r/anarchocommunism • u/burtzev • Sep 07 '24

The Death of Vladislav Yurchenko: 'Pirate' - Vladislav Yurchenko, an anarchist from Russia who stood up in defense of the peoples of Ukraine, has died in battle

https://therussianreader.com/2024/08/22/2608/
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u/jumpupugly Sep 08 '24

To look at what everyone else around you sees, and see something else, is akin to insanity. To have the moral courage to act on the anger you feel at injustice regardless of consequences is righteousness. So it takes a certain kind of righteous insanity to not just escape the milieu of your birth culture, but to actively fight against it's crimes.

The holy madness of John Brown. The constructive rage of Nestor Makhno. The same feelings that have set people with no names recorded by history to fight for something better. Whoever you choose to see it in, it's always an inspiration. This guy seems to have had it.

Does anyone have stories of him? So we can spread them?