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."

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?

 

Ιωάννης Τζανάκος

 

 

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.

 

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.

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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.

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Ιωάννης Τζανάκος

 

 

 

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.

 

Ιωάννης Τζανάκος