Paris, France (Nov 28th 2020)
What is Post-Leftism?
by r/postleftanarchism
1) The Left
critiquing the Left as an nebulous, anachronistic, distracting, a failure, and at key points a counterproductive force historically ("the left-wing of capital")
critiquing Leftist activists for political careerism, celebrity culture, self-righteousness, privileged vanguardism, and martyrdom
critiquing the tendency of Leftists to insulate themselves in academia, scenes, and cliques while also attempting to opportunistically manage struggles
2) Ideology
a Stirner-esque critique of dogma and ideological thinking as a distinct phenomenon in favor of "critical self-theory" at individual and communal levels
3) Morality
a moral nihilist critique of morality / reified values / moralism
4) Organizationalism
critiquing permanent, formal, mass, mediated, rigid, growth-focused modes of organization in favor of temporary, informal, direct, spontaneous, intimate forms of relation
critiquing Leftist organizational patterns' tendencies toward managerialism, reductionism, professionalism, substitutionism, and ideology
critiquing the tendencies of unions and Leftist organizations to mimic political parties, acting as racketeers/mediators, with cadre-based hierarchies of theoretician & militant or intellectual & grunt, defailting toward institutionalization, and ritualizing a meeting-voting-recruiting-marching pattern
5) Identity Politics
critiquing identity politics insofar as it preserves victimization-enabled identities and social roles (i.e. affirming rather than negating gender, class, etc.) and inflicts guilt-induced paralysis, amongst others
critiquing single-issue campaigns or orientations
6) Values
moving beyond anarchISM as a static historical praxis into anarchY as a living praxis
focussing on daily life and the intersectionality thereof rather than dialectics / totalizing narratives (except anarcho-primitivists tend toward epistemology)
emphasizing personal autonomy and a rejection of work (as forced labor, alienated labor, workplace-centricity)
critiquing Enlightenment notions of Cartesian dualities, rationalism, humanism, democracy, utopia, etc.
critiquing industrial notions of mass society, production, productivity, efficiency, "Progress", technophilia, civilization (esp. in anti-civilization tendencies)
