Aragorn!, Eugene Gendlin, Frantz Fanon, John Trudell and JT Garrett

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appreciation thread (forgot that in the title)

Also known as, what does an American Jewish philosopher, A Martinique revolutionary and psychiatrist, A Sioux author and poet, a Irish/cherokee medicine elder and the perennial smartass of Anarchism have in common? More than you would think.

Inspiried by @MCMXCIII Adora 🌠 ’s Emma Goldman thread but also just because I wanted to share the work of 5 people who have been deeply influential to me.

@MCMXCIII Adora 🌠 @Princess Alice ✨ @Sredni Vashtar @SevengarStan might enjoy this or at least different parts.

And to start it off:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-locating-an-indigenous-anarchism
“It’s easy enough to hedge about politics. It comes naturally and most of the time the straight answer isn’t really going to satisfy the questioner, nor is it appropriate to fix our politics to this world, to what feels immovable. Politics, like experience, is a subjective way to understand the world. At best it provides a deeper vocabulary than mealy-mouthed platitudes about being good to people, at worst (and most commonly) it frames people and ideas into ideology. Ideology, as we are fully aware, is a bad thing. Why? Because it answers questions better left haunting us, because it attempts to answer permanently what is temporary at best.”

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Also Ashanti Alston and James Yaki Sayles appreciation thread, so two former members of the BLA as well.

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An organism is an environmental interaction that continuously regenerates itself. It does not follow from the past, but it does take account of it. We can show that the regenerating is a kind of precision. We call it ’implicit precision. What the organism brings to the present interaction has been called the ‘background,’ though the background has previously been considered as if it were a static thing rather than part of a regenerating process. There is general agreement that the background is ‘implicit’, but what ‘implicit’ means has remained mysterious. It is often said to mean ‘unconscious’, but of course not really unconscious as from a blow on the head. But if we approach the implicit background as part of the present process, it may become evident how it functions in that process.” implicit precision - Eugene T. Gendlin

supportive:”I am a man, and what I have to recapture is the whole past of the world. I am not responsible solely for the revolt in Santo Domingo. Every time a man has contributed to the victory of the dignity of the spirit, every time a man has said no to an attempt to subjugate his fellows, I have felt solidarity with his act. In no way should I derive my basic purpose from the past of the peoples of color. I am not the slave of the slavery that dehumanized my ancestors” -Frantz Fanon Black skin white masks