Plot twist: Bluntie’s an FBI agent whose job it is to keep workers disorganized
This is 100% the tactic used by feds. One way to spot a fed actually.
These people are chronically online and don’t have a single clue about what it means to meanfully organize. If I’m in my local action group and we’re fighting, for example, against the demolition of some affordable social housing project and in the middle of the meeting I whip out some drugs or something, I’ll get my ass kicked out of the group. Not because they are against drugs, but because you’re not getting anywhere if you see it as a quirky fun little party thing.
Organizing is a serious thing. You need to study theory, you need to read decisions made by your government, you need to get out and talk to people involved in your case, you need to find ways to tackle the problem, you need to organize large groups of people. If you don’t do these things then you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing.
Sure, we go to a bar and have some beers or something every now and then but that’s not why we’re in a group.
I sometimes lurk on twitter, and this was something people were legit getting upset over. Like yes, you should be able to clearly express your ideas, and also, if you’re high while out organizing, you don’t know what might happen and you won’t be ready.
I imagine it would be quite difficult to organize anything while drunk or high
I can organize a mean karaoke sesh during a night out but me singing Dua Lipa won’t get the proletariat moving I think
FBI: “Aaaaand that’s precisely the point”
Is it so hard to not want to get high and have sex with everyone in your organizing circle? It’s literally the one place where it would count the most.
I would start questioning myself as a human being if my entire idea of “fun” consisted of sex, drugs and booze. Are those people living in some kind of idealist haze hangover from 1968?
Also obligatory reminder that 1968 in many countries was very reactionary.
“Let’s do opium and fuck. That will show the British imperialists.” - anarchists in 19th century if they were in China.
Good thing anarchists only exist in the West
maybe it’s not a coincidence
Bluntly out here passing out that J Edgar Hoover Pack
Maoist be like : understanding mechanisms of substance abuse and sexual violence
Anarchists : i wan hav teh zex n teh wyzzy fuzzy weedy 🤤🤤 no one tell me no tahts autohritriarian 😡
For understanding more about drug promotion in organizing (the person “going around giving out free ______ at actions”) I found this video/podcast pretty informative:
“How the CIA Promoted LSD & Hippies”
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZZhKApqvw
Exposing the secret history of the CIA’s involvement in promoting LSD and the hippie movement. During today’s episode, we discuss how the U.S. government has appropriated drugs as weapons against progressive, left-wing, and anti-imperialist movements. We talk about the roots and purpose of Project MKUltra, an illegal human experimentation program carried out by the CIA. We also discuss how key moments in hippie history, like Woodstock and the Summer of Love, were carefully coordinated by U.S. intelligence. Today’s guest is John Potash, the author of “Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac and other Activists.” John is also the author of “The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s.” […] He has worked counseling people with mental health problems and addictions for over 25 years.
A friend of mine credits their leftist journey in part to LSD, which is pretty ironic, lol. They’re not out promoting it or anything just came up in conversation once. Not sure the legitimacy, if they’re just attributing it to the wrong thing or whatever but I find it amusing regardless.
Individual people will have their own experiences with drugs, and that’s fine. Cases of drugs being a good experience for some person will always be found, along with cases of drug use being a mixed experience, or a destructive and regrettable one for someone else. Its effect on one individual person is not necessarily going to be the same as its cumulative effect on a whole group of people (especially in cases where it is being purposely used as a tactic against organizers). Blanket acceptance or blanket banning of drug use without studying its many forms, facets and effects would be a failure to study the issue scientifically.
In any case I think it’s good to learn about how drugs can be used as a weapon against revolutionary organizing, such as when it comes to “the person handing out free drugs during organizing”. While I’m sure there’s a few such people out there who just do it for their own reasons, it’s still a known tactic conducted by anti-communist agents, and regardless of the reason someone is doing it, its effect on organizing must also be taken into account.
(Sorry if my reply sounds overly serious, I can see your comment is kind of lighthearted. This is just how I tend to write most of the time.)
Yet again, the western left fixation on drugs has its source proven to be linked to feds. How expected.
That’s why I call them narcos, cause anarchists probably fuel the worldwide drug trade by themselves.
(and also because they call us tankies)
“Opium wars? What are those? So, anyway…”
Anarchists: Marxism isn’t scientific yall smh 🤦♂️
Also Anarchists:Weed culture is so annoying 😔
What is weed culture?
What’s wrong with weed?
Not experienced and don’t think enough about drugs but I’ve been high a few times and it doesn’t seem bad
Nothings wrong with weed, if you want to do it, do it, but stfu about it. Weed culture is a lot of things but it boils down to anytime people make it a personality and pretend it’s anything but just one more drug of choice. Like this haha so quirky bluntie shit in the posted tweet.
Ah, those type of people. I see.
Thanks
like that kid in high-school anyone with a few brain cells would avoid
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