Latest Posts by hensteeths - Page 2
Nobody likes you because youre a Closed minded hater and not an Open minded hater like the rest of us
it’s fun that Mormonism is based off pseudo-archeology and Scientology is based off pseudo-psychiatry. By that logic the big American New Religious Movement of the 21st century is gonna be based on… pseudo-computer science?
just finished Badiou's Ethics, which I had to read for a class but also very much enjoyed. it's relatively short, about 90 pages, and very succinct and self-contained. plus it's always nice change of pace to read someone who stayed an unapologetic Marxist long after '68 lol
reblog to pet his bald head
always remember gay men are the reason we dont have to pay for public bathrooms in canada
Azazeel by Youssef Zeidan, it’s set in 5th century Egypt and Syria. It’s about a monk with a demon in his head (Azazeel) caught in a struggle between paganism and Christianity
oohhh amazing tysm :o
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
idk man you hear about facebook's fucking concent moderation farms that basically are only capable of traumatizing it's employees, and it's like oh this is like harmful. and that's lioe one tiny thing about it, like im not trying to mythmake about facebook but simply due to size it has done more evil than you can imagine. but i guess most of that is to people who aren't in the imperial core so who cares or whatever
sigh...
while I'm obviously happy that ocd continues to get more and more awareness, I do wish it didn't involve so much reassurance posting.
"I can 100% promise that you're not a bad person 💖" is a nice sentiment, and I'm sure well intentioned, but oh my god is it unhelpful.
this is just the "x marginalized group's activism has gone too far" backlash that every reactionary shithead pulls out whenever that group starts to get a few too many rights. If you genuinely think that the vast majority of feminists are concerned with justifying the mistreatment of men you are either not seriously engaging with the topic, or you've bought into the fear-mongering "man-hating feminists" narrative that has been a staple of anti-feminist propoganda for decades.
that doesn't invalidate the statement. theoretical analysis of oppression is often necessarily simplifying because, as you pointed out, life is infinitely complicated, and sometimes you have to gloss over potential complicating factors if you want a political statement more specific than "oppressed people are oppressed by their oppressors". and once you've identified a generalized pattern of oppression, say, men oppressing women, you can begin to interrogate how that is impacted (intersected even) by other patterns of oppression
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"women are oppressed by men" is basic feminism though. how is this at all controversial lol
Man, I almost drank myself to death yesterday, I can't even remember my name, if only there was someone that could help me.
The the trustworthy and saint-like lieutenant:
Being insane but cognitively aware of how insane you are is a special kind of hell because you know that you aren't normal and you can pinpoint the behaviors that label you as other and make people kinda go quiet and twitchy around you but you can't change them or your neurosis so you're stuck in a brutal cycle of trying to emulate normal people and failing horribly cus you know in theory how normal people look and act but in practice you can never change what you are and everyone else knows it too and this goes on forever until you die
European settler-colonialism really is one of the evilest institutions humans ever created huh. just an absolute blight across the entire planet
is the US government fa-- no i'm just kidding, it's my turn to ask you that next week. do you think that the occasional criticisms of tumblr as the "moral OCD website", or just generally viewing interactions online or irl through a lens of moral OCD as a social/communal phenomenon, are useful? i know it's not intended to be of any particular function other than winning arguments online but i still wonder about it.
I mean moral OCD is an ironic or joking way to describe it, this is really just ascetic guilt-based morality. This is what happens when people think responsibility and accountability are the end all be all of politics and have a hard dichotomy between purity/goodness and impurity/guilt so they always want to be the ones holding accountable and never the ones being held accountable. It’s an extreme version of what popular radical liberal morality used to be because as a website and subculture Tumblr operates like a sealed vivarium
usamericans when they have to read headlines: how can be I expected to process this
Still surprised when people are like “how come everybody in America seems insane” and then every single news bite is like
like thats why. You live in a blender you can’t turn off. You live inside a 27 million degree fusion reactor wherein hyperindividualism is promoted to the extent that a feeling of intense loneliness is possibly the only trait Americans can agree on. You are supposed to be crazy because there is no logical way to process what is happening.
This sounds like “doomposting” I know, but it’s not what I mean to say. You should value the ability to stay on your feet. If the Founding Fathers had intended to create a machine that makes your emotions uncontrollable I do not believe your life would not be dramatically different. The point is it shouldn’t be surprising that America is made up of what seems to be people grabbing stances they’ll die for out of a bag of random parts. You need to expend a lot of effort to remain coherent.
found a new kind of ftm chaser
you're gonna have to do clockwork orange shit to me if you want me to learn whatever the fuck an abundance agenda is
so long as we're back to social justice 101 on this stupid website, u need to be aware of the feedback loop that emerges from disproportionate scrutiny: any social group that is placed under extra scrutiny, regardless of the actual prevalence of any particular behaviour, will appear to engage in that behaviour more often.
you see this most blatantly with racialised groups (more cops in black neighbourhoods = more arrests in black neighbourhoods = "omg look at all the crime in these neighbourhoods!" = more cops in black neighbourhoods etc). even if the rate of crime is the same (putting to one side the criminalisation of poverty which is also an important related factor), one group gets away with it way more often and a new generation of racists is indoctrinated with the crime statistics which "prove" that some groups are simply more criminal in nature. we see a similar phenomenon online with particular groups (trans women being a huge example) being subjected to mass stalking, their every move documented by weirdos and broadcast as representative of the group as a whole.
tl;dr - overscrutinising groups based on existing bigotries creates a recurring feedback loop, reproducing those bigotries across generations and nominally justifying them. this is bad, and you need to remember that you are not immune to it.
the CIA was always scheming up the most cartoonish and rediculous plots against Sukarno lol
everybody ready for the toxic mad scientist exes yuri reveal
The “mad scientist” trope is becoming a lost art, kudos to severance for embracing it so gloriously. She shows up, she kills people, she (probably) stalks you, she steals your snacks and moves into your basement, she’ll do experimental brain surgery any time any place. And she’s kind of adorable. God bless.
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it’s crazy the route and semantic drift that 808 has undergone to what it means today