/r/stupidpol
Subreddit focused on critiquing capitalism and identity politics from a Marxist perspective.
STUP•ID•POL:
Analysis and critique of identity fetishism as a political phenomenon, from a Marxist perspective.
What is Identity Politics?
[Identity] politics is not an alternative to class politics; it is a class politics, the politics of the left-wing of neoliberalism. It is the expression and active agency of a political order and moral economy in which capitalist market forces are treated as unassailable nature.
An integral element of that moral economy is displacement of the critique of the invidious outcomes produced by capitalist class power onto equally naturalized categories of ascriptive identity that sort us into groups supposedly defined by what we essentially are rather than what we do.
Foundational Texts
Collection
Adolph Reed Jr:
Walter Benn Michaels:
Barbara and Karen Fields:
Mark Fisher:
Stuart Hall:
Freddie deBoer:
Assorted Texts
Critiques of Intersectionality:
- Intersectionality: A Marxist Critique by Barbara Foley
- I am a Woman and a Human by Eve Mitchell
- Intersectionality and the Feminist Project in Law by Joanne Conahagan
Other Topics:
- Black political life and the blue lives matter presidency by Cedric Johnson
- “American Thought”: from theoretical barbarism to intellectual decadence by Juraj Katalenac
- The Truth About 'Cultural Appropriation' by Kenan Malik
- Identity Politics and the Left by Eric Hobsbawm
- Anti-Essentialism Series by the Dead Pundit Society podcast
- Leftist Spaces in Antiquity (Monty Python) by Monty Python
Original Productions
Breaking Free From Identity Politics by Tiffany Warren
Friends of Stupidpol
Class Unity: a caucus fighting for class politics both inside and outside of the DSA
De-Classcucking Memes for Non-Sectarian Proles: our affiliated Facebook meme page.
r/StupidpolEurope: A place to critique identity politics and general discussion of Europe from a Marxist perspective.
r/LeftistLit; A resource for books on theory relevant to the left.
r/poldersocialisme: A community for socialists in the Netherlands.
r/thefunhouseofideology:Culture war shitposting. Memes, social media screenshots, leftist Twitter drama, and bad Medium articles where cultural slap fights are mistaken for politics.
Inspirational Business Quotes:
We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism.
The campaign against "anti-Semitism" in the Labour Party] takes hold of a vulnerability of the broad left - its intersectionality, its inability to confront identity-oppression claims. By doing so it weaponises the idea of anti-racism.
– Mike Macnair, editor of Weekly Worker
One unfortunate thing about [the slogan] Black Power is that it gives priority to race precisely at a time when the impact of automation and other forces have made the economic question fundamental for blacks and whites alike. In this context a slogan ‘Power for Poor People’ would be much more appropriate than the slogan ‘Black Power."
– MLK
“In combating racism we do not make progress if we combat the people themselves. We have to combat the causes of racism.... Many people lose energy and effort combating shadows. We have to combat the material reality that produces the shadow.”
– Amilcar Cabral
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
– The Moor (Capital Vol. III)
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What's with presidents keeping secret documents?
Biden, Trump, and probably other top officials. Did they start doing this recently or did we just start hearing about it now?
Why has this come up so much? It seems weird, as if there were multiple news stories about presidents having server access after they left office.
01:34 UTC
History of "fatphobia"
Can someone explain the history of "fatphobia"? The big activists, shifting public opinion, the ideas about it that they're feeding kids in schools.
10 years ago, people said anorexia and bulimia are bad because it can kill people, and 'society' should not 'pressure' women to be unhealthily skinny, with an emphasis on 'unhealthy'. You don't hear that anymore.
Somehow it shifted to glorifying body types that will kill people from heart disease. What is the incentive to promote this? The capitalists used to love telling people their body was wrong and they needed to buy a product. What happened?
(It is just some kind of collusion, like if men collectively decided to stop working out? "We're all muscular if no one is.")
01:26 UTC
State Department Press Briefing – 4-8-24 - Summaries and Snippets - Featured clip: You say steps to improve humanitarian aid situation should have been taken months ago. If those steps could have been taken months ago and they weren't, does that mean that Israel was blocking aid?
00:36 UTC
Who would the modern-day WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants)?
Who would be*
I don't mean a modern group of people who you could draw similar parallels to in what they believe. I mean who are the descendants of WASPs and what do they believe now - what did their culture turn into? Snobbish liberals maybe?
21:01 UTC
You, the POTUS
Hello shitlibs, who's up for a fun hypothetical:
You have been elected president of the United States. Voter turnout is at a record low due to apathy and confusion, but you managed to mobilize a small but fanatical leftist bloc and barely got into the oval office.
Most of the population is too moderate for your reforms and Congress is likely to stonewall almost anything you try, largely because you are an outsider, but mostly because money hates you.
What do you think you could do in your first 100 days of office in terms of realistic material reforms? What rhetoric do you use to sell it to the American electorate, if only to set the stage for the next reformer?
17:01 UTC
Chinese journalist arrested and expelled from Sweden - looking for better info
Reading in the public broadcaster in Norway about this, and it sounds extremely fishy. They're refusing to identify her, or saying what her crimes were besides operating some small news website (also not identified) shilling for the Chinese government.
It's not the most glorious thing to be a paid shill for your government, but I thought it was legal, at least.
Apparently everything about the trial is secret too, and no one thinks that's a threat to Sweden's security for some reason.
Looking for some more critical info on this, but NRK hasn't made it easy to google. Any Swedes know more?
05:30 UTC
mUsK dOeSn'T cArE AbOuT fReE sPeEcH
22:25 UTC
What I see every time someone posts a hysterical article from the New Yorker
07:05 UTC
"What We Discovered Shocked Me." The #TwitterFiles Brazil, w/ Michael Shellenberger
05:16 UTC
What I see every time someone posts a hysterical article from The Guardian
04:10 UTC