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'Man', Ego: The things you want, desire, yearn for etc, Egoist…

- - - - Social Ecology: method by which we achieve what I call ecological harmony, or what Bookchin calls Third Nature
        
        Dialectical Naturalism: a process of understanding and interpreting the ways that things develop & self-organize into more particular versions of themselves -- a method to understand the relatedness of different elements within and of systems of nature
        
        A need exists to explore "parts" and "wholes", and understand that parts can make up wholes, and wholes can make up parts. What we "prioritize" should always be relational and specific, where the ways that situation demand certain behaviors or modes of being, that can be roughly defined as more or less reductionist, or more or less systemic, need to be kept in mind as we try to understand the things that are happening around us.
        
        working towards "development", seen as the evolutionary, dialectical march towards particularity/specificity
        
        Pan-African Social Ecology
        
        Insurrection and revolt by Black Folks have led to more organization forming -- there is no "order" necessarily (both/and as opposed to either/or)
        
        policies the government moves with are reflective on the social moment that proceed them.
        
        main counterrevolutionary elements tend to be the state and capital, both of which are founded on colonialist, white supremacist, and hierarchical modes of relating
        
        mutualism between "organization" and "spontaneity"
        
        revolts, riots, rebellions, uprisings start spontaneously (who knows when they will happen?). In the interstitial spaces, what does it mean to build structures so that they can be used to maximize the gains from these moments, and protest against the subsequent crackdown?
        
        What does it look like to organize hedonistically and organically?
        
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- - - - Black Insurrectionism orients around building (networks of care, dual power) along with fighting (Armed Joy) -- realization of the necessity to survive pending revolution
        
        Community control of the poor community, based on my proposals from an ecology of liberatory movements (which are based on Ervin's Zine) -- A militant orientation to community control
        
        conversion of all businesses -- through seizure and cooperatization
        
        Food sovereignty programs
        
        Cooperative housing and community "urban planning"/anarchitecture
        
        Social jobs progam
        
        free anarchic schooling models for all ages
        
        reparations and landback (forcing rather than asking, word to being Ungovernable and practicing Black Armed Joy)
        
        PIC abolition
        
        Establish (con)federations of blocks and neighborhoods (councils, AGs, assemblies, summits) --- described in on organizational forms
        
        Dialectical/Multilectical Asset Based Community Development: Combing the approach of ABCD, where communities build from a foundation of the skills and resources that they already have, with an "issue based approach", where we try to stretch what we need to get what we want, working towards maximal self-sufficiency
        
        The importance of Cooperation | The case against competition
        
        competitions tend to be arbitrary or abstractly reified from small examples of real scarity
        
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        Transphobia is a Respectability Politic
        
        to protect 'the Black community', we have to center Black trans liberation (centering the most marginal leads to us creating a program that can encompass less marginal folks)
        centering the most marginalized, rather than existing as a cute phrase or a nicety, is a prerequisite for reaching any liberatory change. The more that we can apprehend the "inner lives" of those folks, and the material and ideological contexts that facilitate that "life", then we can create more robust and holistic programs towards a liberatory future of autonomous communism.
        
        struggling in overt, covert, and clandestine ways to get the resources for autonomy, from intra-communal and state violence
        
        needing revolutionary propositions, along with the oppositions -- much more salient of a necessity when we center the most marginalized and apprehend their needs
        
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        Gender is marronage
        
        "Dr" Cartwright telling slave overseers to not be too mean or too nice... too nice = slaves run away from realizing their humanity, too mean = anger will lead to running away
        
        perpetual in the modern day through PIC, inadequate materials to meet needs, contingent on conforming to a Man that you can NEVER be
        
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        "Gender is, in the Black world, a territory of cultural (or spiritual) and political maneuvers (as Saidiya Hartman once said)—and we must fashion those in a revolutionary direction... . But there is a personhood and being who makes those maneuvers we must discover and honor. A vulnerable soul who flies not because she is reducible to spirit or resistance but because she is a complex human responding to the conditions forced onto her. Honoring that humanity is essential to balance"
        
