🖤❤️
#Anarchism #Humor #AnarchoSyndicalism #Spain
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