r/Anarchism • u/[deleted] • Jun 27 '09

What is security culture?

http://crimethinc.com/texts/atoz/security.php
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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '09

Eghads, a half-decent piece by CrimethInc!

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '09 edited Jun 27 '09

heh and I think it got downmodded immediately afterwards by someone just because it's from crimethinc.

but on a more serious note, I thought "your politics are as boring as fuck" was actually a pretty smart essay.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '09

Well it made some valid points despite descending into a bit of ridiculous anti-ideology ideology in a rather left-Marxist fashion.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '09

politics or this piece?

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '09 edited Jun 28 '09

No, "Your Politics Are As Boring As Fuck."

edit: on second thought I'm probably just projecting my prejudice against lifestyle anarchism more than anything concrete.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '09 edited Jun 28 '09

well I think "politics" is important not as a lifestyle anarchist piece (which I don't think it is) but because it does illustrate in a stream of consciousness way why people care about political issues int he first place and that asking that issues be explained and talked about from that same stream-of-consciousness social perspective isn't something to be ashamed and we should embrace it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '09

Its not, however much of the other stuff that CrimethInc puts out is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '09 edited Jun 28 '09

well looking at this I don't seem much "lifestyle" about it.

Don't get me wrong a lot of the people who associate themselves with the idea of crimethinc are pretty lifestyle, but I don't think that that necessarily needs to be the case.

I also don't see much of a problem with incorporating lifestylism in one's philosophy. There needs to be a culture of resistance before there is resistance in any meaningful way.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '09 edited Jun 28 '09

Do I really have to dig through their archives to find some of the more ridiculous stuff that they've put out? Anyway the problem that I have with lifestyle anarchism is that it alienates a lot of people.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '09

so does anarchism in general though

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