@DanielDenvir the episode pushed "us" further away from it. I doubt that DSA-style organizing has a monopoly on "genuinely emancipatory" political activity.
@DanielDenvir It's less that the language is imprecise, more that it's used to diagnose a phantom tendency (liberal to ultra-left) that's then used to lionize a "correct" tendency (DSA). It blocks any real reckoning with the latter's own blind-spots. There's a debate to be had here ... but
My most polarizing ep yet and not quite in the way I had expected. Organizers say they love it, that it resonates w everyday challenges. The vast majority of criticism is from academic leftists who say that ep is embarrassing, incoherent, lazy, imprecise w language. Why is this?
An explosive portrait of '77 in Italy from Balestrini and Moroni's The Golden Horde:
"A final moment of concentration, a vast funnel of accumulated knowledge and memories of organization within an uninterrupted cycle of anti-institutional struggles."
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Ruling class in full ghoul's regalia: "Analyzing the cost of area school closures, the Penn Wharton Budget Model finds that students’ future wage losses in four Philadelphia-area counties far exceed the financial cost of infections to the community."
MasteryCharter has neither budgets nor managers nor assessments nor strategic plans nor wages nor anything that would help the present order reproduce itself