jackharper: переводы

→• A withdrawalist stance is often a mixture of liberalism and despair. Liberalism can only offer individual solutions; despair threatens no solution. Systems of oppression like capitalism and patriarchy can feel overwhelming in their scale and sadism. The promise of withdrawal— that a strategy of personal change can compound into political change—is understandably appealing, especially because it often comes with a set of directives that, if not always easy, are at least simple. Indeed, a whole life—including an identity—can be built around these actions. Thus, it is an answer to despair, but it's an answer that relies on faith, not on strategy—which is to say it's an emotional solution and not a material one.

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