Counter-Revolutionary Book Club
Dec 11, 2025 · 33 min · 10 segments
The Counter-Revolutionary Book Club is a defiantly anti-communist series dedicated to dissecting and analyzing the far left’s most audacious texts and ideas. Explore a curated collection of documents…
Karlyn BorysenkoHostInsurrectionist nihilists and queer anarchists are constantly railing against the identity politics endemic to liberalism which has wormed its way into anarchism by way of the would-be revolutionaries who view anarchy simply as an intensification of liberal goals.
Okay, I need to make sure to point something out for people who might be new to queer Marxism.
And I want everyone, for both this document and for the presentation that we're going to watch, please make sure you are asking questions, okay? If you're new, if this language is confusing to you, especially if you watched a lot of conservative influencer content, we need to kind of bring you up to speed on what radical queer militants actually think and actually believe because if you've come from the world of like conservative clickbait, you might not understand this stuff and it's okay because conservatives don't understand this stuff and so they misinform their audience about what it is.
The first thing I want to point out is this, So number one, radical queer militants hate liberals.
Radical queer militants, queer Marxists hate liberals because liberals uphold the capitalist order, right? Radical queer Marxists also, and this might be very counterintuitive to some people, do not engage in identity politics.
One of the reasons they don't like liberals is because liberals engage in identity politics.
They want to abolish all identity categories because they think that all identity categories are socially constructed by capitalism and they're not real categories and you can't overthrow capitalism without literally abolishing identity.
So in the very first sentence of this, there's an insurrectionist, nihilist, and queer anarchist are constantly railing against the identity politics endemic to liberalism.
And you have to understand this about them if you're going to understand the left, because their entire belief system stems from the idea that capitalism created all of these socially constructed identity categories.
And that is the cultural apparatus that That upholds capitalism and that liberals and when they say liberals, they mean Democrats, they mean liberals and they mean progressives.
They mean those more like they mean people who vote for the Democratic Party.
which has wormed its way into anarchism by way of the would-be revolutionaries who view anarchy simply as an intensification of liberal goals but most of the time arguments against id paul focus on the nonsensicality and indirectly oppressive nature of identity itself And with few concrete examples ever offer the material harm that Paul can do, it's easy to get the impression that we complain about it simply because of the abstract ways in which an identitarian mindset and praxis can lead to reinforcement of oppressive structures.
Most of the time, arguments against identity politics focus on the nonsensicality and indirectly oppressive nature of identity itself.
Insurrectionist nihilists and queer anarchists are constantly railing against the identity politics endemic to liberalism which has wormed its way into anarchism by way of the would-be revolutionaries who view anarchy simply as an intensification of liberal goals.
Okay, I need to make sure to point something out for people who might be new to queer Marxism.
And I want everyone, for both this document and for the presentation that we're going to watch, please make sure you are asking questions, okay? If you're new, if this language is confusing to you, especially if you watched a lot of conservative influencer content, we need to kind of bring you up to speed on what radical queer militants actually think and actually believe because if you've come from the world of like conservative clickbait, you might not understand this stuff and it's okay because conservatives don't understand this stuff and so they misinform their audience about what it is.
The first thing I want to point out is this, So number one, radical queer militants hate liberals.
Radical queer militants, queer Marxists hate liberals because liberals uphold the capitalist order, right? Radical queer Marxists also, and this might be very counterintuitive to some people, do not engage in identity politics.
One of the reasons they don't like liberals is because liberals engage in identity politics.
They want to abolish all identity categories because they think that all identity categories are socially constructed by capitalism and they're not real categories and you can't overthrow capitalism without literally abolishing identity.
So in the very first sentence of this, there's an insurrectionist, nihilist, and queer anarchist are constantly railing against the identity politics endemic to liberalism.
And you have to understand this about them if you're going to understand the left, because their entire belief system stems from the idea that capitalism created all of these socially constructed identity categories.
And that is the cultural apparatus that That upholds capitalism and that liberals and when they say liberals, they mean Democrats, they mean liberals and they mean progressives.
They mean those more like they mean people who vote for the Democratic Party.
which has wormed its way into anarchism by way of the would-be revolutionaries who view anarchy simply as an intensification of liberal goals but most of the time arguments against id paul focus on the nonsensicality and indirectly oppressive nature of identity itself And with few concrete examples ever offer the material harm that Paul can do, it's easy to get the impression that we complain about it simply because of the abstract ways in which an identitarian mindset and praxis can lead to reinforcement of oppressive structures.
Most of the time, arguments against identity politics focus on the nonsensicality and indirectly oppressive nature of identity itself.
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