Part 4
Grief & Healing Under the Capitalist Mode of Production
The practice of proletarian and revolutionary grief. Avoiding self-harming styles of grieving.
The only way out is through. We must win.
All in leftism
Part 4
Grief & Healing Under the Capitalist Mode of Production
The practice of proletarian and revolutionary grief. Avoiding self-harming styles of grieving.
The only way out is through. We must win.
Part 3
Grief & Healing Under the Capitalist Mode of Production
A more materialist, pragmatist view of loss. Understanding our grief, so we might see a path forward.
Part 1
Grief & Healing Under the Capitalist Mode of Production
Capitalism imposes so much loss and death on us. How can we handle all this grief—so we can carry on and achieve a world where such deep suffering is not built into our social relations?
Eugene V. Debs, David Graeber, Michael Brooks, Jean Paul Sartre
On some benefits of writing, for self-clarification and communal struggle
Comrades and organizers would be more effective if we used a language of Non-Violent Communication rather than the language of bourgeois rights. Doing so would meet people’s needs more effectively in cases of interpersonal conflict, and would add nuance and clarity to our material analysis.
the doomer’s historical materialism:
“My ultimate fear—the scariest thing I can imagine—is that the democratizing promise of technological advancement will always be scuttled by the lockstep developments in technologies that strengthen and obscure the social domination of the ruling class.”
Let’s be materialists about this.
Deontology morally supports the development of meaningful freedoms, and Marxism aims to do just that in practice.
Does the idealism of deontology make it incompatible with Marxism? (No, but Marxists should be materialists, and get the strategic benefits of engaging in a materialist analysis.)
“If only everyone else held the same views as me! Then we’d have a world without exploitation that meets all of our needs! This means that if we simply make our arguments more forcefully, more convincingly, more sympathetically—then we will have a mass movement of the working class!” — Idealists
How do we effectively engage in “praxis”? What are organizing practices for our theory to effectively inform our action, or for reflections on our actions to inform our theory?