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Tag: marxism
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The campist says “conditions are not ideal, but we must conform to them and put aside ideological considerations,” as if the pressure to conform could ever escape what is latent in choosing an opposition. If you oppose a pole within capitalism, you either have ideological considerations for doing so, which necessitate considerations of praxis, or…
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We’re not challenging the world in successive steps on a linear trajectory over 500 years. We’re not fighting Israel, so we can move on to fighting to US after, and face capitalism only at the end of the journey. We fight Israel to fight the US to fight capitalism in one motion. No stages. Everything…
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The left side of this video still is what is granted to the right side and vice versa to keep them locked in capitalist relations without revolt. The worker can at least spend, and the consumer is sustained from their labor. This ends up being unfreedom on both ends. They are both a consequence of…
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I would never claim that a demand for violence against the system should be off-limits. I think at any point in US history, or in the history of capitalism, violence would have been justified, both in terms of everyday self-defense, and in overcoming the system for something beyond it. You would be right to say…
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Society at a structural level imposes a kind of violence on us and into our ideological practice. Human subjectivity itself, independent of social norms, has a structure that sets us up for antagonism, although I think that is something that could be ameliorated to a large degree in a different society. I think successfully addressing…
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“You ask me what the English workers think about colonial policy. Well, exactly the same as they think about politics in general: the same as what the bourgeois think. There is no workers’ party here, there are only Conservatives and Liberal-Radicals, and the workers gaily share the feast of England’s monopoly of the world market…
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I have no desire to uphold bourgeois ideals around personal mental health because I have been crazy on their terms my whole life and have been attacked by that same system the whole time. The rationality I will speak of in terms of social organization is my weapon against that system. I am not giving…
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In times of legitimate social anger, expressed instantaneously and spontaneously in reaction to events, we must carefully always assess the forces of liberal recuperation. The raw expression of events in the aftermath of injustice are always given a mediation by the system that encloses it within the liberal ideological imagination. Events are captured by liberals…
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On the left, people rarely use “voluntarism” as an attack on others in a responsible manner. What I think is a worthwhile political subjectivity will be hard to explain as something other than voluntaristic, without inviting an attack from determinists, or from Marxists who feel the correct plan has already been handed down from Lenin,…
Forces At Work 