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I don’t spot the difference between this and how most modern day corporations are operated:
- “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
- “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
My company has been fighting fascism this whole time. Wow!
The real
treasureAntifa are thefriends we madecorporations we worked for along the way!Your corporation has been fascism this whole time and middle management has been fighting it!
This sounds like how the federal government is operating from the top down as of this year.
Yeah. They want to destroy government.
Maybe America DOES fight Facism
Remember when reading this that it was written for a time long past. There are cameras and other electronic tracking everywhere now. Even if you can avoid detection, much of the methodology described here just doesn’t apply to modern machines, telecommunications, and other systems.
But read it all anyway. (It’s not that long.) The mindset you will need to employ is plainly communicated and remains valid today. Be observant, be creative, be careful, and !resist@fedia.io.
The modern approach for grinding everything to a halt is to push for migration to M365 in your workplace.
You jest, but you’re not wrong.
Pushing to “improve processes and efficiency” for as many people as possible, where that requires changes to what people do - and especially changes to the applications they use - means a whole lot of retraining and mistakes. Office workers are hardly different than factory line workers. They do the same thing over and over every day, and if anything changes, they’re flummoxed.
This also serves to reveal more clearly which workers are more and less adaptable, so that you can focus any of your efforts. Either get more in the way of the more productive people, or take advantage of less productive people to effect a larger error.
Edit: And if your “improved processes” are complicated enough, this gives other people who want to resist more opportunities to employ malicious compliance.
Not for a moment did I believe the comment was made in jest
Bankrupt them through AWS.
Microsoft Teams is the only communication platform allowed
Oopsie, accidentally crowdstriked 😉
(Yes the crowd is gonna go on strike too)
Lift and shift to Azure!
For a more modern take, there are other repositories in a similar vein: https://specificsuggestions.com/share/EN/9836.html
Some are very simple and excusable for the average office worker
Use manual page numbers, so they have to be readjusted when page order changes
Crimp (damage by bending) the Ethernet cables
Send email content as images rather than as text
Crimp (damage by bending) the Ethernet cables.
I’m siding with the fascists on this one.
I was expecting something subtle, some sort of resistance from within type stuff.
Warehouses, barracks, offices, hotels, and factory buildings are outstanding targets for simple sabotage. They are extremely susceptible to damage, especially by fire.
Not so much.
Proof that CIA knows what the cure for fascism is, and yet chooses not to ever since Reagan.
The CIA was created to protect capital interests while pretending it’s for the American people… They are like the heart of global fascism. Them and the federal reserve banking system.
So many countries ended up with fascist autocrats with the help of the CIA. Way before Reagan.
Why stop fascists when you can enable them worldwide and locally that helps secure funding and work for you?
Why would you not want to have more threats to encourage congress to fund your habits and slowly erode the rights of the Americans you claim to defend?
The CIA started hating fascists due to the war effort but learned they had the same idea just different strategies.
The CIA wasn’t around for WW2, that was the OSS and that agency was dissolved after the war.
This is honestly the first time I’m wondering why, exactly, they got rid of it.
While it wasn’t the CIA, the OSS was basically the WW2’s CIA, and then the OSS set up what became the CIA. The OSS also helped Operation Paperclip go into effect, escorting Nazis into the US Government and its allies.
Is the idea here just to be kind of a jerk?
If so, my time has come…
Be the boulder you were always meant to be.
You magnificient bastard!
Amazing. Thanks.
Resistance from within? You think Ron Swanson is toppling dictatorships?
What is Ron Swansons ideology? I’ve got a taste from watching season 1 and 2 but not a full picture.
Ron Swanson is supposed to be the archetype libertarian.
I’ve never seen him talk about the age of consent even once so I think they might have missed the mark.
Underrated comment. #SwansonWasAPsyop
Swanson was what libertarians think they come off as, and not what they actually are - Which is a disappointment to all people, always, on either side, of every issue. Keep driving on those publicly funded roads though and using that fire department during everywhere, libertarians. Oh, what’s that, your sovereign cruise ship is overflowing with shit and sinking? Well at least you and the boat didn’t have any contracts between you. Swim free, little buddy. Be sure to refuse that coast guard rescue, don’t let them dictate how (if) you live!
I hope you survive, so that you can live to purchase your weight in “decentralized” currency, sold by… The government?
Yeah, that’s fair.
