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Film about someone falling in love with an art work, they can not afford.
Wells Tao I
live make work with the way that art works that are alive, that need
looking after, that are not vacume packed into commodity undead zombie
exchanges of value. I see that in your work too, and i applaud.
Erica Duthie Thanks
Tao! Had a odd experience there a woman approached me and asked to buy
our 11metres high drawing. I explained we destroyed our work and that we
made it as a process - weird place where people have walls that big
classic oddness she acted like I was mad imagining anything was for
sale...
Wells Tao I
would take a photo nail it to a stick, rub some dirt on it and offer it
to her for a thousand dollars. Confident I've destroyed the lust for
possession, but fed the moment of our meeting, kissing each other good
by, with dirty kisses.
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
How many racists out there are committed to ending capitalism?
How many racists out there are committed to ending capitalism?
Matthew George Richard Ward it's a double negative
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism ?
Matthew George Richard Ward what do you mean?
Matthew George Richard Ward *racism = white supremacy = capitalism*
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalismracism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Matthew George Richard Ward racism = white supremacy = capitalism
Wells Tao what does double negative mean Matthew George Richard Ward
Matthew George Richard Ward Wells Tao the actual fuck are you kidding me?
Matthew George Richard Ward check your privilege
Matthew George Richard Ward no
i have an issue if you think that "given few that can even define
'race'" i find that whole statement completely problematic. Racism
cannot be defined without the idea of "race"
Matthew George Richard Ward since capitalism and racism are inextricably linked, i think you should check your privilege
Matthew George Richard Ward I am considered what is "white", what is pakeha
Wells Tao Matthew George Richard Ward oh so you get what i'm sayin then
Wells Tao Matthew George Richard Ward what race do you consider your self?
Matt Loveridge I am...well I support its end. Committed sounds hard?
Matt Loveridge recovering...daily struggle
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Steven William Goodfellow it sounds promising depending on what system you propose to replace it with
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Steven William Goodfellow i like that, i already function that way, i caught 8 fish yesterday and gave away seven. did an electrical job today and didnt charge for the parts cause he made me a sandwich. Share the wealth!
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Nathan Thompson Fascinating question....Chairman Mao?
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Jacob M Sua Corporatism?
Jacob M Sua Well I believe in ending Corporatism.
Matthew George Richard Ward is it not clear to you that capitalism is inherently racist .... ?
Matthew George Richard Ward omfg ...
Matthew George Richard Ward you don't have anything to say?
Matthew George Richard Ward Great with the rude comments... see ya man
Matthew George Richard Ward FUCK OUT OF HERE
Matthew George Richard Ward “But more importantly, racism is a key mechanism for the stabilization of capitalism and the legitimization of inequality.”
-Michael Reich, Professor of Political Economy at U.C. Berkeley
-Michael Reich, Professor of Political Economy at U.C. Berkeley
Wells Tao Matthew George Richard Ward I really think you don't get my original statement. At least to my mind, it confirms your above statement.
Matthew George Richard Ward you refused to explain to me what you meant
Matthew George Richard Ward you need to check your ableism in the mean time as well as your white privilege
Matthew George Richard Ward "use your brain" is an ableist slur. .... it's discriminatory, you are telling me i have a disability?
Wells Tao Matthew George Richard Ward now that's funny
Matthew George Richard Ward Alx Mknn you do not agree?
Matthew George Richard Ward this anti-intellectualism is killing me right now...
Alx Mknn haha, nice. yes. i have no problem with people being... umm robust.... and yeah it totally think its important to be so. i believe i am. but as a person with a dominantly introverted nature i do think one of the biggest probs is people on the same side of an issue (give or take whatever bits) being straight up dix to each other. top reason i dropped out of identifing as an anarcho punk when i was teen, so so many dix. hahaha
Matthew George Richard Ward Wells Tao Incorrect.
Matthew George Richard Ward Personifying capitalism is a fucking myth
Matthew George Richard Ward or may be you did hit "shit"
Matthew George Richard Ward CATCH THESE HANDS !
Wells Tao Mia Iman while I agree with your thesis about the differences between racism and privilege, and also agree that reverse racism sums up an ignorant position, I don't believe I have contradicted that with my statement, " How many racists out there are committed to ending capitalism?" But to the contrary draw attention to the intrinsic relationship between racism, capitalism and this larger unfolding mess, the relationship between nationalities, race or ethnicity and global capitalism.
