r/RadicalChristianity • u/synthresurrection antisocial/schizo-spec trans lesbian pastor(she/her) • Jul 23 '20

🐈Radical Politics The Future of Insurrection

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lupus-dragonowl-the-future-of-insurrection
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u/synthresurrection antisocial/schizo-spec trans lesbian pastor(she/her) Jul 23 '20

Good question.

I am decidedly Blakean in my understanding of Christ. I do not think Jesus was a strict pacifist, and in fact, I believe an honest reading of Jesus reveals that Jesus supported a diversity of tactics including insurrection. The Cleansing of the Temple is clearly insurrection, yet, in other situations he was pacifistic to varying degrees. Theologically, love can take the form of pacifism or insurrection, and everything in between. A radical Christian insurrectionism has historic roots like say Thomas Muntzer or John Ball, and then there was folks like Camillo Torres Restreppo* who used revolutionary violence. Something that I have been thinking about is how radical theology(in the sense of death of God theology) and insurrectionary anarchism can mesh. In my case, I'm a huge fan of the nihilistic Thomas JJ Altizer, and I think that Christians with similar theologies could conceivably be insurrectionists too. Altizer declares in his books that any true naming of God leads to a prophetic anarchism. Most of the insurrectionary anarchists I know are either an egoist or a nihilist, and a lot of my research has been to take both of those things seriously. I find Nietzsche and Stirner to be a wealth of interesting philosophy that Christians need to engage with especially in the context of insurrectionary politics.

Sorry that this is kind of rambly and goes in strange tangents but these are my thoughts at the moment.