Chav Solidarity

Coming from a similar background and holding similar disdain for cosplaying middle class ‘anarchists' maybe I wasn't the intended audience for this one..

There was some wisdom here. Some critical thought. But also dogma. I lost count of the number of times the term ‘white-supremacist patriarchal capitalist society' was deployed.
Hunter's early life experiences read like trauma/poverty porn to me, possibly written that way to shock a middle class reader? But to those familiar with these kinds of encounters it wasn't particularly novel or worthwhile. More just fucking horrible.
It was reassuring at times to hear class being centred with the rage and passion it warrants, but where that fell flat was in tying social position to character- ie that all the author's ‘good'/empathetic/collectivist characteristics came from being poor and all his ‘bad'/domineering/evil characteristics came from being white or being male. This incessant categorisation of struggle is a dead-end for the left, it's cult-like and leads us into a state of constant self-flagellation, unable to build anything. Was hoping for something more with this book