        Femme Queen, Warrior Queen
        
        Transmisogynoir is not just a specific kind of discursive project (a way of framing Black trans women and transfeminine people). Transmisogynoir is a specific set of material struggles under capitalism and colonialism, that position Black trans women and transfemmes at the crossroads of multiple forms of domination: national oppression, gender exploitation, ableist suppression, and class war. It's for this reason that transmisogynoir is used to delegitimate Black liberation as a whole.
        
        material as in "reality", juxtaposed against ideal (or the world in one's mind)
        
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        All around, a toxic organizing culture ensues: now, trans folk who are not nonbinary will punch down at nonbinary folk by projecting their issues with greedy, bourgeois, transphobic cis people onto the whole nonbinary community. Then, nonbinary people who are not also trans women, in turn, instead of seeing the broader context of tokenization and voyeurism happening, will punch down at the gorls because they don't feel 'represented' in a discursive arena built around supposedly 'centering' those who are dying.
        In the end, this is divisiveness that harms the whole community, but because, as Malcolm X said, "the most disrespected is the Black woman," the divisiveness ends up falling at the feet of Black trans women and transfemmes as if we are to blame, as if we are at fault, and as if the risks of violence facing the gorls is something to be clambered for.
        
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        Wildcat: Live in an Ungoverned manner, embodying rebellion subversion, and waywardness/flight
        
        Egoism has to be psychological and material (as in materialist). Criticality of systems (seen as centralizing powers that subordinate the self) is paramount
        
        Destory, occupy, blaspheme everything. Revolting is freedom!
        
        Finding allies through action rather than rhetoric (when you are doin something, who tries to stop you or says it doesn't work? why? How do people concieve of change happening?)
        
        connecting to your actions and the choices you make through an "internal" process of judgement, "devouring" ideas that you encounter to make them your own, rather than being made by them
      - Can't trust foxes(democrats) or wolves (republicans)
        
        Fox: ostensibly for black people, but the material reality of the dispossessed doesn't change with dems in pwr/office [liberals]
        
        this comes from class antagonism--the interests of dispossessed black folks are antithetical to the interests of democrat leaders
        
        Wolves: more open about hatred for black people (and everyone else tbh) [conservatives]
- - - - Minor Patriarchy: Oppression on an interpersonal or horizontal level, principally perpetuated by those negatively afflicted by grand patriarchy
        
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- - - - We have to understand our postion to things that aren't us as relational rather than linear or fixed. We are working towards "devouring" the world around us, seeing it as it is, on egoistic terms of similarly deserving individuality, in a "grounded" way (avoiding sacred abstractions)
        
        Starting from the self versus ending at the self
        
        If we start at the self, we can grow into a community of "egoists" that value self-actualization, and balance the needs for individuals through community.
        
        When it comes to those people who get left out, they tend to be excluded when we aren't seeing self-actualization (the ego) as a foundation
        
        doing only what you "want", while expanding the understanding of what that looks like
        
        many cases of going along with things out of "obligation", which I see as an unsustainable mode of relating to others
        
        Thinking so deeply of yourself that "others" stop being "othered"
        
        if we end at the self, we can become close-minded, reinforcing modes of being and relating that restrict genuine self-actualization
        
        I argue that thinking from a place of people as "islands" or people as "cogs" are not useful and come from the same lack of understanding of the existence of a polycentric, multilayered reality (reality where many realities exist).
        
        The individual vs the collective
        
        individualism: neoliberal "me as a sole survivor/savior/chosen one" -> exemplary american libertarianism
        
        collectivism: valuing unity above the self; reinforicng tensions that lead to fractures and pain
        
        (dialectical) egoism: the world as my food. not to claim a hierarchy -- do I "command" what I eat? I thank the land for giving me life, understanding that my lens that apprehends the universe is my own, and that while the universe wouldn't be the same without me, I wouldn't be able to exist without the universe. I understand that I cannot be defined, for when I try and say "what" I "am", that becomes but a sketch or photograph of a particular moment. Sketches and photographs are useful, but they are derivative approximations phenomena and physicality.
        
        to connect with others, create unions of egoists. This is inspired by the idea of cadres and SAOs, but with an understanding that unity should come from the "expansive" egoism that we've been describing. The theoretical, tactical, and strategic unity should come from the "pleasure" of connecting more voluntarily with your ego/erotic, rather than things such as morals, obligations, commitments, etc. IF those come from you being an egoist, then it is fine. otherwise you are spooked.
        
