I see a lot of discussion about DOMA and the new Monsanto protection act and I think some things need to be cleared up: Supporters of marriage equality did not distract attention away from the Monsanto power grab. State media distracted from the Monsanto power grab and used LGBT people as a human shield. In fact the rights of LGBT people have been coopted, yet again, in order to create this political circus that distracts us from the larger political/economic picture.
Historically the state coopts civil rights struggles, puts them into a left/right, pro/anti position to be ENDLESSLY debated rather than simply and quickly addressed and rectified as they come to light. Gender equality? Reproductive rights? LGBT equality? If the government was really in place to ensure ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ these inequities would be instantly rectified by the legal system.
Don’t like abortion? Don’t get one. Don’t support gay marriage? Don’t get married. Don’t support gender equality? Live in the woods (/kill yourself). This is the way that these dialogues should be framed BY THE STATE, let alone anyone else, based on their own stated mandates. The state has safe guards built into its legal system in order to support civil rights despite minority opposition. There has been a conscious decision made to abandon these safe guards. The reason that it cherry picks certain issues to be the sacrificial lamb of public debate is that they are emotional, core issues to human dignity and their denial is so heinous that they serve as a huge distraction to the workings of the economic and power structure of the state itself.
Basic human rights issues like marriage equality are specifically denied by the state in order to create a distraction from (basically…) the corporate restructuring of the state. More basically: capitalism. From violent land/resource grabbing all over the world (continued rape and pillage of native lands and people in Palestine, Iraq, Canada, US, etc etc etc), global ecocide and the global corpo-government’s determination to rape and destroy every last ecosystem on Earth and pump as much carbon into the atmosphere as they can until civilization itself collapses (hello Tarsands/Keystone XL! hello Monsanto! etc). From the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of human lives every year sacrificed on the altar of ‘global resource security’.
From the utter destruction of opposition movements and the destruction of free speech, let alone any privacy.

To think that leftist thinking and left or far left or post left or anarchist discussion and debate and understanding can put a stop to what we are now facing and pose a problem to the economic inequality and conditioning of the majority of the population of the globe is laughable. Why do we write endlessly about this? Cowardice. Is our cowardice justified? What a question!
The fact is that if we thought we would not be killed we would have already killed these bankers and strung up the motherfuckers that are still debating tactics and legitimacy with their guts. That would be the beginning of a solution. Is there a greater one? Yeah, sure. But as much talk as we think it will take it will take more action. Our enemy is ACTING. And we are dying. Our enemy ACTS. And the world is destroyed. Our enemy DOES SHIT and we are left without funds and resourses. Only action on our part will be evidence of us looking at the system in the proper light.
We argue over whether the Unabomber was too violent but not the State. We argue about whether it is good or right to kill cops but not about whether it is good or right for the pigs to kill whoever they Do.
When you start getting into anarcho-theory and you find yourself immeadiately discussing killing people, killing your own parents, and killing cops, people think you are crazy and you are left alone and confused, like you missed the whole point. But this is the obvious argument and action to take when looking at our world of thought. It is the first thought on it and the last. The years inbetween are just coming to grips with the fact that people who tried to get us ‘to think’ and tried to stay our hand were, yeah, fucking morons, but also, a good and unwilling too to help us to pause for long enough to kill who we need, and not just the first pig fucking capitalist were are pissed off enough at in the line at starbucks.

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