Has The Anti-intellectualism On This Site Gotten Worse Or Am I Just New Here. I Feel Like I Regularly

has the anti-intellectualism on this site gotten worse or am I just new here. I feel like I regularly see people bragging about not knowing stuff

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3 months ago

There are so many things to learn!

3 months ago

YOU ARE EVIL THEREFORE I AM GOOD I screech at the 'dangerous' looking homeless guy sitting next to me on the bus

there's a lot of reason why I think terfism is a fundamentally nihilistic ideology, but particularly the way it uses genuinely traumatic and oppressive experience as a cudgel just oozes ressentiment

4 months ago

something cool is that the more you learn about electronic music/production the more you realize just how talented SOPHIE was


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1 year ago
I Am Going To Tell You All About Her So You Can Join My Club

i am going to tell you all about her so you can join my club

5 months ago

my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called “linguistics class” you'll be zonked out of your gourd

Me: yeah whatever. i dont feel nothin.

50 minutes later: dude i swear there's invisible words in these sentences

my ∅ friend, pacing: the determiner phrases are lying to us

2 months ago

Excuse me if this has been asked before, but what are books/essays/authors you recommend looking into from a Marxist-Feminist standpoint? Also is there something I should know before delving into Marxist-Feminism? A lot of materialist feminists I've been reading have made anti-transgender sentiments, or have ignored the existence of transgender politics entirely, so I'm a little wary.

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir is not technically Marxist, but it’s very influential globally for Marxist feminism. She also interprets gender in a way that I think lends itself to transfeminism, in that she says that humans always have to interpret nature instead of just immediately appropriating it “as it is” and that gender is one such way that we interpret nature (and implicitly that we collectively have a freedom to alter this interpretation through political struggle).

Alexandra Kollontai is a very influential Marxist feminist, though I think her idea of sexual liberation was still subordinated to the idea of the national state’s camaraderie and fraternity. Make Way for Winged Eros is a very interesting essay arguing for free love as an element in social revolution.

An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman by Claudia Jones is very important as a response to the de-classing of Black women’s struggles and the dismissal of them as particularistic. The work of Jones gives a much more concrete and human sense to who the proletariat is, instead of the image of the white man-machine that a lot of socialists fantasize about.

Mary Inman is very important for being the first Marxist to extensively analyze unwaged domestic, reproductive labor, pairing well with Jones who had begun to analyzed waged domestic labor. Her essay The Role of the Housewife in Social Production is arguably the beginning of the housework debates in Marxist feminism, which were about the role of housework in the total reproduction of capital, the reproduction of labor-power, and the production of surplus-value.

The essay which really kicked off the housework debates was The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by Selma James and Mariarosa Dalla Costa. This is still one of the most important Marxist feminists texts that people still come back to in these kinds of debates.

The Arcane of Reproduction by Leopoldina Fortunati takes the housework debates into a more complex level by connecting it to Marx’s full discussion of the production and reproduction of capital in Capital and Theories of Surplus-Value. This is probably the highest theoretical point of the debates.

Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution by Raya Dunayevskaya is very important for the reconsideration of the role of feminism in “orthodox Marxism,” or the generation between Marx and the Third International. I do dislike that Dunayevskaya neglects the housework debates almost entirely, and especially because this is due to very petty personal beef with Selma James (they had formerly been part of the same political circle via CLR James).

Night-Vision by Butch Lee and Red Rover is an interesting Pantherist-Maoist analysis of class struggle, gender, and neocolonialism. They give a lot of attention to the development of a highly gendered proletariat in the late 20th century, marking shifts in the gendered structure of the wage away from the patterns of the father’s family wage and couverture.

The Point is to Change the World by Andaiye is a collection of essays analyzing similar themes. As an organizer she was on the ground in Guyana dealing with these new realities of the structure of the proletariat and trying to figure out a new global strategy for it.

Kinderkommunismus by K.D. Griffiths and J.J. Gleeson is a very good essay analyzing the patriarchal family in the 21st century and showing the importance of communizing kinship to communist political strategy, feminism, and transgender liberation


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5 months ago

I still think its the funniest shit ever that when I used to volunteer at planned parenthood every week even though I walked past mostly the same protesters every single time they were begging me not to get an abortion theres other options yadda yadda. Like meemaw you see me here every week. They call me abortions georg because I get another one every Monday at 8am

3 months ago
Ice Storm ~ Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1998
Ice Storm ~ Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1998
Ice Storm ~ Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1998

Ice Storm ~ Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1998

1 year ago
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6 months ago

Twilight and her mini evil clone In a couple of hours. I was bored

Twilight And Her Mini Evil Clone In A Couple Of Hours. I Was Bored
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