PLASTIC IN UTERO no.4

"Issue #4 centers on the topics of strategy and tactics, generally. Maybe these debates have been beaten to death, but I think there’s a constant relevance and tension that needs exploration. The conversations are happening anyways. Unfortunately, these conversations are usually boring, basic, and a simple repetition of old ideas.

See CrimethInc’s recent piece, “The Case For Resistance”:

“But we don’t know how the first Trump era would have gone if not for the ways that millions of people engaged in various forms of resistance. Difficult as it was, it could have been much worse. We didn’t topple capitalism or abolish the police, but we kept fascists from taking over the streets, and we prevented Trump and his supporters from accomplishing a great deal of their agenda. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to conceal our collective power [...] If we play our cards right, we should be able to force Democrat-controlled local and state governments and agencies to refuse to cooperate with at least some of Trump’s programs”

Is this the sort of liberal-activist mentality we want? Thinking that anything less than the total end of this homogenizing, flattening, planetary death/work machine is a win? That Trump is a uniquely evil and dangerous president, so much so we ought to be a pressure group upon the Democrats? Give me a fucking break!

Issue #4 has contributions concerning the nature of victory and how anarchists must differ our conception of success from those of authoritarians, contemporary writings on colonization, an anarchist view on self-discipline, and more.”