Trigger Warning: discussion of thoughts of suicide (and reasons not to commit it which were/are convincing to me)
All in stray thoughts
Trigger Warning: discussion of thoughts of suicide (and reasons not to commit it which were/are convincing to me)
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
Fascists are strategically building a “parallel economy” in a way that has superficial similarities to the left’s strategy of building dual power. What's the difference, and how does this affect our analysis of building dual power?
The only way to guarantee working class dignity is through working class power.