Wait, Margaret Killjoy has a substack?!? Her A Country of Ghosts was a really interesting story about what a post-revolutionary anarchist society looks like. Reminded me of The Dispossessed.
We should get her on Nostr.
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yea we should
i am not familiar with her but i did appreciate most of what she wrote and the framing of small c vs big c communist. you can tell she is from white and from the u.s. though, with her dismissal of places that like Cuba and hyper focus on equating authoritarianism and communism. i am not really down with that angle.
like this part screams "i am white and from the u.s." Cuba is right there...
"But this first hypothesis, that seizing the state will eventually allow the state to wither? The entire 20th century is the history of that experiment being run, again and again. The results of course are different in each instance, but at no point did the state wither away. Power, it turns out, is a hell of a drug."