Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“We are all different, but we all have at least one thing in common; society doesn’t fucking fit, and we all want out. None of this is a coincidence. It is all connected, from my so-called mental illness to yours. The growing diversity of people choosing to live outside the increasingly stultifying boundaries of normal is spreading and it’s about time. One of my favorite Marxists, Antoni Gramsci, referred to us as the Subaltern. Karl himself more derisively labeled us as the lumpenproletariat. Both essentially amount to an unorganized underclass amongst the post-colonial masses that exists on the margins — criminals, vagrants, migrants, convicts, drifters, loners, and lunatics, the homeless, the unemployed and the unemployable, an entire caste excluded from the socioeconomic institutions of society in order to deny the strange agency. But when society itself has become a sickness, we on the outside become the cure.” (11/10/24)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-weird-turn-pro-revolutionary-call.html