• Helmic [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Actual post-left is typically anarchist, and it doesn't really abandon progressive poltics - it merely gives up on the idea of "the left" as it were actually succeeding in achieving communism, and so instead directs the efforts of anarchists towards doing anarchism in the moment, in what few areas it can exist under capitalism, and just ride out the shitshow as long as possible. Basically how we treat electoral politics, they treat the left - maybe good intentioned but ultimately a waste of time and resources put towards a false promise of change when it could be better used to more immediately support the material needs of those around us.

    No fucking idea what everyone else, including Peter Coffin, is going the fuck on about. Post-left shit would cover shit like anti-civ, egoism, etc. They might ask you to go read Desert and needle the shit out of Bookchinites, but they'd just as soon kill a patsoc if they couold get away with it. What Peter Coffin and company is doing is just third positionism, possibly re-branding it on purpose; Peter Coffin has actually read some theory so I find it hard to believe he's genuinly ignorant of what post-leftists generally subscribe to, it seems more like the right trying to steal the vocabulary of the left again. Sorta like how patsoc is literally just rebranded natsoc.