why do you repeat that you're a communist to yourself like a motivational phrase? there isn't even pride to have in the label tbh, most communists are fucking weirdos and i've stopped using the label on myself due to not wanting to associate with them
Anonymouswhat lol
what is worth preserving in marx? and what is worth developing?
Anonymousthe things worth developing are the ones worth preserving in some form. everything else probably needs to be jettisoned or completely reworked to the point where “developing” is too charitable. but i’d say a communist commitment to the abolition of markets and money via a critique of the system which isn’t collapsible into another form of capitalism. this is his chief problem with the socialists of his day and although i don’t think he was necessarily successful it’s probably the most ambitious and important part of his work for communists. although, what that looks like after a reconstructed CoPE is up for debate.
do any of u remember when i used to complain about video games like this? i should revisit that tbh it was fun
im seeing jason isbell tonight. hope he’s still got it
he sounded great playing a bunch of objectively bad songs
for unknown reasons i got a youtube recommended video about the "NMJL" which i guess is about mah jongg but i read it as Neue Marx Jackoffen Lekture
Anonymouswhy would you read it that way
i sometimes hear nml types talk of marx's "critique of politics". does this imply there would be no politics in communism? like how there would be no economy? what does that even mean if so
Anonymousim not really sure what you mean. what “nml types” are you referring to here, and what comments are they making? when someone talks about a critique of politics in marx, my mind immediately goes to his planned project for such a thing in the 40s, not anything which is somehow nml-adjacent. but for your other questions, i think you could make the case for a post- or non-political communism, to the extent that the abolition of the state etc fosters a different set of relations which can’t be narrowly understood as “political” etc for the same reason i think it would be wrong to talk about an economy of communism, except maybe in a very vague, generic (and probably lazy) sense. i think you can find something like this in pashukanis and the literature which takes his work as its starting point, and that dovetails with elements of the nml in some ways, but i think it’s a looser relationship than maybe you’re suggesting, especially since the nml refers to a fairly broad discussion (within parameters, of course) rather than a singular theoretical trend.
so i know this is sort of a question more for a therapist but i'll shoot it your way in case you have input, since you're sort of e-famous. how do you psychologically deal with being dogpiled with nasty disagreement online? it has happened to me multiple times now that i've publicly voiced an unpopular opinion online and gotten dozens, sometimes even hundreds of quote tweets or reblogs "dunking" on me and getting very personal with the commentary. some of their psychoanalytic insults (1/?)
Anonymouswill turn out to be accurate which is very hurtful (e.g. “i bet OP is X/does Y/has Z”). my solution has been to stop posting completely but the digs at self-esteem are still there, especially since a lot of the strangers psychoanalyzing me tend to say similar things. do you relate to any of this in your blogging experience? how do you cope? (2/2)
after more than a decade of this i simply don’t let the opinions of internet losers get to me. my takes are incredibly unpopular and people come after me all the time, but that’s just how it is. being dogpiled doesnt make you wrong or stupid and people who seek ideological legitimacy from the number of people agreeing with them online fail to remember that they are isolated freaks on the internet that are probably incapable of defending their positions in real life where they are surrounded by more people who would call them an idiot in a square mile than will ever find them clever on tumblr etc
hi wad. every day i am at war with cockshott fans. what's a pithy and reductive thing i can say to them that is both cutting and funny
Anonymousin case you were ever bothered by people who argue that capitalism is “historically progressive” or whatever, the cockshottians have bravely designed a socialist alternative which has all of the downsides of capitalism and none of its potential merits
