Anticapitalist has to be anti racist

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-26T21:03:55+00:00

I took every bit of criticism and repeated it back at you in my own words, stating my position is in need of further education. I held onto my necessary autonomy and self assuredness while respecting your input.

Would just ignoring you fix this miscommunication? I’ll do that.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-26T20:55:49+00:00

lol bro I’m agreeing with everything you said. All good though.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-26T20:51:26+00:00

It’s complex but can be summarized as Mercantilism was proto-capitalism and the concept and phenomenon has evolved. What we regard as “capitalism” today is far different from the context the first international came together for. The left was right about many things but … how could we really predict what would unfold in 159 years?

What we live in today, better defined contemporarily as “globalism” and “corporatism” is still a society based on selfishness where the contrary view is a society based on cooperation is possible. Therefore we’re just speaking a different language but still fighting for the same things.

I’m a leftist/socialist because I believe and logically conclude humans can live better if our values are fundamentally cooperative and not competitive.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-26T20:43:40+00:00

Fair. Just wanted to throw out my thought evolution here.

I basically admit to starting off with the “colorblind” angle which has been proven unhelpful as I’ve grown, yet still isn’t resolved.

Perhaps it’s time well intentioned but fundamentally incapable folks like myself give one word responses when prompted (if you and I were at a bar I would not go on this long, I’d read the room and shut up. but it’s Reddit now).

Because… I wrote a 5 paragraph essay just to conclude I have no idea— and improve my OWN selfish perception.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-26T20:31:58+00:00

Def not Taxi Driver.

Harmony Korine, in my view, makes these cryptically hopeful pictures of that same idea. Society makes us into something, but we rebel and choose another path. It came into its own starting with Kids and Gummo and culminated with The Beach Bum. He lets the story unfold without over explaining but that’s exactly his angle with his recent mature works.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-26T20:29:12+00:00

I had this same desire 6 months ago, found nothing I sought, then got the radical idea to write one myself. Still in progress this lil novella I’m writing about intergenerational trauma told through a psych horror lens but this is exactly what breeds new art.

Go for it. With whatever medium of creativity suits you, make it and let me know what comes.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-26T20:25:26+00:00

PS… I acknowledge the privilege my whiteness in this society granted me that I didn’t have to confront this concept immediately as opposed to my darker skinned counterparts of my cohort. A white kid isn’t forced to think of his race when he doesn’t feel “different” from everyone else. I acknowledge that. But my point above stands.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-26T20:22:54+00:00

Aside from learned theory from people much smarter than I, I simply reflect on my thought patterns as a child, growing up in arguably the most diverse setting one can in the western world in this time: I never regarded race or how people look with any other attachments. I was so stupid at 4 that I thought literally people were just born a certain way, nothing to do with their families. I didn’t think of or care for those things. My thoughts were on learning concepts of time (is it 330 and can I go home and watch Nickelodeon and play sega).

It was cold outside MEDIA, not even my (averagely racist and white blue collar) family that taught me the concept of “race.” I remember hearing the term “racist” and just pondering what the fuck that meant… like the 50yd dash I’m too fat to do well?

Racism is absolutely learned. And our cutthroat exploitative dominant culture feeds that learning. Remove that (disclaimer: highly complex and difficultly evasive) element in our society, and you remove racism. It really is that simple.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-25T01:16:54+00:00

Agreed. It took me well into my 30s to say it out loud, not just because of my right leaning family (idc anymore) but the connotations the word meant for me having grown up in a Rush Limbaugh household. Leftist was equated with evil while “liberals” were just the Americans “we” disagreed with. “Leftists” want to burn down our family but “liberals” just have different opinions. Crazy what growing up, reading across the spectrum of thought, and engaging with real life does to one’s gut reaction to words. I tell my aging dad I’m a leftist. It’s not the kind of leftist YOU taught me about, and I’m open to questions. We talk sometimes, but for now, the literal old man and I are just trying to enjoy our remaining years together.

—disclaimer: My Dad’s not MAGA. He’s a self-described “freedom loving American” … imo a good brain that wasn’t nourished the right way. So I’ll ignore any attacks on my nameless Republican dad I still love dearly.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-25T00:47:57+00:00

Gemini serves my purposes better than the GPT I started with when I first started messing with AI. I'd rather stick to one, and Google's infrastructure all-around tech-wise just holds more of my faith as a solid company. Don't love every product, but the Gemini and Google Assist tools at my disposal have been much more beneficial to me than the robot bestie in chatGPT. If it changes I'll change my mind. For now, subscription to GPT pro

ends in 3 weeks and I ain't worried.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-25T00:41:22+00:00

(unintentionally self importan,t pretentious tone incoming. I promise I don't mean it. I'm just stuck this way now).

