‘Woke Anarchists’ – Dark Nights

DA PARI A PARI
Contro l’autoritarismo identitario

Siamo alcuni compagni e compagne anarchici che hanno preso parte all’assemblea “Sabotiamo la guerra”. Con questo scritto vogliamo prendere parola su una brutta vicenda capitata alla nostra assemblea (non la sola di questo tipo, ma la più grave), ma soprattutto su una forma mentis e un’ideologia che rendono ormai sistematici episodi di questo genere. Se ci presentiamo in maniera tanto circoscritta è perché “Sabotiamo la guerra” è appunto un’assemblea, fatta di volta in volta da chi vi partecipa, e non possiamo parlare a nome di tutti i suoi numerosi partecipanti, passati, presenti e futuri. Fatta questa premessa, cominciamo a spiegarci.

IT: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/07/da-pari-a-pari-contro-lautoritarismo-identitario/

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ON EQUAL TERMS
Against identitarian authoritarianism

We are some anarchist comrades who took part in the ‘Sabotiamo la guerra’1 assembly. With this writing we want to speak out on a bad episode that happened at our assembly (not the only one of this kind, but the most serious), but above all on a forma mentis and an ideology that now make such episodes systematic. If we present ourselves in such a circumscribed manner, it is because ‘Sabotiamo la guerra’ is precisely an assembly, made from time to time by those who participate in it, and we cannot speak on behalf of all its many past, present, and future participants. Having said that, let us begin to explain ourselves.

EN: https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/07/on-equal-terms-against-identitarian-authoritarianism/

[Corrected English version to be updated in the future]

DN: We re-post this text from 2018 that we feel is still relevant and even more on an international level in the present, against the supposed ‘unquestionably oppressed’, against those identity politicians and academics who just do not comprehend their involvement in the recuperation of anarchy into a passive joke! All part of the civil anarchism & activist psychosis that is due a much updated critique that will be forthcoming in future publications.

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Anarchism in the UK is a joke. Once symbolising hard-fought struggles for freedom, the word has been stripped bare to make way for narrow-minded, separatist and hateful identity politics by middle class activists keen to protect their own privileges. We write this leaflet to reclaim anarchism from these identity politicians.

We write as self-identified anarchists who see our roots in the political struggles of the past. We are anti-fascists, anti-racists, feminists. We want to see an end to all oppressions and we take an active part in those fights. Our starting point though is not the dense language of lefty liberal academics, but anarchism and its principles: freedom, cooperation, mutual aid, solidarity and equality for all regardless. Hierarchies of power, however they manifest, are our enemies.

Identity politics is part of the society we want to destroy.

Identity politics is not liberatory, but reformist. It is nothing but a breeding ground for aspiring middle class identity politicians. Their long-term vision is the full incorporation of traditionally oppressed groups into the hierarchical, competitive social system that is capitalism, rather than the destruction of that system. The end result is Rainbow Capitalism – a more efficient & sophisticated form of social control where everyone gets a chance to play a part! Confined to the ‘safe space’ of people like them, identity politicians become increasingly detached from the real world.

A good example is ‘queer theory’ and how it has sold out to corporate masters. The concept of queer was not long ago something subversive, suggesting indefinable sexuality, a desire to escape society’s attempts to define and study and diagnose everything, from our mental health to our sexuality. However, with little in the way of class critique, the concept was readily appropriated by identity politicians and academics to create yet another exclusive label for a cool clique that is, ironically, anything but liberatory. Increasingly, queer is a nice badge adopted by some to pretend they too are oppressed, and avoid being called out on their shit, bourgeois politics.

We don’t want hear about the next DIY event, queer night or squatter fest that excludes all but those who have the right language, dress code, or social circles.. Come back when you have something genuinely meaningful, subversive and dangerous to the status quo. Continue reading “Against Anarcho-Liberalism and the curse of identity politics” →

Tag: ‘Woke Anarchists’

DA PARI A PARI – Contro l’autoritarismo identitario / ON EQUAL TERMS – Against identitarian authoritarianism (EN,IT)

Against Anarcho-Liberalism and the curse of identity politics

Identity politics is part of the society we want to destroy.