effigies

Black bloc.

Hedges' article

Graeber's response

There's a slightly longer version of it in HAU: The Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Link for the interested.

Are you familiar with The Revolution Starts at Home? It's a zine specifically aimed at coalescing experiences and resolution strategies for dealing with abusers in activist communities.

You may also be interested in the research of William Hogeland. His book "The Whiskey Rebellion" (and apparently the newer "Founding Finance") go into a fair bit of detail about the antidemocratic nature of the founding project.

Taking as read that reform of the state is more or less completely non-radical, we have a large number of well-intentioned reformists that are pushing for almost pathetically small reforms. Do you see any reforms as both plausibly achievable and large enough to do more than keep reformists busy?