i'd forgotten about the trend toward identity politicizing kink, polyamory, and asexuality.
i'm pretty sure that a kinky polyamorous asexual has *got* to be the most oppressedest of all.
At 04:44 PM 8/28/2011, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>the rejection of the working class as the subject of history began in
>the 1920s already and was fully realized with the rise of fascism. it
>was the failure of the working class to fight fascism that led to the
>search for some other subject of history.
>
>the problem isn't with the failure to get back to basics, sitcking
>with the working class. the problem is with thinking there's a subject
>of history at all.
>
>identity politics was inevitable given this insistence on a
>perspective theory of truth, one where only the oppressed can know the
>truth of history. that's what people were bitching at lbo8250 for
>saying. for him, only the working class with their arms up the asses
>of goats can possibly know the truth of political struggle. the rest
>of us, in our cities, are far too alienated and aligned with the
>perspective of power, we don't have clue.
>
>it's the same reasoning that underpins ID politics. you're white, so
>you can't know shit. they're black and, therefore, they know the
>truth. (weathermen)
>
>wait, only black women can really know.
>
>no no, it's black lesbians.
>
>no, it's black poor lesbians.
>
>no. it's black poor disabled lesbians.
>
>no. it's blcack poor disabled lesbians in rhodesia.
>
>no. she must also have HIV.
>
>she should also be s transgendered lesbian
>
>and have anorexia nervosa AND social anxiety disorder.
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "shag carpet bomb" <shag at cleandraws.com>
> >
> > It creates a hiearchy of who is more oppressed because, underlying
> > most
> > western marxist and western marxish politics, there's the endless
> > search
> > for the subject of history - the "most oppressed" class which is
> > supposed
> > to truly understand how to struggle against capitalism and with whom
> > we
> > must align ourselves.
> > ------------
> > I thought this was a creation of the seventies. Because before that,
> > the agreed subject of history was the working class.
> >
> > For some reason, in the seventies, people started saying that there
> > was no more working class in the U.S., meaning that manufacturing was
> > disappearing. Stephen Grenblatt, resident Marxist English Prof at U.C.
> > Berkely, told me this point blank, while I stared back
> > incomprehendingly.
> >
> > I think someone posted a nice essay by Tamas on this topic a while
> > ago.
> >
> > Joanna
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