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
Cause like damn but also it’s really funny and good
I feel like one common assumption we really need to fucking kill is the assumption that suffering somehow improves people, or like is either morally redemptive or improving. The fact that we talk about punitive “justice” as paying for a crime, or paying your “debt to society”? How does imprisonment or punishment or suffering “pay” anyone ANYTHING?
Like there are two things you can do to deal with people who do damage to other people 1. You can take evidence based steps to rehabilitate them and make it so they’re not likely to be a danger 2. If you can’t rehabilitate them which y’ know we can’t with some people yet (the Charles Mansons of the world) you can get them into a situation where they can’t cause further harm.
Punishment does nothing but indulge our worst impulses
It’s because I’ve been too sad to cope with political work and have taken a step back from doing that for now in the hopes of recovering enough to get back to it in the future.
Northern white people who use the term Redneck to distance themselves from their own racism are shit.
On top of all the humans killed by capitalism and get sad?
The bourgeoisie will never contribute to any marginalised group’s true liberation.
They may liberate portions of a group (the richest portions) but the overall axis of marginality will remain until capitalism is dismantled.
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.
And am like “You might actually be tolerable once the unbearable culture of the left breaks you too, until then the ‘everything is fine here, of course we keep losing, but we’re doing everything right’ thing is… y’know… unbearable.”
Me: I would say I’m more Marxian than strictly Marxist
Also me: wears a “Marx” nameplate necklace 24/7
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 