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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

DK ACTIVISM THEN AND NOW PT II SUBSEQUENT EXCERPT OSTERWEIL THEY NPR INTERVIEW

 "...An excellent example of all this comes from Vicki Osterweil, a white transgender woman whose book, In Defense of Looting, appeared serendipitously just five months ago.  Looting, she says, "attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed. It attacks the idea of property, and it attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head or have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things that people just like them somewhere else in the world had to make under the same conditions. It points to the way in which that's unjust. And the reason that the world is organized that way, obviously, is for the profit of the people who own the stores and the factories. So you get to the heart of that property relation, and demonstrate that without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.... 

(Osterweil:)'Importantly, I think especially when it's in the context of a Black uprising like the one we're living through now, it also attacks the history of whiteness and white supremacy. The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression, through the history of slavery and settler domination of the country. Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police. It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. And also it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that's a part of it that doesn't really get talked about — that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.'  " DK

Here's Willie aka Vicki:


So, where to go with this next paragraph of DK's post and Osterweil quotation? 

One aspect springs out at someone who once read things like Reich, Roheim, Marcuse, etc., the Freudian left. 

Vicki, the little perv, really gets into her, 'their', account as a sexualized joyous orgasmic looting catharsis kind of experience that really everyone liberated should now insist on, as of right, now, and have everywhere. It can be directed against any oppressor, white or colored, anywhere in the world where they can be found oppressing the Vickis, white black or purple, of the world: 

'...imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that's a part of it that doesn't really get talked about — that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.' Osterweil

Here's a musical reference for all of you: John Lennon, Imagine.

I hate this ideology, with a passion, but it is more or less the same theme as Vicki Osterweil's theme, looting for the hell of it and for the orgasm of it, on a global scale: one orgasmic propertyless world.








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