Notes on the anarchist culture wars | Contr’un: Anarchist Theory

[This is actually a social media status that took on a sprawling life of
its own. It is not exactly a response to Alexander Reid Ross’ essay “The Left Overs: How Fascists Court the Post-Left,”
but rather some more general thoughts on the dynamics that might be in
play in all of the similar culture-wars skirmishes that periodically
break out in radical circles. I’m happy to grant the best of intentions
to some critiques I find less than useful, largely because there really
does seem to be one of those infamous “failures to communicate” that
keeps this particular pot boiling. I’m a lot more interested in the
potential incompatibility of various intellectual cultures within the
milieu than I am with the drama that emerges from that problem.]

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