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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

Nizamettin Ariç - Xakî Bîngol - Çîyayê Şengalê

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

 

 

Behra Wan'e