Errico Malatesta: Anarchism and Organization (1897)

This is interesting.

Caliban and The Witch

The history in Caliban and The Witch is making me mad because it’s wrong. Why is there so much bad history? Like I don’t mind getting off on critical theory tangents, but get the underlying history right, including the class make up of the Cathars, the demographics and mechanics of witch trials (they were usually an expression of popular dissatisfaction and in fact the church tried to excommunicate the guy who started the witch panic) and the fact that priestly dress is not an imitation of feminine garments because THAT’S WHAT MEN’S CLOTHES LOOKED LIKE AT THE TIME and gender norms were much different. Like I have theories on the changing form of patriarchy as capitalism developed, but these aren’t them. Also, no witch trials did not target midwives, they tended to target those who had some money (but weren’t gentry) but were also unpopular

Can we make rewrites of Love Me I’m A Liberal A Meme?

Please?

Phil Ochs – Love Me I’m A Liberal

TW: Lesbophobic slurs.

I want a really good updated version, “I read Slate, Salon and Huffpo”

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Actually also just oppose capitalism

Because it’s awful, not just its “excesses”.

You Know Marrying A Commie Definitely Helped Make Me One

But I still thought he was taking it a little far, but then I started following @soft-communism and I became the raging red you know and love.

You know I wonder if it’ll be hard to get human hair extensions after the rev

Cause like if no one is so impoverished they have to sell us their hair, where will we get it? We’ll probably have to genetically engineer some kind of goat or plant or plantgoat

Okay so I’m not even particularly well read in terms of theory

But I’ve found that I’ve done more theory reading than most leftist women I know, like a lot of them are very well read and can talk deeply about feminist theory, but in terms of broad economic and political theory, they’ve usually read much less.

Why is this?

Why do we restrict ourselves to reading and writing about gender? Surely our class position must also affect our lives, and yet we have internalized the idea that we should leave that one to the men? Why do we not write on the topic of organization like Malatesta or even Lenin (who was wrong and a dick, but he did write about how to create political organization)? Why do we not write on the economic order of society like Marx? Or the possible order of society like Kropotkin?

Well I Just Got Back From Helping To Paint The Union Hall (It’s Going To Be Red, Specifically a Color Called Flirt Alert, which I think is amazing)

My joints hurt, but I am tired and drunk which is nice

Also like I think that classism is a useful term

As a leftist, because I think classist aggression, and class injuries are indicative of the shape and way of functioning of the system of capitalist domination, like classist microaggressions serve the purpose of reinforcing the system and making alternative systems harder to propose and enact.

Like by stereotyping the working class as lazy, criminal, ignorant and socially regressive they put us on the back foot, and like when liberal bourgeois folks use say “gay rights” as a way to posit their obvious superior to the working masses, they A: Erase the incredible violence their system does to LGBTQETC people who don’t fit into bourgeois models of respectability or have the financial resources to keep themselves safe and B: Also fail to admit to the general economic violence intertwined with oppression and basically cover shit up and yea