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I saw this Antifa site linked on another forum as evidence of how childish and limited in scope the Antifa ideology is, but for anyone who needs a laugh:
https://crimethinc.com
Some choice quotes:
"The older generations of the bourgeoisie have nothing to offer the younger ones because they have nothing in the first place. All their standards are hollow, all of their riches are consolation prizes, not one of their values contains any reference to real joy or fulfillment. Their children sense this, and rebel accordingly"
"The bourgeois man’s dreams and appetites are as infected by the fetishization of power and control as his society is...the bourgeois man is not an individual. He is not a real person (although if he was, he would probably live in Connecticut). He is a cancer inside all of us. He can now be cured."
"Entirely new political approaches and methods must be created. The old ones are outdated, outmoded. Perhaps they were NEVER any good, and that’s why our world is the way it is now."
"How could abstractions like “responsibility,” “order,” or “propriety” possibly be more important than the real needs of the people who invented them? Should we serve employers, parents, the State, God, capitalism, moral law before ourselves? Who was it that taught you we should, anyway?"
"To shoplift is to affirm immediate, bodily desires (such as hunger) over abstract “ethics” and other such ethereal constructs, most of which are left over from a deceased Christianity anyway...Perhaps shoplifting alone will not be able to overthrow industrial society or the capitalist system… but in the meantime it is one of the best forms of protest and self-empowerment, and one of the most practical, too!"
It's chock full of Marxist references, the idea that hierarchy is inherently bad and oppressive, that all power is usurped and never based on competence, eschewing of personal responsibility, making moral claims based on temperament (I'm open and not conscientious, therefore my way is right and yours is wrong), actually calling for shoplifting, and Year Zero theory; whatever happened before was the creation of the oppressors, and history begins now, in the current year.
https://crimethinc.com
Some choice quotes:
"The older generations of the bourgeoisie have nothing to offer the younger ones because they have nothing in the first place. All their standards are hollow, all of their riches are consolation prizes, not one of their values contains any reference to real joy or fulfillment. Their children sense this, and rebel accordingly"
"The bourgeois man’s dreams and appetites are as infected by the fetishization of power and control as his society is...the bourgeois man is not an individual. He is not a real person (although if he was, he would probably live in Connecticut). He is a cancer inside all of us. He can now be cured."
"Entirely new political approaches and methods must be created. The old ones are outdated, outmoded. Perhaps they were NEVER any good, and that’s why our world is the way it is now."
"How could abstractions like “responsibility,” “order,” or “propriety” possibly be more important than the real needs of the people who invented them? Should we serve employers, parents, the State, God, capitalism, moral law before ourselves? Who was it that taught you we should, anyway?"
"To shoplift is to affirm immediate, bodily desires (such as hunger) over abstract “ethics” and other such ethereal constructs, most of which are left over from a deceased Christianity anyway...Perhaps shoplifting alone will not be able to overthrow industrial society or the capitalist system… but in the meantime it is one of the best forms of protest and self-empowerment, and one of the most practical, too!"
It's chock full of Marxist references, the idea that hierarchy is inherently bad and oppressive, that all power is usurped and never based on competence, eschewing of personal responsibility, making moral claims based on temperament (I'm open and not conscientious, therefore my way is right and yours is wrong), actually calling for shoplifting, and Year Zero theory; whatever happened before was the creation of the oppressors, and history begins now, in the current year.