Sep 5, 2026 · 3h 28m
Anarchists, Gaza and authoritarian power collide in a sprawling weekly dispatch
It Could Happen Here Weekly 248
The compilation links debates over war, civilization and political repression to a broader question of how people can resist state power and build alternatives.
- 1The Gaza ceasefire debate exposes the political stakes of Hamas disarmament, international mediation and competing visions of solidarity.
- 2The First World War split anarchists between uncompromising internationalism and support for opposing German militarism as a lesser evil.
- 3The news roundup connects surveillance, voting restrictions, far-right networks and synthetic war imagery to expanding authoritarian tactics.
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The comparison between Malatesta’s antiwar position and Kropotkin’s defense of opposing German militarism turns a historical split into a live political dilemma.
The brief
This compilation moves from Gaza ceasefire politics to the anarchist split over World War I, asking whether opposing imperial violence can survive strategic alliances with states.
The Malatesta-Kropotkin dispute becomes the episode’s central historical test: does choosing a lesser evil preserve political freedom, or strengthen the militarism anarchists oppose?
A campaign against Black neurodivergent scholar Jason Arday is presented as a case study in how race-science networks recast racist and ableist attacks as disputes over integrity.
The civilization discussion challenges the idea of a universal ladder of progress, emphasizing exchange, hierarchy, domination and the fragility of early states.
The closing news roundup tracks authoritarian tactics from political surveillance and voting restrictions to far-right networks and AI-generated imagery depicting war.
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