Anarchist Superheroes

Thrashing_chomsky
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Submitted by Thrashing_chomsky on 1 December, 2007 - 15:05.

This is too far fetched to go into Thought, but I wouldn't mind a bit of serious banter on the implications of superpowers in radical groups, but mainly I'm thinking of making an Anarchist superhero team comic for my zine.
I'm either goin to make it a speachless comic with some serious revolutionary action / 'the big day' or one where the superpowers are just a minor part and that the main issue is the fact that ita a group of Anarchists with widely varying opinions on means and ways and that the plot could just be the conflict of ideas and how to solve them if you can.
Etc: An ALF'er, a CrimeThink kid, an old Class War stalwart, an academic who speaks over everyones heads, a Black Bloccer who hates the academic, etc etc...

and what powers would be coolest? And how did they get them? a vanguard alien race? evolution?

So far I've thought up:

A primmo who got involved in a car accident that killed off his personality leaving just the bits John Zerzan wants- the mind of a mad dog and heightened senses. Fond of rumaging head-first in skips.

Someone who can understand electronics by touch and command them by voice. The perfect hacker.

Any more you can suggest?

Anyone know any lit thats similar to Anarchism arguments for and against, but soley for Anarchists of different angles... wait a mo- thats LibCom!

magnifico "rehabilitating"
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1 December, 2007 - 15:26

the computer one could get his/her powers from having created the perfect computer, or artificial intelligence of something, and so has robots and shit to help

the Class War one could have got their powers from a god (probably allah, but be careful you don't get beheaded) who got fed up with them constantly slagging them off and gave them powers to prove they exist.

the alf'er would obviously get theirs from being bitten by a mutant animal (or perhaps having sex with it) and adopting some of the characteristics of that animal spiderman fashion

the primmo should be into wicca and shit but it actually works hence their powers

you could have a syndicalist who has the power to channel the energies of many people, so they can't do anything on their own but if they are among a crowd of pissed-off people or if there are loads of people all over the world thinking of them and whatever cause they are involved in they can channel this energy into superhuman strength and stuff. they could have had the power given to them by the ghost of some famous dead anarchist

the button "jesus christ, john, have you actually even read any marx?"
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1 December, 2007 - 15:37

Bitten by a radioactive homosexual, Jack developed a complete inability to interact with women. Accompanied by his trusty sidekick revol68 (half man, half baby owl), he is doomed to roam the world, in search of socially awkward situations.

jef costello "Beautiful, just like Nuremburg"
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1 December, 2007 - 15:42

Superted, and his special magic word was obviously Mohammed.

jef costello "Beautiful, just like Nuremburg"
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1 December, 2007 - 15:43

And what about Bike sex man, or Incest man and paedo boy?

Thrashing_chomsky
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1 December, 2007 - 17:23

I've thought how deep this could get- if I use arguments from Libcom, old lit and the few good things CrimeThink have to say, directly into the script.

For example I've thought up a character whos ability is to go completely fucking murderously insane, like "8 Days later fingers trough the eye-socket teeth gnashing style, with hightened strength and senses-
but its also a curse which harms the innocent [cos they lose all moral judgement] and also puts strain on the Superhero's body which can prove potentially fatal-
this can be used to highlight Burn-out, over-strenuating your energies and control over self.

welshboy "...a stain upon the heroic history of anarchism."
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1 December, 2007 - 17:27
Thrashing_chomsky wrote:
and what powers would be coolest? And how did they get them? a vanguard alien race?

The Posadists beat you to this one!

Thrashing_chomsky
Posts: 150 Joined: 03-06-07 Location: Leeds
1 December, 2007 - 17:37

*Runs to wikipedia*

Incidentally, I've decided its defo gonna be an alien race known simpley as 'The Vanguard'

*Reads Wiki's entry for Posadists*

Oh no, not them fucking tin-foil hat-donning trolls... I'd rather live in a tree with Primmos...

j.rogue "Not as good as cops."
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1 December, 2007 - 17:48
Thrashing_chomsky wrote:
For example I've thought up a character whos ability is to go completely fucking murderously insane, like "8 Days later fingers trough the eye-socket teeth gnashing style, with hightened strength and senses-
but its also a curse which harms the innocent [cos they lose all moral judgement] and also puts strain on the Superhero's body which can prove potentially fatal-

It's called PCP.

