i have seen several people make heartfelt posts claiming they oppose all wars and that everyone involved is bad. although the heart is in the right place, these fail to really say anything because they’re ideologically situated in neoliberalism: of course i oppose wars too, but it doesn’t mean i’m going to ignore the material conditions surrounding the conflict to understand the situation just because i think war is bad in the abstract, and leave my analysis at that.
a brief on the 2022 Ukraine War
a brief on the 2022 Ukraine War
a brief on the 2022 Ukraine War
i have seen several people make heartfelt posts claiming they oppose all wars and that everyone involved is bad. although the heart is in the right place, these fail to really say anything because they’re ideologically situated in neoliberalism: of course i oppose wars too, but it doesn’t mean i’m going to ignore the material conditions surrounding the conflict to understand the situation just because i think war is bad in the abstract, and leave my analysis at that.