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If it had come out that the left in Canada was a part of a massive foreign disinformation campaign, the right would be calling us traitors and demanding we be jailed. Let's keep that in mind as we proceed.

Matt McManus "Conservatives need alive fetuses to make dead soldiers" -Carlin

One year I'll get to APSA :(

Matt McManus "No nothing! No neonatal care, no day care, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing! If you're pre-born, you're fine. If you're preschool, you're fucked!"

You can have criticism of AOC, I have plenty, but this kind of rhetoric that makes it seem like AOC is not only backing the genocide but is a major force keeping it going is just flat out untrue, unhinged, and cynical. There’s no analysis or strategy it’s just anti-politics

Great stuff. Haven't gone through Plato in a few years but this was inspiring m.youtube.com/watch?v=x4vd21…

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The profound insight of orthodox Marxism was that the freedoms promised by classical liberalism would inevitably end up being meaningfully enjoyed only by a few while the rest of us would be facing them as an oppressive ideology working against our real emancipation. @mattpolprof

From: What does it mean to say that all are created equal?: Liberalism and socialism on basic rights by Matthew McManus. 2021 Liberalism and Socialism. Palgrave studies in classical liberalism.

Thanks

These are speed holes - they make the school go faster

There's no way to "win" a debate against Donald Trump... but you can put on a better show. My latest in The Nation where I share my concerns over the upcoming presidential performative debate. thenation.com/article/politi…

"The decolonial movement is diverse and often highly fragmented. Nevertheless, it remains a major theoretical force, one concerned with tracking down all forms of Eurocentrism and showing how knowledge is always necessarily situated.": booksandideas.net/The-Cultural-H…

The replies are, of course, full of right-wing dipshits unironically embracing the reductio.

delighted that The Myth of American Idealism is a "Must Read" selection of the Next Big Idea Club alongside books by Malcolm Gladwell and Ta-Nehisi Coates The Next Big Idea is that U.S. foreign policy is a menace to global stability and the human future. nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/next-…

I always get a laugh out of these kinds of accounts. They inevitably open with bloviated posturing and almost immediately turn out to be so lazy their idea of "research" is a 5 minute Google search followed by even lazier attempts at a dig.

All I see is Marx in this picture