#antinatalism — Public Fediverse posts
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Whether or not you decide to have kids is entirely up to you, but it is perfectly normal to have doubts. Many people will try to pressure you into having children, especially your own family. But if you feel that it's not right for you, then you should stick to your guns. There is nothing wrong with being childless. #Antinatalism #ChildFree #Parenting #Pregnancy
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Whether or not you decide to have kids is entirely up to you, but it is perfectly normal to have doubts. Many people will try to pressure you into having children, especially your own family. But if you feel that it's not right for you, then you should stick to your guns. There is nothing wrong with being childless. #Antinatalism #ChildFree #Parenting #Pregnancy
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Whether or not you decide to have kids is entirely up to you, but it is perfectly normal to have doubts. Many people will try to pressure you into having children, especially your own family. But if you feel that it's not right for you, then you should stick to your guns. There is nothing wrong with being childless. #Antinatalism #ChildFree #Parenting #Pregnancy
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Whether or not you decide to have kids is entirely up to you, but it is perfectly normal to have doubts. Many people will try to pressure you into having children, especially your own family. But if you feel that it's not right for you, then you should stick to your guns. There is nothing wrong with being childless. #Antinatalism #ChildFree #Parenting #Pregnancy
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There is no radically transforming society without individuals radically transforming themselves. And while it's the simplest step to take, the biggest attitude shift is respecting the rights of non-human animals. Not you offering help, being jolly during difficult times, nothing like that. Just basic respect.
And I would claim that believing society can be radically transformed is naive, just stop abusing beings for their sake. #Vegan #Veganism #Speciesism #Antispeciesism #Society #Antinatalism #BeVegan #GoVegan :vegan: -
There is no radically transforming society without individuals radically transforming themselves. And while it's the simplest step to take, the biggest attitude shift is respecting the rights of non-human animals. Not you offering help, being jolly during difficult times, nothing like that. Just basic respect.
And I would claim that believing society can be radically transformed is naive, just stop abusing beings for their sake. #Vegan #Veganism #Speciesism #Antispeciesism #Society #Antinatalism #BeVegan #GoVegan :vegan: -
There is no radically transforming society without individuals radically transforming themselves. And while it's the simplest step to take, the biggest attitude shift is respecting the rights of non-human animals. Not you offering help, being jolly during difficult times, nothing like that. Just basic respect.
And I would claim that believing society can be radically transformed is naive, just stop abusing beings for their sake. #Vegan #Veganism #Speciesism #Antispeciesism #Society #Antinatalism #BeVegan #GoVegan :vegan: -
There is no radically transforming society without individuals radically transforming themselves. And while it's the simplest step to take, the biggest attitude shift is respecting the rights of non-human animals. Not you offering help, being jolly during difficult times, nothing like that. Just basic respect.
And I would claim that believing society can be radically transformed is naive, just stop abusing beings for their sake. #Vegan #Veganism #Speciesism #Antispeciesism #Society #Antinatalism #BeVegan #GoVegan :vegan: -
Even the best lives are never free of disappointments and hardships. But for a countless number of people, life is a vexation that must be endured rather than an experience to be enjoyed. Gradual, self-imposed extinction is a ready-made cure for all life's vexations, no matter their severity.
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Even the best lives are never free of disappointments and hardships. But for a countless number of people, life is a vexation that must be endured rather than an experience to be enjoyed. Gradual, self-imposed extinction is a ready-made cure for all life's vexations, no matter their severity.
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Even the best lives are never free of disappointments and hardships. But for a countless number of people, life is a vexation that must be endured rather than an experience to be enjoyed. Gradual, self-imposed extinction is a ready-made cure for all life's vexations, no matter their severity.
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Even the best lives are never free of disappointments and hardships. But for a countless number of people, life is a vexation that must be endured rather than an experience to be enjoyed. Gradual, self-imposed extinction is a ready-made cure for all life's vexations, no matter their severity.
