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Only in JP: When anarchists collide

By adamg on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 12:00pm
Anarchy is for black people they say in JP

Renee Graham has been following the Sharpie war on a wall on Green Street in Jamaica Plain, involving the above statement.

Anarchy for everyone
Anarchy for black people
Neighborhoods: 
Jamaica Plain


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Comments

By John Costello on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 12:13pm.

Anarchy is for the UK.

By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 1:28pm.

Anarchexit, when they left the Anarchist's Union.

Except they never joined ...

By Irma la Douce on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 12:27pm.

From Loveland Products: "Anarchy (tm) provides effective control on all insect growth stages".

Also check out Loveland's other insecticide product, " Vader"

By MC PeePants on Fri, 07/21/2017 - 4:27am.

They were more into TV Parties and Six Packs.

By The Beer Guy on Fri, 07/21/2017 - 10:34am.

Crass were the true anarchists. They preached it and lived it.

By ZachAndTired on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 12:25pm.

Anarchy's a mess

By anon on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 12:55pm.

Open your eyes, perhaps you'll realize.

By ZachAndTired on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 2:53pm.

If AIDS don't get you then the warheads will

By dmcboston on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 6:47pm.

It quickly devolves into small groups of people sticking together for protection. Then some groups band together. Before you know it, you have 'not anarchy'.

By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 8:12pm.

I'd be interested in knowing about the specific historic instances of anarchist community formation and dissolution such as you describe.

If we are to judge from the Franco era destruction of Casas Viejas, Anarchy can work quite well and result in stable egalitarian communities in certain situations/conditions - at least until fascists arrive with tanks and mortars and machine guns and murder everyone.

By dmcboston on Fri, 07/21/2017 - 9:15am.

"If we are to judge from the Franco era destruction of Casas Viejas, Anarchy can work quite well and result in stable egalitarian communities in certain situations/conditions - at least until fascists arrive with tanks and mortars and machine guns and murder everyone."

Well, I see someone knows everything from some college course...problem is your example just proves my point, a point that I do not claim to have invented.

Casas Viejas was an atrocity, no doubt there, but it didn't signal the growth of 'stable egalitarian communities in certain situations/conditions'. The formation of several radical trade unions proves my point about 'banding together'.

Look, whatever happened there, it's not a perfect example of anarchy. That whole clusterF of a war was between some mutinous army units and the elected leftie government. Fascists (Italy and Germany) backed the rebels (army) with weapons and USSR backed the government and loyalist army units.

A more modern example? Lone wolf motorcycle rider. Some risk. He bands together with a few others, less risk.

It's all about security.

Your example just proves my statement. I'll take a good stable Republic any time.

Thanks for playing. Now go outside, dear and get some fresh air before you say something silly about the 'alt-right'.

By ZachAndTired on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 9:10pm.

Hard times coming your way

By anon on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 2:07pm.

Ta hell with all o' ya!! Utopia is for me!

By O-FISH-L on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 2:40pm.

Any cameras? I will keep an open mind but given the location and penmanship, seems like another fake hate crime. Add it to the long list.

By anon on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 4:12pm.

You would know.

By anon on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 5:24pm.

The writing looks somewhat similar for each of the scratch outs. And quite neatly done as well, as far as this type of thing goes. Maybe it's performance art, to which I say "not art!".

By LadyKatey on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 8:51pm.

The last one looks like it was done in Photoshop.

By dmcboston on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 6:44pm.

...they catch those kids in Marblehead yet? You know, the ones that know the 'circle A' anarchy sign and America with the 'KKK' in it?

Maybe they should look at Salem State...

By Sock_Puppet on Sat, 07/22/2017 - 8:22am.

You'd be perfect for investigating a fake crime.

By anon on Thu, 07/20/2017 - 7:53pm.

Is "anarchy is for black people" a positive or negative statement? Is it racist or is the one who crossed it out and wrote "anarchy is for everyone" racist? The whole thing makes no sense which I guess is the entire point of it. Well played (I guess). Gotta love that JP.