Τετάρτη 3 Αυγούστου 2022
Dear comrades / A repetition that is not necessary.
Dear comrades, if you consider me a comrade of course (this question is being played).
We have become entangled in neo-Hegelian post-Hegelian religio-theological entanglements, in the precincts of a non-existent court of History, without even knowing and admitting this fact, and we must now re-remember basic principles of real non-theology and non-belief, to face the real world but also our problem as a problem of disguised superstition.
Is it a bit late?
Or will Nietzsche's controversial contributions, also of the psychoanalysis, art and post-art help us untangle this tangle?
I think that especially these last "reinforcements" probably made things worse: A zealouses secularized religion, the latest radicalism, when it uses and instrumentalizes "dissolving" "destructive" elements, manages to confuse itself worse, succeeds in ceasing to have the simple-simplistic features of religion, remaining however religion, altering even these "dissolving-destructive" elements.
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A repetition that is not necessary.
The emergence of the Western (imperialist-capitalist) world contained all the horrors that accompany such emergences from an older exploitative-dominant world into a newer one.
There is no necessity for all mankind to pass -in one part of it, the same horrible road.
If the rise of the West contained a historical necessity and in terms of the gruesome forms it would necessarily contain, this historical (and non-moral) necessity no longer exists.
There is no "right" to repeat a horrible necessity, nor must our world first become multi-polar by overcoming the mono-polarity of the West before it becomes non-polar non-dominant.
There is no general "right" to the repetition of all forms of primary capitalist and imperialist accumulation, or of some primary accumulation of Dominion, because "once upon a time all these first-existed in the West," just as there is no "right" to the repetition of a rape even against a former rapist (at the level of the primary accumulations mentioned above).
The left that recognizes these "rights" on the basis of an ideology or an indirect "understanding" of the would-be new Sovereigns, rushers, proto-imperialists, who "also, want to...", is a deranged left that instead of asking to gain time with a non-repetition, it asks for "understanding" of the desire of some formerly oppressed or "oppressed" to rape working classes, nations, entire peoples.
Well, yes, we don't want a multi-polarity instead of the western mono-polarism, so that we lose another 2-3 centuries, we ask for socialism now, everywhere, workers' self-management, abolition of the system of wage labor, now, crushing of the patriarchy, now, or if it can't be done "now" we want to not go back 2 centuries for the "new sovereign nations" to do their term in mass death and expansions in territories etc.
Ιωάννης Τζανάκος
Τρίτη 2 Αυγούστου 2022
It is not a short path
Our ultimate goal is that ethnic, national, sexual differences diminish or even disappear, but the path to this strategic socio-cultural goal is not a short path, it is not a path strewn with flowery imaginary abstractions, it is not a path predetermined and secured in advance through economic-productive or other linguistic-mental performative "structures".
Ιωάννης Τζανάκος
Oleksandra Povoroznyk 🇺🇦 . Thread from a queer feminist Ukrainian - her fury at the western left's condescending, "careless, hurtful bullshit" on Ukraine.
Oleksandra Povoroznyk 🇺🇦
Thread from a queer feminist Ukrainian - her fury at the western left's condescending, "careless, hurtful bullshit" on Ukraine.
"Back when I was a sociology student at Kyiv-Mohyla, I was stupidly, shamelessly enamoured with the collective western Left. I dreamed of a day when Ukrainian academia would have widespread and popular discussions about colonialism, privilege, and all of the -isms.
I read essays by prominent English-speaking activists and thought “oh, if only these brilliant people were to learn about Ukraine and its complicated past, about the discrimination we have faced throughout the centuries, about the genocides and revolutions. They would understand us.
They would probably share valuable experience or help us somehow lay down the theoretical groundwork that would explain all of the traumatic events we’ve witnessed and lived though.” I was… dazzlingly naive.
And now, when my country is under attack from a literal kleptofascist empire that openly declares it’s going to commit ethnic cleansing, when our children and women die in agony, and when our academics and queer activists, nihilists and journalists, writers and liberals, doctors, teachers, feminists and conservatives, Muslims and Jews, atheists and clergymen are desperately fighting against a better-armed, bloodthirsty enemy intent on levelling our cities with the ground, burning our fields, raping us, killing us, blowing up our hospitals and destroying our monuments, I look at the abstract western Left (or, at least, its most vocal part) and I see nothing but scorn in their eyes.
Scorn, condescending, privileged carelessness.
They preach equality and resistance to oppression and yet accuse people like myself (feminist queer women who’ve spent their lives striving for equal rights) of being Nazis because we don’t want to kneel over and die in silence.
They talk about the importance of representation and yet shut us up whenever we try and tell them about our experiences.
