Inevitably, when critiquing anarchism based on the writings of the most popular currents, the retort is "well, you only looked at some big writers but I know lots of anarchists who would disagree with them". The implication of this is that there is some anarchist essence that the Marxist has failed to understand.
The problem is that there is no essence to speak of, no common thread that meaningfully unites all "anarchists", even if we exclude ancap and adjacent ideologies.
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Inevitably, when critiquing anarchism based on the writings of the most popular currents, the retort is "well, you only looked at some big writers but I know lots of anarchists who would disagree with them". The implication of this is that there is some anarchist essence that the Marxist has failed to understand.
The problem is that there is no essence to speak of, no common thread that meaningfully unites all "anarchists", even if we exclude ancap and adjacent ideologies.
When you think about it it's actually kinda crazy how I'm the only person with all the correct political opinions and everyone else is wrong in some way
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it is so exhausting and childish how much time mls on this website spend competing to say things in the most inflammatory, most callous, most absolutist way possible at all times as though attracting the shocked monocle popping disapproval of liberals was in and of itself a political virtue. ironically very anarchist behaviour
i feel like being turned on by your own body is so agonizingly normal it's so fucked that that one guy made it a whole diagnosis specifically for trans women. and he's not even dead yet
the retrocession or worsening of social conditions is never a straight line and it would be reductive to position any one particular group or issue to be the "first one to fall". the attacks on entire social groups are never single strikes either, quantitative into qualitative etc. you need to look at trends, conditions, internal movements, not a kind of lighthouse that can cut through the idealist fog of taking the whole to be the mere sum of its parts
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9 out of 10 times I see people on here celebrating a new "landmark piece of anti-AI legislation" the legislation in question is inevitably some variation of "we propose making IP laws more restrictive but presented through the language of opposing AI". But that one from germany about holding google liable for the words of its AI overview feature is legitimately good I think. If they actively choose to shove that thing in everyone's face as the first thing they're going to see when they make a google search then they shouldn't be able to dodge accountability for the information it provides with a little "gemini AI can be inaccurate, please remember to double-check information teeheehee" disclaimer.
This might be a stupid question but what do you think about the compatibility of Marxism and human rights?
(asked April 9)
This ask I answered recently contains a good amount of my views on the subject at present:
💬 0 🔁 33 ❤️ 73 · Post by @read-marx-and-lenin · 2 links · Interesting post about Amnesty International, thanks for sharing. Also, very dis
I don't think Marxism is incompatible with human rights in general, but rather I think human rights should be viewed as having a class component. The liberal view is to cast human rights as universal and transhistorical, as ideals that a nation can be more or less aligned with, more or less capable of achieving, but as ultimately unchanging. The historical materialist view, on the other hand, says no, material conditions do not just determine whether or not a nation can achieve certain human rights, but which human rights are necessary in the first place.
The liberal, for instance, might argue that the right to private property is a necessary and inalienable human right, and that restrictions on property constitute a violation of human rights. The Marxist, on the other hand, would argue that while private property may be a necessary right under capitalism, the advancements of socialism supersede that necessity and effect a change in human rights as a result: a right to private property is superseded by a right to collective property, something that would be unachievable under capitalism but becomes achievable under socialism.
Moreover, there is often a liberal emphasis on "equality": while individuals might be unequal in certain respects, they should equally be granted protections via human rights. The liberal would argue that while bourgeois states have not always protected political freedoms for everyone equally, that this doesn't erase the need for those political freedoms, and that the failure of bourgeois nations to meet human rights ideals does not justify the abridging of political freedoms by socialist nations. The Marxist, on the other hand, would argue that the abridging of political freedoms by bourgeois nations is not a failure on their part to meet human rights ideals but in fact a necessary component of the class character of any state; bourgeois nations abridge political freedoms when necessary to protect bourgeois interests, and even when those freedoms are not overtly abridged, bourgeois control over the media and political apparatus ensures that proletarian political activity does not exceed certain limits. Until classes are abolished, states will inevitably restrict freedoms in accordance with their class character.
Ultimately, I would argue that the Marxist position on human rights is that human rights cannot be viewed as transhistorical or class-agnostic, but must be viewed as an evolving legal framework dependent on material conditions, and that the Western liberal universalization of human rights exists as a means of weaponizing human rights claims against nations that stand in the way of Western imperialism.