Devrim "Enternasyonalist Komünist Sol"
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1 December, 2007 - 18:06
Thrashing_chomsky wrote:
*Runs to wikipedia*

Incidentally, I've decided its defo gonna be an alien race known simpley as 'The Vanguard'

*Reads Wiki's entry for Posadists*

Oh no, not them fucking tin-foil hat-donning trolls... I'd rather live in a tree with Primmos...

John Sullivan wrote:
Revolutionary Workers Party (Posadas)

WHEN the two largest tendencies in the Fourth International united in 1963 (the American SWP and the Mandel tendency), this produced the (customary) splits within both groups. The SWP lost the British SLL and what became the Spartacist tendency. The Mandelites lost one of their most important South American leaders – Posadas.

The story of Posadism in South America is bloody, while in Europe it is bizarre. The Belgium and Spanish sections flirted with the idea that flying saucers were emissaries for a higher socialist consciousness in some other galaxy.

Curiously, for a 1960s tendency, Posadism was never Maoist. It took the Russian side on the Peking–Moscow split. It argues that the proletariat and the oppressed generally are everywhere spontaneously moving towards Trotskyism. All that is needed is a revolutionary leadership to give this movement direction.

The RWP’s line is reiterated in their paper Red Flag, the core of which was always an article by J. Posadas, allegedly shouted into a tape recorder in a suburb of Montevideo, and rushed to his three supporters throughout the world (always the same article). Posadas has died, but has left a number of tapes.

The RWP are Labour Party entrists. Another of their distinctive demands – that the Russian leadership must not be side-tracked by pacifist deviations, but must launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike – is generally played down when canvassing.

Assessment: If you get frustrated with the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ reluctance to name the date for Armageddon, then the RWP might be your cup of tea.

Strength: about a dozen people

Devrim

Thrashing_chomsky
Posts: 150 Joined: 03-06-07 Location: Leeds
1 December, 2007 - 18:27

Next I want some contentious issues that you feel need to be aired by multiple sides that affect Anarchist circles.

Eg:

Consensus Versus Majoritive Democracy
Justfiable use of violence
Class boundaries
Climate change, lack of Class in movement thereof.
Dealing with the pigs
Unions, Scabbing
Animal Rights

And also I need sources of said arguments that are from different angles so I can fit them in with different characters.

Cheers.

the button "jesus christ, john, have you actually even read any marx?"
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1 December, 2007 - 18:50

If you base it on libcom, all you'd need would be the two characters, & then they'd just call each other cocks for 20-odd pages. Simple. cool

Tacks "in it to win it"
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1 December, 2007 - 19:09
jef costello wrote:
Superted, and his special magic word was obviously Mohammed.

holy fucking win grin

lol

arf
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2 December, 2007 - 13:46

im guessing the one woman character will have the power of invisibility.

revol68 ""Identity is a dream pathetic in its absurdity. You dream of being yourself when you've nothing better to do""
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2 December, 2007 - 13:50
arf wrote:
im guessing the one woman character will have the power of invisibility.

No her superpower will be passive agressive nagging and manipulation.

arf
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2 December, 2007 - 13:51

like jean grey?

revol68 ""Identity is a dream pathetic in its absurdity. You dream of being yourself when you've nothing better to do""
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2 December, 2007 - 13:52
arf wrote:
like jean grey?

grin

IrrationallyAngry
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2 December, 2007 - 15:56

You could always borrow "The Anarchist" from X-Statix.

ein auslander
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2 December, 2007 - 17:41

i was in a coffee shop the other day and overheard a group of psychology lecturers, they were talking about the notion of anti-hero, the yournger generation being incresingly sceptical about their elders - how corporate businesses manipulate their personality so that they 'fit in' they are forced to reject their creative side - they adopt the personality of the business. and how this makes them resentful and underfulfilled so they react against it.

redyred "A Jitney Elopement"
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2 December, 2007 - 21:07

Yeah, psychology lecturers do talk a lot of crap.

rebelworker "the rabble"
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2 December, 2007 - 22:48

I had similar ideas about a class struggle gang of superheros, only they dont have super powers per say, just special abilities,

Like for example, he city worker who can basically get anything done or go anywhere due to his day to day craft and huge social network of people who basically make everything in a major city work...

Or the service worker who cna alos get anywhere and can dsrupt the lives of the powerful by "loosing" their laundry at just the right moment, or giving the evil henchmen a bad case of diariah due to a poorly cooked meal...

the posibilities are endless...

The pope was going to be one of the major villans in my story, except he was a martial arts master with a huge evil organisation at his disposal (not so much of a stretch)...

Jess "The heart of a heartless world."
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14 December, 2007 - 00:32

Superhero Jack