Пожалуй один из самых страшных аргументов гомофоба, так как является его последним убежищем. И в этом эпизоде я разбиваю этот аргумент в клочья!

Это один из самых глупых аргументов, предлагаемых гомофобами, и, продолжая серию репрессий гомосексуальности, я предлагаю три контр‐аргумента.

Первый из серии эпизодов про гомосексуальность и гомофобию. В этом эпизоде обсуждается аргумент формата «Гомосексуальность ненатуральна». Конкретно этот аргумент можно разбить на 3 части: Натуральность — это часть природы, Натуральность — это враждённость для человека, и Натуральность — это принятие чего‐либо цивилизованым обществом.

Sam Seder has relatively recently had a debate against Walter Block on Majority Report show. In my opinion it is appauling how the host has managed to almost lose this argument, given that Prof. Block has given him so much rope to be hanged with it. This is my critique of the argument strategy of the progressive against the capitalist.

Please listen to the original debate at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BhcdVubtZ0

Veterans in the contemporary USA are very different to those in many other countries. They definitely have the choice to not engage in any warfare, there is no draft, no penalty for not being recruited. Thus it is absolutely not logical to demand any sort of the blind respect for their actions.

This episode is recorded as the response to many comments on The Young Turks, otherwise a very rational progressive news Youtube channel.

Leninism has never been a coherent philosophy of the radical political change, it was closer to the opportunistic attempts at rhetoric (often blatantly plariarising from other groups, even when the plagiarised parts create major contradictions). However, there was one original thought that Lenin had had. Well… not really an idea, more like a slogan, but it was quite original and something that can be held as an example of at least one radical thing that came from the Bolsheviki. I am referring to the demand made by V. Lenin that Czarist Russia loses the World War.

To my knowledge no group at that time had such a position that was clearly vocalised. Many were too afraid to anger the loyalists who would commit any and all crimes in the name of their god, nation, ruler, or some other external entity. And for that, and for pretty much nothing else, Lenin can be respected.

But today we have the CPRF rejecting the only rational position that their “philosopher” has proposed. There are staged demonstrations taking place all over Russia supporting the government's decision to not only occupy Crimea, but also push further into the territories of other bordering countries. Forget the “right of all to self-determination”, this is not what is being supported, it is clear even by the language that they are using. Already today people who oppose Russian military presense in Ukraine are labeled as “separatists” (apparently they want to separate the part of Russia that has either just been annexed or where the annexation hasn't even taken place yet).

But enough about CPRF, it is a puppet party that didn't even complain after it became known that Zyuganov (CPRF candidate for the president) has gotten the most votes in one of the ellections. They are so afraid to rock the boat by now, that there is absolutely no distinction between the ruling elite and “Communist opposition”.

It is more important to see how this position reverberates in other circles.

The so-called “communists” in other countries seem to take this situation as the opportunity to write angry critiques of everybody around them, without even a thought of what sollutions exist to the current clash of Russia's and US imperialism. And much of the anarchist movement seems to attempt to side-step the issue. The parallel can be drawn with China's continuous occupation of Tibet, Communist Parties everywhere support it, and anarchists just don't talk about it… after all it is much easier to talk about some first-world problems and feel oneself important.

The whole situation seems shocking to me. Tibet and Crimea have the potential to become the perfect example of why creating a huge hierarchical machine in order to protect oneselves against another hierarchical machine creates an orwellian world where “pigs” are indistinguishable from “humans”. It is absolutely not necessary to support the USA in order to oppose RF, nor does one need to do the opposite.

Despite what the professional revolutionaries tell us, there is nothing wrong with the demand “USA out of Iraq, Russia out of Crimea”.

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Сегодня КПРФ продаёт даже собственные принципы ради какой-то дешёвой политической или финансовой наживы. Парафразируя Дональда Рума, я говорю «Никто, кто знает сегодня КПРФ, не уважает сегодня КПРФ!»

Новый способ дискредитации активистов.

Западные СМИ допускают одну очень серьёзную для них самих ошибку в их анализе политики Путина. Здесь я обсуждаю эту ошибку и надеюсь на комментарии от слушателей.

Путин ведёт нас к третьей мировой войне.

Этот эпизод записат не продумывая, что я хотел сказать. Мне просто надо было выговориться.

William is an anarchist from the States, who is engaged in Tranzmission Prison Project and The Final Straw anarchist radio. We talk about the range of things: his becoming of an anarchist, his view on the definition of the terms anarchism and freedom, his work and views on LGBT siguation in the USA and mention the current situation in Crimea.

