HeavenlyPossumTreating people as indistinguishable appendages of a larger ethnic whole is inherently fascist. There is absolutely no room for this shit in any remotely liberatory politics.
This is equally true for campism, like Johnstone’s performative withholding of sympathy *for children harmed by war* because she views the children as mere appendages of a larger corporate body, not actual human beings.
Campism and fascism offer people the option of an incredibly *easy* approach to morality and politics. There’s a good guy team and a bad guy team and all the rest is trivial details.
But easier is not better. Anarchism requires us to approach human beings not as appendages of larger polities or racialized groups, but as actual, individual, whole people. There is no shortcut; you have to do the work. But it’s worth it not to end up as fascist monsters burning down ambulances or excusing violence against children.
Light@HeavenlyPossum
>campism
Thank you for that word. I've been using "collective guilt" but "campism" is much shorter and snappier.
>campism
Thank you for that word. I've been using "collective guilt" but "campism" is much shorter and snappier.
john.brown_typeface@light @HeavenlyPossum
campism is associated with 'tankies' and vulgar imperialism
"anyone but the US" as if other states aren't structured the same and also oppressive
Basically the reduction of class analysis to geopolitics, and then the reduction of geopolitics to team sports.