We're not only looking at BLM here but at the networks of its "allies" who have played a major role in the demonstrations but, as far as we OK Boom ar ar ars are concerned, seem to have come out of nowhere and to be both voiceless and anonymous in their own right. Are these the people who are burning the libraries? I'd be surprised if it's BLM per se.
In any case, the whole riot-as-revolution philosophy IMO reflects the discredited pseudo-Nietzschean "Dionysian" orgiastic philosophy of the Sixties (cf Norman O. Brown), a dead end that--and just look at the careers of the pop stars who were falsely supposed to have embodied this--led to the most massive co-optation in the history of the American left. The resulting commoditization/fetishization of "revolt" is now invoked to sell everything from men's cologne to tennis shoes. If people think that by burning stuff down or blowing shit up they are demonstrating a degree of revolutionary purity that will protect them from co-optation, they are treading a very well-worn road to hell. They are merely demonstrating a "bad boy" radical accelerationist version of consumerism, with all its contempt for the thing consumed as a thing to be discarded. What will ultimately obscure and corrupt the inner meaning of Black Lives Matter, IMO, is exactly that. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1042): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1042 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76450059/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
