i much prefer the unpragmatic utopian childish anarchists to the ones that clearly don't have their heart in it at all, and might as well be anthropologist observers. vile cowards that speak of "them" rather than "us"
book that makes me so upset i have to reactivate to talk about it
like are you kidding me what is this sentence: "It is not a question of establishing comparisons or awful cultural supremacisms but rather defending the secular, non-normative nature of the anarchist framework."
so true bestie you can accomplish everything you want without contrasting at all and without evaluation in any way (which would be hierarchical and authoritarian)
begging and pleading radicals to read one page of nietzsche
"descriptive x is good but prescriptive x is bad"
check in next week for more fantastical absurdities from people who never got the memo about the naivete of the fact-value distinction
i know i could get putnam reference cred if i put "dichotomy", but that way of describing the collapse has always felt far too conservative and unambitious
practical pragmatism has its advantages (not least of which its rhetorical parsimonious force), but i think the more aesthetic (and aristocratic?) forms can accommodate far more