So here’s what happens: You get raised under patriarchal imperialist late capitalism in a place of relative privilege; meaning you’re racialized as white. Initially the privilege part is invisible to you; you think the world feels more or less the same to everyone. You’re raised with a few implicit values that are so universal you... Continue Reading →

Today’s experimental thought… I was reading a Marxist critiquing identitarian politics, and finding some resonance. I’m starting to think that any movement that centers your individual identity over what community you cocreate and cocreates you is inherently un-socialist. It can’t help but make you an unwitting ally of the individualist precarity death cult. Mind you,... Continue Reading →