Strypey
"These tendencies have led many to abandon radical milieus. This is the narrowing of possibilities induced by rigidity: either continue in a stifling and depleting atmosphere, or leave and attempt to live the form of life that is offered up by the dominant order. For many, this is not a choice at all because one’s very survival is connected to the same spaces where rigidity has taken hold. In this sense, rigid radicalism can be lethal."
https://joyfulmilitancy.com/2018/06/03/the-stifling-air-of-rigid-radicalism/
The stifling air of rigid radicalism

A similar excerpt was first published in The New Inquiry in March 2018. Capitalism, colonialism and heteropatriarchy make us sick. Are our responses healing us? Are our actions generating wellbeing…

Joyful Militancy
May 22, 2019 at 4:31pmWeb
Show threadStrypeyMay 22, 2019

"To confront rigid radicalism effectively, we think, is not to pin it down and attack it, but to understand it so that we can learn to dissipate it. Because these tendencies are linked to fear, anxiety, shame—to our very desires and sense of who we are and what we are becoming—we think it is important to approach all of this with care and compassion."
https://joyfulmilitancy.com/2018/06/03/the-stifling-air-of-rigid-radicalism/

This reminds me of #FrancesLee's writing on the same subject.

The stifling air of rigid radicalism

A similar excerpt was first published in The New Inquiry in March 2018. Capitalism, colonialism and heteropatriarchy make us sick. Are our responses healing us? Are our actions generating wellbeing…

Joyful Militancy
Show threadhighfellowJun 2, 2019
@strypey this is interesting for me. I have been involved in radical groups in the past and have ended up getting hurt in ways that I think have something to do with these kind of dynamics. I still think about politics but tend to avoid political groups nowadays because of this. I think I do better in groups that are organised around shared interests rather than shared beliefs, like the hackspace in my town.