They write books about us without turning to a single Ukrainian expert for guidance or information.
They accuse others of being privileged and lacking empathy, and yet can’t seem to grasp the concept that not being in an active war zone and not worrying about your loved ones dying at any given moment is, in fact, privilege.
They claim that we do not deserve sympathy because we aren’t doinge nough for LGBTQ rights in this country — and then proceed to ignore the LGBTQ soldiers risking their lives on the frontlines.
They spout careless, hurtful bullshit, quoting their out-of-touch idols who preach absolute pacifism only because it’s not their lives at stake.."
I know not all western leftists are like this.
Obviously not. I know many of them do sympathise with our plight, and I’m thankful for their support. But the ones who treat this invasion as an excuse to build long-winded theories about how NATO is some ever present universal evil, or treat all of this as some sort of twisted ethics exercise, a trolly problem in which Ukrainians are the sacrificial savages who need to die quietly before real people start suffering from high gas prices or nuclear war… I’ll never forget those."
Κυριακή 31 Ιουλίου 2022
Have I told you what I think of this type of teacher?
Kurds: They are being exterminated because they do not have what is
exterminating them.
What do they not have?
What they don't have is the
"nation-state".
This paradox/conundrum does not lend itself to
intellectual-ideological exercises if you are Kurdish.
If you are not a
Kurd, you can play the role to be a right-liberal or Marxist/anarchist
internationalist Kurd's teacher.
Have I told you what I think of this type of teacher?
Have I told you what I think of this type of teacher?
Ιωάννης Τζανάκος
Σάββατο 30 Ιουλίου 2022
Ιράν-Ιράκ-Συρία-Κουρδιστάν
The leader of the largest Iraqi Shiite sect (in Iraq the Shiites are Arabs and are the majority), but anti-Iranian, Sadr, expresses the spirit of Iraqi national independence, against both Iran and the West. Although the ruling establishment is moderate towards the West and the USA (it cooperates with them, accepting the presence of American forces that are not there only "symbolically"), it is at the same time slavishly submissive towards Iran.
Now see a mess:
Sadr is the most open towards the Kurds, both those of Barzani and those of the PKK.
Shiites of establishment following Tehran's orders are pressuring the PKK Kurds via tolerating the invading Turks who are now waging an open war against the PKK in northern Iraq, in the Qandil mountain range where its hard-line leadership and military core is based.
At the same time, next door, in Syria, the forces of the Alawite-Shia as well as the Baathist regime of Assad, come to an agreement and cooperation with the Syrian PKK to face the Turkish invasion threat. Both Moscow and Tehran object to the Turkish invasion, and will probably come into direct confrontation with their ally, Turkey, so they have given approval to Assad to ally with the PKK.
Of course, the attitude of Russia and Iran is influenced by the anti-Turkish position, over time, of the regime of the Assad family*. Neither Iran nor Russia want Turkey to expand further in northern Syria, but they also have to consider the position of the Assad regime.
Tell me now:
In the field, in practice, who can solve this tangle?
The "anti-capitalist" movement? Don't make me laugh.
Those who see things from a distance, usually from the Western screen, whether they are anti-capitalist or not, do not say anything concrete.
* Εxcept for a short time, where there was a restoration of their relations.
Ιωάννης Τζανάκος
Life is hard for fools.
The Syrian PKK with the approval of the PKK leadership troika is
preparing to face the Turkish vampires, in cynical alliance with the
forces of Assad (the official Baathist state).
I support the PKK, I support its necessary cynical alliances with whoever, because Turkey must be crushed, and I will not listen to the whining and moralizing of those who relied on the Turkish vampires to fight the Baathists.
Life is hard for fools.
I support the PKK, I support its necessary cynical alliances with whoever, because Turkey must be crushed, and I will not listen to the whining and moralizing of those who relied on the Turkish vampires to fight the Baathists.
Life is hard for fools.
The Iran-Turkey-Russia triangle lit fires in Iraq, again. But this
triangle will break, and then some will wonder, again, why it is not the
satanic west and the diabolical Israel that will be to blame, again.
Ιωάννης Τζανάκος
A parenthesis.
A parenthesis.
When you say you'll make it to the end, make it, otherwise don't say it.
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Declaration.
When I, the "petty bourgeois nationalist"* will declare that I will go to the end I will go to the end.
* I apologize to myself for using the terminology of my totalitarian enemies.
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The ethics of modern radicals is unfortunately overwhelmed by all forms
of apotheosis of the concept/situational of ''inclination''.
Right-wing radicals deify national/religious inclination and leftist/anarchist radicals deify the class inclination, in a contest of moralistic immorality and propaganda orgasm.
