The War on Sharing: Thunderheads

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Editor’s note: The War on Sharing is an informal journal about my life as an anti-capitalist dissident in a burgeoning Pig Empire police state, during a time of normalized fascist reaction. Given the deeply personal nature of this writing, please consider citations to be arbitrary, profanity to be praxis, and slang to be artisanal.

It’s All Made Up

At this point, I think I can predict that the past month of my life will not be a time period I remember fondly. I’ll spare you the finer details, but suffice to say I’m ragged, I’m stressed, and I continue to be exhausted by so-called online “leftists” who refuse to grasp that fascists literally want to kill them and thus, make shitty allies in the class war. Between having to defend my scholarship and analysis on fascism (even after a real as f*ck coup attempt,) and having to repeatedly explain that my gender identity is not up for debate, I’ve had enough of proving obvious things to disingenuous crypto-reactionaries for a while.

Complicating matters further, I spent the weekend suffering from a raging case of writer’s block; brought on by having too many ideas kicking around my head all at once, rather than too few. There are some things, big picture, endless class war things, that I need to get off my chest; but until now, I haven’t really had an outlet to do that. After literally three days of just staring at a blank post screen, I decided I needed to change tactics immediately. So I did what any pissed off Gen X weirdo all up in her feels would do; I started a blog, or a journal if you will.

I’m calling the journal “The War on Sharing” and for the moment, it’s about my life as an anti-capitalist dissident and how applying a Marxist analysis to society has changed my understanding of both capitalism and the world it now dominates. I can’t really say how often I’m going to publish editions of the journal, but given that it seems like an effective way around writer’s block and feelings of isolation or marginalization, I’m pretty sure the series will be ongoing. The first journal is called “Thunderheads,” and it’s about why society itself is governed by bourgeoisie fictions, and why an escalation of “the war on sharing” does not bode well for naïve leftists and reformers.

“Like clockwork the emergence of an even vaguely cohesive Pig Empire left, has already resulted in the unleashing of yet another flavor of fascist political violence, and legalized oppression by the bourgeoisie capitalist state. As we literally run out of planet to pillage, rising global inequality leads to what amounts the mass murder of the poor, and the bald-faced inhuman monstrosity of our ruling ideology (and the classes of folks who benefit from it) forces the protesting masses into the streets, there is no reason whatsoever to believe this situation is going to improve. Indeed, history says that both the reactionary right, and neoliberal police states in the Pig Empire, are quite capable of inflicting far more violence and terror in the service of protecting the capitalist order than we’ve seen so far in this particular round of the endless struggle.”

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The War On Sharing: Thunderheads

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