Can this be applied to ICE? Where are they staying in your city? Where are they keeping their trucks and gear? Where does it come from? Where is their dispatch? When ICE arrests someone, what’s the logistics chain to get the person away from your city?
Hell yeah! This is great! I’m glad I’m not the only one sharing it around to friends and neighbors. True resistance is not the flashy stuff; it’s a whole of society approach to stop fascists in their tracks. True resistance is the sum total of small acts to inconvenience and impede a fascist.
This, plus a bit of the 1939-1945 strategy for dealing with fascists
various anarchist cookbooks also recommended
Anarchist cookbook is a poisoned well, copies in circulation are modified to be self-hazardous
I have an original in my garage somewhere, I should find it and scan it for distribution…
I’ve long wanted an unadulterated copy of that
Huh, I did not know that…
That book is dangerous, flip through TM-31-210 instead
TIL half the people at my workplace have been reading this book for the last 2 decades.
- “Insist on doing everything through ‘channels.’ Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.”
- “Make ‘speeches.’ Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate ‘patriotic’ comments.”
- “Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.” “Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.”
- “‘Misunderstand’ orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.”
- “In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.”
- “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
- “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
- “Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.”
- “Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.”
- “Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job”
- “Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.”
- “Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.”
But … but we’re already doing every single one of them 🥺
- “To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
- “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
- “Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.”
Holy shit, my workplace must be trying to sabotage fascism…
Holy shit it’s AGILE…
I can’t upvote this enough…
“hey, boss man created a JIRA ticket for the revolution, they wanna know how many story points we think that will be.” 😂
I work in the development office of a municipality.
I was made for this.
I really need to keep that spiderman meme in my back pocket, but this was also my first thought
Bruh this is my leadership team at work!
Please tell me that’s not actually what they tell you to do.
Where’s the bombs and general strikes?
Almost half of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. A strike means they can’t feed or house their kids. Corporations have Americans by the balls and they know it.
Nope. Soup kitchens are cheap and easy.
US Americans are just too stupid to turn to their neighbor and work together
Nope. Soup kitchens are cheap and easy.
Yeah, so is eating out of a dumpster. Jesus Christ. Have you ever even talked to a homeless person?
I spent years eating dumpstered food when I lived in the US. You’re proving my point.
Have you ever even volunteered with Food Not Bombs?
Did you feed your kids out of dumpsters? And if so, were any of them autistic kids who would only be willing to eat things they approve of and starve otherwise? I hope not.
But I’m guessing your suggestion is either force-feed them or let them starve.
Also, do you know one of the reasons they take your kids away from you and put them in abusive foster care? Because you’re homeless.
Basically your whole idea is advocating child abuse.
Amazing how many people here think you should put the welfare of others over your own children.
Its clear you’ve never dumpster dived before. Its usually wrapped in food grade containers. Completely sanitary. And good stuff, like super fancy expensive pastries.
And food not bombs works with restaurants and groceries to get the food before they even put it in a dumpster, just before its thrown out.
Seriously, please find your local chapter of Food Not Bombs and volunteer. You would learn a lot. Feeding people is not an issue in the US.
They’re talking about establishing mutual aid networks, not relying on existing ones.
Soup kitchens are not mutual aid networks and now they’re saying eat out of dumpsters.
My guy, food not bombs explicitly is a mutal aid network and they’re specifically discrediting your attempt to discredit them because they have eaten out of dumpsters. But sure, it’s everybody else that’s wildly out of touch in this conversation.
Soup kitchen covering people’s health insurance and shit now? You know damn well how much people’s jobs mean to them and their livelihoods.
I agree with you; but it’s very easy to say, challenge level impossible to do.
General strikes include doctors too. They could provide free healthcare, yes.
Which doctor can provide free chemo if I have cancer? Which doctor can provide a free MRI if I have a stroke? Do they keep those things in their home?
You don’t mind children dying, and apparently you don’t mind very sick people dying either.
So how many people do you feel is an acceptable number to die for your cause?
The workers own the hospital. Fuck capital. Just walk in and take it.
So for how much longer would you consider it acceptable for the current system to cause more suffering and death before drastic actions for change are acceptable?
It seems you care more about those who would be hypothetically be harmed than those who are being harmed right now.