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People get uncomfortable when they hear someone say that human life has no inherent value. All value is extrinsically assigned but is ostensibly unearned.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/moral-mathematics-and-its-stowaways#philosophy #morals #ethics #nihilism #parfit #morality #maths #language #value #economics #identity #benatar #paradox #antinatalism #metaphysics
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People get uncomfortable when they hear someone say that human life has no inherent value. All value is extrinsically assigned but is ostensibly unearned.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/moral-mathematics-and-its-stowaways#philosophy #morals #ethics #nihilism #parfit #morality #maths #language #value #economics #identity #benatar #paradox #antinatalism #metaphysics
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People get uncomfortable when they hear someone say that human life has no inherent value. All value is extrinsically assigned but is ostensibly unearned.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/moral-mathematics-and-its-stowaways#philosophy #morals #ethics #nihilism #parfit #morality #maths #language #value #economics #identity #benatar #paradox #antinatalism #metaphysics
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People get uncomfortable when they hear someone say that human life has no inherent value. All value is extrinsically assigned but is ostensibly unearned.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/moral-mathematics-and-its-stowaways#philosophy #morals #ethics #nihilism #parfit #morality #maths #language #value #economics #identity #benatar #paradox #antinatalism #metaphysics
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@epochemagazine A nice article! Just happened to read Kirk Lougheed's (not so good) IEP-entry on Anti-Natalism, https://iep.utm.edu/anti-natalism/
#life #birth #procreation #realism #pessimism #antinatalism #depression #population #society #philosophy #psychology #reasoning #thinking
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@epochemagazine A nice article! Just happened to read Kirk Lougheed's (not so good) IEP-entry on Anti-Natalism, https://iep.utm.edu/anti-natalism/
#life #birth #procreation #realism #pessimism #antinatalism #depression #population #society #philosophy #psychology #reasoning #thinking
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@epochemagazine A nice article! Just happened to read Kirk Lougheed's (not so good) IEP-entry on Anti-Natalism, https://iep.utm.edu/anti-natalism/
#life #birth #procreation #realism #pessimism #antinatalism #depression #population #society #philosophy #psychology #reasoning #thinking
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If there were truly a biological impulse to survive, why do we tend to have social prohibitions against suicide? Wouldn't that then be redundant to biology? Asking for a friend. 🧐
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VNLjj4JVMm4
#philosophy #biology #existentialism #science #psychology #sociology #preservation #video #antinatalism
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If there were truly a biological impulse to survive, why do we tend to have social prohibitions against suicide? Wouldn't that then be redundant to biology? Asking for a friend. 🧐
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VNLjj4JVMm4
#philosophy #biology #existentialism #science #psychology #sociology #preservation #video #antinatalism
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CW: Antinatalism, mental illness, fascism, not current events related.
Been brought to think about #antinatalism today, and We think We figured out a conclusive string of arguments why as a moral philosophy it just does not make sense.
For some background, We used to be very antinatalist, at the time, We were incredibly depressed, lived for 20+ years without the hormones We didn't know We badly needed, tried antidepressants, doctors, etc., nothing helped in any way that would spell an end to this suffering.
The basic idea of antinatalism is that it is inherently unconsensual to procreate, because you can not ask a child that doesn't exist yet whether they want to exist.
At the time, We hated Ourself so much that We considered Us talking to and existing around other folks a violation of their consent, because We couldn't possibly ask that in advance, (blend in a "they're too nice to decline" as well), so "creating life is unconsensual for the life created" didn't seem like a big stretch to Us, on top of already just deeply wishing We were never born.
The irony in that being that this was the exact opposite of ensuring the consent of others, We had the conclusion and worked Our way backwards, ignoring the things the folks in question were actually saying, it was the opposite of consent.
🧵.
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📉 The fact that progressive voices are retreating from discussing demographic decline signals a cultural shift away from unquestioned procreation narratives and reveals political contestation around reproductive choice. It suggests that even mainstream discourse is uncomfortable endorsing increased childbearing, opening room for antinatalist frames.
https://www.wypr.org/2026-01-12/as-birthrates-tumble-some-progressives-say-the-left-needs-to-offer-ideas-and-solutions #antinatalism
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This cracks me up:
ANTI NATALISTS Why do they keep getting born?The guy has a knack for sarcasm and irony.
https://triapul.cz/_/1764502681
#antinatalism #efilism #funhole #pessimism #philosophicalpessimism #philosophy #triapul #unix_surrealism
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What an article by @SAPIENS_org on antinatalism. Thank you for reporting on this essential topic!!! (Link with tracking from Firefox's new tab to show support for these topics!) https://www.sapiens.org/culture/japan-reproduction-death-anti-natalism-movement/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us (Link without tracking.) https://www.sapiens.org/culture/japan-reproduction-death-anti-natalism-movement :vegan: :vegan: :vegan:❤️❤️❤️✨✨✨💖💖💖 #Antinatalism #Antinatalist #Veganism #Vegan #Intersectional #Intersectionality #Japan #Movement #Activism #Activist #Population #Populationdecline #DontPopAdopt #Reproduction
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More children means more pollution, and yet developed countries are trying to increase birth rates to sustain economic ponzi schemes at the expense of the environment.
