"to become revolutionary is to become like the sun. the sun whose holy power is both creation and destruction. BECOME LIKE THE SUN. the sun is queer and sacred, and its name is communism." - Émilie Carrière-BouchardPRAISE THE SUN
So the planet is boiling. And the same source of energy that all life depends on could also be the one that cooks us to death. But what can we actually blame the sun for? From 93 million miles away, this ball of fire still manages to bathe our planet in an incomprehensible amount of energy: 44 QUADRILLION WATTS every year. It never stops, never rests, and expects nothing in return. There may be nothing more communist than the sun.
The sun is revolutionary. Meting out both destruction and creation wherever it can reach. So no, the sun is not to blame.We can even learn from the sun to help us fight our real enemy: this godforsaken atmosphere. The air is thick not only with the trillions of tons of excess carbon and other pollutants, but also with an endless wall of bullshit that people tell themselves, and each other. The so-called Overton Window can’t come close to describing the actual problem. Even Mark Fisher’s term Capitalist Realism falls just a little short. The most insidious part of this atmosphere is that all-pervasive compulsion to pretend that letting things go on as they have been isn't actively fucking killing us all.
Any bullshit will do, and there are entire industries devoted to pumping out new senseless bullshit to keep us distracted, but one in particular deserves special attention: the White Bullshit Industrial Complex. There is a FUCKTON of money in supplying white people with some new little kernel of bullshit to add to the wall between them and any genuine sense of reality. And worse: 10 more Charlie Kirks could suddenly have their lives devoted to opening a new all-genders restroom in a cemetery near you, and this industry would likely only get bigger.
So what can we learn from the sun? It’s not enough to shine a light on these clouds of white bullshit, what we need is destruction. There’s little point in focusing too hard on any individual businesses and creators that deal in white bullshit, we need to destroy the material base they’ve built upon and rely on: “white people”. To crack a hole in this accursed sky we need to abolish race itself.
KILL THE COLONIZER, SAVE THE MANIn Philosynoir's video "On Anti-(W)hiteness", they describe the primary thesis of the video as "why anti-whiteness is good (and needed) from the perspective of race abolition." Early on in this discussion comes a distinction between white preservationists and race abolitionists. A preservationist is someone who is trying to make whiteness and/or being white into something "not bad": to save some shred of its essence, some tiny piece as inherently good, or at least innocent. Unfortunately there is no such shred, and no such piece. Another critical part of this argument involves the assertion that racism predates race. Race as a concept was created to justify exploitation and the violence inherent to that exploitation. There is nothing about whiteness to be saved. This tool of racism and colonialism needs to be unmade, which is what race abolitionists are trying to do. Reading directly from Noel Ignatiev's posthumously published book "Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity," they define a traitor to the white race as "someone who is nominally classified as white but who defies white rules so strenuously as to jeopardize his or her ability to draw upon the privilege of whiteness."
Make no mistake: destroying whiteness will require making white-bodied people extremely uncomfortable. Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration would assert that even some of our worst struggles with anxiety, depression (and other intensely negative emotions) can be beneficial, IF and only if we can recognize that they’re socially caused and not just something internal to ourselves. Unfortunately they do have to actually want for themselves to exit white supremacy. You will have to pull out all the stops, use every tool at your disposal, and hold other white peoples’ hands under the faucet until they finally begin to realize that their attachment to whiteness is what’s actually causing their distress. Destruction AND creation: we have to destroy the unconscious and unchallenged white-bodied perception of the world, but also help them regulate themselves and develop in a way that is NOT returning to white supremacy. For more on this creative component, see the nearby article on communist effervescence.
Race isn’t going to abolish itself. Even if it takes generations, we still have to do the work ourselves. The remainder of this article will serve as an announcement of sorts on how we can go about doing that work: On or before January 1st, 2026, the Library Biskaabiiyaang will be opened. Biskaabiiyaang is Ojibwe for “returning to ourselves.” At first this org will be little more than an alumni association for the Biskaabiiyaang Collective student org on campus, but the intention is to grow it into a fully fledged literary society.
This collective will always be Indigenous-led, but its primary goal is to turn white-bodied persons into weapons-of-cracker-destruction. Or more accurately: to help them turn themselves into antiracist and anticolonial leaders. This collective cannot practice what Paulo Freire would call the banking model of education, in which your heads are an empty space for us to fill with whatever we want. Instead this process must be at least somewhat self-directed by white-bodied people. There are far too many topics for any one person to cover everything, so one of our first tasks is to help you find one or more places to specialize in.
If not before, by January 1st we will have our first group readings planned. Only articles at first, but soon book chapters and hopefully not long after some of us will have chosen our first full-length book to read together. To those interested in joining: know that you will be expected to write something (hopefully several things). Everyone living on (or visiting) the Keweenaw Peninsula will always have access to the published work of this collective for free, but we also need to begin building a mutual aid fund of our own, to ensure Black and Indigenous peoples can afford to live and are supported in kind for helping white-bodied people deal with breaking whiteness.
One day it will be truly unthinkable that anyone could ever share a planet with capitalists, with landlords, with cops. Help us drag that day closer. Help us crack the sky.