The links to the projects:

• http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/
• https://queerinflux.wordpress.com/tranzmission-prison-project/

Ни для кого не секрет, что сейчас в России анти-глобализм почти полностью зарос националистическим анти-Американизмом. Есть группы не поддающиеся философии уровня юмореск Задорнова, но их почти не видно из-за крутизны поназывать США «америкосами» и поржать над тем, что мы умные, а они тупЫЫЫе.

И сейчас эта позиция аукается очень даже громко.

С одной стороны Путин и его команда успешно парируют любые вопросы мировой общественности на тему вторжения в Крым ответами, что мол Америка делает тоже самое по всему миру. С другой, их приспешники на самой территории России кричат, что вторгаться надо, а иначе «америкосы» это сделают.

Я повторюсь, Путинцы одновременно используют внешнюю политику США для сравнения с политикой самой России и для декларации оппозиции к этой внешней политике.

И, хотя это может звучать весьма неприятно, но виноваты в этом не столько политики, сколько мы с вами. Конечно-же это они развязали данную пропаганду, но кто купился на неё? Ведь именно мы позволили переключить разговор об империализме в русло тупой неприязни ко всему Американскому. То есть, в то время как американские анти-глобалисты делают всё возможное с их стороны, чтобы дать людям шанс отдышаться; мы с дебильным смехом сами помогаем нашим лидерам делать «как Америка», но от нашего имени.

У россиянина в миллионы раз больше общего с почти любым американцем (даже самым тупЫЫЫм), чем с Путиным и другими чиновниками. И это может быть совершенно немодное высказывание, но оно остаётся элементарной правдой.

В Америке проблема с местными религиозными фундаменталистами, здесь тоже. В Америке проблема с местными нефтедобывающими компаниями, здесь тоже. В Америке проблема с полицейским бесприделом, здесь тоже. В Америке проблема с бюджетом почти целиком уходящим в военку, здесь тоже. Эти аналогии можно продолжать перечислять почти вечно; но всё равно будет круче назвать их «америкосами» и почувствовать прилив идиотской гордости. 

Greetings,

More and more we see around us different forms of a simplistic nationalist analysis of the situation in Crimea. On one hand there are people who claim that Ukraine is entirely overrun by Nazi sympathisers (and that Russia should be supported), on another we have the claims that we should support anybody who is fighting the Russian aggression with no thought of the reasons for such fighting. In reality the situation is much more complicated, but the complexity of it should not be used to claim that only two extremist paths can lead to a reasonable solution.

Below are some facts that we should keep in mind when thinking about the problem:

1. Russia did not intervene in Crimea because of the strong anti-fascist sentiment within the ruling elite. Putin has no problem playing with the fascist ideas and using propaganda tactics within “his” country when it suits the purpose of keeping him in power.
2. West Ukraine does have the problem with Nazis and their sympathisers. An openly nazist “Svoboda” party does control a significant portion of the political spectrum there.
3. Maidan protests, while having racists present, were not a reaction to Russian speaking people in Ukraine, but rather were powered by the economic questions. Ukrainian leaders, who were supported by Kremlin, were engaged in a large-scale corruption and theft. It is important to distinguish that not all anti-Russia protests were anti-Russian. Nationalists always try to capitalise on the anti-imperialist sentiment and turn it into their weapon, but that should not be used as a way to silence anti-imperialists.
4. Theft and “vertical” corruption is the main pillar of current politics in Russia. Nothing from which the rulers cannot make profit gets accomplished. Putin uses Ukraine to shift the focus onto another country, this does not help people in either of two countries with fighting against this theft.
5. United States has financially and through propaganda has attempted to aid the nationalist West Ukrainian sentiment. That was not done because USA opposes imperialism in principle, but rather because it wants to undermine Putin's imperialist ambitions and further its own.

I am *not* going to end with saying “and therefore you must think …”, rational people should be able to make their own opinions, and it is also possible that i have missed some very important facts. Keep fighting and keep thinking.

Recently i have appeared on another great anarchist audio show The Final Straw. You can go to that particular show Interview with Volodya, Swain on Mumia & AWU, Kiev announcement.

Anthony Rayson is the person behind starting of South Chicago ABC Zine Distro, the service dedicated to educating prisoners, education society about the prisoners, and prisoner support in general.

Sound quality may not be great due to the fact that it is the recording off of the skype conversation. The content of the interview is very thought provoking, however, and that should definitely more than compensate for the sound problems.

You can contact South Chicago ABC Zine Distro by writing to PO Box 721, Homewood IL 60430, USA.