Authored by: Peter Gelderloos on Monday, September 01 2008 @ 01:53 PM CDT

This was a good article, and I'm glad the APOC network is growing despite getting so much shit from some white anarchists. It was nice to be able to peer in from outside and see what issues and questions were addressed (since I couldn't personally attend such a gathering), and especially read the different opinions on working with white people.

It's interesting to note that Ricardo Flores Magon (claimed in the article as one of the roots of APOC) got a whole lot of shit from white anarchists in his day but his fusion of anarchist and indigenous ideas was and still is vital for rooting out lingering Christian tendencies within Western anarchism and opening up space for real plurality, which I think is a necessary precondition for autonomy.

I'm also reminded of a point in Ashen Ruins' text, Against the Corpse Machine, about how early anarchists in the US could rally for a Paris Commune solidarity commemoration but didn't lift a finger for the struggles of black sharecroppers and modified slavery much nearer. To be color blind in a society built very much on color is to be blind to social reality.

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