/dead/ Post-Left Anarchism

Welcome to /dead/, a post-left anarchist board. Here you can discuss theory and praxis, ask questions and hang out with other posties. You can find all the introductory literature in the thumbnail.

Useful links:

Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
https://anarchymag.org

CrimethInc.
https://crimethinc.com

The Anarchist Library
https://theanarchistlibrary.org

AnarchistNews
https://www.anarchistnews.org

I had no idea where to post this, because it's not a leftist analysis and I didn't wanna make a new thread on the main board or /b/ for it. I watched one of this guy's videos before, and I didn't realize until this one that he seems to be catered more to an audience who might conventionally be called right wing.

I was watching this video just now, though, and while he says a lot I disagree with (wrt the USSR, bussing, and more), I find his critiques of leftist organization and the co-option of leftist energy/activism by the state to be incredibly interesting. I'd actually be interested in reading/hearing more analyses like this, because I think it's on point - the stagnation on the left, despite mass support and activism, does absolutely appear to be by design, and seems to spend a lot of energy which would otherwise be spent on larger scale direct action.

okay ignoring the moralism and ethics of talking about lanza due to his actions, what is the general post-left opinion on his critique of culture and value?? like outside of the normal responses of "he was just mentally ill" and stuff. I personally dislike culture but don't really understand his logic nor his reasoning.

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so i joined a community of "egoists" and these people are ridiculous
>there's an application process to get in
>questions are "do you believe in ethnic liberation" "do you believe in a non capitalist mode of production"
>the community bans anyone with capitalist positions, *cels, ancaps, marxist leninists
>moderated by someone who believes in "systems", whatever that is
>90% of people here are trans
>like half the server, moreso than most communities of this type
>something called kin is within the server and there is an insane amount of furries
>supporting the existence of states and letting states go by
>a lot of people here oddly seem to be autistic when i figured stirner would be the philosopher with the LEAST autistic people following him
where did i end up are there no good anarchist communities

Ted Kaczynski died in Prision at the age of 81

<According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Kaczynski was discovered unresponsive in his cell around 12:30 a.m. ET. He was to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead..

Culture, as an ecosystem, exists bound by soft laws (forces, distinct objects, attributes, space), stemming from collective general tendencies of human minds (association, reason, desire) and their material conditions. Barring extreme circumstances, the most important factor to determine a given culture was its past state, and simple directional movements sped forwards (trends).

What counts as "culture"? Culture includes language, what logic is deemed acceptable, what values are instilled, technology, division of labor, social organisation and power structure, artistic language, symbolism, accepted behavior and most of everything in a humans living experience that is shared between people.

For the sake of analysis, I will focus two of the most powerful forces. Namely, pleasure and reason. Pleasure, I use vaguely to mean the range of experiences between love, fulfillment, comfort, happiness, joy, ecstacy, physical pleasure, temptation and all the other dopamine, oxytocin or seratonin assocated emotion. Reason, meanwhile, I will take to be constructive thought mostly limited to the prefrontal cortex, but more specifically, abstract and rational thinking about issues, without significant intetference from substances or emotional centers.

Historically, culture used to be bound to tradition. Tradition seen as What Was/Is/Will be. Increasingly, it is unbound and moving.

The principle cause of this liberation was culture, and the material conditions of the Enlightenment in Europe. After a long, regressive dark age in the continent, the excess development predicated on the feudalist model led to excess, while the aims of the elite increasingly emphasized knowledge for its own sake, or for the sake of God or whatever. One could argue a number of causes, but it is worth mentioning they were self-compounding and mostly material, technological and finally cultural, not ethnic. Cultural ego loves to assume good aspects of ones own culture are indicative of the whole, and bad aspects of others, which is naive at best.

Knowledge for its own sake, or for the sake of an abstract "good", is an exceedingly contagious idea in the right psycho-socio-cultural spaces. Necessarily higher on the ladder of needs is self-fulfillment, which would be the necessary level, along with identities around abstract truth and ability to make discovery.

Rapidly, it catalized into a new culture in it of itself. Born with barriers on what to and not to qPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Voting in New Zealand this year (2k26) … form has a ethnic question for what vote roll you are … they had three "choices", M for M, M for G, X for G … X meant you were "NOT M" … seemed weird to be played like that? #identitypolitics

Is our board just the board of burnt out nihilists?
Think about it:
>Epstine files
No thread
>political happenings
General meh stance
>Both parties are seen as retarded on this board
We vote or participate in neither

Personally I dont see a way we on the left can over come the machine of capital itself.
I kind of have just shrunk down into escapism and art.
There's no going back after you open pandoras box though. I wish I could just get plugged back in some times.

Leftypol mods hate me. My name is Diod. These people don't actually care about reaching non leftists/post-leftists. Leftypol is an echo-chamber in which anons circlejerk about their moral superiority. I occupy a niche space in online political discourse, as the anarchist leak in the alt-right pipeline, and I will grow bigger. There's a hoppean/ancap to fascist pipeline that can easily be broken. Comment what you think about my interaction in this video.

hey /dead/ites, I want you to tell me about the last time you were really truely happy, the last time you had that careless positive feeling within that everything will turn out fine!
I wanna ask this because, self-analysing, I couldn't shake the feeling that me turning post-left and loosing hope in regular marxism/anarchism was at least partly due my personal situation worsening and loosing hope in general, so I wonder if others on here have similar feelings.
To me, it has been like exactly 6 months now. Back then I just radomly had the chance to meet all my old friends from highschool and it was just an all around positive experience. The whole corona bs only really came up afterwards and since then I haven't really had contact with pretty much anyone. Also I lost my former job and had to do hours in a call center. So yeah, things have been pretty shitty since then and atm I don't feel like they are getting better.