"Many discussions of 'aid' and 'development' still imply the conviction that there is one side that needs help and one side that is able to provide it. Needless to say, this is not exactly a promising basis for global egalitarianism."

https://libcom.org/files/gasera-journal.pdf

"Some anarchists, most notably the so-called anarcho-primitivists, reckon that even material aid is no real aid as it only draws people into an allegedly destructive process of civilization."

oh boy

"According to [anprims], we have to learn from the communities of the 'Fourth World': 'primitive' communities who have remained outside nation state control and global capitalism and maintain an allegedly non-alienated lifestyle in harmony with their natural instincts and their natural environments.

The danger of such a view is that it often perpetuates colonial discourse by doing little more than turning the Eurocentric coin."

"Transnational anti-colonial community building has to begin with our shared everyday needs and desires... If we do not engage in transnational community building because we're afraid of doing wrong, then nothing crucial will ever change."

"'The Patong Fire' tells the story of a (fictional) arson attack committed by five Euro-American travelers against tourist developments in Thailand. Apparently, many comrades in the Philippines identified with the anti-colonial critique formulated in the pamphlet [from Alpine Anarchist Productions]... Brand X, a Quezon City-based punk band, has turned the story into a punk rock song."

"Anarchism, as a set of principles opposed to hierarchy and authority, and as a political movement fighting for open and egalitarian communities, provides both a basis and a goal for transnational community building... What makes the case of the Philippines particularly interesting in the context of international anarchism is the country's rather unique colonial legacy."

https://libcom.org/files/gasera-journal.pdf

@mooncake The main thing that's needed is for "developed" Western countries to stop UN-developing the global South. Stop installing and propping up governments that enforce TNCs' titles to looted and enclosed land/resources, stop pressuring Third World countries to rubber-stamp "free trade" agreements whose core provisions are copyright/patent maximalism, stop pressuring govts to sell off infrastructures created at public expense to Western corporations for pennies on the dollar...