#natalism #natalists #antinatalism #pollution #birthrates #children #environmentalism #globalwarming #climatechange #economics #gdp #ponzi #pensions #globalnorth #demographics #demographiccrisis -
More children means more pollution, and yet developed countries are trying to increase birth rates to sustain economic ponzi schemes at the expense of the environment.
#natalism #natalists #antinatalism #pollution #birthrates #children #environmentalism #globalwarming #climatechange #economics #gdp #ponzi #pensions #globalnorth #demographics #demographiccrisis -
More children means more pollution, and yet developed countries are trying to increase birth rates to sustain economic ponzi schemes at the expense of the environment.
#natalism #natalists #antinatalism #pollution #birthrates #children #environmentalism #globalwarming #climatechange #economics #gdp #ponzi #pensions #globalnorth #demographics #demographiccrisis -
选择不生，是我用手中仅有的、微小的权力向这个世界投出的反对票 :blobcatpopcorn:
#反出生主义 #antinatalism -
Such a pleasure to talk to Lawrence Anton about how the #Sentientism worldview and #antinatalism might intersect: https://youtu.be/MpLAVGCR3wE
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Such a pleasure to talk to Lawrence Anton about how the #Sentientism worldview and #antinatalism might intersect: https://youtu.be/MpLAVGCR3wE
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Such a pleasure to talk to Lawrence Anton about how the #Sentientism worldview and #antinatalism might intersect: https://youtu.be/MpLAVGCR3wE
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"Society has come a long way in making space for maternal ambivalence and the childfree movement, but those frameworks ask whether we want to have children, not whether we should"
#antinatalism #anarchism #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Sexism
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"Society has come a long way in making space for maternal ambivalence and the childfree movement, but those frameworks ask whether we want to have children, not whether we should"
#antinatalism #anarchism #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Sexism
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"Society has come a long way in making space for maternal ambivalence and the childfree movement, but those frameworks ask whether we want to have children, not whether we should"
#antinatalism #anarchism #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Sexism
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"Society has come a long way in making space for maternal ambivalence and the childfree movement, but those frameworks ask whether we want to have children, not whether we should"
#antinatalism #anarchism #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Sexism
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I wanted to know if having a kid on a burning planet was right.
"In Australia, young people such as Anjali Sharma are having to sue their leaders and elders to try to get the government to acknowledge they have a duty of care not to exacerbate the climate emergency. The government fought the young people and the government won."
"Since May 2022, the federal environment minister has approved 11 new coalmines or expansions with 1,677m tonnes of lifetime emissions. That doesn’t sound like a nation that values new and future lives. Sometimes it feels as though the wrong things are taboo.
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/28/should-we-have-children-burning-planet-author-bri-lee-seed-book-antinatalism-seriously-taboo
#Climate #ClimateBreakdown #FossilFuels #coal #GHG #extractivism #antinatalism #pronatalism #children #governance #DutyOfCare #Australia #taboo -
I wanted to know if having a kid on a burning planet was right.
"In Australia, young people such as Anjali Sharma are having to sue their leaders and elders to try to get the government to acknowledge they have a duty of care not to exacerbate the climate emergency. The government fought the young people and the government won."
"Since May 2022, the federal environment minister has approved 11 new coalmines or expansions with 1,677m tonnes of lifetime emissions. That doesn’t sound like a nation that values new and future lives. Sometimes it feels as though the wrong things are taboo.
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/28/should-we-have-children-burning-planet-author-bri-lee-seed-book-antinatalism-seriously-taboo
#Climate #ClimateBreakdown #FossilFuels #coal #GHG #extractivism #antinatalism #pronatalism #children #governance #DutyOfCare #Australia #taboo -
I wanted to know if having a kid on a burning planet was right.
"In Australia, young people such as Anjali Sharma are having to sue their leaders and elders to try to get the government to acknowledge they have a duty of care not to exacerbate the climate emergency. The government fought the young people and the government won."
"Since May 2022, the federal environment minister has approved 11 new coalmines or expansions with 1,677m tonnes of lifetime emissions. That doesn’t sound like a nation that values new and future lives. Sometimes it feels as though the wrong things are taboo.
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/28/should-we-have-children-burning-planet-author-bri-lee-seed-book-antinatalism-seriously-taboo
#Climate #ClimateBreakdown #FossilFuels #coal #GHG #extractivism #antinatalism #pronatalism #children #governance #DutyOfCare #Australia #taboo -
I wanted to know if having a kid on a burning planet was right.
