Oh… where to begin? I enjoyed your discussion on Bad Faith, with Briana and so I thought to go in search of what else you say…and I came across this post.

My problem with this post: the persistence of the idea that it is ever a good idea to “shut up and do as you are told” and that a progressive push for creating another, better world would hold to this old beaten and broken beast as key to success…

The poison is in the potion, and I don’t understand why this is not obvious. As a person who grew up - admittedly many decades ago, in a different world - where ‘shut up and do as you are told’ was sacred at church, at school, at home, I simply will never again agree to working with people who hold to this as a good strategy. This may be in the cause of communism and not of capitalism, but the heart of the beast remains identical and hence the outcome may have different hair and tattoos, but will be the same at heart - domination.

Surely, surely, surely we can go one step further and leave domination behind… and then capitalism may simply die for lack of air…