The Liberality of Evil: there’s a right way and a wrong way to wither away (Ariyoshi Sawako, “Village of Eguchi,” 1958)
Added 2022-04-27 04:51:09 +0000 UTCMeditations on the differences between some superficially similar things that we can’t afford to get twisted. Unprincipled opportunism, idealist insistence that revolutionary organizing always be only prefigurative of stateless, classless society—and meanwhile outright manifestations of reactionary class power are something we can just wink at slyly because we’re good-hearted, tolerant, liberal sophisticates. Ariyoshi Sawako’s story is a Rockefeller Foundation-funded magnum opus of postwar class collaborationism, the kind and gentle face of Fourth Reich fascism in its infancy. By contrast, principled members of the Kingless Generation use things like people’s armies, laws, courts—things which must someday wither away—to achieve the concrete material conditions under which they could wither away.
Featuring music by Laihall: Namgis Love Song
