Moon_System • read

Something we will need to reflect on and digest, but out the gate at least, feel deeply mixed on. We think there are so many very thought provoking threads in this book, but many of the assumptions or conclusions, particularly in the later half, feel rooted in a societal conservatism and puritanism that we are just fundamentally in opposition to. Like a lot of marxist writings, we find ourselves in agreement on so much, and yet in deep disappointment with many of the final conclusions arrived at, feeling like they were so close to hitting the mark, but instead landed at something fundamentally alienating, conservative, and imperialistic. We are going to more critically reread this and write down our thoughts as we do, to more precisely understand where our disagreements arise, but at least right now, I think most of it just comes down to us being too fundamentally anarchistic in our understandings of the world, and too materialistic in our anticapitalist analysis.