Status Updates From Black Anarchism: A Reader

II. Reconstruction and the Black vote.

The need for Black Liberation

"The Principles of Anarchism" by Lucy Parsons: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"Set up drug rehabilitation clinics so that junkies can be treated, can study the nature of their oppression, and can be won over to revolutionary politics. We must win people away from drug use and to the revolution."

that sounds lowkey predatory ngl

i just don't think i really understand this. like,,, at one point we're talking about fighting capitalists with guns if necessary and then we're criticizing the Bolshevik executing their ideological enemies.. i don't see why these two aren't the same? Why is the anarchist approach different and morally superior, it doesn't make sense to me

describing criminals as "mentally defected" is a big yikes

"The grandest works of the past were never performed for the sake of money. Who can measure the worth of a Shakespeare, an Angelo or Beethoven in dollars and cents?"

Me with my best Monique Heart impression: That is false, America.