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Cake day: March 5th, 2022

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  • My thoughts are that… I don’t know who this book is for? The complete title is The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism, but it doesn’t really talk about Western Marxism as a movement. The author expects you to be familiar with western marxism already, i.e. having the same definition he does, and he never really expands on it.

    This is pretty common among conservative books (and other media more generally). It’s produced to give people who already agree with it confirmation that they are right (“It’s in this very authoritative book!”), not to convince anyone or convey new or interesting information.




  • i don’t see the problem with this tweet (assuming that it’s true, which feel free to correct me if it’s not)

    a very cursory search shows Rage Against the War Machine is a Libertarian Party event, which means at best right-wing libertarians and more likely outright fascists who are cynically using calls for liberty to immiserate and oppress minorities. good on the PSL for attacking them.








  • here is a partial critique i read of whipping girl many years ago which has stuck with me Deconstructing Whipping Girl By b. binaohan

    these issues that you highlight seem strongly tied to Serano’s bioessentialist understanding of gender, which (iirc) is whatever in-born tendencies that you have one way or another. once you start trying to find gender in biology, you quickly end up reproducing the biologization of gender that is the basis of modern era misogyny because gender was one of the driving ideologies that shaped the biological study in the first place.

    once you make that connection, it becomes more clear where the “binary-phobia” stuff comes from. it’s literally just a reformulation of colonial era justification of eradicating native genders that the colonizers didn’t like. and to get out ahead of the obvious misreading, white non-binary people in the US/europe are not colonized. capital would just generally prefer to be able to easily sort everyone into 2 easily distinguishable categories with pre-defined social positions.




  • the process, in brief, goes something like this:

    1. you write something (if this is the first time through this sequence for this work, it will definitely be bad. that’s ok and expected)
    2. analyze that, which will reveal some significant flaws
    3. figure out some ways that may help with those flaws
    4. go back to step one with your improved understanding

    this can be very frustrating to begin with, but after a few tries you will start to see some improvement, and maybe even something you actually like.