Tag: politics

TW: CSA  What the fuck was going on in the 60s/70s?

What was going on in the late 60s/70s that allowed for like the 14 year old “baby groupies” to be a celebrated phenomenon, for Foucault (History of Sexuality I p. 27, 31, lots more  ) and Andrea Dworkin (Woman Hating 190-192 ) and Allan Ginsberg (noted for marching with NAMBLA) and Pat Califa (Public Sex contains an essay opposing age of consent laws) and Germaine Greer (The Beautiful Boy seriously read about that it’s FUCKED UP, also she advocated a bunch of other horrible shit but let’s focus on the pedophilia for now) and the International Spartacist tendency and probably a LOT more theorists/groups I haven’t read/heard of to say “it’s okay to fuck kids” in public and be prominant parts of the left/politically relevent/anything other than totally beyond the pale and not okay?  

And like I mean I don’t think we live in a society that handles CSA well by any means but like pedophiles are pretty well and thoroughly loathed by the vast majority of people.  They get murdered in prison.  People protest when one moves into the neighborhood.  A lot of people’d like to straight up murder them and like most relevant to my point, you’d be thrown out of… pretty much anywhere for saying the stuff these people said, and like that seems very much like the sensible response to me.  You shouldn’t listen to people who say it’s okay to molest children, that seems pretty obvious to me, and hopefully all of you.

So like how did we have a cultural moment where the radical left was like “you know, maybe it’s not only okay to fuck kids, but the radical, politically conscious thing to do”?  Like what was happening?  How did this exist?  How was there a time where Andrea Dworkin could say that “Curling irons are inherently oppressive (woman hating page 115), but adults having sexual interactions with children is an enlightening and positive thing”?  WHAT THE FUCK?  WHAT WAS HAPPENING WITH POLITICS IN THE 60S AND 70S?
HOW?  WHY?  CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHAT THE FUCK WAS GOING ON?

You Know I Think What Joy James Terms “Neo-Radicalism”

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.

People learn and their politics get better over a time.  Did I think a lot of terrible shit when I was younger?  Yes.
The idea that any change of ideas is the result of maneuvering for social capital is such bullshit.

I am still learning.  I am doing my best.  I am sorry for ways I have historically fucked up.

Stop Whining, Build Communism

Also I swear to god I’m so sick of “radicals” who just want to tear shit apart, and who care more about personal purity and their egos than building the fucking revolution.  I see people snarking about people who “taking too much space by doing too much shit” (obvs you can take too much space in meetings or too much capacity of an org, but if it’s just you getting work done…) and it’s like "there is a nearly unlimited amount of space for building revolutionary shit.  If they’re building something, go build some other thing or help them… or whatever.  They’re not stealing your thunder.  Don’t let the fact that their effectiveness and productivity makes you feel like you’re not Mr. Kickass Activist make you a jealous, bitter liability.”