Posted Sep 4, 2020, 12:58 AM UTC
While his points are largely good, a lot of the examples he uses are the “yet you participate in society” thing
This is unfortunately all too common.
You do what you have to do in capitalism, the fact that you can't rationally do otherwise is precisely what makes capitalism so bad. If you could walk away, if you weren't forced to sell yourself, then anti-capitalism wouldn't be necessary. You would just leave.
Yeah. I hate Talcum X as much as anyone here, but he can charge whatever the fuck he wants for his talks/books whatever. He is selling his own (over priced) labour. Being against capitalism is not being 'anti money' it's being anti worker exploitation and he isn't exploiting anyone. At most you could say the whole 'woke industry' is a grift on the PMC for being too stupid to think they can throw money into solving racism.
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I think there’s clear conflict between a lot of woke people and capitalism. This sub sometimes over stress how much woke activism is just neoliberal shilling and petty IdPol. But yeah corporations and capitalists can absorb much of woke rhetoric.
The idea is, if a corporation can say everything you say and not consider it a threat to capitalism, then it isn't a threat to capitalism, and neither are you.
Not you you, the generic you. You know what I mean.
Educating gauls is not an ideological threat to Rome. In fact incorporating a few gauls into the imperial hegemony helps justify rule over all of gaul
Wokal Distance breaks it down. A great follow on Twitter.
Probably not the message I should have took from this, but damn those blackspot shoes are nice, they look like homemade converse
twitter rule violation.
If your just ‘against capitalism’ but not clearly and unequivocally advocating for socialism(and an actual change in control of production not just some welfare programs), you are not actually against capitalism. ‘Racial capitalism’, ‘white supremacist capitalism’, ‘racist capitalism’, ‘patriarchal capitalism’ are weasel words, qualifiers so that you sound like you are radical but don’t actually think that capitalism itself is the problem
Well put. Like they have to make capitalism bad by calling it racist or patriarchal, if you dont agree that a matriarchal antiracist capitalism would also be bad then you dont really hate capitalism.
It’s also possible to be ‘against capitalism’ and not be in any way left wing or even progressive. Right wing opposition to capitalism exists. There are economic systems more backward and repressive than capitalism. Supporters of slavery were against capitalism, so were supporters of feudalism. Many fascists claimed to be a ‘Third Way’ that rejected both liberal capitalism and Communism. So it is with some contemporary woke types, who when you press them on what sort of system they actually support as an alternative, they’ll bring up tribal indigenous societies(almost always highly romanticized). When in fact these were class societies too, just non capitalist ones.