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https://kyler.neocities.org/pdfs/postliterate/Abolition-of-Value-is-the-only-way-to-kill-a-State.pdf Once labor ceases to exist, that is, once human activ­ity is longer cut between value and non-​value pro­duc­ing, this whole mass sys­tem of coer­cion would essen­tially dis­ap­pear. The only form of anar­chy, the only free­dom from state­hood, and thus the only form of a self-​guided soci­ety, can come from an end to the value-form.
willow
Mae Bee - A Green Anarchist Project on Freedom and Love https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mae-bee-a-green-anarchist-project-on-freedom-and-love#toc5
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willow
you should all read Nathan Snaza's "School Sucks"
https://annas-archive.org/scidb/10.1080/15505170.2016.1138251 We could even note, following Freud’s account of sublimation, that the intellectual labor practiced in schools is only possible through sucking away energies that would otherwise travel in the directions more obviously sexual (including, well, sucking).
willow
honestly just read Snaza in general
Posthuman(ist) Education and the Banality of Violence The production of humans through educational assemblages is indissociably linked to processes of dehumanization. As the human is produced as a particular, contingent subject of politics and history, it is articulated over and against the nonhuman, the inhuman, and the not-quite-human.47 This production of the human, within imperialist modernity, works through dialecti- cal negation: the human is distinguished from the animal, the machine, the savage, the slave, the object. In this dialectical production of the human, the human reserves for itself the domain of politics (they are subjects) while all those rendered nonhuman – including those humans who are dehumanized by the ‘fully human’ humans – are cast into the realm of objects of political action.
willow
tbh hes not innovative at all and it can get kinda saccharine and banal, but it's a fine restatement of boring truisms
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https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alyson-escalante-gender-nihilism-an-anti-manifesto alyson escalante - gender nihilism, an anti manifesto The self, the subject is a product of power. The “I” in “I am a man” or “I am a woman” is not an “I” which transcends those statements. Those statements do not reveal a truth about the “I,” rather they constitute the “I.” Man and Woman do not exist as labels for certain metaphysical or essential categories of being, they are rather discursive, social, and linguistic symbols which are historically contingent. They evolve and change over time; their implications have always been determined by power. Who we are, the very core of our being, might perhaps not be found in the categorical realm of being at all. The self is a convergence of power and discourses. Every word you use to define yourself, every category of identity within which you find yourself place, is the result of a historical development of power. Gender, race, sexuality, and every other normative category is not referencing a truth about the body of the subject or about the soul of the subject. These categories construct the subject and the self. There is no static self, no consistent “I”, no history transcending subject. We can only refer to a self with the language given to us, and that language has radically fluctuated throughout history, and continues to fluctuate in our day to day life. The self is a product of power. Statements which claim a categorical identity do not reveal a transcendental truth about the “I,” rather they constitute the “I.” Assertions of identity do not reveal a truth about the “I,” rather they constitute the “I.”