If you were ever curious why post-leftists, such as Aimee Terese, call themselves Marxist but not leftist, you’re in luck! This article, written by Benedict Cryptofash, is the first in a series that makes the argument that Marx was not a leftist.
Can we please stop calling everything “post”. My least favorite academia trend to come out in the past 10 years. It’s basically code for “liberal”
The party has decided that from now on, “post” will exclusively refer to “something said by some rando on the internet” to make liberal academia literally unthinkable :1984:
Yeah, and it is sometimes misleading, like how post-Marxism claims to correct the fundamental errors of Marxism and is therefore more radical than Marxism, when in reality post-Marxism is compatible with liberal social theories
Their criticism of liberal idpol, utopian leftism and bourgeois ideology are all fine. But they have to counter that with a vision of truly radical social change that doesn’t give power to reactionary and conservative politics and ideology. Class reductionism is a tool of the capitalists to hamper the development of socialism from within and prevent us from reaching communism.
I will die on the hill that class consciousness is tbe pre-requisite for effective action. Any and all liberal identity ideology can be subverted, and has been. We have seen the results.
like burning my asshole with a big wad of wasabi
Since when does Wasabi burn assholes? I can get jalapeño, birds eye chili, or even ginger if you’re consuming a significant amount of the unprocessed root. But I have never heard of anyone complaining about getting a burning ring of fire from wasabi.
I assumed he meant wasabi going through the asshole in the opposite-from-conventional direction which, yeah, would probably burn.