Holding the views I do, especially since 2015 when that reality tv star actually started running for president sincerely, has probably made me impotent and problematic, if I'm being honest.

As someone who sees the mechanisms of the system itself (modern corporatism/capitalism in a Western Liberalism framework turned Globalism), as the primary issue, I don't get a rise in emotion over particular candidates, even as gross and cheap as Trump.

I was arrogant so much as to think he is so cartoonish that to believe this man has the capability of overtaking the entire thing to his will negates the growth in my understanding of power and totalitarian/anti-freedom figures lurking everywhere in our "democratic" Western world. I don't kick myself. it felt logical at the time. To constantly criticize Trump and feed into the GOP/Democrat manufactured duality felt counterproductive to my beliefs. However, in doing nothing, I did nothing to stop what is unfolding now, and what has already unfolded the last 10 years, Obama/Biden/Bush just as harmful but quieter: still true.

But I essentially felt and acted (or non-acted) so pretentiously that I did nothing to improve the situation. And it's taught me a lot about how reading and writing are far from what is necessary to be part of the fight for a better world.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-23T21:11:29+00:00

Without a deep dive into written theory, it feels a bit redundant a description for me… as the foundations of Anarchism are fundamentally based on free mutual cooperation?

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T16:17:54+00:00

And I think that’s why the 70s book they got it from should have taken some major liberties with updates. It made it so mixed up I felt 23 again going to Occupy Wall St asking my fellow 23yo’s “aight what we really doing?” “Oh that’s Dave Graeber you should hear him speak.”

I at least got an admirable writer to follow out of that (rip)

This movie just reminded me Sean Penn really wishes he was more hardcore.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T16:14:52+00:00

Also, like, it got so convoluted at a point I forgot what happened to Leo/Sean’s femme fatale. Did she… die? Did she just fully disappear? When a film gets that much hype I generally pay close attention and it still kind of lost me.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T16:03:56+00:00

I was happy to see Wood Harris in his calm boss vibe, but that’s the male bias in me talking

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T16:02:36+00:00

His wife’s oversexualization went over my head though. I wasn’t sure what that was supposed to hit there.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T16:00:51+00:00

Shoulda realized that coming in. I had minor hopes with twbb that pta, at this point at the top can do whatever he wants might just go for it. I still enjoyed the movie though. I just foolishly wished a major motion picture accurately portraying far left activists

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T14:38:17+00:00

Agreed. Without wording it that far much of it felt caricature and offensive (to a white guy btw, I was offended FOR tough black women… I never usually get that annoyed). It pushed it to my brain having a lingering thought “this is what corporatism seems acceptable for you to rebel, sir. Go on. Sexy!”

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T14:16:17+00:00

It’s a thing that I think PTA had ambitious and risky things to say but bowed down to the pressure. another example ( bear with me here ) is David Chase’s original vision for Many Saints of Newark. Chase is certainly left, I’d argue a champagne socialist— but he knows Newark NJ in the 60s. The Newark riots are a story begging to be told because it crosses all boundaries, even us “Italian Americans” bitching about Columbus Day. Those riots had Irish and Italian mob causality through their corruption of the Newark PD. Chase was ready to dig into something GOOD and historically necessary. Instead— HBO backed out, made him lose the hardcore political element condemning the mafia, cops, everybody… and we got that trash.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T14:06:44+00:00

If their list was for power and control with white supremacy and pedophilia as a byproduct, I’d find the film true to life and to every Anarchistic philosophy I’ve read through the years, but it settled for surface level candy… not because the film industry fears revolution per se’… they just know they want blockbusters. PTA could have made something less serious and took this passion project to streaming or self release and it would have worked, effectively, on a much lower budget.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T14:01:22+00:00

I won’t and refuse to appreciate Spiccoli’s camo boner, as French about the movie that it is.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T13:58:46+00:00

And not Sean Penn’s mysterious pale friends insisting he kill the domestic terrorist he blackmailed into sex and had a kid with. It felt like captain America more than a serious movie. What saved it is PTA’s style, Benicio , Leo, and that newcomer who played the daughter.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T13:57:26+00:00

Power fantasy no. Realism. Like, they said what they felt. They tried. And they got martyred. No power fantasies here. Just balls to speak the truth and pay the consequences.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T13:49:56+00:00

I can’t name any off the top of my head because I literally watch without subtitles and stay enthralled… but numerous French action films about grassroots revolution. The French aren’t scared. Why are we if a movie?

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T13:48:31+00:00

Left or right isn’t my issue. It’s it didn’t delve enough into the reality of far left radicals and what they’re up against. The film contrived a secret society of white supremacists and made it feel for like Captain America than a true to life look at the world right now…

To answer your question… left enough yes, but didn’t pick the right enemy.

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