Solidarity is not a game, it is not about "dissolving gendered class distinctions through kinky sex". it is frustrating and sucks your spirit away, as if you are circling forever on the edge of a blissful cathartic release

:matt:

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Marxism is fun though. I wanted to be an anthropologist because history, culture, and social organisation were always fascinating to me. Abstract sociohistorical studies with field expeditions is the perfect work environment and I could work 40 years happy. Sociology was a bunch of technical jargon to get a handle on but it's people-watching with extra layers of information. That's fun because people are weird. Marxism synthesised my materialist worldview, my interests in those three fields, and my ability to understand something on many different interlocking levels. Dialectics is fun because when I'm on a hike ecology one of the most engaging ways of seeing the landscape and I have a formal materialistic way of understanding the relationships a plant or an animal or a waterway exist through, not only on that immediate level but how they exist in the context of wider nature or human-nature interaction.

    • JohnBrownsBooty [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I was an anthropology undergrad, the field seems really incomplete without Marxism.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Very. Especially being a white European going into it, it's very easy for the field to become the intellectual arm of white supremacy. Having an idea of base and superstructure, philosophical grounding in anticolonialism, and conscious materialism really helped me understand those cultures in a more neutral and wholistic way.