/lit/ - Literature

>>10893060
I'm literally a social justice commie faggot. What are you going to do about it, you fucking baby?

Cultivate the aesthetic.

Let's start: Is it /lit/ to go bald?

>>9665707
Well, I would argue (together with genuine Marxists) that those Ivy-league critics have abandoned class politics and materialist analysis entirely, and their criticism revolves around opressed identities independently of economic reality. You can apply something like marxian critique to pretty much anything, but that doesn't by itself make you a socialist. These kind of post-Marxists basically think you can solve issues such as racial conflict via capitalistic reforms, something anathema to socialists.
This sort of critique basically stems from New Left social liberalism in the late 60s/70s, which argued that the proletariat was no longer a revolutionary subject, and the best we could do as radicals was focusing on specific issues and groups. Now, even I'll submit that this approach certainly bore some fruit, and it's nice to have individual freedoms in western society and do previously unthinkable things like being openly gay without extreme repercussions. But calling this the far-left and identifying it with the entirety of Marxism is a narrative I totally reject, it has been critiqued from a class perspective for decades (Meiksins Wood's Retreat From Class comes to mind).
The whole point, in my view, is that these separate radicalisms" are meaningless without a consistent program of economic transformation to tie them all together and invite a mass front. Without this, the gains of social liberalism quickly fall apart in times of structural capitalist crisis.

>>8966666

I can't decide if I want to be a Marxist or a classical conservative. Give me some literature to sway me to either side.