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Antonia Malchik's avatar

"Every page of the five-thousand-year-old history of civilization overflows with examples of how to break society's moral and political capacity and replace it with law and administration by the capital monopolies. This is the history of civilization at its bluntest and with its true motives." --Abdullah Öcalan (founder of the Kurdish Workers' Party and political prisoner in Turkey since 1999)

Monopolies of power retain their grip by fracturing solidarity, either by persuading us we're alone, or by turning us against one another. I'd rather work with people like you any day of the week than with anyone persuaded to make enemies of those they have true common cause with. AND with Humanities Montana, whose support of your work and others' I'm constantly grateful for. Those monopolies of power always go after the arts almost immediately, because that is where resistance is born.

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Timber Fox's avatar

You have my support. When I read the title of this post, my ire went up because I've been on the receiving end of that talk as well. And you said it: That board member was appointed to do exactly this, to sow chaos among the good people. Now we are wasting time arguing over it and some people won't support the good things you are doing with Humanities Montana because it is "tainted." When you can't eject the person, you work around them. It's like the old argument, "oh, you're fighting the system, huh? When you eat food made by capitalism?!!! way to exploit your fellow workers!" bullshit. It's whataboutism meant to destroy from within.

Also I like MTPL as it sounds like "Meatpool," a very metal superhero with a giant cleaver-guitar that I just made up.

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