@SuperCaioWorld @votelavenia thats really cool. i've never seen an american university with anything nearing this curriculum.
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May Sommer
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@SuperCaioWorld @votelavenia dude where the fuck do you go to school
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@votelavenia this wasnt related to the class at all
one case where ive had to read bordiga for class was in uses of fascism when we were talking about its origins in socialist movements and the reactions and early analyses by communists at the time (pannekoek, zetkin, trotsky, etc.)
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Council Communism seems to be becoming an object of commodification.
But once a party wrote:
“Socialism as a commodity saw itself compelled to go through the cycle of market laws. And the same laws will force it to hoist again the same flag that once conquered the world for it.”
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Wittgenstein's (incredibly typical) response to a university friend taking him for a cheerful afternoon out to watch a boat race:
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@TherynDArnold read this tweet, opened the book and read the word "constellations" and the cobwebs on the part of my brain that hates Althusser were immediately banished
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Saito's ‘Marx in the Anthropocene’ has interesting archival material but conflates Marx's notes on others' ideas with Marx's own positions, then uses this to argue for an epistemic break that's basically indistinguishable from the Althusserian coupure he invokes by name.
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May Sommer retweetledi
Something leftists generally refuse to understand is that if you own assets and aren't funding that position with outside money you can do *whatever you want* with them. There is no "mute compulsion" determining what you can use the assets for. You can just be arbitrarily willful
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The way to gain power is to be in a position to provide people with the requirements of life. This means either getting them paid or providing these things directly. You don't need a better critique, a sexier theory, or a fancier set of words. You need a business plan.
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Marx's letter to Kugelmann, which I'm sure every communizer has read.
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Marx's postface to the second edition of capital, which I'm sure every Marxist humanist has read
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Anton Pannekoek et la révolution mondiale.
Newly discovered text by Paul Mattick in french, from the journal "Histoire du marxisme contemporain". A larger and much more elaborated variant of his 1962 text titled "Anton Pannekoek".
archivesautonomies.org/spip.php?artic…
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Freud was definitely too conservative but he's not wrong about the root of aggression. The Rousseauian view of human goodness before agriculture & surplus is not materialist and communism has not really resolved sexual conflict
R.Сам 🦋🐏@Logo_Daedalus
Freud was a coke head retard just spouting off nonsense but he has a whole cultish following in western academia where his theory is accepted as basic reality— in the same sense that the western intellectual says “Communism is not compatible with human nature.”
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If there's 1 aspect of Marx's critique indebted to the Bauer brothers, this is it. Whenever a marxologist does the immanent critique bit without outright identifying where he is getting it from, they're groping in the dark for this.
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"marx is so hold hat, subscribe to my theory instead" and its just Proudhon and Bauer. Regularly rants about Israel being a result of judaism and hates (((finance))).
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top theorist of the goycattle international hard at work
drumm colin@drumm_colin
Although marx was wrong on pretty much every point of substance, his impulse of trying to find a point of intervention in the logic of how things actually worked was admirable and sorely lacking today. Maybe simply because there aren't any...
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