"In Australia, young people such as Anjali Sharma are having to sue their leaders and elders to try to get the government to acknowledge they have a duty of care not to exacerbate the climate emergency. The government fought the young people and the government won."
"Since May 2022, the federal environment minister has approved 11 new coalmines or expansions with 1,677m tonnes of lifetime emissions. That doesn’t sound like a nation that values new and future lives. Sometimes it feels as though the wrong things are taboo.
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/28/should-we-have-children-burning-planet-author-bri-lee-seed-book-antinatalism-seriously-taboo
#Climate #ClimateBreakdown #FossilFuels #coal #GHG #extractivism #antinatalism #pronatalism #children #governance #DutyOfCare #Australia #taboo -
Recall that #Kremlin #Russia began to ban online resources for "propaganda of suicide", and in particular for "descriptions of acts of self-harm or suicide" back in 2013: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD_%E2%84%96_398-%D0%A4%D0%97_2013_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.
The noun "#Roskomnadzor", the name of the agency responsible for censorship, soon became a verb: "to commit [ROSKOMNADZOR]" was RuNet's new "convert to Islam".
Nine years before the full-scale war.
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Recall that #Kremlin #Russia began to ban online resources for "propaganda of suicide", and in particular for "descriptions of acts of self-harm or suicide" back in 2013: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD_%E2%84%96_398-%D0%A4%D0%97_2013_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.
The noun "#Roskomnadzor", the name of the agency responsible for censorship, soon became a verb: "to commit [ROSKOMNADZOR]" was RuNet's new "convert to Islam".
Nine years before the full-scale war.
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Recall that #Kremlin #Russia began to ban online resources for "propaganda of suicide", and in particular for "descriptions of acts of self-harm or suicide" back in 2013: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD_%E2%84%96_398-%D0%A4%D0%97_2013_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.
The noun "#Roskomnadzor", the name of the agency responsible for censorship, soon became a verb: "to commit [ROSKOMNADZOR]" was RuNet's new "convert to Islam".
Nine years before the full-scale war.
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> So it's an instinct that is selected for.
You don't need selection to reproduce #antinatalism antinatalist ideas in society, all you need is the culture of "bending the knee", of rape and slavery
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> So it's an instinct that is selected for.
You don't need selection to reproduce #antinatalism antinatalist ideas in society, all you need is the culture of "bending the knee", of rape and slavery
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> So it's an instinct that is selected for.
You don't need selection to reproduce #antinatalism antinatalist ideas in society, all you need is the culture of "bending the knee", of rape and slavery
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"In the human being, there is not even an initial tendency to life-serving use. The child drinks lye, but the kitten does not; a child having been burned avoids the fire, but the animal avoids the fire before being burned." - Peter Wessel Zapffe: "On the Tragic"
(Yep, that's what I'm reading on my way to Oslo.)
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"In the human being, there is not even an initial tendency to life-serving use. The child drinks lye, but the kitten does not; a child having been burned avoids the fire, but the animal avoids the fire before being burned." - Peter Wessel Zapffe: "On the Tragic"
(Yep, that's what I'm reading on my way to Oslo.)
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"In the human being, there is not even an initial tendency to life-serving use. The child drinks lye, but the kitten does not; a child having been burned avoids the fire, but the animal avoids the fire before being burned." - Peter Wessel Zapffe: "On the Tragic"
(Yep, that's what I'm reading on my way to Oslo.)
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"In the human being, there is not even an initial tendency to life-serving use. The child drinks lye, but the kitten does not; a child having been burned avoids the fire, but the animal avoids the fire before being burned." - Peter Wessel Zapffe: "On the Tragic"
(Yep, that's what I'm reading on my way to Oslo.)
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"The leftists I know are all engaged and committed to fighting back. They’re not cowering doomsday preppers. They are working hard and showing more ambition than anyone else in politics. It’s the liberals and centrists who are the pessimistic, unimaginative ones who think we must take baby steps and that nothing good is possible. In fact, I think the excess negativity on the left here is Guastella’s. He is telling us we’re all a bunch of failures unworthy of the great Karl Marx. (“Are there any intellectuals of the Left today whose insights and commitment to humanity’s long-term horizon rival those of Karl Marx or Karl Polanyi?”)