I don’t think that those who advocate for mutual aid networks and a general strike are either ignorant or uncaring of the harm that it could cause. I think they believe that the harm caused would be less than the harm already being inflicted by the current system. That said, I think it’s a big ask for people to put themselves and their families at great risk, even if it’s for a good purpose.
The first half
The point of the book is not to blow shit up, but to gum the system up with small actions that have a minimal risk. Then organize more people around doing the same.
I get how all parts of this are effective to sabotage an economy and hurt the ambitions of those at the top. But, as a regular person working within the system, I choose not to discriminate against or complain about other individual workers just trying to get through their day.
That seems counter productive. The best way to resist the oligarchs can’t be to fuck with the other poor people we’re trying to help.
Those not working to dismantle fascism are fascists.
Hey now I didn’t suggest not working against the system and the fascists. I pointed out that targeting the morale and well-being of individuals close to you might not be the best use of one’s energy, assuming underlying motivation is to make the world better for yourself and others.
And you can sabotage the work without being hostile towards an individual. That individual is somebody you should be getting on your side.
Youd be much better off trying to unionize your coworkers, that would be far more damaging to the fascist ubercapitalists, and much more beneficial for the workers morale.
Short term pain for long term freedom is needed. If people had your point of view during the American civil war, you’d be the Confederate states of the US.
Every day people are the ones enabling and holding up fascism, not the uniforms, not the leadership, just people like you and your loved ones. Without you fascists have no power. Pressuring those around you, sabotaging their work if it’s helpful to the fascists, socially isolating those that refuse to help are the effective steps to take. If you don’t take them, you’re as bad as any fash with a gun or suit.
Most points are more focused on decreasing workplace efficiency by ways other than lowering morale.
I wonder what the purge at our intelligence agencies will be like. They were never good agencies, they did a lot of shitty stuff, but they did it because “America”. Now that the Chief Cheeto is in charge, who has insulted the USIC on many occasions, and cozies up to dictators and Nazis, there have to be a not insignificant number of USIC people that want nothing to with Combover in Chief, so they’ll get the boot to be replaced with some jackbooted NKVD Commissariat trump sycophants.
It’s relatively easy to envision.
Assume each agency (not just the 3-letter ones, any) had X% of fascists and fascist-friendly people. The other 100%-X% will be fired. So just the X% remain.
On the one hand, the agency is now severly crippled as it lacks key personell, and probably the firings aren’t evenly spread through departments and key positions, meaning some aspects don’t work at all any more (separating air traffic is one, for a simple example), while others still mostly work. On the other hand, all remaining aspects are now 100% fascist in their nature, and will always take the fascist option if one presents itself as anyone who would not do so has been removed.
Milton was the best: playing music that distracts your coworkers and reduces productivity, engaging management and taking up their time about quibbles, muttering incoherently leading to lost time due to miscommunication, stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and setting the fucking building on fire.
Be like Milton.
I believe you have my stapler…
Just a coincidence. President Musk would never allow fascism to take hold in the U.S.
Haha, yes… sabotaging checks notes Fascism. That’s what the CIA is historically very good at.
This was when they were the OSS and our enemy was literally fascists
Yeah, it’s called taking out the competition. If you wanna win a race you gotta know where to throw the banana peels.
The book on sabotaging socialism and democratic rule is longer and more heavily cited than the OED
I wouldn’t go that far. It’s pretty simple we are Our Own Worst enemies. They just have to get us in fighting amongst ourselves and that’s pretty much it.
They’re not pro-fascism any more than they’re anti-fascism. They’re extremely pro-doing-what-we-fucking-tell-you, and anti-not-furthering-US-interests.
Fascists are typically good at doing what someone stronger than them orders, so they’re easy to work with. Anyone who’s willing to ignore what needs to be done in favor of someone else’s agenda and their own personal ends is viable though.
As someone who’s been spreading this since my Fark days I’m glad the kids found it.
Hello fellow Farker.
Ignore this document. It’s a plant.
It suggests filing metal containers that contain gasoline. They just want to see who shows up in ERs or local police dept with specific injuries or vandalism charges.
Edit: the anarchist cookbook that circulated in the 90s and 2000s was a false flag that was intended to remove fingers, hands, and entire faces. It was a funded attempt to get ‘smart people’ to blow their hands off. The doc posted by OP has the same hallmark copy-paste from reputable sources mixed with advice from chaos agents.
It’s eighty years old. It’s a different world. That doesn’t make this bullshit at the time.