        I'm looking to have my cake and eat it too. I want to have the benefits of community and culture, with none of the drawbacks. I propose this decolonial egoism as a way to crack the door towards that. we are working our way back up towards relating to each other in communal ways, through an understanding of the pratfalls of exaltation of any ideals, concepts, institutions, or structures. "reification" of abstractions tend to lead to a drowning out of Uniques, so we have to have an understanding of the difference between owning something and being owned by something. We can own religion, morals, etc, but we can't be owned by them. We can "do" good without "being" good.
        
        "essential" properties are very rare! we have to be able to be more bespoke and create room for that.
        
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        Systems as normative vs systems as descriptive
        
        Using tools can be egoistic in the stirnerian conception -- being a tool for the tool is "spooked"
        
        The Unique & Ownness [self-ownership & actualization]
        
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      - We might separate between "senses", "sprits", "essences", "sacred" and "higher essence/spooks", and "divinities"
        
        "order", "man", "fatherland"
        
        "fixed ideas" lead to "fools in a madhouse"
        
        law
        
        morality
        
        these higher ideals "possess us"
        
        Morals & religions function the same, "possessing us" to at best fulfill an "involuntary egoism" (what I might call individualism, false egoism/vulgar/ banal egoism, or fool's gold egoism)
        
        "will yet wear a religious snake skin again"
        
        piety for the supreme being of god is replaced with the morality of Man
        
        We should understand that this is meant to create a new, hypercritical heuristic for relating, rather than seeing it as a project of full negation
        
        Full negation leading to a "new being" when we should always be "becoming"
        
        The goal is to not throw away our "properties", but to make them our "property"
        
        we should build our own relationships to our "properties", obviously informed by the histories and realities of those "properties", but pointing towards the most radical and liberatory configurations of them that we can muster.
      - God as the ultimate Stirnerian Egoist
        
        We are all made into his food
    - - We believe that everyone does deserve this, and that everyone starts life with the "right" to embody it. And we also believe that everyone needs targeted methods, situated in their particular background and experiences (especially as it relates to dominant modes of thinking). We use an understanding of the interlocuters of oppression, that centers the marginalized (as in acts as an accomplice towards their self-determination and unique sense of being), with the understanding that if they can get free, we will all be able to be free.
        
        Antiblackness prevents access to human(ity), but, with our desire to live and be free, we desire to create our own meaning that takes into account not only what we are (how we are relegated in the current world) but what we could be (how we might change on the journey to liberation, as we make progress towards that end.
        
        People should, no matter what the configurations of society, be able to fight in any ways they deem fit for their self-determination.
  - - - self-interest/ego cannot exist in an isolated context. It is shaped by and shapes the world.
        
        Egoism must be relational. That's the only way that it can achieve its ends in a manner that allows everyone to fulfill their ego. Any other method reinforces hierarchical power relations, which only creates the ability to achieve the "fools gold" egoism of individualism (most saliently represnted by our current neoliberal order).
  - - - the world as "my food"--if we don't seriously care for the margins of the margins, and militantly fight alongside them as accomplices, we will only be able to achieve an "involuntary egoism" at best.
        
        objectification meaning the "opposite" of what is usually means here -- object as in ownership, ownership as in self-ownership -- this would mean that the world, the society is full of Unique beings that exhibit self-ownership, and collectively "own" the world.
        
        ownership as the opposite of Marx's alienation
        
        from no connection to deep connection/relatedness (what Stirner calls intercourse)
  - - - no "essential" properties -- constituted by conscious activity.
        
        Black people are put in this position naturally by the world. rather than running from it, we should see the power in it -- the ability to fight for ourselves, accessing a freedom that we are positioned to experience in a singular way.
- - - - We have to contend with the fact that Black people are denied a sense of self-- we are made into "spooks" by our very nature of being
        
        Stirner's destruction is useful, but we have to understand that this self-assertion must be owned by us, in a whole-hearted manner.
      - We are looking to create a world where subjectivity and particularity are celebrated, the "limit" being related to power, i.e. subjectivity being able to go so far as to what we can apprehend within our power egoistically (power-to & power-over)
        
        this is done in opposition to fixed ideas, abstractions, and universalisms. If we are to create universalisms, they should center on the most marginalized, taking inspiration from the curb-cut effect.