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.
SparksCampism 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.
JohnA lesson of neofascism we should take forward into our inevitably brighter future is that systems thinking, when applied to human problems, isn't just inadequate; it's unethical and irresponsible.
Liberals, desperate for "fairness", tried to create a short-cut for cultural and community work by shoveling everything into the "Justice" system or burying it under reams of poorly written laws.
Their authoritarian impulses, unsurprisingly, just created more injustice.
Turns out that most human challenges are as messy and complicated as human beings are themselves. Bad people are the products of their environments; only Essentialists deny that circumstances dictate behavior in almost every instance.
But if society is responsible for bad behavior, that means *we are all responsible for bad behavior*, not just the people behaving badly.
And that means we have to *take responsibility*. Better to blame everything on "personal responsibility".