On an added more speculative note to these excellent aesthetics
excursions:
It doesn't take much for Trump voters to discover that no new factories
with any new jobs are being built in Michigan and Indiana.
Consequently, American terrorism is hardly imported any longer but
quickly escalates from the one factor that the American mainstream
refuses to see: The alt-right going openly violent and the Oklahoma
Bomber rather than 9/11 being the precedent of extreme right terror and
violence in the 21st century.
The likely response is a second American Civil War based not on
Cascadia peacefully leaving the Union (why would it be allowed to) but
on Antifa-inspired hipsters in say Portland, Oregon, picking up arms in
reponse to alt-right terror cells. Castrated pacifism is after all only
the trait of the current mid-life leftist generation, the ones who
turned American leftism into "Occupy t-shirts" and Bernie Sanders
campaign buttons. The next generation may very well regard all
anti-capitalist struggle from a necessary pro-violence starting point.
But is that through a return to blind and contingent 19th century urban
anarchist struggle? Or with a proper vision for a just and fair America
and The World in this century? But where is that Marxist vision in that
case? Because if large-scale violence is back from the right, then why
would it not sooner or later return from the left? How could it be
otherwise? But with which direction?
Maybe we even should look for the birth of this movement among "leftist
fans" of Jordan Peterson and Pankaj Mishra in the You Tube
Self-education Generation?
Best intentions
Alexander Bard
2017-06-18 21:43 GMT+02:00 t byfield :
On 16 Jun 2017, at 13:25, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman wrote:
Lots of bad bits too. No amount of theory can paper over
basic flaws
in analysis.
Thanks for your points below. But I am just not seeing the
connection
between your analysis of left vs right language politics and the
basic flaws in the analysis. Could you elaborate?
The analysis seems fine as far as it goes � the problem (IMO, natch)
is that it doesn't go far. For example:
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