Wells Tao Alx Mknn so for convo sakes, Say i'm in Korea as a white guy, a minority, I've still got all kinds of white privilege, but in my experience when it comes to marriage, breeding, I'm racially prejudiced against because I am not the preferred Korean. Now is this because Korea practices it's own form of "white supremacy" (fed by capitalism), I think so. But you guys are saying that's not what's happening right?
Alx Mknn yeah, the way i see it (sorry, side stepping your good example a bit), is that words/terms can be used in certain ways in academia or activism but the etymological simplicity of a word is what im interested in... so yeah, i think that is racism. due to the words simple breakdown. but, i totally agree with the critical approach to the word matt/mia pose... if history and current day to day life suggest anything, its that racism is white.
Wells Tao I think that I read somewhere that white isn't a race, its the absence of one,... not sure where that fits, but this idea that a white person can be white, as if they didn't have an ethnicity or specific inherited culture is what I think bugs me about Matts equation. It some how paint over that white isn't a race but more of a position. Embodied often in the way the phrase "whitey" is used to title anyone in the Capitalist mainstream approach regardless of ethnicity.
Alx Mknn dunno, i live in greece where its plainly accepted to call a greek a 'white' person, but a greek is certainly an ethnicity type, if not beautifully variable.... like any ethnicity i guess. i totally see that 'white' isnt often an ethnicity in places like NZ or the US tho! im certainly a good example of that. biggest mongrel non-breed ever
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Dot Mcnaught marx 'the modern theory of colonisation' (ii am not a marxist but i do think this is valid to this conversation and it makes sense to me “If,” says Wakefield, “all members of the society are supposed to possess equal portions of capital... no man would have a motive for accumulating more capital than he could use with his own hands. This is to some extent the case in new American settlements, where a passion for owning land prevents the existence of a class of labourers for hire.” [6] So long, therefore, as the labourer can accumulate for himself — and this he can do so long as he remains possessor of his means of production — capitalist accumulation and the capitalistic mode of production are impossible. The class of wage labourers, essential to these, is wanting. How, then, in old Europe, was the expropriation of the labourer from his conditions of labour, i.e., the co-existence of capital and wage labour, brought about? By a social contract of a quite original kind. “Mankind have adopted a... simple contrivance for promoting the accumulation of capital,” which, of course, since the time of Adam, floated in their imagination, floated in their imagination as the sole and final end of their existence: “they have divided themselves into owners of capital and owners of labour.... The division was the result of concert and combination.” [7] In one word: the mass of mankind expropriated itself in honor of the “accumulation of capital.” Now, one would think that this instinct of self-denying fanaticism would give itself full fling especially in the Colonies, where alone exist the men and conditions that could turn a social contract from a dream to a reality. But why, then, should “systematic colonisation” be called in to replace its opposite, spontaneous, unregulated colonisation? But - but - “In the Northern States of the American Union; it may be doubted whether so many as a tenth of the people would fall under the description of hired labourers.... In England... the labouring class compose the bulk of the people.” [8] Nay, the impulse to self-expropriation on the part of labouring humanity for the glory of capital, exists so little that slavery, according to Wakefield himself, is the sole natural basis of Colonial wealth. His systematic colonisation is a mere pis aller, since he unfortunately has to do with free men, not with slaves. “The first Spanish settlers in Saint Domingo did not obtain labourers from Spain. But, without labourers, their capital must have perished, or at least, must soon have been diminished to that small amount which each individual could employ with his own hands. This has actually occurred in the last Colony founded by England — the Swan River Settlement — where a great mass of capital, of seeds, implements, and cattle, has perished for want of labourers to use it, and where no settler has preserved much more capital than he can employ with his own hands.” [9]
Dot Mcnaught its valid to this conversation and it makes to sense
Dot Mcnaught and even though im not marxist it doesnt mean he didnt say any valid things
Dot Mcnaught basically when coming to the colonies the landowners from England realised they couldnt hold the labourer's they had bought over with them because they could now acquire land so they needed to create a new set of workers , the newly colonised (due to different value sets) wouldnt work either hence the beginning of slavery and other underhand means of acquiring workers
Wells Tao Dot Mcnaught you are welcome
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Wells Tao The original post above came out of my musings over a conversation I had on the Socialists FB page about Zizek, who they felt was a racist. And it got me thinking about prejudice, the intimacy of it, and the way it manifests as questions, that are slammed so hard, and why is that...
