Edit: This person is pretty young from what I’ve gathered after some reddit searching, so don’t like go whole-hog and be weirdos on reddit trying to troll them or anything. This is mostly about how fucking absurd the modding of that subreddit is
editedit: also Anarchism isn’t what I’m dunking here. However, post-left anything is not covered in the sectarian treaty
Postleft anarchist? Does postleft have another meaning? I associate it almost exclusively with terminally online social reactionaries who might use some Marxist language, but I’ve never seen one identify with anarchism, or even pretend to
post-left doesn’t have a good singular definition because its adherents are all over the place. It’s been a term for at least 30 years now. The weird online reactionaries are just using the name because I’m pretty sure they were unaware post-left anarchists were a thing.
Their most common feature of post-leftists is they don’t really believe in class struggle or abolishing the current conditions. They don’t really believe in trying to change anything. They don’t even really believe in revolution. They believe a kind of utopian society is possible now by just disentangling from society entirely and forming your own little groups of like minded people. A lot of them think they’ve somehow unlocked a cheat code for politics that’s like “Yo what if you just stopped caring about who the fuckin president is and you stop going to work and just start a garden with some friends?”
It’s like if a bunch of people somehow internalized that one right wing argument that you can just be communist on your own plot of land and invent your own new society.
What is weird, people did try this, anarchists fairly explicitly in Europe (and enclaves still exist), but also hippies with communes in usa. How is it post, if it’s an autonomous sort of cell structure from below?
You may be putting more thought in to this than it’s adherents.
Here’s a well-known post-left polemic to give an idea of their beliefs https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nadia-c-from-crimethinc-your-politics-are-boring-as-fuck
Every time I read this I either think this person is responding to someone incredibly specific or it’s just one of the more :jesse-wtf: things I’ve ever read, because almost none of the things the person is talking about resonate with me