Right-wing radicals deify national/religious inclination and leftist/anarchist radicals deify the class inclination, in a contest of moralistic immorality and propaganda orgasm.
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Don't just blame the Islamists for their adherence to the imposition of the headscarf (Hijab), you moralists of neo-communism and old faces of Stalinism-Trotskyism-anarchism, but look deep inside how many headscarves and how many burqas you have worn οn your deeply puritanical mind.
You have perverted the use of language with your metaphorical excesses, your extreme use of extensions of literal meanings through arbitrary metaphorical modifications of them.
You see everything as "capitalist spectacle", as "pornography", as "colonization".
Come to your senses imagined and worn-out pseudo-representatives of the proletariat.
Wake up from your moralist slumber, and try to think like everyday people.
The neo-ethicists of the section of the new left who revive the
''anti-spectacular'' deep puritanism of the Stalinist (and not only,
unfortunately) Puritan virgins make me either laugh endlessly or vomit.
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The leaders of the modern humiliated subordinate social classes will not
"come" from the arrogance of Agamemnon, nor from the anger of Achilles,
they will not be spiteful and pseudosubversive like the Thersites of
the masses, they will not be a synthesis of all these like Caesar.
If there are leaders, by no means is it certain, they will be leaders who will not want to be leaders, but they will not have also the syndrome "I don't want to be a leader, but I want to be a leader, because I hate my father complexly, being a would-be father myself."
They will come from the bottom of the commonplace, the everyday, they will simply do their duty to stand up when everything will call them to bow down and submit.
If there are leaders, by no means is it certain, they will be leaders who will not want to be leaders, but they will not have also the syndrome "I don't want to be a leader, but I want to be a leader, because I hate my father complexly, being a would-be father myself."
They will come from the bottom of the commonplace, the everyday, they will simply do their duty to stand up when everything will call them to bow down and submit.
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Ιωάννης Τζανάκος
Πέμπτη 28 Ιουλίου 2022
Materialism
Materialism even if not founded in reductionism is one of the ontologies.
If also thought, will, etc. are "matter" "materials", then I philosophically support Materialism, but this expanded version of it, not every version of it.
This "expanded" materialism is the Ontology I advocate.
If also thought, will, etc. are "matter" "materials", then I philosophically support Materialism, but this expanded version of it, not every version of it.
This "expanded" materialism is the Ontology I advocate.
Ιωάννης Τζανάκος
Τετάρτη 27 Ιουλίου 2022
Τρίτη 26 Ιουλίου 2022
You know, it's hard..
You know, it's hard:
To want to overcome some ideological limitations of your past, and those who are supposed to express what transcends your own "old" limitations drag you back from those boundaries, send you back to the past, because, that, that you believed in the past is confirmed and everything disproves what it says that it overcomes it.
Our old left-wing nationalism, our slandered, as gray-red, leftism, the one that made us black sheep within the left, is vindicated again.
Those of us as "left nationalists" who supported the PKK, those of us in Greece who emphasized the expansionism of "eastern empires" such as Russia and the (returning) (possible) empire of Turkey, were not and are not gray-red.
And our accusers, the then super-super internationalists, now show reduced reflexes, most of them, in the face of both the Russian and the Turkish imperialist danger.
Others were slanderously included in the gray-red front (which still exists today and is pro-Russian) and others, formerly our accusers, are retreating in the face of the new fascist danger from the east.
Ιωάννης Τζανάκος
''It is like their whole “activism” is a joke..''
Via Adina Danes
The head of the Russian State Duma Committee of Defence has openly and directly declared that: “There will be no peace on their terms, let alone on the terms invented by Ukraine.
The head of the Russian State Duma Committee of Defence has openly and directly declared that: “There will be no peace on their terms, let alone on the terms invented by Ukraine.
It’s not going to happen!...It will be an unconditional surrender.
Now Putin uses food, heat, light, gas as a weapon. He’ll probably start using the kids’ toys in this way, too, and damn them – if they want that!”.
But even if all members of the Russian Duma would write these words on their forehead, the “anti-imperialist” “left” would still put the blame for the bombing and blockages of food shipments on Ukraine and US.
The more bombs fall on Ukraine, the more these leftists repeat that it is Ukraine's and US fault.
The more problems derive from the war, like the blockage of the cereals that affects the global south, the more is Ukraine's fault.
Over and over.
If tomorrow another city in Ukraine, including all its civilian buildings, is put to the ground, there are going to be 100 comments from these people who say “look what the puppet Ukraine and its US master are doing”.
It is not only absurd, but surrealist how these people who claim to fight for social emancipation and against oppression have gone this low.
It is like their whole “activism” is a joke.
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