#antinationalism — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: CW: nationalism, German history, war, fascism
Germany: this peculiar Frankenstein’s monster of a nation, stitched together from kingdoms, duchies, free cities, dialects, cultures, grudges and several centuries of mutually assured irritation.
Sometimes I wonder whether history might have been kinder if someone had simply left the pieces alone.
A handful of smaller countries. More local identities. Fewer grand national fantasies. Entities the size of the Netherlands, Belgium, or perhaps at times Luxembourg.
Perhaps Europe, and quite possibly the world, might have been better for it.
But no.
Somebody decided that all these differences needed to be hammered into one people, one nation, one destiny.
And once you teach people to worship the container, sooner or later they start asking which humans belong inside it.
Germany did not invent nationalism.
But it demonstrated, with horrifying thoroughness, what happens when a collection of places is turned into a political myth, and that myth is given an army.
#Nationalism #Antinationalism #Germany #Fascism #Antifascism #NeverAgain
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CW: CW: nationalism, German history, war, fascism
Germany: this peculiar Frankenstein’s monster of a nation, stitched together from kingdoms, duchies, free cities, dialects, cultures, grudges and several centuries of mutually assured irritation.
Sometimes I wonder whether history might have been kinder if someone had simply left the pieces alone.
A handful of smaller countries. More local identities. Fewer grand national fantasies. Entities the size of the Netherlands, Belgium, or perhaps at times Luxembourg.
Perhaps Europe, and quite possibly the world, might have been better for it.
But no.
Somebody decided that all these differences needed to be hammered into one people, one nation, one destiny.
And once you teach people to worship the container, sooner or later they start asking which humans belong inside it.
Germany did not invent nationalism.
But it demonstrated, with horrifying thoroughness, what happens when a collection of places is turned into a political myth, and that myth is given an army.
#Nationalism #Antinationalism #Germany #Fascism #Antifascism #NeverAgain
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CW: CW: nationalism, German history, war, fascism
Germany: this peculiar Frankenstein’s monster of a nation, stitched together from kingdoms, duchies, free cities, dialects, cultures, grudges and several centuries of mutually assured irritation.
Sometimes I wonder whether history might have been kinder if someone had simply left the pieces alone.
A handful of smaller countries. More local identities. Fewer grand national fantasies. Entities the size of the Netherlands, Belgium, or perhaps at times Luxembourg.
Perhaps Europe, and quite possibly the world, might have been better for it.
But no.
Somebody decided that all these differences needed to be hammered into one people, one nation, one destiny.
And once you teach people to worship the container, sooner or later they start asking which humans belong inside it.
Germany did not invent nationalism.
But it demonstrated, with horrifying thoroughness, what happens when a collection of places is turned into a political myth, and that myth is given an army.
#Nationalism #Antinationalism #Germany #Fascism #Antifascism #NeverAgain
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CW: CW: nationalism, German history, war, fascism
Germany: this peculiar Frankenstein’s monster of a nation, stitched together from kingdoms, duchies, free cities, dialects, cultures, grudges and several centuries of mutually assured irritation.
Sometimes I wonder whether history might have been kinder if someone had simply left the pieces alone.
A handful of smaller countries. More local identities. Fewer grand national fantasies. Entities the size of the Netherlands, Belgium, or perhaps at times Luxembourg.
Perhaps Europe, and quite possibly the world, might have been better for it.
But no.
Somebody decided that all these differences needed to be hammered into one people, one nation, one destiny.
And once you teach people to worship the container, sooner or later they start asking which humans belong inside it.
Germany did not invent nationalism.
But it demonstrated, with horrifying thoroughness, what happens when a collection of places is turned into a political myth, and that myth is given an army.
#Nationalism #Antinationalism #Germany #Fascism #Antifascism #NeverAgain
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:black_sparkling_heart: #Introduction #Intro
TL:DR: I'm mostly posting this intro to connect with other Black and BIPOC Anarchists or Anti-authoritarians. Hit me up! :Fire_Panafrican:
Hey, everyone
My partner and I are currently working on a docuseries, @Elememts_of_MA, about the origins, structures, healing ways, and logistics of mutual aid-based organizing. The project isn't exclusively profiling anarchist groups, but it is deeply anti-authoritarian - we're especially staying away from charismatic leaders and celeb "activist" types.
The whole thing is independent - no producers; everything is out of pocket. We've been living out of a van we converted so we could make this happen; which has been amazing. We've been on the road since May Day this year, and have already filmed some solid interviews as far north as Montreal and as far south as Puerto Rico.
However, I'm personally struggling to find Black organizations or collectives that aren't MLM, AADOS, authoritarian, Black Capitalist, nonprofit style groups. Reading and theory groups or media collectives are rad, but I'm really looking for groups that're doing interesting work on the ground (*not food distro*) from an anti-state-nationalist analysis.
Lorenzo and JoNina Irvin will appear in the film, among other radical Black people like Jessica Gordon Nembhard, The Northeast Action Collective in Houston, and Arm the Girls in Oakland. So, I'm not at a complete loss.
But, please send me all the rad groups of Black people you know that are creating long-term, democratic, mutual aid projects in their communities. They do not need to identify as anarchist, but they *cannot* be down with the nation state and have to be doing more than food distro.
Thanks a ton, y'all.
Beyond all that, I'm also really interested in connecting with people to write Star Wars analysis and fan-fiction. I think the galaxy far, far away is an interesting canvas to explore the tensions of autonomous world building vs authoritarian revolutionary movements. If I lived in that universe, I'd no doubt be getting into arguments with the Rebel Alliance.
Thanks for reading this long-winded post.
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