Joaquin Vidales

"As Lenin once said, the idea of building communist society exclusively with the hands of the Communists is childish, absolutely childish. We Communists are but a drop in the ocean, a drop in the ocean of the people" - President Xi

Explaining to a Trumpist that the violence of the individual is not tantamount to the violence of the state is excruciatingly difficult precisely because flattening the two is a central part of how Trumpism legitimizes itself as a regime.

intellectual history is awesome because some weirdo will spend decades in the archive trying to convince the rest of the world that their crank guy is the key to understanding everything. which is very stupid because actually *my* crank guy is the key to understanding everything

When someone asks me how many moments there are in the dialectic

High-level Soviet officials knew that the Soviet Union was underway to collapse (Vadim Zagladin, for instance, said he and a group of Young Communists knew it since the early 1970s), which is why they began moving their wealth to foreign banks and wealth funds in western Europe.

"There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in the International Proletariat." - Galatians 3:28

If Wittgenstein had come before Husserl, we could have saved a forest's worth of trees from being cut down to make the paper used to elaborate his schizoid Eidetic Reduction.

How Brazil and India felt after eviscerating the World Bank Inspection Panel so much that they could fund the most environment-destroying, human rights-violating infrastructure projects known to man:

We must be bilingual even in a single language, we must have a minor language inside our own language, we must create a minor use of our own language… Proust says: ‘Great literature is written in a sort of foreign language…’ That is the definition of style. —Deleuze, Dialogues

everyone can defend judith butler but are you brave enough to defend the prose of gayatri spivak

Desiderius Erasmus - "In Praise of Folly" (1511)