astro_carafe
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He was always the accelerant, for better and worse
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
Trump is doing more to destroy the fossil fuel industry and smash the sources of wealth that fuel inequality than the wildest socialist eco-terrorist could ever dream of
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@enoughformethx There was already a concept that cut through this debate long ago: Enzo Traverso’s “post-fascism”
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Are people still fence-sitting on the fascism question? That’s over, right?
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he may be a cancer sun when
Adam Tooze@adam_tooze
Ok comrades. I’ve slept on it and I’m here to admit that I do have a dark food secret. But it’s not DoorDash and a credit card. It’s tinned fish hoarding. This year I’m saying no. With the help of family & friends, I’m gonna “eat these down”. One tin per week will get me there.
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@drumm_colin I mean trust me I am not participating either, just observing where some people find themselves
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@maxxithon i won't be participating in that but good luck
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Marxists are easily impressed by Marx's schoolboy tricks about revealing the "relations b/w people" lying under the "relations b/w things." But the problem is that in order to do this he needs things to really *appear* as objectively alienated essences. But they don't
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@drumm_colin I definitely agree with this, but some people need dogma before they can get to truth. Maybe that is another way of saying it
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@maxxithon i have never witnessed an immanent critique to produce anything other than more elaborate dogmas.
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@drumm_colin well it is both I think. they think it is neutral but those thoughts are betrayed by their perception. so yea, maybe appear is the wrong word.
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@maxxithon so youve abandoned your initial claim that "money really does appear neutral" to people, for a different claim, which is that "money appears political to people but they are confused about what the political stakes of it are." that's a statement with which i'd agree.
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@drumm_colin I think you need both! some people need the immanent critique because their minds are so warped by dogma and others need a simple explanation of how things actually are
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@maxxithon and the way to attack the theory of economics is not to perform an immanent critique of it, but simply to point out that it doesn't correctly describe appearances. there's no need for critique of any sort.
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@drumm_colin sure, but they don’t act on it because the politics are legible. they are repressed. the conspiracy theories are exactly what need to be replaced by critique so that these basic premises can fill the void their anxious thoughts currently occupies
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@maxxithon i dont think you are correct about this. money appears political to people, thats why they spontaneously produce all these conspiracy theories about it.
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@drumm_colin and therefore don’t need Marx, but that doesn’t mean that the average person can’t benefit from piercing the veil of the economic bill of goods they were sold. We can call them gullible, but the basics are still useful inasmuch as they get people from step 2 to step 5.
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@drumm_colin This is a great example of you being too smart for your own good. Money really does appear neutral to millions lost in the alienated world of competition and scarcity. Of course it isn’t hard to see what it really is, but it does take a critique to get there. You embody critique,
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this would at least make some sense if we were manufacturing competitors, but like choose us for what exactly?!
Stock Talk@stocktalkweekly
*PRESIDENT TRUMP: “WE MAY WANT COUNTRIES TO CHOOSE BETWEEN US AND CHINA”
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I usually (rightly or wrongly) am able to keep things mostly compartmentalized when it comes to current events, but this El Salvador stuff is probably the bleakest I’ve acutely felt about where things are going
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The 2025 Corales Puntacana Championship marks the eighth playing of the PGA TOUR’s first and only tournament in the Dominican Republic.
The Corales Puntacana Championship is the first of three events where players can earn FedExCup points to qualify for the Truist Championship via the Aon Swing 5.
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