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No. My criteria for for things happening is if everyone knows about it regardless of news reporting. A chatgpt generated headline summarizing a supreme court decision is not.

Isn't that the sentiment behind 'weeks where decades happen?' The momentous weeks that come out of nowhere, changing everything, and their seemingly innocuous build-up over the decades prior?

I've wholeheartedly become one of those 'boycott the elections!' people recently. Obviously getting progressives elected isn't the goal--I would hope this is a starting point most would agree with here--, but neither is it good strategy to say we'll win reforms by creating powerful working-class organizations. I'll go even further and say that the shame-faced agnosticism of saying that election are wholly irrelevant misses the point in that the farcical nature of Bourgeois democracy behooves us to put this fact forward as primary. We don't ignore elections because everybody knows politics is a shame, a rich mans game, and so on, as although this may be true we understand our 'democracy' itself is a tool of class oppression by the Bourgeoisie. Therefore, we dont posit more working-class representation in government, we posit the dictatorship of the proletariate instead. We understand that all consessions, and reforms won through popular struggle are meant to bury the contradiction driving class-struggle, to quash popular discontent by channeling it through safe, legal avenues. The state legalized unions because the alternative was killing your boss. The state became 'democratic' because the alternative was overthrowing your government.

That's exactly what liberals are going to do if Biden gets couped by the DNC. They are going to pin everything on him.

Ole genocide joe did a genocide, but not us! We quitely resisted, untill we had to take such drastic actions after all else failed--we're heros really. Oh, you think [bad policy] is bad? Well that was all Biden actually. We wash our blood-soaked hands clean with the Great Man theory rag.

By bringing the site down the admins caused a coup in Bolivia! This is a load bearing internet forum damnit!

Lmaooo

🟢 Hamas Political Bureau member Izzat Al-Rishq: — Netanyahu's request from America for "tools to finish the mission quickly" is an explicit admission of his failure to achieve anything so far.

After tens of thousands of tons of explosives, ammunition, and American spy planes, Biden has only one tool left to offer Netanyahu, known for his stinginess and corruption: the price of a plane ticket back to Poland.

There's a copy of it on internet archive but it's only accessible to American people with impaired sight it seems.

Huh didn't know that was a thing that the archive did. I'm both of those things (unfortunately) and could try registering if you don't need it right this second.

https://unity-struggle-unity.org/unity-prospectus/

It's an interesting piece, and yesh while their position is basically that FRSO is a cut above the rest they do have some criticisms (correct IMO) of how they operate.

With that said the program they lay out meant to address the issues they see as primary in the Communist movement, nnamely theoretical backwardsness and amateurism, strikes me as odd in that this has all basically happened before with the attempts at empire-wide party building during the New Communist Movement in the 80s. There is so much that has gone with even an attempt at summation that it all feels a bit preemptive: why did it fail to cohere in the 80s? Why is it different now?

Why do you think a United Front strategy is valid for India? Unite with who? You do know it's an illegal party right? Nevermind the blatant opportunism of notion that the 'left needs to campaign better in elections.'

I agree it is a sorely under theorized issue, and it is striking just how many groups during the New Communist Movement came to some pretty backwards positions for instance. This document, published in 1975, deals with these incorrect lines: https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S21-Towards-a-Scientific-Analysis-of-the-Gay-Question-3rd-Printing.pdf

Definitely not related to queer theory as an academic discipline, but should be relevant nonetheless.

Gotcha. Yeah in my opinion philosophy should be taught with a focus on historicaly situating thinkers, and going through their works so as to understand not only why they came to the positions they do but also why, on a deeper level, did their concerns lead them down the path that it did.

Kant as reacting to the French Revolution, or doggedly trying to place God amidst skepticism and reason itself. Nietzsche can be read as reacting against the angst of the precarious petty-Beourgeois intelligensia of the German State, etc.

It's unfortunate really as Kant is a remarkably systamtic thinker, and most of the claims / positions extracted into some lecture are in principal explainable with the text themselves. It's just that a lot gets lost when hurrying from topic to topic as I've experienced.

Uh... If you haven't used https://plato.stanford.edu/ I highly recommend it. Good luck lmao

Well presumably you read the 1st critique and some of the practical philosophy/ the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals over the course? I ask because that quote is perfectly understandable, if a bit disconnected. As for why they talk like that? Well hard things are hard... There are plenty of analytic philosophers who fuss over clarity of language (even then this is being unfair to Kant) and they don't really end up being much better.

Ooo free sign!