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Be obsessed with identity: declare all your affiliations when describing completely unrelated matters. "As a disabled queer POC in STEM, I really hate cottage cheese".
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Needlessly collectivize people at every opportunity in order to attack and demonize them: "You oppose industrial civilization which naturally means you want to genocide (deified identity groups that celebrate industrial civilization), we must purge you for the good of all society!"
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REFUSE to veer off strict path set out for you by dead idols, always live in that cozy 19th century factory in your mind and scream bloody murder at anyone who dares poke holes in the illusion: "REVISIONIST ANTI-COMMUNIST SCUM!!!"
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Use carefully constructed academic language in order to maintain elitist barriers that will keep the unwashed peasants out of "the community" (politburo).
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If that doesn't work, make heavy use of fun words like "problematic", "reactionary", "wrecker", "doomer" to castigate the filthy animals who won't fall in line with your glorious revolutionary program and cast them out before they taint the beautiful utopia you're sacrificing EVERYTHING to build.
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Speaking of sacrifice, make sure to ritually sacrifice your fellow leftoids whenever the opportunity presents itself because remember: there can only be one Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and all pretenders need to be brutally eliminated so you can secure that chair.
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Strap on those boots, march, chant those slogans, wear those badges and wave that flag because the only way to destroy nationalists is to goosestep right behind them (but draped in red).
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ACAB (except us).
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Remember: Victimhood is the most powerful identity of all. Tell everyone within earshot how victimized you are and how much you deserve to be in charge.
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Work! The productivity of the worker is paramount. We can't build the revolution without a strong work ethic, comrade, even if that means we need to sacrifice half the workers and 98% of the world's ecosystems in the process... Just keep telling yourself you're enduring an empty, joyless, torturous existence so your great-great-great grandchildren can one day live in a classless, moneyless utopia after the revolution. Working yourself to death is always worthwhile when communism is the end goal.
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fortmis wrote
Lol 8 hits
fortmis wrote
this is like an anarchist buzzfeed post (except this is proper satire) and I'm here for it
TheNerdyAnarchist wrote
Stopped reading at point 1. Anyone who can even hypothetically trash cottage cheese is someone I can't take seriously.
fortmis wrote
Stand your ground, cottage cheese is innocent!!!
subrosa wrote
only if it's stolen
ziq OP wrote
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS AND AGREED YOU CAN'T ETHICALLY SHOPLIFT CHEESE
TheNerdyAnarchist wrote
I really don't need this kind of negativity in my life right now...
fortmis wrote
Hahaha but but but it comes from cottages, not cows!!
GoddamnedVoodooMagic wrote
Also, don't forget. No fun is allowed. Fun is bourgeois propaganda meant to distract the proleteriat. The true revolutionary is stoic and has little concern for petty things such as joy.
TheNerdyAnarchist wrote
It distracts from work - which will be totally different because....reasons!
GoddamnedVoodooMagic wrote
"Fun?! How can you reach The People's Commune's production numbers if you're having fun?! Any and all enjoyable activities are hereby outlawed! Those caught smiling will be deemed reactionary..."
ziq OP wrote (edited )
Came close to adding something like that to the list when some joy-hating redditor responded with:
Excellent rant completely lacking in analytical nuance. Such knee-jerk caricatures do nothing to extend the critique of leftism, but are a very good way to show how supposedly radical you are 🤢
GoddamnedVoodooMagic wrote
Lmao, leftists just give us so much ammunition to work with.
ziq OP wrote (edited )
Needlessly collectivize people at every opportunity in order to attack and demonize them: "You oppose industrial civilization which naturally means you want to genocide (deified identity groups that celebrate industrial civilization), we must purge you for the good of all society!"
can anyone think of a better example than this? feel like im repeating myself too much here
fortmis wrote
I like it, i think it makes sense following 1
Majrelende wrote (edited )
What are these deified identity groups that celebrate industrial civilisation? Workers? The traditional trans+disabled? I don't celebrate industrial civilisation, and from what I hear from others, many besides in the former identity-group are not very warm to civilisation either.
ziq OP wrote (edited )
The person engaged in the struggle session will deify the group (and use it as a weapon to purge the infidel). If you need me to do the struggle session for some reason, I'll pick STEMlords as my sacred cow virtue signal.
kore wrote (edited )
being anti-israel meaning youre a nazi but thats more of a lib thing than a left thing... hmm...
i think being less generalized than "all industralized society" might help... like "you oppose unions so you must not care about the plight of the common worker, you must just be a bourgeois lifestylist!”
ziq OP wrote
i think this is too low effort to submit to the library but if a librarian feels otherwise, feel free
ziq OP wrote (edited )
The dismissal of systemic factors, intersectionalism, and social responsibility is nearsighted
I don't dismiss any of those things. You can critique the left's problems without dismissing any of those things because those things alone don't define the left. In fact, when it proves convenient, those things are regularly ignored by the left - for example all the times in history the most powerful groups on the left have sided with the right, police and capital to crush anarchists, indigenous people, gay people, sustenance farmers, nomadic peoples, and anyone else who got in the way of the party's program.
whether it comes from egotistic anarchists or from the right.
