Wow the excuses to avoid reading anti-imperialist Marxism haven’t changed much. There was a ton of it already circulating around this time period when they use a bunch of epic swearing to talk about “looking to the future rather than the past”
Is this concerned with actually solving the intricate problems of the third-worldist movement and connecting it to the workers in the imperial core in their own struggle against industrial monopolists, corrupt politicians, finance, real estate, insurance, pharmaceuticals, the legal system? No, it discusses what’s cool and hip about being “anti-authoritarian” to get your jollies in the imperial core. Not a hint of decolonial theory.
No wonder this shit is only dredged up by nerds who watch twitch, or OP (who only knows about Stirner from people on social media/imageboards who are literally running out of tendencies to pretend they exist in order to “uphold” them aesthetically by going out and provoking people).
I don’t mean to be scathing to you but that’s my review of reading most of it, I’ve seen it posted before elsewhere. Ultimately nothing in this book had any bearing on the creation of a successful anti-imperialism or a development strategy for the third world or an organizing strategy for workers in the core to make them see their burdens are put on them by the global financial system seated in Washington and NYC. It only serves to sow doubt about the question of the usefulness of Marxism to the working class at all. The effort of expanding the science, understanding the immensely painful experiments of this time period. Really pointing out the flaws of the USSR would have saved millions of lives. We are all suffering for the inarticulation and the lack of communication. Now with the internet we choose to retread the mistakes of the 2nd international. Samir Amin wanted a fifth international. If I die without seeing it I know we will be in a pit beyond what we can imagine even today. There is still further to go. There is deeper to sink. There is a trash world that can ooze on a little longer. I want life in the stars and to be forgotten. I want oblivion. I want everything sprawled out. We are wasting our opportunities. Even now I shouldn’t be posting.
Wow the excuses to avoid reading anti-imperialist Marxism haven’t changed much. There was a ton of it already circulating around this time period when they use a bunch of epic swearing to talk about “looking to the future rather than the past”
Is this concerned with actually solving the intricate problems of the third-worldist movement and connecting it to the workers in the imperial core in their own struggle against industrial monopolists, corrupt politicians, finance, real estate, insurance, pharmaceuticals, the legal system? No, it discusses what’s cool and hip about being “anti-authoritarian” to get your jollies in the imperial core. Not a hint of decolonial theory.
No wonder this shit is only dredged up by nerds who watch twitch, or OP (who only knows about Stirner from people on social media/imageboards who are literally running out of tendencies to pretend they exist in order to “uphold” them aesthetically by going out and provoking people).
A lot of it is about Kronstadt. My takeaway from the book is “The Bolshevik party crushed their opponents including the Russian working class”
I don’t mean to be scathing to you but that’s my review of reading most of it, I’ve seen it posted before elsewhere. Ultimately nothing in this book had any bearing on the creation of a successful anti-imperialism or a development strategy for the third world or an organizing strategy for workers in the core to make them see their burdens are put on them by the global financial system seated in Washington and NYC. It only serves to sow doubt about the question of the usefulness of Marxism to the working class at all. The effort of expanding the science, understanding the immensely painful experiments of this time period. Really pointing out the flaws of the USSR would have saved millions of lives. We are all suffering for the inarticulation and the lack of communication. Now with the internet we choose to retread the mistakes of the 2nd international. Samir Amin wanted a fifth international. If I die without seeing it I know we will be in a pit beyond what we can imagine even today. There is still further to go. There is deeper to sink. There is a trash world that can ooze on a little longer. I want life in the stars and to be forgotten. I want oblivion. I want everything sprawled out. We are wasting our opportunities. Even now I shouldn’t be posting.
Funny that “Listen, Marxist” was written for a conference of the Students for a Democratic Society.