Very interesting. One other argument for Disaster Anarchism is that disaster preparedness can be done all of the time: regardless of how good or bad things are going right now*, we can keep building these disaster response systems.
- By going good, I dont mean perfect. I think that insurrection tends to only happen when things are going really bad.
Should call it neutered anarchism for liberals.
“Don’t hurt the state, be nice and fix the state’s shortcomings so that people don’t revolt”
That’s not what it argued. It explicitly states that revolution and conflict may need to happen as a function of disaster response.
“An argument against insurrection”
“May”
Revolution has to happen to avoid disaster. It is not simply enough to passively respond in the event of disaster.
The title is a bit misleading tbf
@hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net is the author of that. We discussed it before on our !infrapolitics@slrpnk.net community.
Anyways, very good insights into the potential of well organized disaster response mutual aid.
I especially like this sentence:
A sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness and response program is indistinguishable from a revolutionary counter-power.
To be clear, there’s a bit of nuance here. It’s an argument against organizing focused primarily on insurrection, and against insurrectionist tendencies. But this does propose something that could be described as a latent insurgency, which would explicitly have the capability to evolve into an Insurrection (if necessary).
I don’t remember if I made that totally clear in that specific essay.
I think the possibility of a collapse in our lifetime is very real.
