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The only 2 consistent positions is not caring about Hamas' Islamism nor Azov's far-right ethnonationalism or just opposing both like leftcoms do. Anything else is hypocrisy and mental gymnastics
Read the comments and ppl overhype reading imo. You can read a shit ton and still be ignorant or closed-minded as hell. Most readers I’ve seen are, tbh. Reading becomes a way to reinforce your own dogmas instead of challenging them, broadening your horizons or staying curious.
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11/15/2035. As Marxist faculty wage the Heinrich Wars, DHS jails citizen-journalists who report on how 100+ temps drive casualty rates among the national guard Prez AOC sent to MN to quell riots over the breakdown of the Iran peace talks. The Science of Value remains untranslated
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Good work young communist.
You can accept Stalin wasn't a Marxist.
You can accept Mao wasn't a Marxist.
But...
Can you accept the truth, or is it too much to bear?
Can you accept the ultimate truth nuke that -- Vladimir Lenin -- was not a Marxist?
Love Adorno's "Opinion Delusion Society" so much... Idk if this makes sense, but there's this thing he does that feels very musical to me. Basically, he writes sentence after sentence, building up tension, and then there's suddenly a release. It's so sick...
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To repurpose one of my favorite quotes: Chinese nationalists write almost as if China had colonized Tibet solely for the satisfaction of abolishing slavery
Replying to @navajofelon
Mao freed 1 million slaves and ppl still want to talk shit.
Anyone who thinks Mao is bad is completely unserious.
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fascinating thread on Adorno's music writing, cognition, and technological panic
Replying to @jackwdenton
i think most discourses, popular or academic, about how technology affects cognition rely on an impoverished concept of cognition itself. in the most reductive or narrow such, cognition is a faculty of "the brain;" in others, it has a social, symbolic character that is...
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Sad, out-of-date Cold War rhetoric & myths. The complaint about billionaires these days - a "liberal" complaint - is that they speculate & hoard rather than invest. They are nothing but the high end of capitalist income/wealth hierarchies used to pit people against each other.
Replying to @hmcleaver
Socialist slavery won't eliminate work.
Correct: redistribution is a political issue. Instead of merit or usefulness, the state makes economic decisions based on political whim. That is the problem.
You fucking moron. 🙂
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No, there is a divide that runs straight through Marxism on the question of what constitutes a proletarian dictatorship. To present the original conception and Mao as just a clean line with no differentiation is you not being able to deal with your own history properly.
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He is still a dictator now even in death. People like you keep being interpellated by his image into cults. And since he's dead, he can't kick you out. You're just stuck in an ideological formation that can't act on the world.
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'El fascismo es una fase histérica del capitalismo, y, por consiguiente, algo muy nuevo y muy viejo....
Entonces, ¿de qué sirve decir la verdad sobre el fascismo, que se condena, si no se dice nada contra el capitalismo que lo origina?'
Bertolt Brecht.
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Hey it's the 70th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution.
Thought I'd plug this again.
youtube.com/watch?v=HPY673yU…
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I am not young. I started a Substack because there is literally no other website anyone uses for blogging. I do not charge people money. I am just trying to live a life with the tools available.
































