Queer/gay views (When I say gay or Queer I also mean Lesbian except when noted otherwise) My Hyperreality political views of mine blog sphere Queer views My MyTrueandRealPoliticalViews blog sphere Queer views My My Private Polck Viewpoints blog sphere Queer views My AtHeartViewpointsOfMeeee blog sphere Queer views My ToRepoConMenWomen blog sphere Queer views My views on Queer rights in general I support one's right to follow their conscience in matters of sexuality I also love the "Be gay, do crime" slogan. That slogan is anti neoliberal and anti authoritarian and it implies that gays doing criminal and incivil acts may be necessary to obtain equal rights for gays everywhere (since being gay is still criminalized in many places around the world) Queer Anarchists can trace this type of bold method back to the Stonewall riots where gay protestors back then used the same methods to try to obtain equal rights for gays I also support...
Recuperation and the Left-Wing of Capital Historically, the vast majority of leftist theory and practice has functioned as a loyal opposition to capitalism. Leftists have been (often vociferously) critical of particular aspects of capitalism, but always ready to reconcile themselves with the broader international capitalist system whenever they’ve been able to extract a bit of power, partial reforms — or sometimes, just the vague promise of partial reforms. For this reason leftists have often been quite justifiably criticized (by both ultra-leftists and by anarchists) as the left wing of capital. It’s not just a problem that those leftists who claim to be anti-capitalist don’t really mean it, although some have consciously used such lies to gain positions of power for themselves in opposition movements. The major problem is that leftists have incomplete, self-contradictory theories about capitalism and social change. As a result their practice always tends towards the recuperation...
One way for Afro Pessimism to fix its essentialism and anti politics issues as follows: (from this article ): “Aimé Césaire’s attack on Roger Callois in Discourse on Colonialism illustrates just how ingrained the cultural exceptionalism of Europe was (is) in many intellectuals’ minds, and just how necessary it was (is) to counter such exceptionalism with a ‘thin’ essentialism of one’s own – even if this expression is mainly poetic. Whereas the Afro Pessimism essentialism retreats from the realm of politics, the essentialism of the Césaire’s surrealism takes racism and colonialism head on. This ‘strategic essentialism’ – a positivist essentialism that is critical of the ontological idea, while making use of it for specific political purposes – represents something quite different than the ‘thick’ ontological Blackness of the Afro Pessimism, who have no political strategy whatsoever! Nonetheless, we must remember that the emphasis in strategic essentialism is on po...
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