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queeranarchism:queeranarchism:solarpunkwobbly:solarpunkwobbly:queeranarchism:solarpunkwobbly:thetreasonofimages:solarpunkwobbly:solarpunkwobbly:barbarianarchy:anarcho-dykeism:travest1:The way some anarchists position drug-dealers alongside rapists and domestic abusers is more of a testament to their views on drug use being weirdly similar to that of fascists and reactionaries than an indictment of the people who sell them. “Anti-social bastards” is a very interesting attempt to not say “criminals” which would’ve made this link clearer, but okay, keep consuming anti-drug propaganda.the writer of the screencapped post sounds like a fucking cop themselves. anarcho-policeism. put a thin blue line on a black flagpeople should stop getting their ideas about sex work, drug dealing, drug use, houselessness, etc., from movies and tv shows for like. 15 seconds. and go outside and/or just sit with their hands folded nicely and think about these things before putting this stuff into a post and slamming “send”This is an article from a CLASS WAR newspaper from the 80s I shared on tumblr whose organisation were literal members of the working class and are talking about their lived experiences with the kinds of smack dealers you (still) get dealing from sports cars to people on the council estates their houses are miles outside of. This isn’t a shit from TV and propaganda, this is shit you can see here in Dundee just hanging around an estate. I’ve nothing against most small time dealers funding their addiction or pot dealers or any drug users, in case that wasn’t obvious, but that’s not what this out-of-context screenshot was about.@destroyerofprivateschools can likely testify that it’s the same down southI also don’t uncritically support what every class action organisation from the 80s had to say but that doesn’t mean I don’t think sharing a lot of it is usefulYou wanna tell the anarchists in exarchia to leave the Mafia alone huh?I really don’t think anarchists have ever been pro mafia or cartel.I think people are coming from perspectives in the US where lots of poor people are heavily punished for using/pushing drugs.maybe don’t jump on half a paragraph from a 1980s UK anarchist newspaper then?Idk who needs to hear it but there is a world outside America and your experiences and tactics are not universalIt is valuable to view sources in context and not put a us-centric twist on everything. But the way this conversation spiraled down into generalizations and accusations like ‘so you think anarchists should leave the mafia alone?’ isn’t very useful either.Viewed in historical context, that line from the original source still sounds like the person who wrote it had a lot to learn about transformative justice, no matter how working class their perspective was. Maybe ‘smack-dealers’ references a specific harmful phenomenon and the author has a more nuanced view on drug dealers in general. Maybe they have never formed a broader view on drugs because they only have this experience and they still have stuff to learn. But then there’s also the term ‘anti-social bastards’. That has a long UK & Europe based history as a blanket statement for ‘groups we don’t like, who we will re-imagine as inherently unchanging so we do not have to think about why they exist’ and the use of it should raise some eyebrows, in its historical and regional context.I’d love to see how this article continues if you still have the url somewhere, because it is possible that this author later in the same article shows a more nuanced perspective than this. Or not. Part of envisioning a future without cops means dealing with the fact that not all people, and not even all anarchists, are immediately going to break out of seeing ‘criminals’ as a problem. It’s an article by a group who have been constantly labeled as anti-social themselves, who were trying to start a discussion in the 80s around how people could be persuaded that creating cop-free zones around council estates wouldn’t leave them at personal risk. In such a discussion it’s absolutely fucking necessary to talk about the kind of bourgeois drug dealers who rip the community apart for profit. Class War have never been nuanced in their use of language, but you can take a screenshot of half a paragraph from any article and take it out of context. I don’t think anybody commenting in defence of hard drug dealers has any kind of an idea just how much these bastards are leeches on the working class. Around here they’ll pick an addict whose debt has gotten high enough, break in their door and turn them and their house into a selling sweat shop. Again, it could have been phrased more eloquently, but it’s also an article from the fucking 80s before I was born and I don’t really appreciate someone taking a screenshot of a tiny section of it, blowing one aspect out of context and then attributing me as the writer.@queeranarchism https://libcom.org/library/heavy-stuff-2-class-war this is the full magazineThe heavy stuff #2 - Class WarAnd yes, I think most of the working class in any old industrial city in the UK can attest that “smack dealers” are a specific harmful phenomenonThe article also isn’t fucking calling on anyone to be arrested or punished, it’s entirely about how people and communities could keep themselves physically safe without cops.Thanks for the link. I understand that you’re rightly angry about how the quote got taken out of context and people said highly exaggerated things about it as a result, so I hesitate to respond at all. I read the article “What do we do when the cops fuck off?” and it is clearly coming from the heart of an ongoing struggle, talking about bad things happening on the ground in areas where workers are successful in kicking out the cops. Their call for a real alternative to policing is direct and earnest. But it’s also clear that they don’t have any of the answers. There’s a lot of phrases like:“There’s got to be a better answer than calling the cops or letting it happen. And we need to find it [before people call for the return of cops].”And that’s it. No suggestions of what that better answer is. Again and again. This person sees a problem but they’re grasping in the dark for an answer. So without claiming to be ‘better’ than someone writing from the heart of their own fight (but also without putting someone on a pedestal as some heroic ancestor who can’t be viewed critically), I still have to conclude that it was written by someone who obviously means well, but sounds like they have a lot to learn about transformative justice.If there weren’t 40 years of history separating us, I’d wanna reach out to them and offer to help find those answers. So it’s not very surprising that the writer repeatedly used both ‘ anti-social’ and ‘criminal’ as synonyms for ‘bad’, while being branded with both words themselves. Put another way: when someone talks about the need to organize safety without the police, but they do not offer any solutions and their only examples are harmful actors to whom violent community defense would be the most obvious immediate response (like rapists) + vague categories like ‘anti-social bastards’, that’s gonna send some bad vibes. If all your examples are nails, it can seem like you’re about to invent a hammer, instead of a toolkit for transformative justice that includes a hammer but acknowledges the need for a lot of other tools. -- source link
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