I'm not sure what an egotistic anarchist is, but I don't accept the label you're trying to stick to me in order to discredit me. I'm not even an egoist.
Do many leftists go way too hard with virtue signaling and callout culture? Without a doubt. But that isn’t a good reason to dismiss identity politics.
Point 1 is talking about people using identity to win random arguments. This is what actually dismisses identity, when people brandish it as a weapon and thus diminish it when its actually relevant.
2: alleging that the left=collectivism. No the left is broadly defined around egalitarianism… but RWs are always on about the left being all about collectivism. Same argument here.
no statement was made stating the left = collectvism, though that is one of its many elements. the point made was that one of the bad habits of the left is the propensity to build in-groups and out-groups in order to demonize and alienate the minority groups. this is not the positive thing you think it is. idk what an rw is.
3: No, modern leftists are not by and large stuck in 19th century ideologies. I’ve spoken to a plethora of leftists, and even the orthodox Marxist types are open to new perspectives on politics, sociology, and economics… no one has ever accused me, or anyone else that I know of, of revisionism for “veering off the path”
this point wasn't meant to be a portait of all leftists, it was clearly describing a certain strain of authoritarian marxists i.e the dominant strain. sure there are plenty of reformist leftists who prioritize social justice or electoralism over the factory, but they're addressed in the other points
4: As a waitress and mother who lives in a trailer and has only a 2 year degree from a community college- this one really strikes me as absurd…. Leftists are the last people to gatekeep or be elitist… maybe we’re talking about liberals here?
no we're talking about marxist academics or really any leftist who uses language that's impossible to decipher without doing a mountain of research, which includes a lot of libsocs (communalists especially). even the marxist definition of 'state' has nothing to do with the common definition. it's the same secret-language policy that cults utilize, where only the people in the upper echelons can fully understand the theory
7: please familiarize yourself with the history of anti-fascist action. We don’t march to intimidate or to provoke violence (like the right do) we march to show solidarity with marginalized groups and defend vulnerable communities from clear and present threats… comparing leftist marches to RW marches is really ignorant.
it was a joke about leftists utilizing the same tools as nationalists (flags, uniforms, anthems). didn't say anything about violence but now that you mention it - direct action doesn't preclude violence and why should it?
8: see above, action in defense of vulnerable groups is not the same as systemic, normalized, militarized policing in defense of the owning class.
Leftist states still have police forces and they still perform all those duties for the owning class. Even libsoc projects like Rojava have strong police forces. And all kinds of leftists who aren't utilizing literal police forces still use cop tactics like you comparing me to a fascist several times in order to alienate and demonize me. you can't do anarchy before you kill the cop in your head
9: I guess the point here is that it’s bad when cis-het-white men make space for queer/female/BIPOC people to take active roles in organizing? It’s not that victimhood means that you should be “in charge” it’s that it’s important to listen to the people we’re trying to help about what they need and how best to organize for their benefit.
no that wasn't the point at all and u shouldn't be framing entire groups of people as victims. it's disempowering and toxic
And finally #10: One of the main positions of the left is labor rights. Capital abuses labor constantly and demands sacrifices for nothing beyond the profits of the owners. Even so, nobody outside of tankies and social democrats give a damn about “work ethic” on the left… and are demsocs and tankies even leftists?
Yes they're on the left ( https://raddle.me/wiki/leftism ) and this point had nothing to do with labor rights, look up 'anti-work' or read my essay about it here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ziq-kill-the-god-of-work-all-his-clergy
It’s not just juvenile… this is literally the same shit nazis say about the left, like, to the tee. I don’t think any ideology is above criticism, but when your criticism mirrors far-right ‘criticism’ it is without a doubt- cringe.
yea this isn't an attempt to out-group me at all. now im literally a nazi
fortmis wrote
I don't know how you mustered the energy to respond to that comment. I can barely get through the first two points of their dry, meaningless shell of a critique. My eyes were literally crossing.
fortmis wrote
also love this reoccurring "you mean liberals right???" It's like ppl from canada getting offended when they travel and people confuse them with americans.
ziq OP wrote (edited )
idk where they get the idea that leftist = perfect being capable of no fault and then when u point out all the faulty leftists they're all 'lol those aren't real leftists'
ziq OP wrote
[–]Ranshin-da-anarchist 1 point 9 hours ago
Ok, so we are talking about liberalism.
just no getting through the cult's programmin
fortmis wrote
Lol their primary defense machanism -- hide behind liberals
Tequila_Wolf wrote
I like the expression of the double meaning of red flags, nice work.