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by kidoftheblackhole
Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:48 pm
Forum: Bar and Grill
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 104
Views: 111865

Re: What are you reading?

I am looking through viewpointmag and will get back to you.
by kidoftheblackhole
Wed Oct 07, 2020 8:16 am
Forum: Bar and Grill
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 104
Views: 111865

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 ...
by kidoftheblackhole
Wed Oct 07, 2020 2:01 am
Forum: Bar and Grill
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 104
Views: 111865

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...
by kidoftheblackhole
Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:50 am
Forum: Political Discussion
Topic: Police, prison and abolition
Replies: 340
Views: 217278

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 ...
by kidoftheblackhole
Sun Oct 04, 2020 2:14 am
Forum: Political Discussion
Topic: Police, prison and abolition
Replies: 340
Views: 217278

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 ...
by kidoftheblackhole
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: 240
Views: 172276

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...
by kidoftheblackhole
Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:12 pm
Forum: Political Discussion
Topic: Socialist Demands for the COVID-19 Crisis
Replies: 287
Views: 156961

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 ...
by kidoftheblackhole
Sat Apr 18, 2020 1:07 pm
Forum: Political Discussion
Topic: Socialist Demands for the COVID-19 Crisis
Replies: 287
Views: 156961

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...
by kidoftheblackhole
Fri Apr 17, 2020 10:56 pm
Forum: Political Discussion
Topic: Socialist Demands for the COVID-19 Crisis
Replies: 287
Views: 156961

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...