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Rulership will always do what it is in its nature to - It will keep people needy and their security precarious, to keep them dependent on the systems (banks & corporations) of the rulership It will offer the illusion of consent (via laws & courts) to pacify anyone who might otherwise challenge the rulership It will let the ruled compete (in elections) over who governs, so they’ll forget that all politicians serve the rulership It will grant privilege to a favoured group (race, class, gender, religion), to ensure they support and sustain the rulership It will call its own existence natural, inevitable, or divinely ordained (nationalism) - whichever story best protects the rulership It will slow, dilute or redirect any change (bureaucracy) that threatens the legitimacy of the rulership It will absorb any dissent that could threaten it (co-optation), and reward the dissenters who instead prop up the rulership It will frame its own removal as chaos (statism), and its continuation as the only safety offered by the rulership It will create outside and internal 'enemies' demonise and distract, so you never notice how you're oppressed by the rulership It will punish disobedience even where it harms no one, so long as the disobedience undermines the rulership It will teach the ruled to police each other (patriotism), so it doesn't have to do all the policing itself It will produce propaganda (news, fiction, schooling) to convince you that questioning it is naive, dangerous, or pointless, so you never consider any other way of living is possible than under the rulership It will hold out the hope that all the suffering and lack of freedoms now will one day lead to a better world, or it will just try get you to accept this is as good as it gets https://peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com/p/the-better-master-fallacy

There Is Such Thing As A Free Lunch - Why A Free World Requires Free Food ‘What the phrase conceals is the actual history of how people have fed themselves for most of human existence – not through markets, but through commons: through collectively shared resources.’ https://peacefulrevolutionary.substack.com/p/there-is-such-a-thing-as-a-free-lunch #commons #anarchism #anticapitalism

@RD4Anarchy@kolektiva.social Thanks for that - I'll share it around!

@RD4Anarchy@kolektiva.social I'd love to see this turned into a blog post or zine - a lot of the info would be useful on https://anarwiki.org too

@RD4Anarchy@kolektiva.social I know what thats like - I'm having to scale down my blog and other writing to try and fit some life in-between and do more in person praxis.