Conspiracism, the construction of tall stories to explain why anyone other than the powerful are responsible for chaos and injustice: https://classautonomy.info/category/conspiracism
Political marxism: the 19th century pseudoscience alleging that the root cause of class division and the despotism of the propertied classes can be overcome using the same institutions built to defend them. This has of course worked out amazingly in practise: https://classautonomy.info/category/political-marxism/
Recouperation: “”Recuperation” (sometimes referred to as incorporation) in the context of class struggle is the process by which radical ideas, movements, or symbols of working-class resistance are absorbed, neutralised, and ultimately commodified or rendered harmless by capitalist society. It turns revolutionary potential into manageable, systemic reform or into a product for consumption, stalling the “class struggle” (the conflict over wages, working conditions, and the distribution of value).”: https://classautonomy.info/category/recouperation/
Prisons: all the more relevant as a site of class struggle in the face of middle class carceral liberalism and its propensity to be silent on all things associated with structural violence, pacification as Mark Nucleous describes it, and the performative reconstruction of bourgeois justice as the solution to class conflict of its own making: https://classautonomy.info/category/prisons/
Worker Self-Activity; Accoring to Lenin, an infantile prejudice, but then again His Majesty also held the working class in contempt as being capable only of a ‘trade union consciousness.’ Reading material for anyone who doesn’t think the working class is so stupid we need saving from ourselves by middle class elitists: https://classautonomy.info/category/worker-self-activity/
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