Mutual A

got on to reading about the anarchist movement after the end of the first international and its interesting to see how it evolved from the "anti-authoritarian international" to a network across europe that operated in a polycentric fashion, with multiple overlapping groups in various cities

this shift was a conscious move on the part of those who took part in the anti-authoritarian international in response to repression triggered by "propaganda of the deed" (assassinations), but also by the evolution of practical anarchist organizing triggering ideological development

reading james burnham tell leon trotsky, who he was formerly friends with, that he needs to touch grass and read actual science/math instead of dialectics and i am weeping for our present reactionaries and how fall they've fallen www.marxists.org/history/etol...

this is why one of my dark horse predictions is that we'll see the rise of "activist liberals", people committed to liberal aspirations who recognize that to get what they want they'll have to get serious about acting outside formal institutions and structures

it's funny that despite calling my website url "wedontagree" (in anticipation of me writing a book titled We Don't Agree on Capitalism which im still planning on eventually writing) only like 2 of people who've met me in australia actually know of my online writing i am conflict avoidant irl

i've hidden the full scope of my beliefs in person. people dont know im not just opposed to parts of eg marxism but fundamentally think core assumptions are wrong and hold back any serious anticapitalism and i dont want to rock the boat and call into question friendships

it's funny that despite calling my website url "wedontagree" (in anticipation of me writing a book titled We Don't Agree on Capitalism which im still planning on eventually writing) only like 2 of people who've met me in australia actually know of my online writing i am conflict avoidant irl

99.9% of what motivates reactionary politics is wrong however i can sympathise who turn to the right out of a Nietzscheian desire for greatness and heroism in an apathetic society i think they could potentially be persuaded to move toward a sincere radicalism this is an effort to do exactly that

im aware of the dangers of encouraging shitty people to join anarchist spaces which is why i was VERY explicit about not giving an inch to ANY motivation other than frustration at widespread apathy, constantly signalling my broader social justice concerns and necessity for readers to change

margret asserts that parts of the right aren't deniers and long for the crueler world that global warming will bring. there's certainly some truth there, but i also wonder how much of it is a consequence of fossil fuel interests finally having meaningful market competition in the form of renewables

"we can't have technocratic elites in power any longer because electrotech is getting so cheap that we can't tip the scales in favor of fossil fuels while still retaining the broader center-right coalition, so i'm going to support the clown fascists"

margret asserts that parts of the right aren't deniers and long for the crueler world that global warming will bring. there's certainly some truth there, but i also wonder how much of it is a consequence of fossil fuel interests finally having meaningful market competition in the form of renewables

look im just saying a proper "scientific socialism" would be more fox-y data driven RCTs to measuring impact of people making conscious interventions instead of hedgehog-y grand theories of where society is going with the intent of getting ahead of where you think things are going

marxists trying to reinvent basic social justice norms from the first principles of "effective class struggle" is so cute the simple truth of the matter is that "class first" types who emphasize how alienating some of these norms are to the majority of the population are right

you can argue that in the long run these fights are ultimately necessary for proletarian revolution, but its hard to draw a straightforward causal chain between the two after all, they weren't necessary for the prior revolutions that marxists appeal to!

marxists trying to reinvent basic social justice norms from the first principles of "effective class struggle" is so cute the simple truth of the matter is that "class first" types who emphasize how alienating some of these norms are to the majority of the population are right

why should a unionized worker male give up the patriarchal position they enjoy within the household bc their wife faces restrictions on employment? (Forging Democracy, Geoff Eley)

marxists trying to reinvent basic social justice norms from the first principles of "effective class struggle" is so cute the simple truth of the matter is that "class first" types who emphasize how alienating some of these norms are to the majority of the population are right

all this stems from collectivist assumptions – there really is something solid to the concept of the "working class" such that it could become a coherent collective subject that will, thanks to its interests, fight for them over other concerns

marxists trying to reinvent basic social justice norms from the first principles of "effective class struggle" is so cute the simple truth of the matter is that "class first" types who emphasize how alienating some of these norms are to the majority of the population are right

jacobin publishing this isn't actually *that* surprising since they platform much of the left Endnotes OTOH is a bunch of pessimistic leftcoms who nerd out about "value form theory", which argues the problem with capitalism is trade itself them conceding to markets in any form is massive