It's true, everything since 2010 has been great for American workers, especially blue-collar workers

I wrote this not for sympathy but to show how class works over a lifetime.

Libertarian liberalism in practice.

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This is happening everywhere in the culture. I wrote about this problem earlier today. honest-broker.com/p/are-we-now-l…

If paying people a living wage for their labor is going to break the system, maybe the system needs to be broken.

Trump just doesn't have it this time around. I think there are two issues that make him repellent despite the dismal state of the cost of living and the fact the democrats have kept these wars going. First, the assassination attempts just signal that chaos surrounds him. That is

People rehashing the Badiou vs. Deleuze debate because Daniel took a jab at Deleuze and the immediate reaction was to swing back at Badiou. Why the transference? Daniel doesn’t even follow Badiou through to the end as they say.

We had a spirited study group on Losurdo's Western Marxism last night — it's a timely text and I think we're already learning a great deal. Just so everyone is clear: this group includes supporters and critics of Losurdo, students, scholars and people less familiar with Marxism.

Just got done with a 2.5 hour podcast on the dictatorship of the proletariat with Varn Vlog (C. Derick Varn). It was an intense study of what humanity can become and the revolutionary power of ideology.

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behuda baat Colin Bodayle youtu.be/rtOKBe_rGMc?si…

As I’m reading Losurdo, it strikes me that we’re experiencing historic parallels in the lead up to WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution, which the attached piece speaks to. All the more reason to learn from what Lenin was doing in the 20 years prior. propagandainfocus.com/belle-epoque/

We are forging ahead with our study of Lacan. The group has met over 20 times and we're in a groove at this point. So it can't stop now. But new members are welcome.

This reminds me of the old hippie saying that if they ever make pot legal it would stop working.

Marcuse was in the OSS during the war. Everyone knows that. But I did not know that after the war up to the early 60s(!) - before he became a celebrity intellectual - he was a state department intelligence advisor working on anti-communism research. youtube.com/live/hnOCQC1TF…

🫡 He's a good guy

Žižek is a writer and a Lacanian, obviously. But that combination means something specific. He writes so much because writing has become his cure, writing is like an infinite analysis. It means something that he never finished his analysis. It continues in writing. Ultimately,