Anti-civ on its own is simply the critique of civilisation. I find the importance lay in ones solution, I prefer post-civ whereas what you’re describing to me sounds more like an anprim approach.
God damn, being a tankie who thinks individualists doesn’t value community and relationships. Cliche understanding, ML. Go read some anarchist theory, you obviously know nothing about it. Probably think egoism is like right-libertarianism as well.
Cool, so you’ve read the basic introductory stuff. Now stop doing the tankie thing of only reading ancient theory and treating it as dogmatic, and look into the modern evolutions. Go read some zines and other publications and understand the zeitgeist. You won’t find deep understanding in 1 or 2 large tomes but in millions of competing and evolving short texts from people with different lived experiences, or form your own belief for a better world and argue for it; be another voice shouting in the chaos of growth.
Because you larp about revolution that will never come. Anarchists recognise that rather than sit on our arses pretending that one day we will all rise up in revolt and until than we should sit back and do absolutely nothing to build the new world or fight, that we can actively create mutual-aid and fight today. And guess what, if the fucking heavens part and the mass revolution starts, we can still join in so it’s not like anything has been lost by us being proactive.
The focus on the individual is in relation to individual actions and ethics. A small group or cell is formidable and very real threat to governments, revolutionary book clubs are not.
We likewise don’t want to throw any individual into the grinder of the system because they didn’t ‘fit in’ as we’ve seen places like the USSR, China, and yes even Cuba (up until recently) do to it’s LGBT peoples and other innocent people. Ethics and morals are up to us to judge, not a state or society as a whole.
That’s what individualism is, it does not mean we hate working together or hate community. That’s tankie propaganda.
Yes, I do a lot in my local community and aid-groups.
Just saw this at the top and got mad again about a different thing. You can have your own individual judgment on any moral or ethical issue and if it is counter to that of the state or society as a whole, that is worth looking at and could be legit. But there is a difference between judgment and the execution of consequences based on that judgement. We invented laws for a reason
yeah I have a hard time making heads or tails of post-leftist ideology to begin with. It’s always seemed less like a coherent ideology or a set of political demands and more like posturing. I mean this post itself seems to defy attempts at making sense of it, saying stuff like one should read “millions of competing and evolving short texts.” Honestly that part kind of rubs me wrong, because it says read stuff from people with different lived experiences and that’s somehow not unifying, but individualizing or something? When I read about people with different lived experiences to mine I typically relate to them if they’ve experienced stuff like menial labor or estrangement from family, or just being working class in the west. I don’t see their experiences as wholly intractable from mine or competition, instead I see millions of people in similar situations to me. When I don’t relate to another person’s experiences it’s usually because they grew up with wealthy parents or never had to work or something.
like post-leftist stuff is just bonkers and I don’t get it. My political outlook is that people with a similar connection to money/property to me have very similar political goals to mine, and whatever differences they have to me (racial, religious, cultural, ideological, etc) should not detract from our shared political goals and should instead reinforce how unified we are. That should encourage me to embrace folk who are facing a recognizable struggle to me and fight against discrimination.
Whereas I don’t really understand where post-leftism starts out at, other than perhaps they got kicked out of a book club in college for being annoying. Seriously they always bring up book clubs and how marxist theory is old.
The CIA mostly. New or later called post leftism or post modernism is published amd distributed and you can make money writing about it cause it’s in the end a diagnosis without a prescription that was useful as hell in turning a workers movement into a navel gazing intellectual institution