abolish-everything:

erratticusfinch:

erratticusfinch:

Classic comedy is right-wing slime-creatures complaining about identity politics while insisting that “Western civilization” is a coherent geographical-historical category

“I, a 21st-century American, am primordially connected to Plato because we are both opposed to collectivism and advocate ‘Judeo-Christian values.’ My entire worldview is a house of cards and I’ve never actually read anything I talk about”

This way of thinking is the central thing of critique in this really good essay by Graeber, “There Never Was a West, Or, Democracy Emerges From the Spaces In Between”, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-there-never-was-a-west