/lit/ - Literature

We live in very irrational times.

>>6928923
>False analogy. Science is objective. Literature and philosophy are not.
Science is heavily accused of having ideological biases. Perhaps you should ask your PoMo overlords to explain this to you.

>Why is that wrong?
It's hypocritical, is it not? You're pushing a white form of morality under the guise of "decolonization". A much better way of decolonizing would be to reject all of whitey's narratives including whitey's moral codes.

>So what?
See above. Again, it's really only a post-Enlightenment Euro thing to define "justice" as analogous to equality or egalitarianism. Muslims, for example, understand a just society as one where everything and everyone is running in accordance with Allah's Law. They might have taken that from Plato, who knows? But the point is, that's not how Westerners understand justice.

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>>6810112
Lifestyle politics is indeed a shit tactic. Klein's story, however, really does absolutely nothing to vindicate Chomsky's hypocrisy. In some ways, integrating into consumer society pacifies the would-be revolutionary class, and we're already seeing this in the West as it is. Western workers are not going to organize and conduct a mass anarcho-syndicalist revolution because they have no incentive. They do not "feel" exploited the way the workers Klein mentioned do. They are content with their iPhones, coffee, Nike shoes, and trips to the Bahamas. The "consumerist" workers in Klein's memoir have more to gain than to lose, and are hardly bogged down by consumer society the way Westerners have become.

I'm not a Maoist-Third Worldist, but I strongly agree that at this point there is no revolutionary class in the West. At this point, I'm willing to go full Laclau and agree that the only thing those of us on the far-left can do to stir the pot is take advantage of the contentions that exist in society in hopes that a revolutionary class will come together from it.

>>6810106
>The american working class hates unions because they've been lead to believe unions are anti-freedom and steal from them. Repression against unions by the ruling class has been going on for centuries. If we lived in a union culture like France the labor movement would look very different.
Guess what? I've lived in France and in Italy (both huge bastions of "union culture"). And in both countries unions are heavily government-controlled. IWW doesn't exist in Europe. The CNT in Spain are now sellouts like the rest of them.

Look, the lack of a labor movement isn't reducible to propaganda from Fox News. There's a whole set of institutions in society that fuck with you every day. Workers do not "snap out of it" as soon as you feed them Chomsky's ramblings about why we need horizontal workplaces. A married father of three with a 401k isn't going to give all of that up for an idealistic anarchist utopia that may never come.

>>6486097
>Just look at Foucault and his Stalinist teacher Althusser: it's a dictator's dream if all of our values are socially constructed and imposed on us from above. If that's not an invitation for fascism, I don't know what is.
Except for the fact that neither one of them said that. At all. Rather, their theses explained how power and ideology are not single-sourced but come from multiple sources which fuck with your mind and body every minute.

Althusser's theories are despised by anarcho-syndicalists and other Chomsky cultists because they thoroughly debunk the outdated workerist praxis they keep clinging to.

>>6312787
>implying he hasn't been wrong more times than he's been right
>implying Marxists haven't done a better job of explaining US imperialism and cultural hegemony

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This entire thread is win.

Hey /lit/, when did you find out you were interplellated?