New RAANismo Blog

[Nachie]

New blog created by supporters of the Red & Anarchist Action Network (RAAN):

http://raanismo.blogspot.com

Features various news and views related to the project of building an autonomist action network in the United States and internationally, and will hopefully function as an independent auxiliary to our current hub website.

[AK]

inb4 Leninists

[Dimentio]

It looks like a more militant version of The Zeitgeist Movement, and with sillier forum names.

[The Douche]

It looks like a more militant version of The Zeitgeist Movement, and with sillier forum names.

Lolwut?

[Dimentio]

Lolwut?

I just spotted the Gaia forum where they mixture together spirituality and environmentalism. Not even most TZM members are doing that. That's just one example.

They seem to me as a movement which is built on the sole aim of expressing the subculture and thus individuality of those members who are a part of it.

I talked with a friend on MSN yesterday. She is going to vote on a feminist party in this year's election, even if she knows that would make the likelihood of a right-wing election victory bigger. She defends her decision with the charisma and coolness of the feminist party leader, saying that she's going to vote with her heart.

RAANismo is basically such sentiments upheld as an ideology.

[Os Cangaceiros]

RAANismo is basically such sentiments upheld as an ideology.

I don't see the connection.

[Omnia Sunt Communia]

I just spotted the Gaia forum where they mixture together spirituality and environmentalism.

Which is a rational conclusion of communist thought.

[Jazzratt]

Which is a rational conclusion of communist thought. I can see how environmentalism plays a role but there is no room for spirituality in the strictly materialist realm of communist thought.

[The Douche]

I believe that the spirituality being referred to is one the involves an understanding of one's role in the community and relationship to other people/animals/plants and how to better understand one's self.

[Nachie]

It's all connected, maaaaaaaaaaan

[Omnia Sunt Communia]

I can see how environmentalism plays a role but there is no room for spirituality in the strictly materialist realm of communist thought.

I think "materialism" in this context refers to the practice of examining historical events by the material demands that drive society.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were indebted to the philosophy of Hegel, which is itself steeped in Greek, Indian, and Chinese traditions that would be classified as "spiritual". They were also fascinated by the exploits of Christian Anabaptist rebels in Germany. Walter Benjamin, a prominant Marxist intellectual was also an esteemed scholar of the Hebrew qabalah. Individualist and Stirnerite anarchists (who are as influenced by the classical workers' movement as Marxists) of the early 20th century were into pagan revivalism and surrealism. Many Chinese communists were interested in Buddhism and Taoism up until the capricious "cultural revolution" of the Party right. Agamben, a renowned contemporary Marxist intellectual, is indebted to Heidegger who is heavily indebted to Buddhism and Taoism. Ward Churchill has drawn some comparisons between Marxian and traditional American Indian cosmology. And the list goes on and on...