Mr. Ragtime Man

My raison d'être is Marxism; I could have everything in the world, yet I’ll never love anything like I love Marxism; this is my life.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

@The_Davos_Man As M. Parenti wrote, a popular Russian joke in 1992 went: 'What did capitalism do in one year which socialism failed to do in seventy? Make socialism look good'

@The_Davos_Man Even if you oppose the S.U. on ideological grounds, its dissolution was still a geopolitical disaster which led to chauvinism, mass unemployment, financial instability, the dissolution of worker rights in the West & unbridled child trafficking which Epstein capitalised on

"modest leftist views" like "I miss the Soviet Union"

« Sauvages, pauvres, terroristes, p**** » des mots que les soldats américains utilisaient pour insulter les enfants irakiens en pleine occupation. Des enfants qui avaient déjà perdu un ou leurs deux parents et toute leur enfance à cause de l’occupation. On n’oublie pas.

Again, I'm constantly seeing a trend in China and Iran that they value philosophy & social political systems as a valuable resource. America if you said you wanted to be a philosopher you'd be jobless or stuck to teach it

Allowing the working class to get educated in early C20 was a disastrous mis-step for the ruling class which cost them (amongst other things) the bill for the NHS👇 They wont make the same mistake lightly, hence national curriculum, academy schools, OFSTED, dumbing down culture.

@enniottefire 10/10

Redid my shelves. Philosophy shit

the direct consequence of treating horrible people like epstein and trump as jokes and memes, and not as the depraved criminals they are

If you want more than this you are a hedonist

The future has been cancelled. In your life you will live through an endless reboot of the highlights from 1980- 2010. There is no longer any need for new ideas or new writers or creators. Thanks to risk-averse algorithmic capitalism - we're entering a closed loop of the past.

this is what misogyny does to women. it kills them in the most brutal ways. meanwhile you're crying about misandry being "real"

🚨When it comes to explaining the military situation in Iran, Sky News has Professor Michael Clarke, a Kings College lecturer. GB News has Jeff Banks, a fashion designer. You couldn't make it🤣🤣🤣

Short-termism is so fun; long-termism is so shit

Two young people dead. 20 cases now. Students terrified, scrambling for jabs they missed because the NHS didn't schedule them. Meanwhile, King Charles is charging the NHS £11.4 million to park ambulances . His estate makes £830,000 a year from a cash-strapped public service.

Clubbing in shanghai gonna be crazy

Thomas Sankara in Paris February 1886.

Every time I have four beers I think of A Thousand Plateaus

Habermas is dead. I remember his clash with Rudi Dutschke at Berlin Vietnam Congress in February 1968. Condolences to his daughter Judith who worked at Verso for a while. Below a small extract from Perry Anderson's essay on the military philosophers in New Left Review: "Habermas grew up in a small Rhenish town under Hitler. His father joined the Nazi party in 1933, and Habermas himself briefly took part in defensive work with the Hitlerjugend at the end of the war. After discovering the realities of the Third Reich and breaking with Heidegger, who had been his first major influence, Habermas became the major philosophical descendant of the Frankfurt School, absorbing its distinctive transformations of Marx, and then in turn criticizing these in the light of American pragmatism and systems theory. Intellectually heir to the totalizing ambitions of German idealism, scarcely any major philosophical tradition has fallen outside the range of his interests, in which sociology—classical and contemporary—has also occupied a central place. As a political thinker, the pattern of Habermas’s writing reverses that of Rawls, whom he has criticized for his inappropriately substantive intentions. His own political theory is purely procedural, abstaining from any programmatic proposals. On the other hand, Habermas has never hesitated to intervene politically on topical issues, adopting public positions on leading disputes of the day in Germany, as a citizen of the left. His Kleine politische Schriften now run to nine volumes, rivalling the number of Sartre’s Situations. At the same time, he has never been involved in any political organization, keeping his distance from spd and Greens alike." newleftreview.org/issues/ii31/ar…

Consumerist obsession can rob your soul - Soviet Poster (1983)