It just feels like another downplaying of important social issues in favor of “class consciousness” meme, which is sometime that always rubbed me the wrong way. Like yes, these issues are used to divide the working class, but no, trying to flatten the conversation is not how to resolve things. They both greatly affect our lives, while often going hand in hand to maximize oppression for everyone. Claiming freedom to live must be a zero sum game is a common talking point for capitalists and imperialists alike.
I’m probably going to be guilty of that a lot, my anarchist awakening was only 5ish years ago so I’m still in that new-atheist-like state where “everything’s hierarchy, man. there’s not other real issues except the pedophilic capitalist elites turning every personal dynamic into an extension of the economy that they can dominate us through”. So I’ll try to think more about not doing reductionism on their behalf.
Perhaps a better rendition of this meme would have been me clapping like a seal because I kind of enjoy hobby drama from my position as an onlooker and shitposter
It just feels like another downplaying of important social issues in favor of “class consciousness” meme, which is sometime that always rubbed me the wrong way. Like yes, these issues are used to divide the working class, but no, trying to flatten the conversation is not how to resolve things. They both greatly affect our lives, while often going hand in hand to maximize oppression for everyone. Claiming freedom to live must be a zero sum game is a common talking point for capitalists and imperialists alike.
I’m probably going to be guilty of that a lot, my anarchist awakening was only 5ish years ago so I’m still in that new-atheist-like state where “everything’s hierarchy, man. there’s not other real issues except the pedophilic capitalist elites turning every personal dynamic into an extension of the economy that they can dominate us through”. So I’ll try to think more about not doing reductionism on their behalf.
Perhaps a better rendition of this meme would have been me clapping like a seal because I kind of enjoy hobby drama from my position as an onlooker and shitposter