that works. i was thinking of the pithy quote about white supremacy being like a black hole: not directly observable but you know it’s there by the effects or something along those lines.
Damn, that’s some serious shade RD throws at anarchists in the postscript.
Since we’re discussing two-dimensional models, it would be churlish not to address one popular two-dimensional model and its implications: the two-axis “political compass.”
This diagram, popular among the extremely online, organizes ideologies along a “Left-Right” axis and an “Authoritarian-Libertarian” axis. Anarchism, along with micro-variants like “anarcho-communism” and “libertarian socialism,” then lays claim to the “Left-Libertarian” quadrant, and thus positions itself as one of the Big Four.
To briefly cite some notable anarchist theorists:
The Communism of Marx seeks enormous centralization in the state, and where such exists, there must inevitably be a central state bank, and where such a bank exists, the parasitic Jewish nation, which speculates on the work of the people, will always find a way to prevail. [Bakunin]
The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. [Goldman]
Nietzsche was not a social theorist but a poet, a rebel and innovator. His aristocracy was neither of birth nor of purse; it was of the spirit. In that respect Nietzsche was an anarchist, and all true anarchists were aristocrats. [Goldman]
I have no quarrel with libertarians who advance the concept of capitalism of the type that you have advanced. […] Let me make it very plain that if socialism, which is what I call the authoritarian version of collectivism, were to emerge, I would join your [anarcho-capitalist] community. I would migrate to your community and do everything I could to prevent the collectivists from abridging my right to function as I like. [Bookchin]
Anarchism is an uninteresting ideological byproduct of capitalism characterized above all by its adherents’ transvaluation of their own irrelevance into a religious virtue. I consider it a minor sibling of liberalism and fascism, sharing all of their Euro-individualist delusions of genius and grandeur.
ooooh, i’ve had his book on stalin sitting in a tab in my browser for like a year now but i will add this to my list of things to peruse once i get my adhd sorted out lol
that Losurdo book is a main basis of the redsails link I initially gave. the deeply racist roots of the “sorting out who’s good and who’s bad via the infallible market” of market fundamentalism/liberalism
what’s that quote about white supremacy being at the heart of liberalism?
yeah, that.
https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism/#the-18th-and-19th-century-classical-liberalism-genius-and-race-science
that works. i was thinking of the pithy quote about white supremacy being like a black hole: not directly observable but you know it’s there by the effects or something along those lines.
oh yeah that’s a tagline originally by BeamBrain
that’s the one, thank you. i’ve used that one in real life to good effect (thankfully without anyone ever asking for a source)
Damn, that’s some serious shade RD throws at anarchists in the postscript.
If you haven’t already heard of it, you’d probably find Losurdo’s Liberalism: A Counter-History to be an interesting read!
ooooh, i’ve had his book on stalin sitting in a tab in my browser for like a year now but i will add this to my list of things to peruse once i get my adhd sorted out lol
thanks for the recommendation
that Losurdo book is a main basis of the redsails link I initially gave. the deeply racist roots of the “sorting out who’s good and who’s bad via the infallible market” of market fundamentalism/liberalism
The Stalin book is incredible as well! I learned so much, it’s a masterful work. Losurdo was one of the best thinkers of the 21st century