it is bittersweet how much i agree with petey-k about which things obviously cannot stand despite being in the future where they still do. living subject to genocide in the imperial core i do not have the same optimism that The People are going to want to share nice with the psychos and the cripples and the queers and all our other comrades-in-death. there will be obvious reactionaries and opportunists who can be Defeated but quiet bias can kill just as well, and some of us are much more vulnerable to such things; i do not trust the people who prefer to slaughter by omission to not simply use the removal of their own chains to beat us harder with them. if you have never been so damaged that you simply could Not do a necessary thing, no matter how small or eminently possible, i do not trust that you will remember to liberate the hospitals along with the schools and the prisons, et al
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in reply to @rotsharp's post:
oh jeez i discarded a massive essay about cultural hegemony just now, but here's the short sweet version:
capitalism works because of cultural hegemony, and that hegemony works by giving working-class people, no matter how rich or poor, an opportunity to 'buy in' by exploiting other classes in exchange for social status and material benefits. whether it's white Americans being racist in exchange for better jobs and lower mortgage rates, or men exploiting their wives and children for free labor, or cishets treating LGBT+ people as both scapegoats and sex objects . . . there's almost always someone you can kick down on, and the act of kicking down on them reinforces the exploitation capitalism needs to run, while also giving you fringe benefits in your daily life.
capitalism won't end until we kill our desire, learned over thousands of years, to exploit the people closest to us in order to ascend the pecking order. we can do it, but it'll be fucking hard.
and if revolution or insurrection or whatever you want to call it happens before then, i will simply need to be protected from the robust proportion of -ists who believe that my inability to do for myself is equal to property-theft and seek to "encourage" my participation through austerity heedless of the injury or death it may cause, the same as the current liberal masters. i fear that what i need would constitute a "state" in the eyes of people who scoff at "committees" and then self-select into what are functionally informal committees anyway, and that people who believe too much in the inherent goodwill of people are asking to allow generations of that indoctrination to resurface on the eve of freedom since they are now free to satisfy the imperial urges bred and stamped into us all; see also the consistent and utter fantasy that we settlers will be the new philosopher-kings of an american revolution as opposed to, primarily, a return of the commons to the rightful indigenous peoples
from the man himself right as i read, after chapter upon chapter of claiming all humans deserve to be fulfilled:
"if you are absolutely incapable of producing anything useful, or if you refuse to do it, then live like an isolated man or like an invalid."
social exile for disabled people is echoed from here in 1900 to today when i see ostensible radicals still declare one way or another that there is a surplus population that exists and can be ignored, forgotten, or is impossible to protect because cities are a sin
fucking hell, that's bad
and i think i should've focused more on your point regarding disability, rather than the mechanisms that encourage able people to use their ability to oppress others.
TO BE FAIR: the very next section is talking all about how "laziness" is generally the result of improperly empowering individuals (inc medical care) but he very much does say "this is a way you could resolve the contradiction" and a rather stunning number of people seemed to stop there instead of read the part about how allowing people to truly self select labor would make the issue moot anyway