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Sarah Riley-c Simple, just reflect back to Hitler. . He went as far as mutating children to create the perfect race while actively processing to wipe out an entire race.. While capitalism tends to be thought of as American think about where the banking system originated.
Wells Tao not sure what yur saying here Sarah Riley-c, or what you are responding to
Sarah Riley-c Neither lol...
Haha nah, your post instantly made me think of facism and it's corporate corruption..
I'll give you the answer when it comes, I'm onto something and it will connect back to your question..
Haha nah, your post instantly made me think of facism and it's corporate corruption..
I'll give you the answer when it comes, I'm onto something and it will connect back to your question..
Sarah Riley-c BTW I've not read any comments on here so I was merely responding to your post, not the thread.
Will have a read through the comments shortly, bet it's interesting
Will have a read through the comments shortly, bet it's interesting
Sarah Riley-c After two hours of revising and further research on the history of capitalism. History of racism and the myth of socialism..
My conclusion to your answer would be : zero.. the two need each other to exist..
http://www.bolshevik.org/.../no12capitalismandracism.html
My conclusion to your answer would be : zero.. the two need each other to exist..
http://www.bolshevik.org/.../no12capitalismandracism.html
It is hard for most people to accept that racial prejudice and antagonism, pervasive phenomena of modern life, have not been permanent features of human society. Yet the very concept of "race," and the ideology and practice of racism are relatively modern.
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Sarah Riley-c Hitler was the exaggeration of Capitalism displaying the propaganda of it to being Socialism. . He kept all the bankers alive..
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Richard B. Keys I totally reckon your missing the point. Or at least your totally missing MY point lol, which in more or less what Ian was trying to argue as well.
Wells Tao whole lot of missing points there Richard B. Keys, something about the racism subject that brings out the swirly. Of course there are plenty of others..
Richard B. Keys Well I don't think he is racist. Or irrelevant as a theorist of ideology.
But I think the political positions/programme he posits as per his refugee argument, are fraught.
But I think the political positions/programme he posits as per his refugee argument, are fraught.
Wells Tao Well Richard B. Keys I certainly didn't catch you saying that in that discussion, that he was not a racist. Would have been easy enough to say it. I did. And it was the center of what we were talking about. I agree that his ideas around refugees are difficult/ fraught, but that hardly discredits them as ideas, as they appeared to me to hardly original ideas, but in the presents context, a kind of 'moderateness' was being skteched at. Even though it doesn't go far enough, I thought he was preaching to those that except far more extremes, like the way detention centers are tolerated as perfectly acceptable by the masses NOW.. I may be wrong.
Richard B. Keys From my perspective the *generalised* argument wether he is or not racist, is secondary to the concrete positions he was taking. I.E make your own conclusions about the R word.
Richard B. Keys Well he clearly likes to troll the polite liberal left. But still, as I was saying he ends up justifying a neo-reactionary position through his sophistry.
Richard B. Keys Basically my read on it is that the whole thing is him attempting to critique liberal cosmopolitanism via Lacan. Which somehow sees him end up justifying neo-reactionary conservative policy in part.
Richard B. Keys Well that would be the Lacanian gesture right.
But I mean he attempts to do that all the time in regard to... gender, race, etc. I am not sure how constructive it is half the time TBH.
But I mean he attempts to do that all the time in regard to... gender, race, etc. I am not sure how constructive it is half the time TBH.
Richard B. Keys I still don't see how this gesture (succesfull or not relates to his geo-political positions) relates to the critique.
Richard B. Keys What does this have to do with capitalism with a big C.
Ala Chomsky and the khmer rouge etc, you can be a "effective" critique of capitalism and still assert/back bad geo-political positions.
Ala Chomsky and the khmer rouge etc, you can be a "effective" critique of capitalism and still assert/back bad geo-political positions.
Richard B. Keys Thats is why I invited you to read the various texts.
Richard B. Keys If I have the time, I will bring a few of them up specifically, with selected passages.
Wells Tao do as you like, don't do it for me
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