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in the aftermath of the El Paso and Dayton mass shooting, left critiques of the whitened cisheteromaled terrorism were shared on Facebook. readings of some of the most critically thoughtful posts, especially from a mad rebel and a revolutionary marxist, inspired the labor which produced this poem.
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racism’s heritage: a left facebook newsfeed inspired poem
in the aftermath of the El Paso and Dayton mass shooting, left critiques of the whitened cisheteromaled terrorism were shared on Facebook. readings of some of the most critically thoughtful posts, especially from a mad rebel and a revolutionary marxist, inspired the labor which produced this poem.
in the aftermath of the El Paso and Dayton mass shooting, left critiques of the whitened cisheteromaled terrorism were shared on Facebook. readings of some of the most critically thoughtful posts, especially from a mad rebel and a revolutionary marxist, inspired the labor which produced this poem.
racism’s heritage isn’t found in mental illness, which makes reasoned sense, because mental illness itself isn’t measureable illness like cancer, diabetes, or aids. and while racism’s invention only several centuries ago has produced mass premature death and extreme material inequalities that can be measured, this doesn’t mean it’s a mentally healthy or sane ideology.
without biological origins in inferior psychoemotionalities of weak peoples naturally lazy, unresourceful, and polluted, but with social origins in european empire-building inside monarchical states and colonial projects abroad, racism remains an insaned ideology of labor control, not just because it’s bound up within capitalism and its oppressions. but because racism tries to sincerely perform on life’s modern stage, the marketplace, as if it’s a character type named natural logic whose ruler written backstory tells of a sanely labor-process when multiple races were born from soil and blood, first growing up from the ground where every group’s “ancestors” lived, worked, and loved a millennia ago, then extending out from each group member’s genetic code for all to read on a living body’s systematically shaped skin to determine, if they and you will, a person’s “heritage” within world “heritages,” once, that is, different looking people populated shared lands composing multicultural class societies with dominating hierarchies reliant upon unequally racialized, gendered, and sexualized meanings of what inheritance and property is as wealth, group, and nature.
why do we play this game of inheritance and property— this game of heritage, perhaps always a game of truth and power— as if it isn’t a root of roots, maintaining toward destruction, the whole despairing-miserable world?
racisms’ cruel workings in capitalism’s factories, halls, and kitchens tries to cover its brutal inventedness and bloody operations in the past, hide its fears and anxieties, and clothe its domination with “rationalism,” even when angrily or civilly expressed in a quietly screaming confidence of unidentified traumatized existence which tends to express itself in (mass) violence the more rational and confident it becomes hidden and not-so-hidden at the core of the productive base and its social institutions which do the modern market’s central business of involuntarily compelling the expropriatively philistine life-activities of hustling to pursue profit, accumulate privilege, and exercise power over others without care for consent.
racisms, like cisheteropatriarchy and sanism, in short, are at the roots, the concrete foundation, of capitalism’s heritage which, like any show, has a beginning and an end that’s fully constructed by differently coerced and differently managed labor with our natural body-powers differently engaged in the everyday building and reproduction processes.
if racisms’ heritage requires fully undoing capitalism by dismantling its intersecting logic with living bodies because it commodifies us into harming each other while workers across borders create all that we can see, when will we finally reclaim, or claim for the first time, what is rightfully ours? will it be as we do that undoing work, itself always, like being, a doing? asked differently with urgent patience, how much longer we will allow this insaned nonillness called racism to haunt and harm the oppressed of the world who produce, by fear of nothingness with alienating results, to enrich the rulers of private property who hold our means against us?
in a word, hoping it not be read as negatively reductive, perhaps what confronts us isn’t a failure of the enlightenment’s scientific rationality, as erich fromm argues in the sane society (1955), but a problem of heritage whose question opens to the classed history of race, cisheteropatriarchy, and madness within the capitalist epoch in the us empire and how violence is a doing of the oppressor class within governing structures called states and corporations who inspire its practice by those coercively socialized to submit to its domination.
knowing the intersectional messiness of the past and present world in relation to capitalism’s matrix of domination becomes here a liberatory pedagogical activity which can provide the revolutionary tools we need to transform heritage into something new, a newness of social forms who contents exist democratically without violence, free from capitalism and its many immiserations.
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