reading a set of pieces on tiqqun and the introduction does not fill me with confidence for how the rest of it will go.

i'll write my thoughts on each piece in a single post at a time, marked with the content warning.

most notably about the intro: they make no reference to any piece published under "tiqqun" only pieces published under "The Invisible Committee"

those are not the same. to mistake the two is silly. but, perhaps they're more interested in some "milieu" they've tried to define but have not yet shown.

let's see how this goes.

already not looking good here. they blanketly say that there is just "no analysis provided" in the text The Coming Insurrection, and instead only "statements" only "immediate objectivity." i'd like to see this substantiated.

their attempt is immediately them stringing together random half sentences and then misconstruing even their own frankenstein's version of it.

where tiqqun says they want to: “introduce a little order into the common-places of our time, collecting some of the murmurings around barroom tables and behind closed bedroom doors.."

and that they need to “lay down a few necessary truths" the Ungrateful Hyenas speak this back to us as: "the common-places are the necessary truths..."

if you can't even follow your own reconstructions of other's sentences, you should maybe reconsider your attempt... anyways, continuing.

Ungrateful Hyenas seem to mistake utilizing the bald-faced truth spoken by people in positions of power to ironic effect as treating them as a "credible source."

it also claims that the goal of tiqqunism is to get you to join their big multitudinous "We," which... well, i don't know how else to tell you that you've literally no idea what tiqqun has actually written.

tiqqun says: Every attempt to grasp a “people” as a form-of life—as race, class, ethnicity, or nation—has been undermined by the fact that the ethical differences within each “people” have always been greater than the ethical differences between “peoples” themselves.

or, later, in that same piece, where they ironically quote their enemy who was saying that the "period of civil war in japan was the freest of all"

these are not projects of a unified "We," rather, explicitly the opposite.