Wiki is in the process of importing stuff Please be patient Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in!==Beliefs== Because post-leftism is an incredibly varied ideology between practitioners, and share numerous schools of thought, ideas can vary wildly between different post-left ideologies and individual anarchists and can often conflict with eachother, because of this it is really hard to have a concrete definition of post-leftism in regards to it's means, however numerous post-left thinkers and advocates have discussed their own ideas in detail which have had significant influence on numerous other post-left ideologies and even the general movement as a whole. ===Rejection of the Traditional Left=== In an essay Anarchy After Leftism, Bob Black said, that anarchism minus marxism would be better. Some post leftists criticize many parts about the left, for example: * Democracy - Bob Black sees democracy, including direct one as another system of control, without difference with state systems, because the majority decides about an individual. * Proletariat - many of them see traditional concepts about class struggle as reductive, essentialist or more complex than just the bourgeoisie vs proletariat. Especially they reject the dictatorship of the proletariat, seeing that is another oppressive and unworkable system leading only to tyranny, and thus reproduction of capitalism. Communization theory teaches that the concept of proletariat is defined as self oppression of the working people, and thus should be rejected. The left and the right are seen as inseparable form of polarity, where each other stabilizes the system instead of abolishing it. Examples include the bolshevik revolution in Russia, which reinforced hierarchical, authoritarian state system in name of "communism", instead ending tyranny altogether, as well as modern social democratic movements trying to reform capitalism by giving it "human face" rather than complete destruction of exploitative economy. ===Anti-Organization=== As its said before, post leftists don't have an unified types of praxis, instead of it they advocate for unorganized action. Influenced by Max Stirner, post leftist preferable social organization would be unions of egoists, a horizontal and temporary type of affinity groups. Influenced by situationists, they advocate for revolution of everyday life and fighting the alienating spectacle of capitalism in everyday. They also support insurrections, being unorganized and small acts of rebellion against authority. Hakim Bey, one of post leftist theorists invented Temporary Autonomous Zones, being temporarily existing planes of insurrection, without organization, and free from the state's power and capital for some time. Theorists of Communization advocate for mass insurrection not being a political program, but a living movement to abolish the current state of things. Some of them also say that anarchy isn't a system or a way how people should organize, but a free lifestyle. Post leftists reject the mass revolution as an idea, because it requires end goal oriented politics, and that it may evolve into totalitarian rule. They reject labor unions, because they according to post left anarchists are mere tools of capital, unable to bring a change. Finally, they reject electoral politics and democratic reform. ===Criticism of Ideology=== Post left anarchists see every ideology, not only traditional ones like liberalism, conservatism, socialism and fascism, but even anarchism, as rigid, dogmatic doctrine that one must embrace or reject. Instead, they propose intellectual freedom of expression and multiple forms of creative resistance against power structures. Influenced by Max Stirner, Friedrich Nietzsche and postmodern philosophy, ideology is seen as mere phantasm limiting individual capacity to become what they want to be, or social construct imposed by masses or authorities without actual existence, being fully constructed and limiting potential of creativity. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Polcompball Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see pcb w:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) This page is a member of a hidden category: Category:Pages with broken file links