TRVTHVKE: Graeber's _Bullshit Jobs_ has been poison for the Left because if you convince people that their jobs add no value and do nothing, it's VERY hard to recruit them to a politics of workers power Then they just end up wishing "real workers" or maybe the Russians will come save them

Remain In Hell Without Despair

Sometimes I think Western left-liberals fetishize powerlessness. Like, they can't even imagine a situation where they could fight and win, so all they have is processing trauma, apocalyptic fantasy, and trying to "shame" an enemy which is incapable of shame