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feel that the extent of the glorification and martyrdom of Ted Kaczynski by left-anarchists, despite his glaring flaws and outright hostilites to the left as a whole, is primarily due to the deep yearning for action that has been absent since the 20th century. In truth, there is almost no Anarchist militant for the past 160 years that is less deserving of the current utter praise afforded to Kaczynski, who uses most of his now iconic manifesto to ruthlessly deride a twisted liberalized strawman of leftism, barely crawling out of his absurdly reactionary tirade to off-handedly proclaim himself an Anarchist in just 2 paragraphs.
With all the flaws of Kaczynski, I cannot bring myself to cast his figure out of left-anarchist martyrdom and distance him from the left-anarchist movement as a whole, nor can many others. Put simply, there is no alternative, there is no example of revolutionary violence or direct action by someone not long dead or utterly obscure, someone to look toward in awe in that most popular, most potent, most irresistible form of propaganda. In truth I, despite the dissonance of the statement when put against my devout leftism, respect Kaczynski, not for the minutiae of his political program but for the simple fact that he was an Anarchist, and he was violent.
The left is weak, but craves to be strong, and through the cooling ashes of Marxism a fire is growing which will ignite docility to action.
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> deep yearning for action that has been absent since the 20th century.Kaczynski sending hate mail to largely random people counts as "action" but all the actual sabotage done by groups like the ELF and ALF is forgotten… I guess the appeal is that you can get into the news without leaving your room or talking to anyone, or maybe the posties like him because postie is slang for postal workers. But yeah, there's tons of action if you are willing to look behind the models the spectacular order presents to you.
>>4339His popularization among anarchists is usually blamed on CrimeThinc.:
https://crimethinc.com/1997/09/11/the-unabomber No.4344
>>4343>all the actual sabotage done by groups like the ELF and ALF is forgottenThe actions of ELF/ALF, despite being unequivocally based, are entirely non-violent when compared to Kaczynski's 26 casualties.
How Anarchist are these groups btw? Is it just kind of assumed?
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>>4343>>4344I get recommended tiktoks about anti-industrialism, plenty zoomers who like Ted also like the ELF. I haven't seen the same for the ALF, but that may be because veganism is cringe
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>>4342I met a group of extremly camping europeans camping during the summer. Ofc I wanted to talk politics with one guy but luckily I realized it wasn't the time. Walking back to the tents after a drinking he took me aside
>zer is someone you should look into named Kaczynski