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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I agree, but they've been largely abandoned politically, either by a socialist movement robbed of its union power or a 'new left' dominated by middle class activists distracted by self-serving theoretical in-fighting.
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bringo.
some of these people are just insane. like the type who take 'great offense' at people writing angry denunciations of say, womens exploitation through porn. they simply take offense at this stuff being TALKED about, because they seem to prefer not knowing about it to people mentioning it. it's like they want to edit away all the parts of reality they dont like from their own little clique of self congratulating london upper class mediaites.
its this 'editing of reality' tactic that they are obsessed with now. oh your magazine does not contain the same amount of women writers as it does men? never will it occur to us that this might be because less women are submitting things and the staff are not actually including less women on purpose. no, its your fault and you have a problem - reality must be edited through the commodity culture! its insane.
also if you're like me and are finished with marxism and dare suggest that maybe the inability to sever with the idea of communism is a big big problem for the left, perhaps the biggest, and we need to abandon this obsolete atrocity at all costs - well then you're just evil. or you need lecturing by the purity squad. people who think anti racism is itself the only heuristic required to develop an all reaching critique and understanding of politics, economics and the systems and processes that sustain and destroy life.
and whats worst of all about the left now is that it has totally abandoned any kind of pessimism or understanding of the universe as indifferent to our fate and life as essentially suffering. this is very cosy because it frees you from thinking too hard about your own nations complicity in violent global systems. at the most you go around denouncing tweeters and left media figures for having impure souls that you can very obliquely connect to racism.
i want a left that can face things like the continuing war we wage against the 3rd world, genocide, the near impossibility of maintaining a state without violence,
and maybe abandon all this residual post christian moralism and slog through the hard roads of science and technology - not to seek some revived communism or easy solutions - but to develop a new system of thought and politics. one based on technical realities rather than the idealism of our discourses. one that goes further than atheism and doesn't believe in belief itself or the self or creation. one that isn't about annoying ourselves by pretending the main source of relief for people today isn't nihilism and that this is necessarily something to be ashamed about.
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and the fucking left academy is just a collection of rich wankers doing this 'referencology' "here we need deleuze read through the lense of hegel because as marx said but was unable to think because he lacked heidegger's' blah blah fucking blah. go fuck yourself you stupid cunts. if you had ANY INTEREST in actual ideas you could easily explain them to those of us who want to know, but you wont.
have the decency to admit you are nothing more than rich people who want to feel all emotive and moral about their consumption of entertainment commodities and zizek is the lead clown in your avant guard navel gaze circus - it would be more fucking honest than pretending you are actually engaged in struggles that merit the questions 'what are we to do here?' in a serious tone like its some sort of party meeting.
these guys serve the same function as sneering aristocratic dinner party guests judging and making put downs of 'new money'. they basically spend their days denouncing entertainment commodities or art or thinking or whatever of people less 'ethically refined' as them, which is a code for less fucking rich.
seriously though - there is NO SHAME in not being political and just being a consumer - and anyone who understood the actual harsh and hellish nature of life on this planet and wasn't just a fantasist would get that. but these decadent assholes cant do that and constantly torture us all with their meaningless gestures of solidarity and hyping and bullshitting of whatever sparks of resistance us proles below them exhibit.
lets be honest. there is no left because noone WANTED ONE because from the 80's to recently the economy was so good for us - even proles were living lives that were in some ways similar to kings of centuries past. i suppose the problem for the left is and always has been to walk the tightrope of using guilt constructively or just wallowing in it destructively.