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Dumpster Revolt: Comic Charts the Path from Lifestylism to Insurrection

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness have published a hilarious comic lampooning insurrectionists, "lifestyle anarchists," participants in last September's G20 protests, and the disproportionate power that waste receptacles seem to exert over the anarchist imagination.

Dumpster Revolt: Comic Charts the Path from Lifestylism to Insurrection

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The initial CrimethInc. coverage of last month’s G20 protests challenged readers to imagine the offensive role dumpsters played in the demonstrations as a fable in which a tool refuses its prescribed social function:

Imagine, if you will, gentle reader, the animist version of this story in which dumpsters, long accused of complicity in anarchist “lifestylism,” step out of their social role to join the social war. Free food, even when distributed via programs like Food Not Bombs, is not enough—we want freedom itself, and the dumpster does too, and it gains momentum down the hill as it rolls, alone and magnificent, directly into a pair of oblivious policemen.

Comrades involved in the Super Happy Anarcho-Fun Pages have risen to the challenge, publishing a special issue of their comic delightfully lampooning the biannual journal Rolling Thunder. This sendup chronicles the adventures of one Skip, a dumpster who forsakes his place in a dropout community to make war on the ruling social order. It is available for downloading here:

web version [6MB PDF] : letter-size print [6.6MB PDF] : A4 print [6.7MB PDF]

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Dumpster Revolt: Comic Charts the Path from Lifestylism to Insurrection
Authored by: smokestack on Thursday, November 05 2009 @ 02:28 PM UTC
so crimethinc put this out as an attempt to lampoon itself? I am a bit confused...I like the lead up to an end that kinda just revolved back to the beginning, which seems to be the trend in radical politics/activities today. Its not about breaking windows or throwing rocks at cops, rather we have to understand why we are throwing rocks. The dumpster seems to be going in the right direction with its thinking. Especially, when the dumpster spokescouncil happened and the dumpsters are under the suspicion that these activists who posture themselves as militants may in fact actually be liberals at heart. The dumpsters seem to be tired of people posturing themselves as something they are not and getting away with it. GPAC and the dumpsters should be getting together on this, or we could stop personifying dumpsters having the correct train of thought regarding social tendencies and actually start to embody logical thought ourselves.

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lets build resistance worth romantics.
Dumpster Revolt: Comic Charts the Path from Lifestylism to Insurrection
Authored by: rechelon on Saturday, November 07 2009 @ 07:34 AM UTC
Crimethinc did not put this out. Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness did. Crimethinc linked to it to show that they were good sports.
Dumpster Revolt: Comic Charts the Path from Lifestylism to Insurrection
Authored by: nostalgia on Thursday, November 05 2009 @ 06:04 PM UTC
Is this another one of those dull-knifed stabs at insurrectionists? I'm a bit confused, but it's very similar to being funny. The "Bonnot was aight" shirt is, in fact, funny.

There are even more ways to relate to dumpsters. You can hide in them, some people even write on them!
Dumpster Revolt: Comic Charts the Path from Lifestylism to Insurrection
Authored by: basil on Friday, November 06 2009 @ 02:46 AM UTC
Actually this is a really valid critique of insurrection. But maybe I'm just partial to the "lol, what do those wordz even mean? lol" line of argumentation.

But in all seriousness: "lampoon"? What next? Are you going to start calling people hucksters or talking about their god damn shenanigans?
Dumpster Revolt: Comic Charts the Path from Lifestylism to Insurrection
Authored by: Al Ligator on Friday, November 06 2009 @ 12:31 PM UTC
All politicians are hucksters and the movement needs more shenanigans.

What's wrong with that? Is it not cool hip anarchist words right now? Should we just stick with the current slang instead?

Also, I am not really interested in the comic, some of it was funny, but as far as a critique goes, I don't think it gave much of one. If people could attack ideas more instead of personalities or tendencies, that might be more helpful.

And for the hundredth time, insurrectionary anarchism is nothing new, perhaps just the term itself. It merely refers to the idea of not 'waiting for the masses' and to act now. It's gone on for centuries, in different parts of the world, in different era's. It just happens to be a big buzz word now. That's all it means, and that's all it will ever mean.

So, if you want to critique the idea of not waiting for liberation, but to act on it and intervene with others for it in the here and now - I am awaiting a critique...
Dumpster Revolt: Comic Charts the Path from Lifestylism to Insurrection
Authored by: redsdisease on Saturday, November 07 2009 @ 01:46 AM UTC
Y'all are too serious. It was funny and cute. Stop thinking so goddamn much.
Dumpster Revolt: Comic Charts the Path from Lifestylism to Insurrection
Authored by: rechelon on Saturday, November 07 2009 @ 07:38 AM UTC
Really? Gets featured on Infoshop like a century after it made the rounds everywhere else and all yall can do is be lame?

"Wait a second. 'MAKE total destroy?' Sounds reformist to me." Is the best line ever in the history of ever.
Dumpster Revolt: Comic Charts the Path from Lifestylism to Insurrection
Authored by: smokestack on Saturday, November 07 2009 @ 07:37 PM UTC
yeah really, lets not think so much and lets just do things based on our feelings and what we want to do, everything else would just be reformist. please stop with your class analysis and thinking because it just makes me so uncomfortable.

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lets build resistance worth romantics.
Dumpster Revolt: Comic Charts the Path from Lifestylism to Insurrection
Authored by: redsdisease on Saturday, November 07 2009 @ 10:37 PM UTC
No, stop thinking so much because you are over-analyzing a poorly drawn comic, starring an insurrectionary dumpster. IMO, this is not something that requires complex critique beyond "I thought that was funny" or "I thought that was not funny."