what is a post-leftist
@xianc78 @cee thanks, I'm interested in hearing
Bob Black wrote Anarchy after Leftism, and that’s one way of contextualizing Hakim Bey as well. “Post-liberalism” exists in theology iirc but “Post-Leftist” as far as I know has always been associated in the literature with anarchy. National Anarchy is anther branch in that circle that’s interesting, too.
The last couple of years, I’ve heard it thrown around a lot more than usual, to describe like Tulsi/Greenwald/RT/Red Scare circles, but these people are all actually still Leftists, just Leftists who think the Russia stuff is retarded.
@Moon @xianc78 @orekix @ryan @straw Post-Leftism is yeah, moving past the constraints of leftism. It's a broad field of philosophy, literally anything that comes after leftism. It rejects anything to do with the enlightenment. For me, i left the left because i got thrown under the bus and fucked over big time by the Syndicalists, and stung by authorities because of it. My mental health was a mess after that. McQuinn's "Leaving the Left Behind" was the first essay I've read.
Not all posties are ex leftist, some come from the centre and right wing even, who have become sympathetic to it.
I still do have trust issues, and even recently feel myself lapsing back to paranoia. There's also a specific group of meta-modernists here on fedi, who seek to synthesise leftism with post-leftism, but that's just doublethink. You can't be humanist and anti-humanist at the same time.
Not all posties are ex leftist, some come from the centre and right wing even, who have become sympathetic to it.
I still do have trust issues, and even recently feel myself lapsing back to paranoia. There's also a specific group of meta-modernists here on fedi, who seek to synthesise leftism with post-leftism, but that's just doublethink. You can't be humanist and anti-humanist at the same time.
