Revolutionary Baggage
Free Soviets
12-09-2005, 18:46
continuing the proud tradition of selling the revolution, eastpak has released their 'anarchy' backpack line. so i need to know, come the backpack revolution where will you stand?
http://europe.eastpak.com/products/_ana/a_rebel_l.jpg rebel
http://europe.eastpak.com/products/_ana/a_radical.jpg radical
http://europe.eastpak.com/products/_ana/a_reformist.jpg reformist (haha)
http://europe.eastpak.com/products/_ana/a_protester.gif protester
http://europe.eastpak.com/products/_ana/a_activist.jpg activist
http://europe.eastpak.com/products/_ana/a_rioter_s.jpg rioter s.
http://europe.eastpak.com/products/_ana/a_rioter_l.jpg rioter l.
http://europe.eastpak.com/products/start_p/anarchy.html
Liskeinland
12-09-2005, 18:48
Anarchism sux0rz. Got any "Stalinist Authoritarian" backpacks? (no, I'm not really)
How about 'stupid leftie hippy'?(Just kidding. I am t3h left-'//ing!)
Free Soviets
12-09-2005, 18:59
Anarchism sux0rz. Got any "Stalinist Authoritarian" backpacks?
all stalinsts will be purged, along with any backpacks they may have with them.
Free Soviets
12-09-2005, 19:00
How about 'stupid leftie hippy'?
i'm pretty sure that's one of those hemp sacks without any features like, um, zippers
MaedinSai
12-09-2005, 19:18
Well I don't know about you but I'm always on the ready for the wack snack attack, so I carry *my* anarchist cookbook and sandwiches in a Straight-Edge style Jansport backpack.
*snork*
(Pure Rock Fury man, *lol*)
Refused Party Program
12-09-2005, 19:26
I'm a big fan of the record bag so I voted "radical" which should rightly be called r0x0r.
AlanBstard
12-09-2005, 19:28
I'm a devoted follower of the British Conservative Party.... but those bags kind of make me wish I wasn't....*sob*
Praetonia
12-09-2005, 19:30
Why would a real Anarchist buy a bag from a corporation? Wouldn't they knit one out of their own hair or something?
On the bags - meh. They look ok, but I dont see what they have to do with anarchy.
Cute little girls
12-09-2005, 19:35
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG
The bastards are commercialising anarchism!!!!
The first one to wear a bag like that will get a left hook by a real anarchist
WTF how could anyone seriously wear that? it's a cotradictio in terminis
I've said it before, punk is sold up, commercialised and dead
Free Soviets
12-09-2005, 19:57
On the bags - meh. They look ok, but I dont see what they have to do with anarchy.
everything. just like how drinking mountain dew is intimately related to snowboarding and mountain biking, backpacks are intimately related to anarchism. the circle a stands for "anarchy is backpacks", an old slogan of proudhon's. sacco and vanzetti were lynched by the state for their fashionable over-the-shoulder bags. the friends of durruti opened up spain's most successful backpack-based collective during the civil war.
and who could forget emma goldman's famous quote?
"go into the streets where the rich dwell. ask for backpacks. if they do not give you backpacks, ask for twenty bucks. if they do not give you backpacks or twenty bucks, then take their backpacks."
Praetonia
12-09-2005, 19:59
So... backpacks designed, packaged and advertised by big business for anarchists would actually be bought by actual anarchists, and not just students trying to look trendy?
Free Soviets
12-09-2005, 20:12
the circle a stands for "anarchy is backpacks", an old slogan of proudhon's.
but wait, you say. wouldn't it make more sense to have the A contained within a B then? ah, but it is. it's a highly stylized B, to make it easier to spray paint quickly. it's like a rounded off D with a line throught the middle - a line which just happens to be reused as the cross for the A. in fact, it is incorrect to call it a 'circle A' at all. the proper term is the B'ed A or 'backpacked A'
Voreioditika Edaphi
12-09-2005, 20:27
Well... at least they carry stuff.
CthulhuFhtagn
12-09-2005, 20:27
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG
The bastards are commercialising anarchism!!!!
The first one to wear a bag like that will get a left hook by a real anarchist
WTF how could anyone seriously wear that? it's a cotradictio in terminis
I've said it before, punk is sold up, commercialised and dead
Need I point you to anarcho-capitalism?
Boscorrosive
12-09-2005, 20:46
I prefer the Activist myself. Lots of different pockets for the tools of war.
Now we just need an anarchist chess set. One side has capitalists for kings and those people pushing for creationism in school for bishops and the other has workers for all the pieces.
Praetonia
12-09-2005, 21:01
Just two full rows of pawns...
Free Soviets
12-09-2005, 21:01
Now we just need an anarchist chess set. One side has capitalists for kings and those people pushing for creationism in school for bishops and the other has workers for all the pieces.
haha, chess where one side can't ever be in checkmate. i likes it.
lol @ backpacks
man that is funny, if i were an anarchist myself i would be outraged
but obviously it sells
Free Soviets
12-09-2005, 22:10
Just two full rows of pawns...
but can they truly be pawns without and royals or clergy ordering them around?
Praetonia
12-09-2005, 22:24
but can they truly be pawns without and royals or clergy ordering them around?
Yes, because they're largely unskilled and most likely rebelled from a different heirarchy.