Tag: Communism

Also I Am SO Careful

With my phrasing when I’m writing about politics so as to make sure I’m not misconstrued.  I see a lot of even pretty decent people who definitely didn’t say anything actually bad getting dog piled not even for using “politically incorrect” terminology, but just like phrasing things in an unclear or even just a slightly unfashionable way and it’s just like “I don’t think this is how we win” you know what I mean?

And like I’ve found that basically, you can say nearly anything in nearly any space if you know how to phrase it for your audience and get a good or at least not a bad response and it’s just… ridiculous to me that that’s how politics works.

If You Are A Leftist

Liberals and others are going to attack you, not just from points of view they know you find abhorrent, but from within.

Especially in the US.  COINTELPRO was and remains intensely effective.  If you are a leftist, do you really think capitalism isn’t clever enough to figure out that attacking head-on isn’t the way to destroy our organizations?

They know what issues we worry about.  They know to accuse us of misogyny, homophobia, racism, transphobia, ableism, even liberalism because they know that that’s shit that can actually divide us, that those accusations will actually stick and matter within our communities.  Tarring effective organizers with those labels works, because those labels are actually things we abhor and accusations of those kinds are very difficult to refute. 

Which is not to say that those issues or accusations should be ignored, just that the guilt on accusation and the “no one is redeemable” purity politics I see happening a lot are not a way to win.

Also so I was reading through a list of communists the other day and a lot of the old school ones were novelists or media creators, and like we don’t do that as much anymore.

I think we need to make more entertainment media that explains and valorizes our perspectives.

I think we need to infiltrate Hollywood

I feel like a lot of the shitty dynamics that crop up on the left are the result of traumatized people who haven’t dealt with their shit sufficiently to be able to do organization effectively trauma bonding and forming unhealthy group dynamics.

And like there’s genuinely, really truly nothing wrong with being in too fucked up a place to do political work. No one’d be expecting you to do work place organizing while you were in traction after a skiing accident, trauma’s the same way. Heal up *then* organize.

…so I’ve been naming dragons after noted communist theorists on a digital pet website, but they’ve figured out what I’m up to and now they won’t let me name a dragon Maknho.

They let me get away with Vladimira Krasnaya and Gramsci though so obviously they must be tankies.

Though I also managed to slip Guy Debord and Adorno in there…