Tuesday, December 15

Analysis of the "Cat Question"




One issue commonly debated in political milieu is the notorious "Cat Question". For those unfamiliar, this debate stems out of Ernest Hemingway's political line. This line is: "Cats are the best anarchists". This is a good line; Hemingway is indeed correct. However, if cats are the best Anarchists our findings are very interesting if we are to look at the history of all Cats and their struggles materially. This, of course, is necessary in order to determine what strategy all lesser Anarchists should aspire to. In examining the history of Cat-ional liberation struggles, we will see that all Cats so far have a 0% success rate in liberating Cats from human world hegemony. Although Cats are--according to Hemingway--the best practitioners of Anarchist thought, Cats have yet to develop a strategy which has successfully produced liberation from human oppression. While some Cats have used right-wing opportunism to escape from humans, (the class/species which claim Cats as "property" and to which the class/species group of all Cats belong) these Cats swiftly met destitution and faced even greater human oppression "on the outside". The failed practice of even the greatest among Cats does not bode well if one considers themself an "Anarchist". The failure of Anarchist (Cat) strategy is it substitutes adventurism, escapism, opportunism, and/or complacency for meaningful struggle against human world hegemony. While cats may have good intentions and good ideas, if one is to honestly look at Cats' strategy through the lens of historical-materialist science they would see Anarchism is a failed strategy.

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