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- Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:48 pm
- Forum: Bar and Grill
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 104
- Views: 112164
Re: What are you reading?
I am looking through viewpointmag and will get back to you.
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 8:16 am
- Forum: Bar and Grill
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 104
- Views: 112164
Re: What are you reading?
Somehow he decides that the practice of theory is entirely removed from actual practice. Hence society is not composed of people but structure and "concrete" knowledge is still made of air, albeit more rarefied air. Its a workaround so that he can claim that "class struggle in theory" is something ...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 2:01 am
- Forum: Bar and Grill
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 104
- Views: 112164
Re: What are you reading?
Can someone explain Althusser to me. The short answer to "can anyone explain Althusser" is: no. A funny quip I always remember (not sure who said or exactly which part of Althusser they meant) is that he wavered between true but uninteresting and interesting but untrue. Anaxarchos used to sometimes...
- Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:50 am
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Police, prison and abolition
- Replies: 340
- Views: 217680
Re: Police, prison and abolition
I don’t really understand BLM as a national movement. I know BLM DC takes no bullshit, but I’ve heard lack of central organization makes it city-by-city basis. I’m not sure it’s even overall a socialist project necessarily. The thing about BLM is -- how many school breakfasts have they served? How ...
- Sun Oct 04, 2020 2:14 am
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Police, prison and abolition
- Replies: 340
- Views: 217680
Re: Police, prison and abolition
I don’t really understand BLM as a national movement. I know BLM DC takes no bullshit, but I’ve heard lack of central organization makes it city-by-city basis. I’m not sure it’s even overall a socialist project necessarily. The thing about BLM is -- how many school breakfasts have they served? How ...
- Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:27 am
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Donald Trump, Avatar of his Class, Capitalism & the Decline and Fall of Bourgeois Democracy
- Replies: 241
- Views: 172745
Re: Donald Trump, Avatar of his Class, Capitalism & the Decline and Fall of Bourgeois Democracy
What's this, a liberal finding context? But the truth is that if you are Donald Trump, artlessly calling for people to take up arms against Hillary Clinton, as he did in 2016, or calling for citizen protesters to LIBERATE their states from beneath their governor’s public health directives, as he di...
- Sun May 31, 2020 3:14 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Donald Trump, Avatar of his Class, Capitalism & the Decline and Fall of Bourgeois Democracy
- Replies: 241
- Views: 172745
Re: Donald Trump, Avatar of his Class, Capitalism & the Decline and Fall of Bourgeois Democracy
These protests are getting REAL
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:12 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Socialist Demands for the COVID-19 Crisis
- Replies: 287
- Views: 157173
Re: Socialist Demands for the COVID-19 Crisis
Virtually the entirety of the ruling class has parroted your argument that COVID is an actual "killer virus" that requires some forms of lockdown Not necessarily true. The "narrative" isn't as consistent as you think. There are currently right-wing protests in front of the capital just a few miles ...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:07 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Socialist Demands for the COVID-19 Crisis
- Replies: 287
- Views: 157173
Re: Socialist Demands for the COVID-19 Crisis
Even if Chlamor is right about inflating the results *that are available* the overall trend is clearly deflationary due to the fact that testing is hardly being conducted anywhere compared to what would be necessary to get a representative idea of transmission through the population. And it is certa...
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:56 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion
- Topic: Socialist Demands for the COVID-19 Crisis
- Replies: 287
- Views: 157173
Re: Socialist Demands for the COVID-19 Crisis
There isn't nearly the coordination (nationally or internationally) for it to be a literal scam of globe-spanning magnitude. But it is certainly believable -- maybe even probable -- that the capitalist world was ripe to react in this way to something of this magnitude (even if that magnitude is disp...