thank you tumblr use orestian – just moving along like everyone else

orestian:

you can use marxist analytical tools to approach pretty much anything and that can be useful and enlightening – examining, for example, how the sex work economy actually functions can help you form a more nuanced opinion on sex work as a whole. same with feminism. marxism and feminism are essentially analytical toolboxes that you can use to interpret shit. you can agree with a marxist interpretation of a phenomenon without, like, being a diehard communist. you can agree with a feminist interpretation of phenomenae without, like, signing a contract to kill a man, too. having critical thinking skills means being able to argue about what ideas are good and why, and what ideas are bad and why. there’s nothing inherently good about forming all your opinions based on what your immediate gut reaction is, and there’s also nothing inherently good about relying on a particular ideological framework to analyze everything. sometimes one toolkit is better for the job than another toolkit. your gut reactions, in fact, are your own personal toolkit for analysis, provided to you for free by your central nervous system, and like any free software it’s kind of a piece of shit sometimes. so like… there’s no need for you to Belong to a movement for you to use analytical tools to turn data into a hypothesis. you don’t have to sign up for anything. you just have to be capable of understanding how to use analysis. like, fuck the rules, you’re a tool-using mammal! go find yourself a nice slender twig of analysis to stick down the termite hill of the discourse and retrieve yourself some crunchy little termites of truth, you sly biped