Many ot the greatest cities of classical times were placed within sight of forbidding highlands. Every year their inhabitants ransacked the surrounding countryside to feed themselves. Describing the symptoms of widespread malnutrition in the countryside in the middle of the second century, the doctor Galen observed: "The city-dwellers, as was their practice. collected and stored enough corn for all the coming year immediately after the harvest. They carried off all the wheat, the barley, the beans and the lentils and left what remained to the countryfolk." Seen in this light, the history of the Roman empire is the history of the ways in which 10 per cent of the population, who lived in the towns and have left their mark on the course of European civilization, fed themselves, in the summary manner described by Galen, from the labours of the remaining 90 per cent who worked the land.
The World of Late Antiquity, Peter Brown [emphasis mine]
what do you think of the term "color revolution"? not just as an easy label for revolutions that create a liberal democracy but as a term that implies a revolution had no sincere basis but instead was arranged by an outside force?
I think the people who use the term in this way are naive and lazy morons with a basically nationalist analysis of politics. Even when these movements are sponsored from outside they always have to have a local mass social base or at least institutional sponsor to actually be effective. Even if that just means the comprador bourgeoisie whose consumption sphere is entirely dependent on imported products or something like in the recent case of the rise of the Bolivian rightists. The only instance I can think of where a color revolution happened the way they imagined was the CIA campaign against Muhammad Mosaddegh where the protestors were literally paid and planted by the agency. Otherwise there’s always been an actual local discontent that the CIA is trying to manipulate and gain control over
a lot of folks on the anti-communist left fall into a sort of nihilistic despair at the state of things because they are unwilling to see the incredible advances in actual socialist projects as real, leaving an increasingly derelict capitalist structure as the only thing that exists in their perspective. which, in fairness, would also make me rather depressed! getting over the hurdle of accepting that socialism exists in real life does just totally ameliorate that, however.
It exists but in the same way that democratic socialism exists in real life. These countries really do reflect the institutionalization of socialist movements in power, but they do not represent socialism if we mean the ascent of a communist revolution against world capitalism.
Since the Russian Revolution most of these countries have been more focused on holding other capitalist countries to the terms of trade and demanding the rule of law in international relations, which is a worthwhile democratizing pursuit but it doesn’t really have anything to do with socialism. Most of what people attribute to them as socialist could just as easily be said about revolutionary France, or in the cases where they really fixate on public ownership and nationalization, could be identified in Prussian state capitalism with the sole distinction being the rule of a nominal Communist Party and if you’re lucky formal holdovers of proletarian self governance like work councils that play a secondary role in planning.
And today in the 21st century there really aren’t any national state forces that are pursuing socialism as a project for a world revolution against capital. At most the poorer and more isolated nominally socialist countries like Cuba will seek to maintain amicable relationships with the democratic socialist parties in neighboring countries. Meanwhile the People’s Republic of China has become one of the major global forces in legitimizing the international rule of liberalism through institutions like G20, the World Bank, and the IMF, to say nothing of their role in the War on Terror, even if they want to reform these things to make free trade more free and the rule of law more legitimate through multilateralism. This reform project of the CPCs is more like the last serious strategy for maintaining international capitalism rather than a force that’s going to abolish capital any day now
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I predicted this. I literally said that glitch productions would sell out to the churning brand slop of fortnite. Do you know how much hate i have gotten for saying thus company is no better than any bigger studio? I have been telling you from the start, and I was proven right several times over. But the temporarily embarrassed vivziepops EAGERLY shill for a corporation if they just use the right buzzwords like "indie".
Glitch productions fans are Disney adults. You buy pomni skins on fortnite. These characters and stories are products. Products that fall under copyright so you *must* pay money only the the IP owners (glitch) and their partners. You are a pig eating their shit and thanking them for it. Its only a matter of time now. Gameoverse may come to fortnite too. Or fall guys... or sonic crossworlds... or maybe they will crossover with a another heckin wholesome indie game! And you will buy buy buy buy.
But they're just the little guy, right? By buying fortnite skins, you're sticking it to the big guy! When you buy a Kit graphic tshirt made in a sweatshop somewhere, you're showing those crummy old guys whos boss! When you buy tickets to "KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE LAND" you are triumphing over disney!!!
This company is so small. So indie. So wholesome. When they start saying slurs you defend them, because why bully the little guy? When there are documented instances of workplace misogyny, you defend them because they're "independent". They are independently collaborating with fortnite. Independently selling you their products. Independently decided to say the N-word.
All of that..... and the cartoons aren't even good.