The physics of combustion and gas phases has not changed appreciably on planet earth until atmosphere arrived. Gasoline vapor will ignite if you grind metal on metal nearby.
Real chads flush tiny screw bits down their landlords toilet
What’s the chemistry there?
Grinding metal can create large voltage potentials which can create arcs which can ignite gasoline vapor which can cause an explosion.
More to the point, i’m commenting on semi competent text followed by suicide advice. I stopped reading to make my previous post. I’ll pick back up to see if there are any more obvious points.
What the royal shitballs are you on about?! Grinding creates sparks from friction, have you never used a damn anglegrinder?
You’re missing the point. Shearing creates voltage potential.
I haven’t read that bit. I misread filing as filling.
Haha, no worries. It’s a manual for ending your life.
It’s too outdated to be really useful. This just makes life hell for people, not stopping fascism. What we need is the field manual on how to make fascists fear for their lives enough that they crush themselves.
A lot of this would be good for fucking up capitalism, but we are way past that being an option.
Unfortunately, “making life hell for people” is part of how you stop any government from working. Reduce efficiency, increase disorder and confusion, and make people angry enough to actually want to tear down the system.
Governments where everyone is chipper and basically have their needs met don’t collapse, and people don’t fight to collapse them.
It’s like the people who say that protests shouldn’t inconvenience anyone. The inconvenience is the point.
Happy people don’t kneel cops in the Dunkin donuts parking lot.
If people are dumb enough to think inflation was 100% Bidens fault and electing a 2016 President will bring back 2016 prices then they’ll blame empty napkin dispensers and clogged toilets on Trump.
People are too dumb to associate protesters in the street to a problem that can be fixed by the government. The rulers want you to think that protesting works, because it makes the fight between the people. They want you inconveniencing on your level, so that they can make us fight each other.
You will never convince people to tear down the system by screaming in a street.
I just don’t think that history aligns with that view. Arab spring is an example just from the past decade of a series of protest movements that escalated into armed rebellion.
Actually going and looking at the handy list of revolutions shows that it’s pretty easy to find protest movements that escalate like that.This article in particular has the preamble that kind of sums it up: ”This article is about the nonviolent protests. For the ongoing civil war, see Myanmar civil war (2021–present)."
People in the US don’t currently connect protestors to the problem because they’re not angry. At some point you don’t see protesters as “them” yelling and making noise, and you join them because you’re also angry.
Revolution and rebellion aren’t polite and orderly. Thinking you can scare fascists in power into behaving isn’t going to work. Part of their entire “thing” is that people are a danger and they need to crack down on dangerous elements to keep society functioning. If society stops functioning and gets materially worse without a balaclava wearing gang of insurgents throwing cartoon spherical black powder bombs, people see the people in charge as the problem and are more willing to do a Mussolini.
History in the US aligns. If it slid back, it didn’t work. And, everything is sliding, therefore it did not create lasting change. The time for peaceful protesting is over. It’s time for action.
First, who was talking about peaceful protesting? You don’t go from nothing to full on revolution in one step.
Second, if the only thing that matters is that it worked in the US, then protest has driven far more change than violence. The civil rights movement ended segregation. The labor movement won numerous labor victories, but when they fought they were largely just shot. Last I checked, we still have weekends and segregation never came back. Those are the two I can think of without looking in the US.
On the flip side, every attempt at abrupt violent change has failed. Without widespread popular support they just don’t even get off the ground.
We aren’t at the “nothing” phase. But hey, we’ve got weekends!!! Let’s be happy for what we have and just let the rulers take everything while we quietly argue amongst ourselves, as planned.
Wow, you’re just determined to hear “you need popular support” as “do nothing” aren’t you?
You said protests never work, that they never work in the US, when they work in the US the effects don’t last, and now “it can last but it’s not enough”.
Outside of a coup, small groups of people just don’t overthrow or take over governments. You need a lot of people, and happy people don’t join the angry mob.
If you want to change the system, you need people who currently like the system to stop liking it, and the more you want them to participate in changing it, the more you need them to dislike it.
I’m pretty sure that the people at the companies I’ve worked at for the last 15 years have been following this playbook the whole time.
I think that’s kind of the point - because this behavior is fairly common, malicious use of it is extremely hard to root out, and can cause a wonderful amount of friction in an organization.
I had that manual for a while. Time to really pay attention…
