• flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    For anyone who is interested in knowing if she ever ended up shooting a fascist, here’s the relevant paragraph from Wikipedia:

    As she was extremely nearsighted, Weil was a very poor shot. Her comrades tried to avoid taking her on missions, though she did sometimes insist. Her only direct participation in combat was to shoot with her rifle at a bomber during an air raid; in a second raid, she tried to operate the group’s heavy machine gun, but her comrades prevented her, as they thought it would be best for someone less clumsy and near-sighted to use the weapon. After being with the group for a few weeks, she burnt herself over a cooking fire.

  • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
    01·
    6 days ago

    Is this promoting suicide? She’s probably going to die if she joins the war in Spain. Should we cancel Existential Comics for promoting suicide?

      • Zloubida@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        I don’t think atheism is central to anarchism. Opposition to religion (in its institutional and hierarchical form) is, but not belief in a higher being per se.

        Anarchism can make Christianity non-authoritarian, and Christianity can teach anarchism how to be spiritual. Of course nor anarchism nor Christianity need each other, but I like how they complete each other.

        • Thebigguy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          Not to mention quakers often gave communists spaces to organise in and hold meetings.

        • Thebigguy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          There have been Christian anarchists. Jacques Ellul comes to mind. His book on propaganda is pretty good.