Traditional social theory places chaotic (whatever) beings into litle packages and pretends that, as represented by this packaging--not by what packs the packaging--these bound sorts fit into various forms of interlocking oppression. Sometimes the many bits of aritficiality that one wears can become confusing, but intersectionality at least makes representations less cut and dry. If we cut it all out, we'd be naked. Fuck yeh.
Being working class, a concept technically without signification today, or at least a term that has a new signification in the notion of temporary work, means, so far as I want to think about it, that you are not responsible for environmental degradation, or better, that the responsibilities of your boss cannot be compared to your own willingness to go to work. The workers are pitiable; the boss a monster--but not too much of a monster, after all; for they cut the checques that pay for the booze to make community seem pleasant. Yep: how the fuck do you balance that tasty hatred? Is it bittersweet?
In the green anarchist tradition, it is comments or arguments that challenge this proposition that alienate and drive anarchists away from anarchy and towards leftist liberalism. No one wants to be a eco-fascist! Stated unequivocally: Aim for personal anarchic Autonomy, or fuck off and die. If you, yes you… personally, aren't working to get away from all of this shit in this shit city, it is your own fault for not being ready to face the consequences, whether from Nature herself (That lovely Indifferent Bitch!), those perpetuated by your boss due to your chosen desire to be in proximity, or those carried out by those who just want to see domestication burn--to see a thousand desert flowers bloom. A liberal would here object! What of the Babies! What of the poor! Surely they aren't to blame!?!?!?? The long answer, that I don't care to complete, is that it doesn't matter who lives or dies. The world is not a just place. And how the universe unfolds is Whatever. That is all.
For we are no longer in the age of system building! Certain openings arise because certain realities are closed. It is not a question of Morality, or if so, it is a matter of revenge and desire, culminating in a war of the strong against the strong. Or the strong against the wise. So it goes.
So let's consider this proposition that seems ridiculous. There is a difference between worker and boss; the one cuts the checque, the other takes the money only to come back for more, making an exchange. Money(mammon) is seductive, everyone (even "the" boss) is working after all, and the only difference in this relationship is one of degree. But it seems to be the case that something more powerful than a measly measure of degree must warrant the refusal to see the oppressed as anything but victims. Nope! Just a whole bunch of mealy-mouthed rhetoric. The logical upshot to this argument, if convincing, is that it is a slippery slope, and that all that really holds it up is an arbitrary line. But maybe this is too strong, too soon. Fine!
The owners extract more surplus than the CEO's--so there is a master-slave relation--but CEO's are decidedly not working class, or not as working class as those they extract from. Scratching the CEO then, let's consider the relation between the owners of everything in the company (scratching again any instances of workers receiving company stocks), and those that just work for a wage, the temp. Still, the temp puts money in the bank, which goes into loans, and the interest received by the temp (a fraction received by the bank, of course), is extracted from the persyn taking out a loan. Whose the boss? The fact is that if we have any capital at all, it is being put to work making more, unless we literally burn on nothing, unless we are competely opposed to property, to stuff. Big walls keep us from ourselves! And how do you get big walls and targeted by eco-fascists? You clamber up the ladder of privilege.
The world of system building is no more! There are no categories, only persyns working out communities amonst themselves! Facebook is not a community! If you stockpile capital, someone will come for you; such are the indifferent consequences in a world that doesn't privilege humyn life. No Compromise!
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