#insurrectionarycompassion

[earlgraytay]

insurrectionarycompassion commented on modern-politics111's link “Twitter Removed 10,000 Bots Pretending to Be Democrats Telling Other...”

Have y’all forgotten the 2000 and 2016 elections already? The popular vote is meaningless. Politics moves on with or without our consent.

The popular vote is only meaningless in a Presidential election, because the Presidential election system is fucking stupid. Elections for the Senate, the House, and state/local positions are all based directly on the popular vote. 

In this election? Your vote counts. And sure, your vote is probably not gonna be the difference between which Senator you get ... but it might be the difference between whether or not your local library stays open. Or whether or not your local schools teach actual history instead of right-wing propaganda. Or whether or not you get a state/county judge who will actually look at the cases on their docket and try to judge justly, instead of just assuming that all women are to blame for anything that happens to them.  

Unless you think that the people in power in DC really care about school board elections in Podunk, Nowhere... yeah, it’s still worth voting.

[tchaikovskaya]

insurrectionarycompassion replied to your post “2 hot takes for the price of one: the whole “counseling ur friends is...”

Hot take: we could better afford emotional resources to our friends if the material conditions of our lives which produce our emotional/physical exhaustion was radically altered so we all had more time and energy to focus on ourselves and others.

[gothhabiba]

insurrectionarycompassion replied to your post “Autistic culture is agreeing with someone and then being told you’re...”

Why do people consistently use neuroatypicality to excuse bad behavior lol

you know.... it’s weird...... I could have sworn that I, like, made a post about that at some point..... but maybe I’m imagining things.... huh

[proletarianprogramme-blog]

insurrectionarycompassion replied to your post: also if you hang out with Earth First, this one is...

this is basically my politics on food and meat consumption though lol

same. not to mention i don’t think a purely vegan block will ever address some very pressing environmental concerns. rivers here are so fucked, 40,000 trout dwindling to about 800 over the past few decades. You wanna address that quickly, before the rev sort of thing you might need to block with fuckin recreational fishermen lol 

[justsomeantifas]

hey! I was wondering do you know some good anti-capitalist blogs on this site? I'm just starting a political blog and I need people to follow

uhm these are people i follow … any of yall can reblog with more btw if these are like problematic i had no idea so just uh.. let me know, native news, gayasscommie, slack-bloc, reverseracism, leftslide, anarchistcommunism, tchaikovskaya, electoralcollege, lord-kitschener, hooligan-nova, echopraxis, entitledrichpeople, down-with-capitalism, insurrectionarycompassion, chicanochamberofcommerce, postmarxed, memecucker, statist-shill-cuck, leftist-daily-reminders, gayconflictavoider, softtrade, butchcommunist, closet-keys, neoliberalismkills, edwad, decadent-trans-girl, trans-mom, soclwrkrinmotion, gothhabiba, leviathan-supersystem, silversarcasm, punlich, the6thsiren

I’m sure there are way more and like … I don’t follow very many people? So I’m not the best person to ask but like these are just a few people that I do follow? Again yall feel free to comment with other suggestions, and if anyone I’ve listed here doesn’t want to be here let me know and I’ll remove you. sryyy

[gothhabiba]

insurrectionarycompassion replied to your post“how long did it take u to work on ur chapbook? I have so many...”

a chapbook is a short non-bounded book released in small press poetry and prose sections.

yes I know what a chapbook is. I’m responding to the disrepect involved in calling wanderers a “chapbook” when it is quite literally a book

[proletarianprogramme-blog]

How do you feel about the Autonomist focus on unwaged labor and how the wage relation obscures the unwaged labor which reproduces the conditions for waged labor?

I think drawing a hardline between waged and unwaged labour in this way is a bit confusing - because the minimum price of labour power includes the price required to reproduce the labour of the worker - this bundles together the wage as actually also the amount needed to reproduce the labour done in the domestic sphere - unwaged labour, emotional labour, whatever we call it. In this sense the two kinds are reciprocal, no ‘unwaged labour’ reproduces itself in isolation - not unless we’re talking about a peasantry who can still do unalienated labour directly for their own consumption. At the same time, the labour power sold to the capitalist is not reproduced passively - the wage does not pay for a maid, a servant, a personal accountant and trainer, a cook etc, it doesn’t include the ability to reproduce ones labour with no additional expenditure of effort. So that’s where unwaged labour comes in, either in the form of familial bonds - and then it gets super gendered and we gotta refer to Federici, or for some unlucky souls they get to do it themselves (we can’t discount the fact that a small fraction of waged workers are also extremely socially isolated - basically alone - and any reproductive labour they do is done by themselves, or paid for directly rather than tacitly). It’s a complex question, the two make each other possible, as reproductive labour needs an injection of use-values which are bought with the pay of the ordinary waged labour. So basically, this unitary characteristic of waged/unwaged labour and its interaction emphasises that the proletariat as a political actor must be one forged of various fractions - one of which is specifically the ‘working class’, but the proletariat as a whole are all those who rely on the wage fund in some way to reproduce their lives. So a political programme for the class would need to incorporate the interests of both. At a personal level, I often say that one of the few things worse than being exploited by capital in waged work is being basically excluded even from this exploitation. Anyone who has been unemployed involuntarily will basically agree. But the big thing is that worker-centric politics misunderstands why the working class matters - it isn’t the revolutionary class because workers are essential for production to continue (and I’m concerned that how you explain the autonomist perspective just flips this logic and applies it to unwaged workers, says that they also matter because they’re essential for production). But that is not and has never been the point, in my opinion, when it comes to socialist politics. The reason the proletariat matter is not their position in production as ‘variable capital’ so much as their generalised estrangement from the means of production - they are ‘sans reserves’ and as such have no interest at all in reproducing society the way it is, or becoming a new ruling class over a class society because there is no basis for them to do so without ceasing to be proletarians. No idea if I’ve answered your question - I’m pretty hungover. 

[gothhabiba]

insurrectionarycompassion replied to your post “whom else was blocked by nativenews”

they suddenly posted a bunch of anticommunist stuff and got very upset by any pushback so I think they probably just blocked a bunch of communists to avoid our discourse.

yeah thanks, I’ve been following & responding to what’s been going on all day & that’s probably why they blocked me