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Pantopia Reading Nook 📰🚩
The following document is intended to provide a basic overview of some necessary tactics, techniques, procedures, and theory, that should be considered when providing physical security. A strongly, strongly suggested read itsgoingdown.org/defending-space…
Defending Space - Part 1 for the right-wingers

so, a little bird told me that some far-right extremist channels are claiming that this is a guerrilla playbook which would plan "disruption" (to whom? where? why? how? when? who knows) and that would be something that has been in the making for quite some time.

I'd find this absolutely hilarious if it's not completely and yet dangerously idiotic and, of course, an argument done in bad faith, once again.
I'll try to explain what this is.

To start off, and I can't believe I have to explain this, but this is not a guerrilla playbook. At no point it's promoting terrorism. At no point it's promoting assassinations. At no point it's scheming what to do to bring down the government or any state or any organization. If it had been a guerrilla playbook, it would be a terrible one. All of this is written purely from a defensive pov, already disproving its "guerrilla" character.

This is a document which aims at giving suggestions at how to create, build and defend a self-managed community. It has nothing to do with what is going on now which are riots and protests. This has nothing to do with riots. The word "riot" and "protest" don't even appear in the whole document.

Anarchists want to build self-controlled, self-managed, autonomous, democratic zones. Now, some of these critics may claim that this is wrong or whatever, but that's just an ideological difference. For what do I know, they might even be right. I'm not an anarchist myself, but this is what anarchists (real anarchists, not fake ideologies created just to feel edgy) want, and this is a document who tries to give actual advices for those who want to do it. It is defensive in character, since the whole idea is the creation of autonomous communities (which must be democratic by definition, or they wouldn't be anarchist).

All of this is not some obscure shit. I know that these people think of black blocs when they read about anarchists, but political anarchism is a serious ideology with a long history and a lot of theory behind it. You might oppose it, you might not like it, but first you must understand what it's about, because it's definitely not "let's break some windows and then draw the anarchist symbol around". Some anarchist thinkers you might consider checking out: Kropotkin, Makhno, Bakunin, Emma Goldman and many, many others. I repeat this: you might dislike their thought, but first you have to understand it.