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   Loukas Christodoulou (loukas@mastodon.nu)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 23:27:57 JST Loukas Christodoulou

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   Ok, so I've promised @Freedom_Press an article about #autism and #anarchism, but I'm too overwhelmed to write a proper article, so here's a thread with my thoughts so far.

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     Loukas Christodoulou (loukas@mastodon.nu)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 23:27:52 JST Loukas Christodoulou

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     But I think we need to look at labour-theft in a different way.

     Consider the Toni Morrison quote:

     "The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being".

     In other words, often the system of exploitation will take your labour only to destroy it, to burn your own energy before your eyes. No value created, but domination is reproduced.

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     Loukas Christodoulou (loukas@mastodon.nu)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 23:27:53 JST Loukas Christodoulou

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     Now sometimes this seems hard to understand, even for leftists. Maybe Marxism has made us believe that (capitalism) takes our labour and makes it into **value**. So for a long time Marxists and other traditional socialists ignored areas of society where they thought value wasn't being created. They thought that women's struggle and antiracism were distractions from the factory where labour is stolen and value created.

     carl marks repeated this.
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     Loukas Christodoulou (loukas@mastodon.nu)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 23:27:55 JST Loukas Christodoulou

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     In general, I think it's most useful to look at the central 'isms' as systems of expropriation. They aren't just bad little thoughts inside people which can be educated away like a priestly exorcism.

     Ablism, sexism, racism, classism, exist as systems that keep going because they keep on stealing our energy like vampires.

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     Loukas Christodoulou (loukas@mastodon.nu)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 23:27:56 JST Loukas Christodoulou

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     Really, the fact that I'm too autistic to write an article about autism touches on the key point I wanted to make: that the problem we are facing is of a system that nullifies our creativity and steals our labour.

     How ablism is a system of stealing our energy, and how that means things about how we should respond.