*ppl have less time off then ever seen before in human history!! (Even peasants had harvest festivals and excessive amounts of religious/seasonal holidays to keep them from rioting)

This evening I would like to approach the questions on the flyers from a number of directions. But my overarching thesis is that the cognitive maps [which have] been pointed out, have been deployed on the Left to help revolutionaries think ‘revolution’ are fundamentally flawed. To say that these maps are fundamentally flawed is not the same as saying they are fundamentally wrong. Another way to say this is to say that Marxism, Indigenism, radical white and non-black feminism, and postcolonial studies, to name but a few, have an impoverished analysis of violence. This impoverished analysis of structural violence leads them into the trap of thinking that the narrative arc of revolutionary, used schematically to theorize working class feminist, gay and lesbian, post-colonial oppression, is an arc of narration, a progressive scheme of change, that can also be applied to Black suffering in the process of Black redemption. This is a trap. The very thing that causes us not to see Black suffering as Slave suffering. In addition, this impoverished analysis means that we produce theoretical work, and political praxis which A.) pays little to no attention to the singular dynamics of Black suffering and B.) paves the way for social movements on the Left to appropriate Black bodies and then deploy those bodies as implements of revolutionary struggle in the same manner a 19th century master who would appropriate Black bodies has implements of production, or (unclear), or joy. This constant regeneration of the Black body, or what Hortense Spillers, Black feminist theorist, more appropriately calls “Black flesh”, works at every level of abstraction— which is to say it is a degenerative mechanism which allows for the coherence of large-scale social movements, it is the degenerative mechanism which allows for the coherence of cinema and literature, and it is the degenerative mechanism which allows for the coherence of interpersonal relations between friends and lovers, enemies, and colleagues.

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