This type of "anarchism" is just an aesthetic expression of liberalism.
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Most online sectarianism is. Consumer identities as applied to revolutionary theory. We are very close to capitalists figuring out how to recuperate revolutionary sentiment right up to the point of action. They’ve already effectively monetized and weaponized right wing terrorism, so non-terrorism on our part is certainly on the table.
I tried to explain third worldist thought to a Redditor over there once and they called it "reactionary".
It's beyond parody
Just admit that you have a nice job in the imperial core and aren't prepared to go though the rationale of why that is, and what global equity would mean.
Okay holy shit this person admits to being hired by the military industrial complex in their country. Imperial core "leftists":
Every. Single. Fucking. Time
This the post you're talking about?
Work made me suicidal
I'm a trans woman working in cybersec for a big actor of the military industrial complex.
It's my first job. I was desperate for a job. I couldn't go back to university because of the rampant transphobia, and I couldn't do sex work anymore because of my deteriorating mental health.
I was lured in with open source and medical projects. Then I was sent to work for those missile selling tucks. I was promised a new assignment, again and again.
7 months in and I want to kill myself.
My life was good. I finally got the body I wanted. I'm in a loving relationship. I got fun hobbies and caring friends. But 7 months of this shit just ruined it all.
Benzos and antidepressants didn't work. Therapy didn't work. Sick leaves didn't work. I don't know what will. I'm so ready to give up on it all.
haven't worked in a week. I'm on sick leave for depression. I'm going to run out of money. I have loans to pay back and rent to pay. I can't afford to live. I literally cannot afford life.
How do you survive this shit.
Or this one?
CW: CSA
I'm 21. I did everything I was told. I did everything right. Yet where's my fucking future?
Graduated from high school with honours. Studied chemistry at uni. At 19 I was already working in a government lab developing molecular dynamics software. At 21 I was hired as a cybersec engineer for the military industrial complex. I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT
Yet where's my fucking future?
I barely earn enough to make ends meet. I'm underpaid and overworked. I'm suicidal because of my bullshit job and have to choose between quitting and saving my mental health or working and losing my fucking home.
I just got halfway through the month and my account is already in the red. I'm in debt, I can't afford therapy, ADHD is killing me and so is benzo withdrawal.
The world's on fire and the kids are starving. And meanwhile I'm paid like shit by those missile making tucks expected to smile when I'm granted my fucking scoop.
I hate everything about capitalism. My job made me suicidal.
I will not know happiness until the last bureaucrat will be strangled with the bowels of the last capitalist.
Poverty is artificial.
Famine is artificial.
Homelessness is artificial.
Misery is artificial.
Work is slavery
Landlords are parasites
All cops are fucking bastards
I'm so tired of this shit. The 9 to 5. I've been a devout anarchist for over a year now. And I feel hopeless.
edit: she/her please
Edit2: Just so we're clear and all you privileged fucks stop shitting on me for my job:
I'm a trans woman.
I have crippling ADHD.
I am autistic.
I grew up in a slum on an island near Madagascar running away with my family from a cult trying to get us back in.
Me and my sister got raped by pedophile neighbors from age 8-10.
My tran got kicked out at 18.
I got kicked out of uni and it's dorm because of transphobia.
I had to couch hop and suck dick to afford basic necessities.
So before you tell me I'm part of the fucking problem, check your privilege. And fuck off. I'd rather keep this trash job than go back to the streets. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT'S LIKE OUT THERE FOR A DISABLED TRANS GIRL.
Have a little empathy.
I tried to explain third worldist thought to a Redditor over there once and they called it “reactionary”.
Reactionaries come from outside the Imperial Core, and the farther outside the Core you live, the more Reactionary you become.
Just admit that you have a nice job in the imperial core and aren’t prepared to go though the rationale of why that is, and what global equity would mean.
What's been so incredibly about the last 40 years is that we've seen Maoism play out on a global stage. The region of China transforms from a fractured patchwork of colonies into a single industrialized super-state. And what is the result? Extraordinarily cheap consumer goods, a surge in global GDP, staggering leaps in technological progress, and a global tide of human development that has lifted virtually every single ship touching the Pacific Rim.
Global Equity means Global Prosperity. We are far better off living in a world in which every nation enjoys the benefits provided within an imperial nation. Not only does it fail to cost us anything but our pride, it yields enormous dividends inside a single generation.
The real price of global equity is imperial hegemony. No single world-spanning currency printed out of the US Mint. English no longer being the lingua franca on a World Stage. American CEOs no longer operating impudently as both global taskmasters and cultural evangelicals. No more imprinting Americanism upon the world as a condition for accessing networks of international trade and travel.
That's all we're giving up. And the vast majority of us never see the benefits this hegemony provides.
If global wealth were equally divided, the median American would be nearly twice as wealthy as they are now. That mostly shows just how bad wealth inequality is in the US itself. The only countries that would actually be worse off are Klanada and a few countries in E*rope.
Hi. I’m effervescent and I would likely have my ~~quality of life~~ access to luxury goods reduced under global communism. Worth. Very worth.
Doubly so considering global warming is about to fuck up this whole “fresh bananas in February” horse shit. Also, leave it to sectarian redditors to ruin something as cool as theory earnings.
Living in a yurt would be a quality of life improvement if that yurt didn't have a landlord.
For real. I originally wrote “quality of life” and then realized how depressed and alienated I am under capitalism. Like nah, I’m just not gonna be able to get coffee all the time. I can live with that