But look, I believe in solidarity. I don’t want a rift with Guastella and Jacobin here, because I have immense respect for Jacobin and warm, comradely feelings toward them. I don’t feel Guastella is being fair to me or to Melonio, Taylor, Klein, or Steffen, but the important point is that we all agree, actually. He writes that “without a flag staked in the future — a clear vision of the world we want for our children and theirs — we lose track of where we want to go.” Well you don’t have to tell me, Dustin. I write things like that all the time. So let’s not bicker, eh? There’s no need to write articles in Jacobin castigating fellow leftists as “unserious, misanthropic, and bound to lose.” Just join with us as we build the glorious socialist future together. Solidarity forever!"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/excuse-me-but-i-am-a-utopian
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"The leftists I know are all engaged and committed to fighting back. They’re not cowering doomsday preppers. They are working hard and showing more ambition than anyone else in politics. It’s the liberals and centrists who are the pessimistic, unimaginative ones who think we must take baby steps and that nothing good is possible. In fact, I think the excess negativity on the left here is Guastella’s. He is telling us we’re all a bunch of failures unworthy of the great Karl Marx. (“Are there any intellectuals of the Left today whose insights and commitment to humanity’s long-term horizon rival those of Karl Marx or Karl Polanyi?”)
But look, I believe in solidarity. I don’t want a rift with Guastella and Jacobin here, because I have immense respect for Jacobin and warm, comradely feelings toward them. I don’t feel Guastella is being fair to me or to Melonio, Taylor, Klein, or Steffen, but the important point is that we all agree, actually. He writes that “without a flag staked in the future — a clear vision of the world we want for our children and theirs — we lose track of where we want to go.” Well you don’t have to tell me, Dustin. I write things like that all the time. So let’s not bicker, eh? There’s no need to write articles in Jacobin castigating fellow leftists as “unserious, misanthropic, and bound to lose.” Just join with us as we build the glorious socialist future together. Solidarity forever!"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/excuse-me-but-i-am-a-utopian
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"The leftists I know are all engaged and committed to fighting back. They’re not cowering doomsday preppers. They are working hard and showing more ambition than anyone else in politics. It’s the liberals and centrists who are the pessimistic, unimaginative ones who think we must take baby steps and that nothing good is possible. In fact, I think the excess negativity on the left here is Guastella’s. He is telling us we’re all a bunch of failures unworthy of the great Karl Marx. (“Are there any intellectuals of the Left today whose insights and commitment to humanity’s long-term horizon rival those of Karl Marx or Karl Polanyi?”)
But look, I believe in solidarity. I don’t want a rift with Guastella and Jacobin here, because I have immense respect for Jacobin and warm, comradely feelings toward them. I don’t feel Guastella is being fair to me or to Melonio, Taylor, Klein, or Steffen, but the important point is that we all agree, actually. He writes that “without a flag staked in the future — a clear vision of the world we want for our children and theirs — we lose track of where we want to go.” Well you don’t have to tell me, Dustin. I write things like that all the time. So let’s not bicker, eh? There’s no need to write articles in Jacobin castigating fellow leftists as “unserious, misanthropic, and bound to lose.” Just join with us as we build the glorious socialist future together. Solidarity forever!"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/excuse-me-but-i-am-a-utopian
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"The leftists I know are all engaged and committed to fighting back. They’re not cowering doomsday preppers. They are working hard and showing more ambition than anyone else in politics. It’s the liberals and centrists who are the pessimistic, unimaginative ones who think we must take baby steps and that nothing good is possible. In fact, I think the excess negativity on the left here is Guastella’s. He is telling us we’re all a bunch of failures unworthy of the great Karl Marx. (“Are there any intellectuals of the Left today whose insights and commitment to humanity’s long-term horizon rival those of Karl Marx or Karl Polanyi?”)
But look, I believe in solidarity. I don’t want a rift with Guastella and Jacobin here, because I have immense respect for Jacobin and warm, comradely feelings toward them. I don’t feel Guastella is being fair to me or to Melonio, Taylor, Klein, or Steffen, but the important point is that we all agree, actually. He writes that “without a flag staked in the future — a clear vision of the world we want for our children and theirs — we lose track of where we want to go.” Well you don’t have to tell me, Dustin. I write things like that all the time. So let’s not bicker, eh? There’s no need to write articles in Jacobin castigating fellow leftists as “unserious, misanthropic, and bound to lose.” Just join with us as we build the glorious socialist future together. Solidarity forever!"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/excuse-me-but-i-am-a-utopian
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#Antinatalism is poison. It's quite literally societal #AIDS. -
#Antinatalism is poison. It's quite literally societal #AIDS. -
If humans had to sign a contract in order to be born: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODduK6ryUsc
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If humans had to sign a contract in order to be born: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODduK6ryUsc
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If humans had to sign a contract in order to be born: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODduK6ryUsc
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If humans had to sign a contract in order to be born: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODduK6ryUsc