@mattseybold.bsky.social would have solid recs from world-class hater Mark Twain

As always, the Leninists and socdems are really limiting our vision…

Bring back ultraleft maximalism! (lol)

Back to a world where many worlds fit!

Omnia sunt communia!! Everything for everyone!!

For sure! If I thought you were just talking out of your ass I would have just not engaged lol. I appreciate the work you do!

It may be that I’ve been reading Gelderloos long enough that his sectarian hobbyhorses and rhetorical excesses no longer bother me in the ways they used to. I found a lot to like in those two recent Pluto Press books, and I agree that all of these publications still require critique.

Oof, yeah, that piece is bad and your analyses are on point!

Thanks for thoughtful engagement and text.

I find that piece really frustrating, too, and many of its tendentious glosses are indeed misleading at best.

I’m not sure I’d say the limitations of this particular essay are reflective of his work in general. Still embarrassingly bad.

CrimethInc publishes some weird shit that I sometimes find repugnant, but they also publish good stuff by strong comrades, and they don’t have a centralized or consistent editorial line. It is absolutely worth calling out when they cape for fascists, but the broad brush is unwarranted.

That’s definitely not true of Gelderloos, whose recent “The Solutions Are Already Here” is deeply critical of all settler legacies and colonial practices. This is the full preface.

“They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us” also persistently centers decolonial analysis.

While I sometimes disagree with Gelderloos and often with CrimethInc, I don’t think this is a fair characterization, certainly not in this sweeping, generalized articulation.