dizastar posted:some ginger kid whose teeth were scraping the floor and who could repeat the permanent revolution gospel at incredible speed
lol
swampman posted:https://mcmxix.org/2019/10/23/caliban-and-the-witch-a-critical-analysis/wrap it up...........
"federici is an aggressive cherry-picker!!" yeah well, glass houses, fellas. christian critiques of the da vinci code have more decorum
We need more lies that tell the truth.
Decolonization is not a metaphor, Tuck and Yang, 2012 posted:In 1924, the Virginia legislature passed the Racial Integrity Act, which enforced the one-drop rule except for white people who claimed a distant Indian grandmother - the result of strong lobbying from the aristocratic “First Families of Virginia” who all claim to have descended from Pocahontas (including Nancy Reagan, born in 1921). Known as the Pocahontas Exception, this loophole allowed thousands of white people to claim Indian ancestry, while actual Indigenous people were reclassified as “colored” and disappeared off the public record.
nancy fricking reagan
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B. The manipulation of iconography
But the main compensating technique used by the author, which sometimes comes down to pure and simple manipulation, remains the use she makes of iconography, particularly rich.4 Page 35, while she intends to demonstrate the extent of the decline of the status of women in modern times, which results in a more gendered division of labor than previously, the reader is offered an image that represents women masons in the Middle Ages:
At this moment of its reading, the circumspect reader finds these “masons” of the fifteenth century still very well dressed, and is surprised that one of them even wears a headdress with a royal appearance. In the absence of further details on the provenance of the illustration (a constant throughout the book),the reader then uses the internet to find the original image:
It can be seen that Silvia Federici has not only carefully amputated this image of its left side, which is much less in line with her thesis, but above all she has made it say exactly the opposite of what it says. Indeed, it turns out that the illustration is taken from a book by Christine de Pizan entitled La Cité des Dames, published in 1405,
i mean if you're going to make this a big part of your epic 2017 takedown demonstrating your attention to detail, checking sources, and your difficult detective work you would at least, at the very least, one would think, as part of your commitment to doing due diligence research, acknowledge the existence of both a first (2004) and a second (2014) edition of the book you are criticizing before going off on one? i mean come on.
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Here are photos of the relevant passages. Personally, i feel like going from the assumption that someone invented the text is quite a weird assumption to start with,(especially because i doubt it's that easy to write exactly in the way sakai does, and referring to the specific instances he does in that introduction) but here they are and you can look for every typo, irregularity, and so forth to your heart's content.
helius posted:going from the assumption that someone invented the text is quite a weird assumption to start with,
rather than an attack on whoever typed this up and posted it, it's indicative of the high esteem in which the book is held that people would ask a very simple and modest measure of authenticity when this text suddenly appears online after decades.
Flying_horse_in_saudi_arabia posted:helius posted:going from the assumption that someone invented the text is quite a weird assumption to start with,
rather than an attack on whoever typed this up and posted it, it's indicative of the high esteem in which the book is held that people would ask a very simple and modest measure of authenticity when this text suddenly appears online after decades.
sure, i just woke up to the deluge of posts asking for a photo of the original and felt more than a bit miffed by this, really, which made me voice this -- it's not unreasonable to ask for a photo of the original, especially if it's supposed to be uploaded to the website, by any means. settlers is a well-known text online, thankfully, so saying it should be substantiated with photos is reasonable. (especially if to check with potential typos, etc.) either way, i don't intend to press more on this, considering the matter is settled, for what it's worth (hopefully).
JohnBeige posted:was there any more labor needed on this project? i know there was some transcription going on, and some formatting for a while, but i havent checked in in a minute
i stalled on the citation work after doing a few chapters a couple of years back. Chapters 5-10 still need doing, but iirc I have chapter 5 "done" on an old computer, you would have to go back in the thread some pages to see where we had got to as I have forgotten. its pretty unrewarding since who checks references right, but also i should point out very spiritually rewarding and will probably look good during for instance particular judgement, or any other post-death judging which may or may not occur.
at the time open library + archiveDOTorg allowed me to steal lots of book chapters, so, thanks to my diligent work if you click the reference at the bottom of some of the early chapters it will take you to a pdf of the entire chapter which Settlers references. based on recent drama im thinking about getting really mad about how no one respect me for this, probably on twitter
Overall, I don’t believe J. Sakai is a Marxist-Leninist (Maoist). His poor understanding of Marxism, his suspiciously close connections with Anarchists, and his blatant revisionism make me doubt that he’s a Maoist. But this is all assuming that J. Sakai exists as a person. I don’t actually know if J. Sakai is an actual individual or a pseudonym used by MIM until MIM allowed Kersplebedeb to take the pseudonym since the year 2000. I lean towards the view that J. Sakai is merely a pseudonym used by MIM until the year 2000. I also suspect that MIM probably has connections with the Feds. MIM is probably used by the Feds as a propaganda machine to propagate Settlers in order to sow division among Marxist-Leninists. But these are just my hunches. What I do know is that J. Sakai is a very suspicious individual.
inspector clouseau on the case
There's a time and a place to launch a charge of "revisionism," and it's generally when you sideline a category as central as "the dictatorship of the proletariat" or "class struggle." I don't think the version of revisionism so broad as to include peripheral takes like "disagreeing with Georgi Dimitrov on how to best characterize fascism" is conducive to the growth of Marxism as a living, vibrant scientific endeavor
but what do I know, I don't have a substack
stegosaurus posted:several paragraphs of p.o. box analysis that reveals that post offices are frequently located downtown near other things
They include the cia, famously not headquartered downtown, in this list of things near the PO Box.
https://skeptomai.substack.com/p/origin-of-settlers-part-iii-the-precursor
"Sakai is an anarchist fake-Maoist revisionist, if he's even real"
*does the most basic research into the New Left and the black liberation movement*
"My God...the conspiracy goes even deeper than I imagined"
lo posted:i like when that person says that it's suspicious that morningstar press only published settlers and there's no record of it existing as a 'publishing company'. just no concept at all of how someone might publish a niche non commercial book in a small edition
a mark of decline in the quality of ultra-leftist in the English-speaking world over the last twenty years, that the ultra-leftist of today looks back at the technique of micro-publishing houses with befuddlement, all internal knowledge of their own tendency evaporated overnight. “why didn’t he just make a substack? Publishing anything by ourselves sounds awfully suspicious, we didn’t ever actually do that did we???” I guess it counts as irony that the anarchists this writer is denouncing have had the same thing happen.