Student protests in la belle province.
Do I dare face the mansplaining that will surely follow, or..?
I’m just not sure that I’m up for any more of this shit today.
Wait! If a MAN helps you mansplain, then all of your problems will be solved! *does so nonetheless*
In my few years of studying Marxist philosophy, a strange notion struck me, namely the notion that alienation begins when you get your first paycheck. And yet, we see in the history of revolutionary movements a preponderance of young people (sometimes very young) revolting, not because they are alienated by their labour, but precisely because there are no jobs and they can’t fulfill themselves through their labour (amongst other reasons).
What interests me about this picture is that it deploys a populist notion of the Marxist critique of capitalism while, at the same time, framing it in the voice of someone excluded from that critique (too young to work, too young to buy, etc). Then again, there’s nothing necessarily Marxist about criticizing capitalism or consumerism, so I may simply be reading too much into this.
(Source: placeboseverywhere, via global-revolutions)
