Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info
The April 2025 text “Echoes of an Overflow” engages in many of the hallmarks of ‘appelist’ discourse, a white political tendency that proposes alliances with reformist & liberal organizing structures as a strategic necessity to reach that promised land of the left-wing political tradition, “revolution.”
Specifically, it features:
– exclusive citation of white euro theorists.
– the suggestion that militant, destructive actions & their proponents are primarily responsible for a failure to be “understood.”
– a lack of concern for [anti]political content—what people claim to be fighting for—paired with a near-exclusive concern for political form—the organizational structures [not] used.
– repeated insistence on “necessities” (the word “must” appears 30 times in the anglican version).
– a passionate desire to fuck the word “composition.”
– a general attitude that the author[s] & whoever they cite approvingly are the only people who grasp the importance of having a plan.
Often, such texts are right, or at least insightful, about some things. The shortcomings of “revolutionary milieus” (“radical scenes,” “the left,” “the so-called movement”) are perceptively outlined, which strengthens the appe[a]l of their otherwise tepid proposals. But be careful! It’s a trap. The website dimanche.pm summarizes and collects numerous resources exploring the general problems with this approach.
“Echoes of an Overflow” has fuckall to say about whether or not “revolutionary milieus” are seeking to burn down klanada, to obliterate slaver colonialism & its world, to make amerika nothing again. In autre words, it is silent on what it would take to produce an overflow, revolutionary, insurrectionary, liberatory, apocalyptic if you like. Cities into funeral pyres. Tar sands into memorials. Allow me to begin with the idea that a milieu with desire and capacity to demolish prison/jail, spirit away criminals and animals meant for containment and slaughter because the milieu is composed of criminals and animals, will be able to answer this question in life beyond words. A milieu where britspeak or quebeckish are no longer necessities for socialization, because communication with these hegemons is no longer desired, will have grounds for a conception and way of life in unflinching antagonism to “prime minister,” “province,” “parliament,” “politics.”
Skulls of the defeated, fangs intact: mourn them, and let new monsters materialize.