From the r/postleftanarchism sidebar:
1) The Left
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critiquing the Left as an nebulous, anachronistic, distracting, a failure, and at key points a counterproductive force historically (“the left-wing of capital”)
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critiquing Leftist activists for political careerism, celebrity culture, self-righteousness, privileged vanguardism, and martyrdom
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critiquing the tendency of Leftists to insulate themselves in academia, scenes, and cliques while also attempting to opportunistically manage struggles
2) Ideology
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a Stirner-esque critique of dogma and ideological thinking as a distinct phenomenon in favor of “critical self-theory” at individual and communal levels
3) Morality
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a moral nihilist critique of morality / reified values / moralism
4) Organizationalism
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critiquing permanent, formal, mass, mediated, rigid, growth-focused modes of organization in favor of temporary, informal, direct, spontaneous, intimate forms of relation
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critiquing Leftist organizational patterns’ tendencies toward managerialism, reductionism, professionalism, substitutionism, and ideology
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critiquing the tendencies of unions and Leftist organizations to mimic political parties, acting as racketeers/mediators, with cadre-based hierarchies of theoretician & militant or intellectual & grunt, defailting toward institutionalization, and ritualizing a meeting-voting-recruiting-marching pattern
5) Identity Politics
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critiquing identity politics insofar as it preserves victimization-enabled identities and social roles (i.e. affirming rather than negating gender, class, etc.) and inflicts guilt-induced paralysis, amongst others
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critiquing single-issue campaigns or orientations
6) Values
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moving beyond anarchISM as a static historical praxis into anarchY as a living praxis
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focussing on daily life and the intersectionality thereof rather than dialectics / totalizing narratives (except anarcho-primitivists tend toward epistemology)
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emphasizing personal autonomy and a rejection of work (as forced labor, alienated labor, workplace-centricity)
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critiquing Enlightenment notions of Cartesian dualities, rationalism, humanism, democracy, utopia, etc.
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critiquing industrial notions of mass society, production, productivity, efficiency, “Progress”, technophilia, civilization (esp. in anti-civilization tendencies)
Here is an AMA on post-leftism:
Post-Left Anarchy AUA (ask us anything).
