Problems In Leftism

thepeacockangel:

• Manarchists and brocialists
• People who are more interested in purity of theory than material conditions
• People who “refuse to compromise” on theory because the current system works just fine for them.
• Theory.  Just fucking theory.  The more of it I read, the more I think we need to shut up and do stuff/the more I think “this is all bullshit”
• People who put bourgeoisie environmentalism (and other pearl clutchy moral concerns) ahead of human conditions.  I believe in preserving the environment so we don’t all die.  That’s it.  I have no ethical interest in it aside from preserving human life.
• Anti-consumerism/anti-stuff rhetoric that’s really irrelevant to people who live in shitty material circumstances.
• The percentage of white dudes, esp. white dudes who consider themselves the most radical and talk over everyone else.
• People who are interested in a “lifestyle” more than actual political change.  The point should be a comfortable lifestyle for all people, demanding everyone be a freegan is not helpful and I’m not sorry.
• People who’ve never actually done any drudgery that wasn’t by choice/people who romanticize the proletarian or lumpen proletarian experience but don’t actually have to experience it.
• Anti-semitism

I totally take back what I said about theory, theory is great and leftists need to read a LOT more of it