Posted on 01/04/2014 10:06:49 AM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
Deep Green Resistance is an analysis, a strategy, and the only organization of its kind. As an analysis, it reveals civilization as the institution that is destroying life on Earth. As a strategy, it offers a concrete plan for how to stop that destruction. As an organization, Deep Green Resistance is implementing that strategy.
The goal of DGR is to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. This is a vast undertaking but it needs to be said: it can be done. Industrial civilization can be stopped.
DGR is an aboveground organization that uses direct action in the fight to save our planet. We also argue for the necessity of an underground that can target the strategic infrastructure of industrialization. But these actions alone are never a sufficient strategy for achieving a just outcome. Any strategy aiming for a livable future must include a call to build direct democracies based on human rights and sustainable material cultures.
What happens once the poor rob the rich and become the rich. Does the cycle start over again?...: )
A lot of these same themes we’re seeing bubble up today were all present in Hitler’s Nazi Germany. They’ve never really gone away - just underground for awhile.
From the website: “My definition of dismantling civilization is depriving the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. Nobody but a capitalist or a sociopath (insofar as there is a difference) could disagree with that.”
These are Earth First types, well-worth keeping an eye on.
Thanks for posting!
Hard to tell who your friends and who your enemies are anymore. It might even be that DGR is actually operated by the elite to manipulate the greenpolitical activists into doing exacly what they want them to do. In this new world you simply can’t play chess one dimensionally. You need to play on several boards at the same time. Even bingo boppin grannies know this...lol
Eco-weenie Ping.
“Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Only a deluded psychopath believes poor people make rich people. 100% of nothing is not wealth. They play a zero sum game by failing to recognize wealth is created.
Mining and manufacturing are a function of labor, not materials. The earth has no value until someone does something to it. That means jobs for poor people. Wealth creates jobs. Poverty does not put anythng in anyone’s pocket. If government is the source of jobs free market competition is removed. It is replaced by gangsterism.
All communist societies are mafias in which leaders have unlimited wealth and citizens are kept in bondage. These systems are terrible destroyers of the environment. The bottom line is DGR does violence to nature, is intellectually vapid and has no moral foundation.
The Greenies never do that well come election time. Even those high minded nibs who profess their great love for the environment, I suspect, vote for the mainstream dem candidate instead of Nader’s heir. Any overt acts of eco-friendly terrorism will not do their cause well in the eyes of mainstream America.
Something radical needs to happen before these loons have a snowball’s chance in Hades of gaining anything.
If the rich people “make” poor people..how come there were poor people before rich people?...
You can found a direct democracy on any principles you want to. Within ten years those principles will be entirely swept away by the electorate itself.
>>Hard to tell who your friends and who your enemies are anymore. It might even be that DGR is actually operated by the elite to manipulate the greenpolitical activists into doing exacly what they want them to do. In this new world you simply can’t play chess one dimensionally. You need to play on several boards at the same time. Even bingo boppin grannies know this...lol
Exactly, the modern game is about mole operations, camouflage, deception. It’s all part of the “low intensity cultural warfare” that electronic communications have given anyone with an electrical outlet the capability to wage, even us, if we can learn how to employ it effectively.
But it’s a two edge sword and the elites try to trump global lateral access to data by moving underground and manipulating various factions with an “invisible hand”. They are playing to lose due to that same communication game board being able to outflank their data blackouts, i.e., the untimely unraveling of their global warming hoax and other hoaxes relying on hack science and media mouthpieces.
This is why one of their robot marcher lords named Obama and his radical lackeys are going for the brass ring before he is voted out of office. The increased levels of media stridency and the surfacing of the DGR, various radical left columnists coming out for what they are, unreconstructed marxists, is a sign of their desperation. Time is not on the oligarchs’ side and they know it.
This reminds me of a group that called themselves Green Anarchy. They had a little convention in 2006 in Minneapolis where the “activists” were scheming about blowing up bridges, substations, refineries, etc.
Socrates versus Plato. The average person is an idiot who must be controlled, versus the average person should be free to make his own decisions.
>>All communist societies are mafias in which leaders have unlimited wealth and citizens are kept in bondage.
True, but the conservatives’ historic and chronic rubber stamping of everything Wall St. wants, particularly in banking regulation (devolving the Glass-Steagal Act, for example, turning merchant banking into a gambling casino with us picking up the speculation debts), hasn’t kept them from mafiaesque organizational structure either. Ayn Rand ASSUMES a high state of ethics for the money movers which has been shown over and over to be an hallucination. Reagan deregulates savings and loan and within a year we have huge financial scams- from Wikipedia S&L crisis:
” Rather than admit to insolvency, some CEOs of S&Ls became “reactive” control frauds by inventing creative accounting strategies that turned their businesses into Ponzi schemes that looked highly profitable, thereby attracting more investors and growing rapidly, while actually losing money. This had two effects: it meant that the fraud continued longer and substantially increased the economic losses involved, and it attracted “opportunistic” control frauds who were looking for businesses they could subvert into Ponzi schemes.[3] For example, Charles Keating paid $51 million from Michael Milken’s junk bond operation for Lincoln Savings and Loan, which at the time had a negative net worth exceeding $100 million”
And it absolutely needs to be understood by conservatives that money is not the measure of the wealth of a nation or a company, the mind of the citizen is the source of a nation’s wealth, period.
Capital inherently tends towards price fixing cabals, monopoly, commodity price manipulation for geopolitical ends, globalism and ultimately globalist fascism. It’s how the game is won, right? You wage war and vanquish the opposition. A truly intelligent capitalist will never completely liquidate the competition cuz he knows the competition keeps him honest and on his toes.
We know that our grammar school textbooks absolutely do not describe how government is actually run. The exact same conclusion about the text book popularized version of capitalism can be derived for how business is conducted.
>>Socrates versus Plato. The average person is an idiot who must be controlled, versus the average person should be free to make his own decisions.
Yah, well, the fact that conservatives have lost hegemony in the media, academia and among youth must mean that our average persons are more idiot than their average persons, lol!
“The goal of DGR is to deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor ...”
I guess I’ll stop inventing things that poor people want to buy. Maybe I’ll retire to Cuba and buy a new car there.
“What happens once the poor rob the rich and become the rich. Does the cycle start over again?...: )”
Nope. The poor stay poor and no longer have the rich to hate on, sponge off of. Also, no one to employ them. So, in the end, the poor become destitute and ruined, along with their victims.
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