Why do anarchists always drink fruit tea?
I spent the weekend in Edinburgh, staying with a great guy with a lot of experience of anarchist organising in Edinburgh (the walls were covered with anti-poll tax posters and the rooms were filled with boxes dating back years full of Edinburgh Claimants Union documents), who is now working on Chiapas solidarity stuff (Edinburgh and Glasgow are twinned with the Zapatista Autonomous Municipality “16th February�).
Anyway, it took a while to find some tea among the various fruit infusions. But it didn’t take long to find the anarchism: almost the first thing I saw when I turned up was a copy of the now-legendry autonomist Marxist collection Semiotext(e) Italy: Autonomia/Post-political politics, which impressed me greatly, as I’ve never seen a copy in the flesh before or, for that matter, met anyone who was connected to those networks back when the collection was published (in 1980).
And, as everyone knows, the answer to the question above is: “Because proper tea is theft.�
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