i just can't stand how so-called "leftists" manage to synthesize liberalism into whatever radical tendency they find most asethetically appealing

  • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    This shit was kind of the rage in punk scene circa 2005-2025 in punk/anarchist/better-read-hippy scenes. Still lingers around a bit. "Post-Left" was a popular title, but you also got some other titles, each of which has a very well edited Wikipedia page. Crimethinc. was a trendy publishing collective, with admittedly very good graphic design, based around distributing material about this stuff.

    The whole thesis seems to be that "mass society", i.e. any social order encompassing more than like 500 people, is inherently alienating, and so larger organized revolution is a folly since it would just will reproduce that mass society. The end goal is almost like a cultural-primitivism, where you just try to live on the fringe will a small cohort of close friends, like a band of rogues from a cheesy fantasy novel. The closest thing I've seen to someone trying to be revolutionary with type of organizing is some anarchist groups in Southern Europe (mostly Greece) that seem to just function as "Public Enemies" style heist gangs who rob banks, live underground, and do some Robin-Hood-esk redistribution.

    I used to find these ideas a bit romantic in my younger years, but with age I now see it as cooperative form of right ring doomsday prepping. Instead of a bunker full of beans waiting for you when the system collapses you have a gang of weirdos to go form a tribe with. Maybe slightly more healthier than the right wing version but still not great.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Fucking last punk shoe I went to this dude I sorts knew who was on the outskirts was telling me about this stupid baphomet necklace he was wearing and bought off Amazon cause he saw Kawakami wearing something similar in picture. The whole thing that was my life from 13 to 30 and slowly had been eroding died right there to me. I didnt sign up for acting like a weeb for the dbeat raw punk superhero, another cheap product for the consumers head. Creating an underground DIY network and only using it so bands can tour and not make anything for the effort cause for so.e reason breaking or spending your own money to entertain people is what's expected. Juvenile

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          2 months ago

          I'm stenchcore scum through and through but that's cause I thought it meant anything. I do weird harsh noise project with another disillusioned crusty who's 12 years older than me and was a homeless addixt for 20, the internet had flattened it a out, no one gets that eventually some people need to take up booking touring bands, finding venues and stuff and it's been a real hard torch to pass. To me punk is something you do, not something you consume, older punks need to get jobs and stuff eventually, we can't be the the DIY daycare forever

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Crustie who emerged from that time and fought tooth and nail against it, I hate it. Also punks just kinda suck in general. I'm a burnt out love punk hate punks guy. The lyrics of a weird creep, the people who lived on his compound and the kids he entinced are no basis for political thought *lookin at you penny rimbaud