Being an actual anarchist, legal proceedings mean nothing to me. All I see is people and motivations.
i don’t care what they do with him. they can put him in a peach or in prison. makes no difference to me. but i hope he broke the law because i’m a collector of facts like that. they add bombast to my thesis.
Mags,
this whole new wave of leftist histeria, which is global, has nothing to do with getting “back in power” and everything to do with entrenched interests coopting potentially destabilizing youf. and, in the process, proving more than one “rebe;” to be a pathetic lapdog.
Greta Thurnburg isn’t protesting the system. She IS the system.
I been saying this for years, since its infancy. They are just giving cowards who know The Man is evil a reason to back The Man. They don’t not see it because it is not clear, they don’t see it because, deep down, they don’t have the stones to face down the system. They want mommy and daddy to take care of them, consequences be damned, the world be damned. Evon though, deep down, they know.
Like Christian rap.
That’s all I needed to hear.
It was the Machines, promethean75.
I don’t have any holes, though
he’s right, mags. people and culture today that represent leftist ideology are experiencing a kind of practicio-inert created by the three hundred year environment of western capitalism, a culture that has poisoned people to such depths that they can’t utter a word without plotting and scheming against someone or something. the left is a frankenstein brought to life by capitalism planting the seeds of its own destruction. a slow, prolonged and systematic process of sabotaging the possibility for any genuine collective effort and sympathy for ‘the other’ through propagating individualistic ideology in every single facet of consumer culture. even leftists are selfish assholes now, because this ethos has been so meticulously planted into their psyche.
but you gotta fight fire with fire and hold your breath from the stench of politics until this thing resolves itself. the days of honest socialist coups lenin style are over. we have to do the whole ‘gradual reform’ thing, like a movie that’s three hours but shoulda been an hour and a half, tops, because all the actors suck and the plot is lame.
"been so meticulously planted into their psyche.
but you gotta fight fire with fire and hold your breath from the stench of politics until this thing resolves itself. the days of honest socialist coups lenin style are over. we have to do the whole ‘gradual reform’ thing, like a movie that’s three hours but shoulda been an hour and a half, tops, because all the actors suck and the plot is lame."
Sometimes, the work just does itself.
“he’s right, mags. people and culture today that represent leftist ideology are experiencing a kind of practicio-inert created by the three hundred year environment of western capitalism, a culture that has poisoned people to such depths that they can’t utter a word without plotting and scheming against someone or something.”
This is almost endearing. Like wanting to “help” by building huts in guatemala.
I’m hoping your misunderstanding of what the world was before capitalism is just the product of lack of imagination.
Though there is something pre-renaissantic about your thought-processes:
Expiation of sin. You build a hut. You go to a Thurnburginator march. You say something hateful about Trump.
That’s also what’s funny about Zizek. He’s not an anti-christian, he’s a Calvinist.
He sees the thing, with is stupid fucking Starbucks story. He sees it. But he only thinks it’s wrong because… It’s not enough expiation!
Like Luther bitching about indulgences. It wasn’t the blackmail that bothered him. It was that the blackmail did not ask enough.
hey you do what you can when there are no existing leagues of crafty socialists to join. ya know i actually became a member of a local anarchist group once, but all they wanted to do was march around with picket signs. i was like ‘ummmm… no. i’m going to go do something else. take care now. bye-bye then.’
but your effort to discredit my sentiments for the working class by pointing out how little i am able to contribute to their cause/conditions, as if i could choose to do more if only i ‘weren’t so selfish’, is impressive. that’s some slippery shit. well played, cappy, and true to the form.
… and it was the yucatan, btw. i wuz gonna join the zapatistas! fires machine gun and rears back on horse
we don’t do historical materialism at ilp, young man. that would be like trying to fit an aircraft carrier into a pond.
The fucking Zapatistas.
I think my ex-girlfriend is with them now.
Jesus Christ.
Anyway, you misunderstand my accusation.
Thaat’s the thing with you fucking gringos.
If you had the slightest inkling of what the monster of which the Zapatistas are a small part has wrought on us. It’s not about helping the working man. It’s about your “sentiments.”
Riding on horseback with a machine gun.
Jesus motherfucking Christ.
I used to hope you all went and got fucking shot. But then I fucked one of you and I’m conflicted.
But you, being a man, the least you could do is THINK THIS SHIT THROUGH.
My accusation is the opposite.
That you have surrendered your capacity for selfishness and relegated your capacity for thought, action, and power.
To the most disgusting contraption ever brought forth by mankind.
Why?
Because you know you live in a historical paradise and you don’t want to own it.