neo radicalism – Thoughts From The Peacock Angel

but not useful for an overall movement.

Cause like if you don’t tell people what you’re about your enemies will tell them for you and their version is gonna be inaccurate and shitty.

So like it’s not your job, but like if you wanna see tangible change, as a movement education is a really important facet of the work you need to do.

Also I’m more interested in pragmatic solutions than the most rage-y radical sounding rhetoric you can use. As a survivor “Kill all rapists” ain’t doin’ shit for me cause A: You’re not actually gonna do it, motherfucker and B: That doesn’t address the systemic issues that cause rape in the first place. It’s reactive rather than proactive. Vengeance doesn’t cure PTSD. Figure out a way to stop it before it happens. You’re just saying that to sound radical without having to do actual work.

Is one of the most dangerous reactionary currents ever developed.

Its use of radical jargon and aesthetics while playing to establishment politics is a wonderful way to say “turn back, this is as far left as it goes”, and a wonderful way to alienate working class people from leftist aesthetics and ideals.

Also the use of unpaid, underpaid, mistreated, low waged, usually female workers by NGOs says a whole helluva lot. The “youth organizing” NGOs when analyzed from a labor standpoint essentially exploit child labor.

Anti-consumerist ideology alienates working class people denied stuff they want and need for too damned long.

Purity politics alienate people who don’t come from the academy after they get pounced on for using incorrect terminology.

It is the most perfect anti-communism wrapped up in radical rhetoric. A circle jerk of pseudo-revolutionary liberalism.

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