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akemi_666's review
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yikes.
for being a materialist, bakunin sure has an ahistorical and totalising conception of the state. there's no depth here, just blanket statements about the state as always-already corrupt and antithetical to human freedom.
hints of the coming marxist humanism, ala r.d. laing, as well poststructuralist critiques of institutions, ala foucault.
but this text is weak. the state is productive as well as repressive. to recognise this is not to condone it, but to better understand it. furthermore, horizontal forms of organisation are not free from power relations, and the more you believe they are, the fucking worse it is for those marginalised within such formations. it's the very doctrinaire bullshit bakunin accuses marx of committing.
fuck this anarchism v marxism debate of who is the most bad faith subject, and to whom deserves the most credit for their revolutionary insights. it's just phallic jousting and reification of the highest order.
for being a materialist, bakunin sure has an ahistorical and totalising conception of the state. there's no depth here, just blanket statements about the state as always-already corrupt and antithetical to human freedom.
hints of the coming marxist humanism, ala r.d. laing, as well poststructuralist critiques of institutions, ala foucault.
but this text is weak. the state is productive as well as repressive. to recognise this is not to condone it, but to better understand it. furthermore, horizontal forms of organisation are not free from power relations, and the more you believe they are, the fucking worse it is for those marginalised within such formations. it's the very doctrinaire bullshit bakunin accuses marx of committing.
fuck this anarchism v marxism debate of who is the most bad faith subject, and to whom deserves the most credit for their revolutionary insights. it's just phallic jousting and reification of the highest order.
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