Manofthedown
@manofthedown.bsky.social
Post-Capitalist Proponent, Musician, and Reader. Producer and Instrumentalist with @endmass.band
Violence and destruction is the language of capital. It’s the only language it understands. Personal property damage is not violence, and should be avoided. Private property damage - I.e. burning down a Walmart, or a Wells Fargo, or a police station, is an acceptable form of violent demonstration.
January 12, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Violence and destruction is the language of capital. It’s the only language it understands. Personal property damage is not violence, and should be avoided. Private property damage - I.e. burning down a Walmart, or a Wells Fargo, or a police station, is an acceptable form of violent demonstration.
Organizing. Reading Theory. Mutual Aid. Direct Action. Agitating. Educating. What are you doing?
January 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Organizing. Reading Theory. Mutual Aid. Direct Action. Agitating. Educating. What are you doing?
And Jeff Teidrich is a tired personality who thinks we can meme and insult Trump our way to liberation in the age of dead internet. Internet solidarity isn’t real, and your liberal fantasies vanished decades ago. The Soviets defeated Nazis through brutal violent ends, how is this different?
January 11, 2026 at 7:51 PM
And Jeff Teidrich is a tired personality who thinks we can meme and insult Trump our way to liberation in the age of dead internet. Internet solidarity isn’t real, and your liberal fantasies vanished decades ago. The Soviets defeated Nazis through brutal violent ends, how is this different?
And frankly Ghandi isn’t some saint. He was a useful tool for the British empire. And I frankly hate how liberals use him as some symbolic endpoint of resistance, not as a moment in a longer struggle—one that the oppressed of India are still fighting today against their own state and elites.
January 11, 2026 at 7:49 PM
And frankly Ghandi isn’t some saint. He was a useful tool for the British empire. And I frankly hate how liberals use him as some symbolic endpoint of resistance, not as a moment in a longer struggle—one that the oppressed of India are still fighting today against their own state and elites.
To revere the early, "safe" King and ignore the radical, despairing King who was planning the multiracial Poor People's Campaign when he was murdered is a disservice to his memory and his analysis.
January 11, 2026 at 7:45 PM
To revere the early, "safe" King and ignore the radical, despairing King who was planning the multiracial Poor People's Campaign when he was murdered is a disservice to his memory and his analysis.
He did not condemn the violence of the oppressed in the abstract while his own government dropped napalm on villages. He recognized it as the predictable, explosive symptom of a system that had made peaceful change impossible through its own intransigence and brutality.
January 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
He did not condemn the violence of the oppressed in the abstract while his own government dropped napalm on villages. He recognized it as the predictable, explosive symptom of a system that had made peaceful change impossible through its own intransigence and brutality.
On MLK… Your mainstream icon is a pacified fiction. The real Martin Luther King Jr., by 1967-68, called the U.S. government "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." He understood the riots of the urban North as the "language of the unheard."
January 11, 2026 at 7:44 PM
On MLK… Your mainstream icon is a pacified fiction. The real Martin Luther King Jr., by 1967-68, called the U.S. government "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." He understood the riots of the urban North as the "language of the unheard."
“This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible”
Book by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Book by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
January 11, 2026 at 6:21 PM
“This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible”
Book by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Book by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
“This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible”
Book by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Book by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
January 11, 2026 at 6:21 PM
“This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible”
Book by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Book by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
I doubt the fed will do a single thing but double down on ICE story - she’ll never find justice.
January 7, 2026 at 9:16 PM
I doubt the fed will do a single thing but double down on ICE story - she’ll never find justice.